Re: Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

2005-04-19 Thread Erik Max Francis
Fredrik Lundh wrote: did you check that link before you posted it? Works here. Your browser is probably concluding the trailing . is part of the URL, rather than sentence punctuation :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53

Re: Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

2005-04-19 Thread Robert Kern
Erik Max Francis wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: did you check that link before you posted it? Works here. Your browser is probably concluding the trailing . is part of the URL, rather than sentence punctuation :-). No, Fredrik knows that it works. The OP seemed to be under the impression that it d

Re: module MySQLdb is missing in python 2.3.3

2005-04-19 Thread Arjen DijkstraDuikboot
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python Arjen praba kar wrote: Dear All, I am using python 2.3.3 version. If I try to import MySQLdb. Here I found " the following error" importError: No module named MySQLdb. So what I need to do for this ?. How I need to install this MySQLdbo. praba __

Re: pre-PEP: Suite-Based Keywords - syntax proposal

2005-04-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
Bengt Richter wrote: [...] > Um, I think that's too narrow for where. Consider > > foo = f1; bar=f2; x=k1; y=k2 > foo(x)*bar(y)[3].attr > > now should > > foo(x)*bar(y)[3].attr where: > foo = f1; bar=f2; x=k1; y=k2 I think we are diverging again. You are right with Your obje

Re: Trouble Installing TTX/FontTools (asks for .NET Framework Packages)

2005-04-19 Thread weston
This problem may be addressed here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1702374 Apparently setup.py tries to compile a c file, which of course doesn't work if there's no compiler. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Lucio Torre wrote: > Make sure you write the expression in the lower text-area, and > then press the send button. This should do it. Ah, that's the trick! It wasn't obvious that there were two text areas, and I intuitively wrote commands at the python prompt. Problem solved. Say, are floats im

Re: Enumerating formatting strings

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Otten
Steve Holden wrote: > I was messing about with formatting and realized that the right kind of > object could quite easily tell me exactly what accesses are made to the > mapping in a string % mapping operation. This is a fairly well-known > technique, modified to tell me what keys would need to be

Question about python 2.4 documentation

2005-04-19 Thread Fouff
Hello all. I have a small question concerning the functions open(...) and file(...) with python 2.4 In the online version of the documentation in the build-in functions (section 2.1 http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html) here is an quote of the file(...) doc : The file() constructor is

Re: Tkinter Event Types

2005-04-19 Thread Eric Brunel
On 18 Apr 2005 13:48:50 -0700, codecraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I do something like. s = Scale(master) s.bind("", callback) def callback(self, event): print event.type I see "7" printed out. Where are these constants defined for various event types? Basically i want to do somet

Re: def a((b,c,d),e):

2005-04-19 Thread George Sakkis
François Pinard wrote: > The most useful place for implicit tuple unpacking, in my experience, > is likely at the left of the `in' keyword in `for' statements (and > it is even nicer when one avoids extraneous parentheses). ... and would be nicest (IMO) if default arguments and *varargs were all

Re: Question about python 2.4 documentation

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Otten
Fouff wrote: > I have a small question concerning the functions open(...) and file(...) > with python 2.4 >> The intent is for open() to continue to be preferred for use as a factory >> function which returns a new file object. versus >> The previous spelling, open(), is retained for compatibil

Re: fpectl

2005-04-19 Thread Sébastien Boisgérault
Thanks for this answer. Did you forward this info to python-dev ? Cheers, SB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread could ildg
Python is an oop language, but why does it hava not private methods? And it even has not real private fields. Will this never changed? Private stuff always makes programming much easier. -- 鹦鹉聪明绝顶、搞笑之极,是人类的好朋友。 直到有一天,我才发觉,我是鹦鹉。 我是翻墙的鹦鹉。 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (Python newbie) Using XP-SP2/MSVC6: No Python24_d.lib, winzip barfs on Python-2.4.1.tar, cannot download bzip2

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Davy
Hi, Many thanks for this. I am constrained to use MSVC6 (customer) but will look to see if I can run VC7.1 alongside VC6. However, I am still unable to decompress/unpack the downloaded source files even with their extensions amended. Am I really the only person having this difficulty? Hey ho,

