Joining Big Files

2007-08-25 Thread mosscliffe
I have 4 text files each approx 50mb. I need to join these into one large text file. I only need to do this very occasionally, as the problem has occurred because of upload limitations. Bearing in mind filesize and memory useage, would I be better reading every line in every file and writing eac

Re: Symbolic Link

2007-08-23 Thread mosscliffe
On 22 Aug, 00:05, Ian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hyuga wrote: > > On Aug 19, 4:29 pm,mosscliffe<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The source file is in an area which python can see, but not the > >> browser. I am trying to make a link in a browse

Re: 1)URL QueryString Parsing 2)Search Engine Spiders

2007-08-19 Thread mosscliffe
On 19 Aug, 13:54, samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffewrote: > > I am trying to create a back link, equivalent to the browser back > > action and I can not use java script. The target user does not allow > > java script. > > > I am using HTTP_REFERER. > > > I need to add the original Que

Re: Symbolic Link

2007-08-19 Thread mosscliffe
On 19 Aug, 13:16, samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffewrote: > > I am trying to create a link to a file, which I can then use in an > > HTML page. > > > The system is Linux on a hosted web service, running python 2.3. > > Other than that I have no knowledge of the system. > > > The link

1)URL QueryString Parsing 2)Search Engine Spiders

2007-08-19 Thread mosscliffe
I am trying to create a back link, equivalent to the browser back action and I can not use java script. The target user does not allow java script. I am using HTTP_REFERER. I need to add the original Query String values. Is there a way to get the QueryString element other than by using cgi.Field

Re: Symbolic Link

2007-08-18 Thread mosscliffe
On 18 Aug, 23:49, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffe schrieb: > > > > > I am trying to create a link to a file, which I can then use in an > > HTML page. > > > The system is Linux on a hosted web service, running python 2.

Symbolic Link

2007-08-18 Thread mosscliffe
I am trying to create a link to a file, which I can then use in an HTML page. The system is Linux on a hosted web service, running python 2.3. Other than that I have no knowledge of the system. The link is created OK, but when I try to use it as filename for the IMG TAG, it does not get displayed

Re: Case-Insensitive Sorting of Multi-Dimensional Lists

2007-06-08 Thread mosscliffe
On 8 Jun, 16:39, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mosscliffe > wrote: > > > I have tried the following, for a one dimensional list and it works, > > but I can not get my head around this lambda. How w

Re: Case-Insensitive Sorting of Multi-Dimensional Lists

2007-06-08 Thread mosscliffe
On 8 Jun, 14:18, "Simon Brunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/7/07, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a list of lists that I would like to sort utilizing a certain index > > of the nested list. I am able to successfully use: > > > Import operator > > list = [["Apple", 1], ["air

Re: Cookie: Not understanding again

2007-06-03 Thread mosscliffe
On 2 Jun, 11:50, David Wahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 2, 9:32 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David, > > > Thanks for your help. > > > I spent all last night trying to get it to work, but I can not work > > out how to f

Re: Cookie: Not understanding again

2007-06-02 Thread mosscliffe
On 2 Jun, 01:13, David Wahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 1, 3:49 pm, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I have the > following code, which I thought would create a cookie, if > > one did not exist and on the html form being sent to the server, i

Re: Cookie: Not understanding again

2007-06-01 Thread mosscliffe
On 1 Jun, 15:49, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following code, which I thought would create a cookie, if > one did not exist and on the html form being sent to the server, it > would be availabe for interrogation, when the script is run a second > time.

Cookie: Not understanding again

2007-06-01 Thread mosscliffe
I have the following code, which I thought would create a cookie, if one did not exist and on the html form being sent to the server, it would be availabe for interrogation, when the script is run a second time. It seems to me there is something basic missing in that I should need to tell the serv

Re: HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

2007-05-31 Thread mosscliffe
On May 31, 5:19 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffe wrote: > > Excellent - thanks for all your help. I now have a form created by a > > python script executing an HTML page, doing everything I need, except > > for Session Data (probably use hidde

Re: HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

2007-05-31 Thread mosscliffe
g of field values. I accept I am quite niave about FORM/HTML logic. Richard On 31 May, 15:30, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > mosscliffe a écrit : > > > > > I am struggling to find a python example of the scenario - I have. > > > I have a python script, which generates a page

HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

2007-05-31 Thread mosscliffe
I am struggling to find a python example of the scenario - I have. I have a python script, which generates a page with a search button (actually an input field). The data from the above submissions is interrogated and the same script produces a new search option and the a page of results from the

