Python and stale file handles

2008-04-16 Thread tgiles
Hi, All! I started back programming Python again after a hiatus of several years and run into a sticky problem that I can't seem to fix, regardless of how hard I try- it it starts with tailing a log file. Basically, I'm trying to tail a log file and send the contents elsewhere in the script (here

Converting argv to variable

2006-07-22 Thread tgiles
(now that I've posted in the wrong flipping newsgroup the first thing, here's my question to the lovely python folks) I've taken a year off (or so) using Python and the first thing I run into utterly stumped me. Been too long and none of the searches I've done seems to have helped any. Basically,