RE: (Python newbie) Using XP-SP2/MSVC6: No Python24_d.lib, winzip barfs on Python-2.4.1.tar, cannot download bzip2

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Davy
Hi Jim, I'm not sure that it would be the complete answer, but could you zip me python24_d.(lib/dll/exp) ? We are not on VC7.1 (our customer has a mountain of legacy code) and I do not want to be incompatible with them. I will see if I can run MSVC6 alongside VC7.1 but have to put customer compati

Re: Nokia to speak at Python-UK next week

2005-04-19 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Ville Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Nick" == Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nick> Not entirely on topic, but does anyone know if there is a > Nick> series 80 python? Or if the series 60 python runs on a > Nick> series 80 phone (eg communicator 9300/9500)?

Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Heiko Selber
I am trying to find out (using Python under windows) the name of a CD that is currently in the drive specified by a path name. And while I am at it, I'd also like to know whether the specified drive contains a CD at all, and whether the drive is actually a CD drive. AFAIK, Python doesn't provide

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this neverchanged?

2005-04-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"could ildg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Private stuff always makes programming much easier. says who? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Tim Golden
[Heiko Selber] | I am trying to find out (using Python under windows) the name | of a CD that | is currently in the drive specified by a path name. | | And while I am at it, I'd also like to know whether the | specified drive | contains a CD at all, and whether the drive is actually a CD drive.

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this neverchanged?

2005-04-19 Thread James
Trolls? On 4/19/05, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "could ildg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Private stuff always makes programming much easier. > > says who? > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: pre-PEP: Suite-Based Keywords - syntax proposal

2005-04-19 Thread Bengt Richter
On 19 Apr 2005 00:16:32 -0700, "Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Bengt Richter wrote: > >[...] > >> Um, I think that's too narrow for where. Consider >> >> foo = f1; bar=f2; x=k1; y=k2 >> foo(x)*bar(y)[3].attr >> >> now should >> >> foo(x)*bar(y)[3].attr where: >> fo

Re: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Claudio Grondi
There are sure thousand ways of doing it "with windoze". Here one of them (NOT tested) in form of code snippets you can rearrange for your purpose: import win32com.client axFSO = win32com.client.Dispatch("Scripting.FileSystemObject") # SCRRUN.DLL axLstDrives = axFSO.Drives dctAXaxFSO_NumCodeAsKey

Re: New Python regex Doc (was: Python documentation moronicities)

2005-04-19 Thread Xah Lee
send your feedbacks to Steve Holden. (http://www.holdenweb.com/) If he deem it proper, he will paypal me $100 bucks, and you can thank him for the instigation and betterment of the Python doc. Meanwhile, feel free to incorporate my edits into python doc. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] â http://xahlee.or

Re: New Python regex Doc (was: Python documentation moronicities)

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Mill
On 4/18/05, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700, Xah Lee wrote: > > i have rewrote the Python's re module documentation. > > See it here for table of content page: > > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html > > For those who ha

Re: Wrapping C++ Class Heirachy in Python

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Wilkinson
Steve Juranich wrote: >> I've found the tp_base and tp_bases elements and I've set them to the >> base type object (and a tuple containing the base type object) before I >> call PyType_Ready but in Python the base class isn't recognised. Is there >> anything obvious I'm missing? > > Well, I can't

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/19/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is an oop language, Yes. > Private stuff always makes programming much easier. That contention is, at best, debatable. See http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b977ed1312e10b21. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Memory leak in python

2005-04-19 Thread Abhishek S
Hi, using python2.2.2 I am seeing that the python application is very slowly eating up the memory. i need help to indentify it. It start with 11MB and keeps growing by 1 MB around every 30mins. #top | grep python 10351 root 15 0 26584 25M 3896 S 0.5 0.8 46:05 1 python2 10351 ro

Re: ANN: Veusz 0.5 - a scientific plotting package

2005-04-19 Thread Jeremy Sanders
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:40:09 -0700, jdh2358 wrote: > I'll start by saying that I for one won't criticize you for rolling you > own plotting package rather than join forces with an existing project. > I've been accused of the same, on more than one occasion :-) But I'm also > aware of the problem

Re: uploading/streaming a file to a java servlet

2005-04-19 Thread Kent Johnson
Vasil Slavov wrote: I am working on a school project written in Python (using mod_python) and I need to upload a file to a java servlet. Here are the high-level instructions given by the servlet authors: - Open the file for reading. - Open an HTTP connection to the servlet and get the RequestStream

MessageBox ONOK?