Re: Newbie: Struggling again 'map'

2007-05-26 Thread mosscliffe
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffe schreef: > > > for x,y in map("N/A", lista, listb): ## Fails - Can not call a > > 'str' > > print "MAP:", x, "<>", y > > > def fillwith(fillchars): > > return fi

Newbie: Struggling again 'map'

2007-05-26 Thread mosscliffe
I thought I had the difference between 'zip' and 'map' sorted but when I try to fill missing entries with something other than 'None'. I do not seem to be able to get it to work - any pointers appreciated. Richard lista = ['a1', 'a2'] listb = ['b10', 'b11','b12' ,'b13'] for x,y in zip(lista, lis

Re: NEWBIE: Extending a For Statement.

2007-05-21 Thread mosscliffe
On 21 May, 15:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mosscliffe: > > > if key in xrange (60,69) or key == 3: > > I keep seeing again and again code like this, mostly from people not > much expert of Python, but the PEP 260 shows the fast in was removed, > so it's O(n). Maybe r

Re: NEWBIE: Extending a For Statement.

2007-05-21 Thread mosscliffe
On 21 May, 14:13, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffe wrote: > > I keep seeing examples of statements where it seems conditionals are > > appended to a for statement, but I do not understand them. > > > I would like to use one in the following scenario

NEWBIE: Extending a For Statement.

2007-05-21 Thread mosscliffe
I keep seeing examples of statements where it seems conditionals are appended to a for statement, but I do not understand them. I would like to use one in the following scenario. I have a dictionary of mydict = { 1: 500, 2:700, 3: 800, 60: 456, 62: 543, 58: 6789} for key in mydict: if key

Newbie: Joining Lists

2007-05-17 Thread mosscliffe
I have been playing with GLOB and OS.PATH and it all works, but is there a better way of getting GLOB to recognise, multiple patterns at one call (ONE). Also is it possible to join lists, without the horrid concatenation code I have (TWO). I tried list.append(glob.glob(pattern)) but it error'd ---

Re: Splitting a quoted string.

2007-05-16 Thread mosscliffe
Thank you very much for all for your replies. I am now much wiser to using regex and CSV. As I am quite a newbie, I have had my 'class' education improved as well. Many thanks again Richard On May 16, 12:48 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mosscliffe <[E

Splitting a quoted string.

2007-05-16 Thread mosscliffe
I am looking for a simple split function to create a list of entries from a string which contains quoted elements. Like in 'google' search. eg string = 'bob john "johnny cash" 234 june' and I want to have a list of ['bob', 'john, 'johnny cash', '234', 'june'] I wondered about using the csv rou

Re: Newbie (but improving) - Passing a function name with parameters as a parameter

2007-05-10 Thread mosscliffe
on call in another function: > > On May 10, 9:27 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...> def timeloop(dofunction,iters=10): > ... > > > def lookup(recs,patterns): > > ... > > > myrecs = ... > > def test1(): > lookup(myrecs, ['one&#x

Newbie (but improving) - Passing a function name with parameters as a parameter

2007-05-10 Thread mosscliffe
I am trying to time a function's execution, but I get 'TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable' when I try to run it. I suspect it is my calling of 'timeloop' with the function name 'lookup' and its associated variables or it could just be some stupid error on my part. function 'lookups' was wor

Re: Newbie and Page Re-Loading

2007-05-05 Thread mosscliffe
Alex, Thanks for the help. Richard On May 5, 3:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >... > > > > Is there a lightweight Https Server I could run locally (WINXP), which > > > would run .py scripts, without lots of installation modifications ? > >

Re: Newbie and Page Re-Loading

2007-05-05 Thread mosscliffe
Miki, Thank you very much for your helpful reply. A simple example is the best way of getting started, I have found. I have no excuses now - to not get it working. I recently tried Visual Studio with Visual Basic. Nice for five minutes, but then all the helping bits got in the way, so then you

Re: Newbie and Page Re-Loading

2007-05-04 Thread mosscliffe
could run locally (WINXP), which would run .py scripts, without lots of installation modifications ? Thanks Richard On 4 May, 18:00, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > mosscliffe a écrit : > > > I am very new to this python world, but I do like the look of the > > language / syntax,

Newbie and Page Re-Loading

2007-05-04 Thread mosscliffe
I am very new to this python world, but I do like the look of the language / syntax, though I have had some problems with indenting using a text editor. I have managed to get my ISP to execute .py files on their server. I have created a .py file and it does in fact do the various little tasks I h