Re: Learning Python

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:50:18 -0400, Paul DiRezze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at >learning how to program in Python. Here's a list of the places I've >bookmarked: > >http://www.python.org/doc/ and more specifically >http://wiki.

Re: Learning Python

I would suggest buying Beginning Python: Novice to Professional, by Magnus hetland. It is IMO the best Python book written to date. This book this mailing-list and Python.org are all you should need. > I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at > learning how to pr

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

Rich Teer wrote: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Roedy Green wrote: > >>Normally you send photos to grandma with captions under each photo. >>That is far more convenient for the technopeasant receiver than >>dealing with multiple attachments. > > And even more convenient is "Hey grandma, check out the late

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But there is always an alternative. You can always send me a Word > document, a PDF, an Powerpoint presentation showing the steps one per > page, why the possibilities are endless. Why saddle you with a proprietory format (M$ Office), when StarOffice

Re: Send password over TCP connection

How about an OTP (One Time Password) algorithm? It is described in RFC2289. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2289.html I have a working implementation in Messlib. You can download it an look at the "MessageSocket.SecureMessageSocket" class. That is a modified version where a good random generator is

set.__getstate__ not overriden

>>> import pickle >>> class Foo(set): ... def __getstate__(self): assert False >>> pickle.dumps(Foo()) # doesn't raise AssertionError The same happens with frozenset. Before I submit it to the bugs tracker, is there a chance this is a 'feature' ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: Learning Python

A good introduction to Python is the recently published book "Beginning Python from Novice to Pro". It provides a quick introduction to Python, skips a lot of the details hard core programmers expect, and has very few samples of difficult to understand lines of code that can easily discourage the

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "user mode" uses style sheets you specify. > > There's a whole bunch of built-in ones - and you can cascade them: Yup, saw those. > ``There is also the inclusion of 12 packaged user style sheets and an easy > menu application interface (View > Style)

Re: unable to import os

Kim Nguyen wrote: > Fredrik Lundh,I replaced mtime = os.stat(Path + > file_name)[os.path.stat.ST_MTIME] > with mtime = nt.stat("q.py") per your suggested, then ran it from IDLE 2.4.2. > Here is > the message I got oh, sorry, that was an example that accidentally slipped through. I somehow exp

convert char to byte representation

Hello, I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte representation. This is to calculate the nmea checksum for gps data. e.g. everything between $ and * needs to be xor: $GPGSV,3,1,10,06,79,

Python enjoyment (was Re: Python's Performance)

Ditto to the below! I quite literally considered leaving the CS field until I found Python. Now my main job description is 'technical writing', but I get to use python at work (MoinMoin) and for all of my own computing needs.Cheers,KenOn 10-Oct-05, at 2:03 AM, Ron Adam wrote:If I was forced to go b

Re: Python's Performance

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donn Cave wrote: > > > | > Except it is interpreted. > > | > > | except that it isn't. Python source code is compiled to byte code, which > > | is then executed by a virtual machine. if the byte code for a module is

Re: convert char to byte representation

ord(c) gives you decimal representation of a character. -Larry Bates Philipp H. Mohr wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with > its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte > representation. This is to calculate the nm

Re: convert char to byte representation

Philipp H. Mohr wrote: > I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with > its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte > representation. ord('a') == 97; chr(97) == 'a'; "ord" gives you the value of the byte. > e.g. everything between $ and * nee

Re: Python's Performance

Fredrik, but still some very valuable people write: """ What is Python? Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. """ taken from http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html maybe someone could update that??? Haral

Re: Continuous system simulation in Python

> I am aware of some shortcomings and design flaws of Simulink, > especially in the code generation area. I am interested by > your paper nonetheless, please send me copy. Ok no problem. Let me just a few days to strip any irrelevant data on it... > However, Simulink is used by many people on a d

Re: convert char to byte representation

On 2005-10-10, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with >> its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte >> representation. This is to calculate the nmea checksum for gps data. > ord(c) gives you de

Re: convert char to byte representation

Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Philipp H. Mohr wrote: >> I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a >> string with its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a >> char into its byte representation. > ord('a') == 97; chr(97) ==

Re: subprocess and non-blocking IO (again)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to rewrite a PERL automation which started a "monitoring" > application on many machines, via RSH, and then multiplexed their > collective outputs to stdout. > > In production there are lots of these subprocess

Re: convert char to byte representation

Scott David Daniels wrote: > Philipp H. Mohr wrote: >> I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with >> its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char into its byte >> representation. > ord('a') == 97; chr(97) == 'a'; "ord" gives you the value of the byte. > >

rrdtool?

What sort of rrdtool-related or rrdtool-like software is out there, in python? How does it compare to the many perl and/or php efforts? I really prefer python, but I'm not seeing much in the way of python software for this kind of thing just yet. But hopefully, I just overlooked it :) Thanks!

Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, it was written: > Ville Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just one thing: how reliable is the garbage collecting system? Should I >> try to either not produce any garbage or try to clean up manually? > > The GC is a simple, manually-updated reference counting system aug

Library functions

I am writing a program that mimics a program written in C, but using Python-supiorior techniques. The C program calles a library function, non-open source, I only know that it sends it a command LINUX_CAN_Open() as for a few others as well. Is there a way I can call this function from Python withou

how to capture key pressing

Hi all. I'm searching for a module that permit me to costantly log every key pressed on the keyboard and eventually assign it a function (e.g. when "esc" is pressed: exit program"). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's Performance

Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that there are many shades of grey here, but there's also a > real black that's sharply distinct and easy to find -- real native > code binaries are not interpreted. Except when they are. Many machines are microcoded, which means your "real native co

Re: how to capture key pressing

Hi, Look at curses. Philippe billie wrote: > Hi all. I'm searching for a module that permit me to costantly log every > key pressed on the keyboard and eventually assign it a function (e.g. when > "esc" is pressed: exit program"). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would be a >lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be faster, >more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions. > >Hmm. May

Re: Library functions

On 2005-10-10, Tuvas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a program that mimics a program written in C, but using > Python-supiorior techniques. The C program calles a library function, > non-open source, I only know that it sends it a command > LINUX_CAN_Open() as for a few others as well.

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:07:42 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > >HTML is a problem on *other* peoples crappy software as well. It >wasn't designed to carry code content, but has been hacked up to do >that. It seems to me it goes without saying that you cannot trust code fro

Re: rrdtool?

By sheer coincidence I was looking into the same thing today. I just downloaded the latest rrdtool release (rrdtool-1.2.11) and I noticed a /bindings/python subdirectory. I haven't played with it yet, as I still need to install tons of prerequisites before I can build rrdtool. Grig -- http://mai

Re: Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would > be a lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be > faster, more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions. > > Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't make extensions e

Re: Send password over TCP connection

Hi. I found TSL, a Python Library that supports SRP. Do you know where can I find a sample client and server code? Thanks for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Send password over TCP connection

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:06:27 -0700, dcrespo wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a program that serves client programs. The server has a login > password, which has to be used by each client for logging in. So, when > the client connects, it sends a string with a password, which is then > validated on the

Re: how to capture key pressing

> Look at curses. I was searching for something portable on multiple platforms. Curses doesn't work on Windows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Learning Python

This should be good for a couple weeks http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_101/python_101.html http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_201/python_201.html http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/ http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Python/Grimoire http://mail.python.org/p

how to check if file is in use?

Hi all, can anybody give me (a python newbie) give a hint how to check in python wether a file is in use by another program? Thanks for your effort, Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:35 am, Steve Holden wrote: > I must have been working at NASA at the time; they are well known for > embiggening prices. Not nearly as much as the DoD, from what I hear. Truthfully, I think those stories are bit exaggerated -- I think the real problem is somebody m

Re: Python reliability

"Ville Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: > I would need to make some high-reliability software > running on Linux in an embedded system. Performance > (or lack of it) is not an issue, reliability is. > The soft

Re: non descriptive error

On Sunday 09 October 2005 06:12 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >By looking at the source code for DutyShift.py? > > > well DUH thank you captain obvious! Well, since you apparently missed the subtlety, you DID NOT GIVE ADEQUATE INFORMATION if you expected to get some kind of a

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

On Friday 07 October 2005 05:28 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > Cool. While we're on the topic, has anybody else noticed that > "guys" is acceptible and commonly used to refer to a group of > women, Yeah, though it depends on where you are. > but the singular "guy" is never used to refer to a > sing

Re: Python's Performance

On Saturday 08 October 2005 01:54 pm, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dave wrote: > > Yes, I would like to know how many internal string operations are done > > inside > > the Python interpreter. > > when you're doing what? > > how do you define "internal string operations", btw? He's got to be talking

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "Britishaccent"...

On Saturday 08 October 2005 09:29 am, Duncan Smith wrote: > Yes, although I'm not actually sure where the 'royal we' comes from; I have heard the explanation, that the "royal we" refers to two people, the office of the monarch being one, and the person of the monarch being the other. But I only r

Re: Creating internet shortcuts

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:08:45 -0400, Roger Upole wrote: > Pythoncom doesn't directly support the necessary interfaces, > but you can use the Shell COM interfaces to create them. > > import win32com.client > wsh=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('wscript.shell') > s=wsh.CreateShortcut('c:\\pyt

Works only in interactive mode

Hi all, using Python 2.4 under Linux (SUSE 9.3) I was developping a script to get various lists related with DCOP. In interactive Python all is working correctly: import pcop # application's registration with DCOP x=pcop.register_as('kate') print x kate-7497 # list of DCOP registered applica

Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors of harddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

Googling for keywords like "direct access sector harddrive Python module Windows" seems to give no useful results. Any hints(best if cross-platform)? Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Send password over TCP connection

¡Beautiful and elegant solution! Two copies of the password: one on the client, the other on the server. 1. Client wants to connect 2. Server generates a random_alphanumeric_string and sends it to the client 3. Both Client and Server creates a hash string from 4. Client sends the hash string to

Re: how to check if file is in use?

