breamore...@gmail.com wrote, on February 25, 2017 4:49 AM
>
> On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:54:39 AM UTC, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM
> > >
> > > On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > > > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always
On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 1:54:39 AM UTC, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM
> >
> > On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never
>
> > > occurred to me that they might have
Wanderer wrote, on February 25, 2017 2:07 PM
>
> If you want to turn internet access on and off more easily in
> Windows 7, go to Control Panel\ Network and Sharing Center
> and in the left hand menu click on Change Adapter Settings.
> Create a shortcut to Local Area Connect and put it on your
On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 1:03:40 PM UTC-5, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote, on February 25, 2017 4:50 AM
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:26:15 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
> > declaimed the following:
> >
> > >
> > >Well rats. Skull duggery on the net is a lot more sophisti
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> Subject: Re: Python application laun
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote, on February 25, 2017 4:50 AM
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:26:15 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
> declaimed the following:
>
> >
> >Well rats. Skull duggery on the net is a lot more sophisticated than
> >when I saw it last (15 years ago). Getting up to speed with it is on
my
>
Chris Angelico wrote, February 24, 2017 10:04 PM
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Ewing
> wrote:
> > Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while
> I'm using
> >> it.
> >
> >
> > How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perfor
Gregory Ewing wrote, on February 24, 2017 9:09 PM
>
> Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while I'm using
> > it.
>
> How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perform a
> secret handshake before it will run, and they turn off the
> secret ha
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Ewing
wrote:
> Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>> Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while I'm using it.
>
>
> How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perform a
> secret handshake before it will run, and they turn off the secret
> hand
Deborah Swanson wrote:
Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while I'm using it.
How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perform a
secret handshake before it will run, and they turn off the secret
handshake server, you're hosed.
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On 02/23/2017 11:15 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:58:24 -0300, Cholo Lennon
declaimed the following:
If the script has no screen input/output I'd edit the shortcut and
prefix the script pathname with pythonw.exe (to avoid the empty
console). Also I'd add the python path
Gregory Ewing wrote, on February 23, 2017 9:13 PM
>
> Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > As for it phoning home... Wonder what value they think this has,
other
> > than giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at
> > any given time.
>
> It gives them a kill switch. If they decide the
Deborah Swanson wrote:
As for it phoning home... Wonder what value they think this has, other than
giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at any given
time.
It gives them a kill switch. If they decide they don't want it
to be free any more, they can stop us from using it.
Michael Torrie wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:43 AM
>
> On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never
> > occurred to me that they might have a free or cheap version now.
>
> You can get the full edition of Visual Studio, c
Cholo Lennon wrote, on February 23, 2017 7:58 AM
>
> On 02/20/2017 07:56 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently,
> > and as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow.
> Right now
> > I just want a way to select which one I'd l
On 02/20/2017 07:56 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently, and
as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right now I just
want a way to select which one I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it
to be a standalone application and
On 2017-02-22 09:49 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Didn't even look. Visual Studio has always been pricey, and it never
occurred to me that they might have a free or cheap version now.
You can get the full edition of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio
Community Edition for free. They still offer
On 02/21/2017 10:52 AM, BartC wrote:
The only problem I found, when launching in GUI mode, was that a
console-mode Python program would briefly open a console window that
would then promptly disappear if it finished immediately and there was
no interaction.
If you want to avoid a console just
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote, on February 22, 2017 6:48 PM
>
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:50:18 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
> declaimed the following:
>
>
> >first, and be able to use a running C version to check my Python
> >version against. I couldn't afford Visual Studio, especially since
> >there wa
Grant Edwards wrote, on February 22, 2017 7:52 AM
>
> On 2017-02-21, Chris Warrick wrote:
>
> > Git Bash, or basically msys, is pretty reasonable. But if you are on
> > Windows 10, you might like the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux
> > (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) more - it's real Linu
On 2017-02-21, Chris Warrick wrote:
> Git Bash, or basically msys, is pretty reasonable. But if you are on
> Windows 10, you might like the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux
> (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) more — it’s real Linux that runs
> alongside Windows, but less crazy than Cygwin.
Cyg
Ethan Furman wrote, on February 21, 2017 1:13 PM
>
> On 02/21/2017 11:59 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > I think I'll have a go with Cooperative Linux first
>
> It certainly looks interesting, but doesn't seem to have any
> activity since late 2014.
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
I can't remember where I
On 02/21/2017 11:59 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
I think I'll have a go with Cooperative Linux first
It certainly looks interesting, but doesn't seem to have any activity since
late 2014.
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I wrote, on February 21, 2017 12:12 PM
>
> Grant Edwards wrote, on February 21, 2017 11:21 AM
> > NB: I haven't used any of these lately...
