Python Newbie Suggestions

2007-05-16 Thread Teresa Hardy
As a newbie, Python has my vote for beginners. It is easy to get started with some quick and satisfying scripts but tricky to learn good OOP form. That's why I highly recommend the Programming Python Part 1 article that just came out in the June 2007 Linux Journal. You can use some of the sections

Beginner question on threads - solved

2007-05-06 Thread Teresa Hardy
If there is the possibility that the same thread had acquired the lock earlier, you should use an RLock instead. Gabriel, Thanks for the great hint. I didn't find RLock in my initial reading. So as I read up on RLock, I did a quick search on vlock. It turns out that I was using vlock as a varia

Beginner question on threads

2007-04-29 Thread Teresa Hardy
I have successfully made the threading work on a Window XP machine with quad processors but now I am trying to pass some variables around and am fighting with Lock() I have searched through several different documents and forums, some of which hint at problems with threading on Windows machines s

Fwd: Server-side script takes way too long to launch

2007-03-14 Thread Teresa Hardy
e: Mar 13, 2007 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Server-side script takes way too long to launch To: Teresa Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can you send the program? It's hard to try and follow through without... With the additional socket library calls, that could contribute. On 3/13/07, Teresa Hardy

Server-side script takes way too long to launch

2007-03-13 Thread Teresa Hardy
I have a webpage calling a python script, using Apache serverhttp://localhost/cgi-bin/mycode.py?dmn I am using Firefox, WindowsXP Python 2.4 I can count to 13 from the time I click to the time the browser finds the path. The python runs okay when I finally get to it. In the first step it jus