2005-04-19 Thread Ali
Hi, How do i connect the onOK of a win32ui MessageBox with the Ok button so that I get to know when the user clicks the Ok button? Regards, Ali -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Python is an oop language, > > Yes. > > > Private stuff always makes programming much easier. > > That contention is, at best, debatable. See > http://groups-beta.g

xmlrpclib and binary data as normal parameter strings

2005-04-19 Thread Rune Froysa
Trying something like:: import xmlrpclib svr = xmlrpclib.Server("http://127.0.0.1:8000";) svr.test("\x1btest") Failes on the server with:: xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token) (Smaller test-case: xmlrpclib.loads(xmlrpclib.dumps(('\x1btest', Shouldn't this be

Re: Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

2005-04-19 Thread Steve
I stand corrected. Not only does what I wanted already exist, it seems to exist in TWO places. For the module index, for instance, there is http://docs.python.org/modindex.html and there also is http://python.org/doc/current/modindex.html Anybody know why there are two different URLs? Which

Re: xmlrpclib and binary data as normal parameter strings

2005-04-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Rune Froysa wrote: > >From http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/#dt-character :: > Consequently, XML processors MUST accept any character in the range > specified for Char > ... > Char ::= [#x1-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x1-#x10] you're looking at the XML 1.1 specifica

Re: Memory leak in python

2005-04-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Abhishek S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seeing that the python application is very slowly > eating up the memory. i need help to indentify it. what Python application? > It start with 11MB and keeps growing by 1 MB around > every 30mins. have you checked for growing lists (etc)? --

modules and namespaces

2005-04-19 Thread Mage
Hello, I thought that this will work: #m1.py def f1(): return string.join('a','a') #m2.py def f2(): return string.join('b','b') #main.py import string import m1 import m2 print f1() print f2() - However it doesn't work until I import the string module into m1 and m2 mo

Re: xmlrpclib and binary data as normal parameter strings

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Brodie
"Rune Froysa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec :: > Any characters are allowed in a string except < and &, which are > encoded as < and &. A string can be used to encode binary > data. the XMLRPC specification is worded pretty lo

Variables variable

2005-04-19 Thread Adriano Monteiro
Hi folks, Someone know how to make variables variable like in PHP? It's something like this: $a = 'hi' $$a = 'testing' echo $hi 'testing' Regards -- Adriano Monteiro Marques www.gopython.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm FREE... Are you? (PYTHON powered) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Update Label when Scale value changes

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
Hi, I am using Tkinter and I have a Label and a Scale. I want to update my label everytime the Scale value changes. What is the best way of doing this? Do i have to bind for every event type? Or is there some better way? If I do have to bind each type of event to the scale, what types occur

Re: modules and namespaces

2005-04-19 Thread Laszlo Zsolt Nagy
However it doesn't work until I import the string module into m1 and m2 modules. I found in the manual that imported modules will be searched in the container module first. Is it more efficient to import the string module into main and m1 and m2 than importing only into m1 and m2? I bet the mos

Re: Variables variable

2005-04-19 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Adriano Monteiro wrote: > Hi folks, > > Someone know how to make variables variable like in PHP? > It's something like this: > > $a = 'hi' > $$a = 'testing' > echo $hi > 'testing' You are most certainly wanting to use dictionaries. Or, if you work with attributes of an object, use getattr. Rei

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Hansen
Roy Smith wrote: Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Private stuff always makes programming much easier. That contention is, at best, debatable. See http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b977ed1312e10b21. Nice essay. Now,

Re: Working with method-wrapper objects

2005-04-19 Thread Peer Dr. Griebel
I think I was a little bit unspecific in my last mail. I would like to see some description about method-wrapper and wrapper_descriptor objects. I dont' understand the following behaviour: >>> type([].__str__) >>> type(object.__str__) >>> type(object().__str__) >>> import inspect >>> inspect