> >
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.mingw.org/ (look for msys)
> https://gist.github.com/evanwill/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f05
Chris Warrick wrote, on February 21, 2017 11:26 AM
>
> On 21 February 2017 at 20:21, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
> > On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> >> On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >>
> >> > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
> >> > using Linux but not wanting to have
Grant Edwards wrote, on February 21, 2017 11:21 AM
>
> On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> > On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >
> > > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
> > > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of
> > > energy switching right now]
> >
> > You
Jim wrote, on February 21, 2017 9:51 AM
>
> On 02/21/2017 09:43 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > I like Linux for this job, as it has a number of capabilities that
> > Windows doesn't have, and I was looking for an improvement on what I
> > can do in Windows. If you do a lot of computing it's nice
On 21 February 2017 at 20:21, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi wrote:
>> On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>> > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
>> > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of
>> > energy switching right now]
>>
>> You know, I'
On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
> > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of
> > energy switching right now]
>
> You know, I'm always reluctant to recommend it, because it can
> definit
On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
> using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of
> energy switching right now]
You know, I'm always reluctant to recommend it, because it can
definitely get you tied in knots. But you're about t
On 2/21/17, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote, on February 21, 2017 7:30 AM
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Deborah Swanson
>> wrote:
>> > Really? We used software called Powershell a couple decades ago in
>> > the 90s, as an improvement on the DOS box. I didn't like it much a
On 02/21/2017 09:43 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
BartC wrote, on February 21, 2017 5:52 AM
On 20/02/2017 15:44, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if
this hasn't
already b
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
> (2) Add each category to the PYTHONPATH. One easy way to do so is by adding
> the directories to a .pth file.
PYTHONPATH isn't a synonym for sys.path. The PYTHONPATH environment
variable gets used by every installed interpreter, which can b
On 2017-02-21, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Yes, I can see that only one person who has responded so far is remotely
> familiar with what an application launcher is, and that person only
> alluded to one, and hinted at some features I saw that could possibly be
> used as an application launcher.
I
Chris Angelico wrote, on February 21, 2017 7:30 AM
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > Really? We used software called Powershell a couple decades ago in
> > the 90s, as an improvement on the DOS box. I didn't like it much and
I
> > was going through software lik
BartC wrote, on February 21, 2017 5:52 AM
>
> On 20/02/2017 15:44, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
> >>
> >> "Deborah Swanson" writes:
> >>
> >>> I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if
> this hasn't
> >
> >>> already been done many tim
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Really? We used software called Powershell a couple decades ago in the
> 90s, as an improvement on the DOS box. I didn't like it much and I was
> going through software like candy those days. Maybe that version
> disappeared. It may have r
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote, on February 21, 2017 4:19 AM
>
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:16:14 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
> declaimed the following:
>
>
> >Yes, I've used Powershell, a couple decades ago, but it would be a
>
> Uhm... PowerShell 1.0 only came out ONE decade ago...
>
> Be af
On 20/02/2017 15:44, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
already been done many times.
Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail
that we ca
Steve D'Aprano wrote, on February 20, 2017 5:25 PM
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:44 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently,
> > and as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow.
> Right now
> > I just want a way to sel
Simon Ward wroe, on February 20, 2017 4:36 PM
>
> On 20 February 2017 22:56:31 GMT+00:00, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently,
> > and as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right
now
> > I just want a way to select w
Ben Finney wrote, on February 20, 2017 5:50 PM
>
> "Deborah Swanson" writes:
>
> > Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently,
> > and as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right
now
> > I just want a way to select which one I'd like to run and run it.
Steve D'Aprano wrote, on February 20, 2017 4:53 PM
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:04 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > That's a good idea, you can do just about anything from a shell, and
I
> > read that Linus Torvalds never uses anything except the shell.
> [...]
> > Since I will be in Windows for y
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
> Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently, and
> as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right now I just
> want a way to select which one I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it
> to be a standalone application and some sort of
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:44 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
[...]
> Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently, and
> as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right now I just
> want a way to select which one I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it
> to be a standal
On 20 February 2017 22:56:31 GMT+00:00, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use frequently,
> and
> as time goes on my collection and uses of it will grow. Right now I
> just
> want a way to select which one I'd like to run and run it
A Python applicati
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:04 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> That's a good idea, you can do just about anything from a shell, and I
> read that Linus Torvalds never uses anything except the shell.
[...]
> Since I will be in Windows for yet awhile, it would be ideal to find an
> application that will wor
Kevin Walzer wrote, on February 20, 2017 1:15 PM
>
> On 2/19/17 10:01 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if
> this hasn't
> > already been done many times. Anyone have some git links or other
> > places to download from?
> >
> What do you mean
On 2/19/17 10:01 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
already been done many times. Anyone have some git links or other
places to download from?
What do you mean by "application launcher"? It's not more complicated
than "python my scri
Grant Edwards wrote, on February 20, 2017 7:37 AM
>
> On 2017-02-20, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if
> this hasn't
> > already been done many times.
>
> Yes, it has.
>
> > Anyone have some git links or other places to download from?
>
>
I should also say that right now I'm using Windows XP, but hope very
soon to have Linux again. Ideally, this launcher would work in both.
I wrote, on February 20, 2017 7:44 AM
>
> Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
> >
> > "Deborah Swanson" writes:
> >
> > > I could probably writ
Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
>
> "Deborah Swanson" writes:
>
> > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
> > already been done many times.
>
> Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail
> that we can know whether it's already be
On 2017-02-20, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
> already been done many times.
Yes, it has.
> Anyone have some git links or other places to download from?
See the "website" and "repository" links on the pages below:
https://en.wik
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
> I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
> already been done many times.
Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail that we can
know whether it's already been done as you want it?
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I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if this hasn't
already been done many times. Anyone have some git links or other
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