Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-09 Thread John Abel
Magnus Lycka wrote: >John Abel wrote: > > >>Magnus Lycka wrote: >> >> > > > >>As a programmer on Win32, and *nix platforms, I agree with needing >>better tools. however, I find cygwin a pita. For tools such as grep >>and find, try this http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. No need for cyg

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-09 Thread Magnus Lycka
John Abel wrote: > Magnus Lycka wrote: > As a programmer on Win32, and *nix platforms, I agree with needing > better tools. however, I find cygwin a pita. For tools such as grep > and find, try this http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. No need for cygwin > ( though that's not say cygwin isn't u

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> "Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> Terry Reedy wrote: >>> "kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > man python --- > > COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-08 Thread John Abel
Magnus Lycka wrote: >Terry Reedy wrote: > > >>This should REALLY be on the doc page of the Python site. >> >> >Agreed. > > > >>It is really time to stop pretending that the only Python users >>that count have a *nix on their desk. >> >> >I agree with this too, but if you're a program

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-08 Thread Magnus Lycka
Terry Reedy wrote: > This should REALLY be on the doc page of the Python site. Agreed. > It is really time to stop pretending that the only Python users > that count have a *nix on their desk. I agree with this too, but if you're a programmer on the Windows platform with possibility to install s

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-03 Thread Kent Johnson
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Terry Reedy wrote: >> >>>"kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> man python --- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS >>> >>> >>>This should REALLY be on the d

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-03 Thread Terry Reedy
"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Reedy wrote: >> "kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>man python --- >>> >>>COMMAND LINE OPTIONS >> >> >> This should REALLY be on the doc page of the Python site. > > Hear,

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Hoffman
John Machin wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: > >> Terry Reedy wrote: >> >>> c) Check to see if Python has a startup option for suppressing warnings >>> >>> As to c) python -h gives a list indicating what I thought, that -W >>> controls warnings, but gives insufficient info for me to use it, and >

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-03 Thread Kent Johnson
Terry Reedy wrote: > "kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>man python --- >> >>COMMAND LINE OPTIONS > > > This should REALLY be on the doc page of the Python site. Hear, hear! I never even knew this existed! Where should it go in the docs? In the Language

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-03 Thread Terry Reedy
"kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > man python --- > > COMMAND LINE OPTIONS This should REALLY be on the doc page of the Python site. I remember asking for this about 7 years ago and being ridiculed for only having Windows. It is really time to stop pretend

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-02 Thread kosuke
man python --- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS -c command Specify the command to execute (see next section). This terminates the option list (following options are passed as arguments to the command). -d Turn on parser debugging output (for wizards only, depen

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-02 Thread John Machin
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> c) Check to see if Python has a startup option for suppressing warnings >> >> As to c) python -h gives a list indicating what I thought, that -W >> controls warnings, but gives insufficient info for me to use it, and I >> didn't find any more in t

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-02 Thread Michael Hoffman
Terry Reedy wrote: > c) Check to see if Python has a startup option for suppressing warnings > > As to c) python -h gives a list indicating what I thought, that -W controls > warnings, but gives insufficient info for me to use it, and I didn't find > any more in the docs. I hope someone else c

Re: optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-02 Thread Terry Reedy
"kosuke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I keep getting the following error/warning message when using the > python based program getmail4: > > /usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py:668: FutureWarning: %u/%o/%x/%X of > negative int will return a signed string in Python 2.4 a

optparse.py: FutureWarning error

2005-06-02 Thread kosuke
I keep getting the following error/warning message when using the python based program getmail4: /usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py:668: FutureWarning: %u/%o/%x/%X of negative int will return a signed string in Python 2.4 and up return ("<%s at 0x%x: %r>" I'm using python2.3.5 on a debian sid box.