Re: Memory leak in python

2005-04-19 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Abhishek S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seeing that the python application is very slowly > eating up the memory. i need help to indentify it. > > It start with 11MB and keeps growing by 1 MB around > every 30mins. > > #top | grep python > 10351 root 15 0 26584 25M 3896 S

Re: modules and namespaces

2005-04-19 Thread Jaime Wyant
Each module has its own "namespace", which is like a dictionary of objects that the module can "see". I use the term dicitionary because locals() and globals() both return dictionaries -- someone may correct me on this (or confirm what I say)... You have local and global variables. Locals are va

New to Tkinter...

2005-04-19 Thread Peter G Carswell
Good Morning. I am new to Tkinter. I have been testing the installation of Tkinter through the python web site. The first two test steps give no errors, 'import _tkinter' and 'import Tkinter'. However, the third step, 'Tkinter._test', gives the error: Any suggestions? pete -- Peter G. Carsw

Re: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- Heiko Selber wrote: > > I am trying to find out (using Python under windows) the name of a CD that > is currently in the drive specified by a path name. > > And while I am at it, I'd also like to know whether the specified drive > contains a CD at all, and whether the drive is actually

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread Jaime Wyant
Have I missed something? Doesn't this mangle class methods: class Foo: def __bar(self): print "bar" Granted, you could probably figure out how the names are being mangled. In the example above __bar is a defacto private method. Griping about it not having `private' in front of it is asin

Re: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Heiko Selber
Aah, nice. Thank you. This should be included in pywin32, don't you think so? (Or is it? I didn't check before installing.) Heiko "Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Heiko Selber] | I am trying to find out (using Python under windows) the name | of a CD that

Re: Update Label when Scale value changes

2005-04-19 Thread Jørgen Cederberg
codecraig wrote: Hi, I am using Tkinter and I have a Label and a Scale. I want to update my label everytime the Scale value changes. What is the best way of doing this? Do i have to bind for every event type? Or is there some better way? If I do have to bind each type of event to the scale,

Re: New to Tkinter...

2005-04-19 Thread Eric Brunel
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:35:03 -0400, Peter G Carswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good Morning. I am new to Tkinter. I have been testing the installation of Tkinter through the python web site. The first two test steps give no errors, 'import _tkinter' and 'import Tkinter'. However, the third step, '

Re: def a((b,c,d),e):

2005-04-19 Thread François Pinard
[George Sakkis] > François Pinard wrote: > > The most useful place for implicit tuple unpacking, in my > > experience, is likely at the left of the `in' keyword in `for' > > statements (and it is even nicer when one avoids extraneous > > parentheses). > ... and would be nicest (IMO) if default ar

Re: Twisted for online games

2005-04-19 Thread Petri Lankoski
"sir.shz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm just starting to play with Twisted, and planning to use it for > sone online games (e.g., casino games, etc.), have people done that > before, are there any pointers? Thanks. "Game Programming with Python" by Sean Riley has good section about writing

Extending base class methods

2005-04-19 Thread henrikpierrou
Hi, I am trying to extend an overridden base class method (printer) by printing some extra fields and then calling the base class method. Extract from the python tutorial: 'An overriding method in a derived class may in fact want to extend rather than simply replace the base class method of the s

Re: Update Label when Scale value changes

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
Yea that is what i needed. Can you recommend a good Tkinter site (or book, but preferably site) about learning Tkinter. I've tried: http://www.python.org/moin/TkInter http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/ But I am looking for more about events, etc. Thanks -- http://mail.pyt

Re: New to Tkinter...

