Converting a time string to a more readable date, time

I have a python time string which has the following value: 1225137896 The above corresponds to 2008/10/27 16:04:56 What can I use to convert 1225137896 to a more readable date, time format? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

WMI Python, writing remotely and retrieving env variables values

I'm using the WMI library for python and I was able to connect to another computer on the network with the following line: c = wmi.WMI(computer="the-network-computer", user="hello", password="hello") Is there a way to write information to a file on that computer? How do I read environment variab

Re: HTTPS Login

Instead of using the following: > req = urllib2.Request("https://web.site.com/default.aspx";, params) > data = urllib2.urlopen(req) Try: data = urllib.urlopen("https://web.site.com/default.aspx";, param) Thierry Tom Grove wrote: > I am trying to login to a secure website and I am having some

Finding yesterday's date with datetime

Is there an easy way to determine the yesterday's date(year-month-day) from the python datetime library if I know today's date? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python poly obsolete?

I have a piece of python code which goes like the following: import poly list = [1, 2, 3] result = poly.scan(list) I'm using Python 2.3.4 and I don't think that poly library is working properly, I read somewhere that's it's obsolete now. What's the alternative? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.

Re: Timeout at command prompt

I got the signal to work on linux with sys.stdin.readline() but the process timeout after x seconds even when I input something. Is there a way to close the signal after getting a correct input from the console window? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Timeout at command prompt

Is there a windows equivalent for that solution? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Timeout at command prompt

Which Python version are you using? I'm getting the following error with Python 2.3.4: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\home\pciroot\vcur\sdk\tools\inter.py", line 32, in ? signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, input) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGALRM' Thierry -

Timeout at command prompt

I can use the python function raw_input() to read any input from the user but how can I add a timeout so that my program exits after x period of time when no input has been entered. Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Copying files between different linux machines

Let's say I have two linux machines with the following names: -linone -lintwo If I'm currently on linone and if I want to copy a bunch of files from lintwo into linone, how can that be done in a python script without using ftp? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Renaming files in ftplib

Let's say I have a file called 'test.c' on my local machine and I'm ftping a file with similar name from a remote computer. I want to prefix the file ftped over with a T_, how do I do that through ftplib in python? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with modal in Gtk::FileChooserDialog

Does anyone know how to set modal to True for Gtk::FileChooserDialog? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help in File selector window in pygtk

Let's say I have a main window which has a File menu. When I click on the File menu and the open button, I have a File selector window which comes in front of my main window. How do I make the main window unselectable? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating Pie Chart from Python

Those python pie chart add ons are not very useful. For my specific pie chart, I have some 6-8 items to show up and some of them occupy only 2-5% of the pie. This cause the names and percentages to overlap each other. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Walking through directories and files

I'm trying to use the os.walk() method to search all the directory from a root directory and display their contents. For example, I want my output to be like the following: directoryA stuffs.c stuffs2.cpp directoryB asd.c asdf.cpp Any ideas how to do it? Currently, I can only print all the fil

Re: Creating Pie Chart from Python

In a web browser, having a pie chart in some image format will be great. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Creating Pie Chart from Python

Let's say I have the following data: 500 objects: -100 are red -300 are blue -the rest are green Is there some python package which can represen the above information in a pie chart? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Creating Pie Chart from Python

Let's say I have the following data: 500 objects: -100 are red -300 are blue -the rest are green Is there some python package which can represent the above information in a pie chart? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Writing at the beginning of a file

Let's say I already wrote a file and have the following: testing testing testing testing testing testing Is there an easy way to write something of variable length at the top of the file? For example, 6 testing written testing testing testing testing testing testing I tried to write some garba

Ignoring ampersand(&) as a special character in xml

Let's say I have the following xml tag: a & b Currently, an xml parser will treat & as a special character. Does anyone know the special characters to use around the ampersand so that the xml parser can treat "a & b" as a whole value? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Python xml.dom, help reading attribute data

Let's say I have the following xml tag: 1 I can't figure out what kind of python xml.dom codes I should invoke to read the data 1? Any help please? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Calling ftp commands from python

Is it possible to run an ftp command to connect to some remote computer on the network. For example, if I want to retrieve some data from \\remcomputer\datafiles on the network and copy it to my local computer, how do I do it in python on the Unix side? I don't want to use mount since I don't hav

Mapping network drive on Linux

On windows, if I want to map a network drive to a local drive on my computer, I do the following: data = { 'remote' : '\\blah\data', 'local' : 'Z:' } win32net.NetUseAdd(None, 1, data) How am I supposed to do similar thing on Linux? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.p

Re: Mapping a drive to a network path

Thanks, that helps. Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Mapping a drive to a network path

In DOS, if I want to map a network path to a drive, I do the following: net use z: \\computer\folder How do we do something similar in python? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Reading output from standard out

Let’s say I have a python program which prints output to standard out, let’s call it HelloApp.  How do I capture these outputs from the python GUI tkinter? For example, I want to call HelloApp from my GUI program and I want to send the output live to a tkinter text area.   Thanks Thierry

Reading output from standard out

Let’s say I have a python program which prints output to standard out, let’s call it HelloApp.  How do I capture these outputs from the python GUI tkinter? For example, I want to call HelloApp from my GUI program and I want to send the output live to a tkinter text area.   Thanks Thierry