2005-04-19 Thread Peter G Carswell
Eric Brunel wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:35:03 -0400, Peter G Carswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good Morning. I am new to Tkinter. I have been testing the installation of Tkinter through the python web site. The first two test steps give no errors, 'import _tkinter' and 'import Tkinter'. Howev

Re: Extending base class methods

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Juranich
On 19 Apr 2005 07:01:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas why this does not work? I get the error "TypeError: unbound > method printer() must be called with Field_Collection instance as first > argument (got MSD instance instead)"): My suggestion would be to make Fiel

Re: Update Label when Scale value changes

2005-04-19 Thread Jørgen Cederberg
codecraig wrote: Yea that is what i needed. Can you recommend a good Tkinter site (or book, but preferably site) about learning Tkinter. I've tried: http://www.python.org/moin/TkInter http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/ But I am looking for more about events, etc. Thanks Hi the

Re: Update Label when Scale value changes

2005-04-19 Thread Kent Johnson
codecraig wrote: Yea that is what i needed. Can you recommend a good Tkinter site (or book, but preferably site) about learning Tkinter. I've tried: http://www.python.org/moin/TkInter http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/ I also like http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/

Re: New to Tkinter...

2005-04-19 Thread Peter G Carswell
Eric Brunel wrote: This is not an error. It's just the value of the _test function in the Tkinter module. You don't give the URL where you found the installation/test instructions, but you probably want: Tkinter._test() which *calls* the function. Tkinter._test just returns its value (functions

Re: (Python newbie) Using XP-SP2/MSVC6: No Python24_d.lib, winzip barfs on Python-2.4.1.tar, cannot download bzip2

2005-04-19 Thread A.B., Khalid
Okay, let me have another stap at this. As you have probably noticed MSVC6 is no longer actively supported as far as Python 2.4 goes. The official distribution of Python 2.4 for Windows is built using MSVC7.1 (or whatever you wish to call it). We are told that building C extensions with MSVC6 for

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 18)

2005-04-19 Thread Simon Brunning
QOTW: "Darn. I finally say something that gets into Quote of the Week, and it's attributed to someone else!" -- Greg Ewing (we think) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/15b836a557afccb2 "If there were something wrong with the API, Guido would have long since fired up the

XML-RPC -- send file

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
Hi, I want to use XML-RPC to send a file from client-to-server or from server-to-client. I know XML-RPC supports, int, string etc...not objects. I thought i read somewhere that by using pickle or something, that u could get a string representation of your object (or a file in my case) and sen

Re: (Python newbie) Using XP-SP2/MSVC6: No Python24_d.lib, winzip barfs on Python-2.4.1.tar, cannot download bzip2

2005-04-19 Thread Jaime Wyant
I fight the python24_d.lib problem with swig daily. The way I got around it was to modify swig's python configuration module. Mine was located at /lib/swig1.3/python/python.swg (I'm using cygwin) At the top, I changed #include "python.h" to #ifdef _DEBUG #undef _DEBUG #include "python.h

Re: Why does python class have not private methods? Will this never changed?

2005-04-19 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roy Smith wrote: >> Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On 4/19/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Private stuff always makes programming much easier. >>> >>>That contention is, at best, debatable. See >>

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread Lucio Torre
Klaus Alexander Seistrup wrote: > Lucio Torre wrote: > > Say, are floats implemented? Comparisons seem to work, but print'ing > doesn't: > > #v+ > > >>> 1.0 > 0.5 > True > >>> print 1.23 > %.*g > >>> > > I think thats a problem with the printf implementation. Im using one that came with codewarri

Re: modules and namespaces

2005-04-19 Thread Berthold Höllmann
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>However it doesn't work until I import the string module into m1 and m2 >>modules. I found in the manual that imported modules will be searched in >>the container module first. Is it more efficient to import the string >>module into main and m1 and m

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread Lucio Torre
Fraca7 wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:40:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So, ive made an initial release that has no documentation on how to use > > it or compile it (it requires codewarrior). If there is any interest on > > this, please let me know so we can work on getting this as a re

Tkinter and Scrollbar

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
Hi, I am trying to use a Scrollbar for a Listbox. I want a scrollbar which which has the vertical and horizontal scroll bars. Here is how i am doing it now, is the only way or "best" way to do it? # vertical scroll bar for list self._scrollbarY = Scrollbar(self.myContainer)

Re: Extending base class methods

2005-04-19 Thread henrikpierrou
Ok, i'll try that. But what about the recommendation in the tutorial, is that not possible? /H -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- Tim's wmi stuff looked interesting, so I tried it out, and now I have a question. - #!/usr/bin/python import wmi import win32api c=wmi.WMI() for i in c.Win32_CDROMDrive(): v=i.VolumeSerialNumber print "WMI serial",v,long(v,0x10) vn,sn,ln,flg,fstype=win32api.GetVolumeInfor

Re: py2exe - create one EXE

2005-04-19 Thread fred.dixon
what about trying cx_freeze -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Tim Golden
[Ivan Van Laningham] | Hi All-- | Tim's wmi stuff looked interesting, so I tried it out, and | now I have a | question. | [... snip code ...] | The output from the above script (drive d contains cd) is: | | WMI serial D0ADBEE7 3501047527 | | win32api serial -793919769 -793919769 | | | What'

The value of the entry widget doesn't get updated

2005-04-19 Thread Clara
Hi, can somebody help me,..I have an assignment due next week but now I'm stuck with this problem I tried to get values from entry widget using the widgetcontrolvariable.get(),..but it seems that it won't work I can't print the value I input in the entry widget...However when I first set th

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread RM
I get odd results when trying to use exponents. For example: >>>4^2 6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- Tim Golden wrote: > > Try this: hex (-793919769) > > You might need to check back on recent discussions here re > negative / positive numbers and hexadecimal. > > (Short version: we used to treat hex numbers with the top bit > set as negative decimal numbers; now only negative hex numb

RE: Name/ID of removable Media: how?

2005-04-19 Thread Tim Golden
[Ivan Van Laningham] | Hi All-- | | Tim Golden wrote: | > | > Try this: hex (-793919769) | > | > You might need to check back on recent discussions here re | > negative / positive numbers and hexadecimal. | > | > (Short version: we used to treat hex numbers with the top bit | > set as negative

Re: Extending base class methods

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Juranich
On 19 Apr 2005 08:27:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i'll try that. But what about the recommendation in the tutorial, > is that not possible? In the new (2.4) version of the Tutorial, that statement has been removed. What you're using has been called "old-style" clas

RE: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread Barron Snyder (MW MWC)
Isn't ** used for exponents? >>>4**2 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:39 AM By: RM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available I get odd results when trying to use exponents. For example: >>>4^2 6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] How do you get yesterday from a time object

2005-04-19 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/19/05, Ralph Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm a beginning python programmer. > > I want to get the date for yesterday > > nowTime = time.localtime(time.time()) > print nowTime. > oneDay = 60*60*24 # number seconds in a day > yday = nowTime - oneDay # <-- generates an error > print yd

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

2005-04-19 Thread RM
Oops. Sorry, you are right. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Do You Want To Know For Sure That You Are Going To Heaven? The reason some people don't know for sure if they are going to Heaven when they die is because they just don't know. The good news is that you can know for sure that you are going to Heaven which is described in the Holy Bible as a beautiful place with no death, sorrow, sickness or pain. (newsgroup-post 142)

2005-04-19 Thread RonGrossi
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Re: Strings and Lists

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Longridge
Thank you all very much for your responses. It's especially reassuring to hear about other Python GA's as I have had some scepticism about Python's speed (or lack of it) being too big a problem for such an application. With regard to using numeric, arrays or integer lists -- I didn't mention that

Re: please unsubscibe

2005-04-19 Thread bill norris
Thank you,     Bill NorrisJohn Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm pleased to announce that PyFit 0.7a1is now available in the file sections ofthe Extreme Programming and FitNesseYahoo groups. This version implementsmost of the Fit Library, and changesneeded to bring the package into conformance wi

Re: fpectl

2005-04-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:05:11AM -0700, Sébastien Boisgérault wrote: > Thanks for this answer. > > Did you forward this info to python-dev ? I created a patch on the sf tracker. It's been responded to by several developers. You can read what they said there. http://python.org/sf/1185529 Jef

Re: Do You Want To Know For Sure That You Are Going To Heaven? The reason some people don't know for sure if they are going to Heaven when they die is because they just don't know. The good news is that you can know for sure that you are going to Heaven wh

2005-04-19 Thread Sam Yorty
The only people who "know" they are going to heaven, clearly aren't <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The reason some people don't know for sure > if they are going to Heaven when they die > is because they just don't know. > > The good news is that you can know for

Re: XML-RPC -- send file

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
codecraig> I thought i read somewhere that by using pickle or something, codecraig> that u could get a string representation of your object (or a codecraig> file in my case) and send that. Any ideas? Sure: stuff = xmlrpclib.Binary(open(somefile).read()) server.call_some_remo

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 18)

2005-04-19 Thread Scott David Daniels
Simon Brunning wrote: "Get real. I can't imagine using anything so complex." -- Scott David Daniels, in response to a suggestion to try (1j-1) as a counting base Oops -- once again I get credit for someone's response to my post. (I was the "try (1j-1)" poster). --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTE

Refactoring in Python.

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Dembinski
I am trying to write Master Thesis on refactoring Python code. Where should I look for information? -- http://www.dembiński.prv.pl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML-RPC -- send file

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
how would I decode it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Refactoring in Python.

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
Peter> I am trying to write Master Thesis on refactoring Python code. Peter> Where should I look for information? I'm not sure, but one piece of code to check out would probably be Bicycle Repair Man, a early-stage prototype refactoring tool for Python. I don't recall where it's hosted.

Using Paramiko

2005-04-19 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Can anyone point me to a "how-to" on Paramiko? I need to use sftp for file transfer, have installed Paramiko and have a connection (that was pretty easy, actually), but cannot find documentation on how to transfer a file (I have demo_simple.py but can't figure it out). Perhaps I missed a sect

Re: [Python-Dev] How do you get yesterday from a time object

2005-04-19 Thread Larry Bates
Use datetime module if you are on 2.3 or 2.4, otherwise you can do: today=time.time() yesterday=today-24*60*60 # 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds Your problem is that time.localtime() converts to 9 value tuple (you can't subtract seconds from a tuple). You do the math on today and convert usi

gc.DEBUG_LEAK and gc.garbage

2005-04-19 Thread Cesar
Hi, I am new with python, and I am having a look to program that leaks. The first thing I have to do is to determine if what leaks it is the python code of my company. I have set the DEBUG_LEAK flag with the GC and in the program cycle printed the length of the garbage list. Is this enough to det

Re: def a((b,c,d),e):

2005-04-19 Thread George Sakkis
"François Pinard" wrote: > > I started recently to study the R system and language, and saw many good > ideas in there about argument passing. Translated in Python terms, it > would mean that `*varargs' and `**keywords' are not necessary last, > that named keywords may be intermixed with positiona

Re: XML-RPC -- send file

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
codecraig> how would I decode it? Assuming you have Python at the other end and you get a Binary object instead of a string, access its data attribute. OTOH, xmlrpclib may automatically decode the wrapper object for you. In any case, I have two further recommendations: * Check the xmlr

Re: gc.DEBUG_LEAK and gc.garbage

2005-04-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
Cesar> I have set the DEBUG_LEAK flag with the GC and in the program Cesar> cycle printed the length of the garbage list. Is this enough to Cesar> determine if there is a leak in the python code? (the value Cesar> rises). That suggests to me that you have objects with __del__ meth

Re: Refactoring in Python.

2005-04-19 Thread djw
Skip Montanaro wrote: Peter> I am trying to write Master Thesis on refactoring Python code. Peter> Where should I look for information? I'm not sure, but one piece of code to check out would probably be Bicycle Repair Man, a early-stage prototype refactoring tool for Python. I don't recall

Re: XML-RPC -- send file

2005-04-19 Thread codecraig
Experient I have been :) Here is what I am getting now CLIENT --- d = xmlrpclib.Binary(open("C:\\somefile.exe").read()) server.sendFile(d) SERVER -- def sendFile(tmp): print "FILE:", tmp The server receives the file, because it prints it out, but on the client I get

Encoding Questions

2005-04-19 Thread jalil
1. I download a page in python using urllib and now want to convert and keep it as utf-8? I already know the original encoding of the page. What calls should I make to convert the encoding of the page to utf8? For example, let's say the page is encoded in gb2312 (simple chinese) and I want to keep

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