On Oct 10, Stefan Siegel wrote: > can anybody give me (a python newbie) give a hint how to check in > python wether a file is in use by another program? This was previously discussed on c.l.py. In short, "you can't". A detailed answer is in this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-l

Re: [Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:50 am, phil hunt wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:05:12 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e. > >reading it as written pretty much makes sense). > > I know, let's re-write Python to

Re: Send password over TCP connection

On 10 Oct 2005 13:31:51 -0700, dcrespo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I found TSL, a Python Library that supports SRP. > Do you know where can I find a sample client and server code? Thanks > for your help. http://trevp.net/tlslite/ It comes with examples. I use it in several servers and clie

Re: Send password over TCP connection

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:29:20 -0700, dcrespo wrote: > ¡Beautiful and elegant solution! > > Two copies of the password: one on the client, the other on the server. > > 1. Client wants to connect > 2. Server generates a random_alphanumeric_string and sends it to the > client > 3. Both Client and Se

Re: Learning Python

On Monday 10 October 2005 11:50 am, Paul DiRezze wrote: > I'm spending the next two weeks off and I'm looking to take a crack at > learning how to program in Python. [...] > > I'm looking for additional resources (links, names of books, > whatever...) that you think may help me out. > > I'm a

Python name lookups

Hello All, As far as I understand, Python deals with a lot of string objects, i.e. it looks up all names. Is there a way to find out how many name lookup operations take place in a Python program? Is it the name lookup operation or hash operation that degrades performance? What function does Pytho

Changing console text color

Hello, I've been trying to change the text color on a windows console program I've been working on with no luck. I should mention that I'm a novice so please dummy up your replies. Thanks-in-Advance Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Send password over TCP connection

"dcrespo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I found TSL, a Python Library that supports SRP. > Do you know where can I find a sample client and server code? Thanks > for your help. I don't know about TSL, but TLSLite (www.trevp.net/tlslite) supports SRP. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Learning Python

Lots of links to all levels of tutorials and documentation here: http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html Python Podcast too! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Send password over TCP connection

"dcrespo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3. Both Client and Server creates a hash string from > > 4. Client sends the hash string to the server > 5. Server compares his hash result with the hash string received from > de client. > > I think it is a very good solution, Isn't it? No. It's vulnerabl

Re: Send password over TCP connection

> Sounds like it, but how is it different from what I just described? :) That's right, but I wanted to rewrite it... I was for confirm my recent acquired knowlegde :) With "alphanumeric" I meant the md5 hash (for example). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would > be a lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be > faster, more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions. The next PyPy sprint (this week I think) is

Re: Python's Performance

Mike Meyer wrote: > Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I agree that there are many shades of grey here, but there's also a >>real black that's sharply distinct and easy to find -- real native >>code binaries are not interpreted. > > > Except when they are. Many machines are microcoded, wh

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors of harddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

I took the advice from this web page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q100027/ (I don't know how this extends to floppies, and the 9x family of OSes isn't listed in "applies to", so this may not help your case) Here, I open "physical drive 0" and see that the magic number indicates a valid

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:57:14 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In a Texas dialect, "their" is construed to mean "singular third person >of indeterminate gender". It's considered rude to use "it" to apply to >a sentient, and "his or her" is "PC" (and therefore a great sin ;-) ). Work

Re: Question about StringIO

> Thanks, Steve and Diez, for the replies. I didn't think it was > possible, but it was worth asking :-) > > I will try to explain my experience with popen() briefly. > > I have some sql scripts to create tables, indexes, procedures, etc. At > present there are about 50 scripts, but this number w

Re: Python name lookups

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:02:30PM -0700, Dave wrote: > Hello All, > > As far as I understand, Python deals with a lot of > string objects, i.e. it looks up all names. Is there a > way to find out how many name lookup operations take > place in a Python program? Is it the name lookup > operation o

Re: Python's Performance

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I agree that there are many shades of grey here, but there's also a > > real black that's sharply distinct and easy to find -- real native > > code binaries are not interpreted. > >

Re: Changing console text color

You can use this module to control console windows background and text colors. http://www.effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm -Larry Bates Steve M wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to change the text color on a windows console > program I've been working on with no luck. I should menti

RE: TurboGears slashdotted

Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > "TurboGears: Python on Rails?" post: > > http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/10/10/0650207.shtml?tid=156 Actually, since the submitter used a coral URL (.nyud.net:8090) the TurboGears site survived remarkably well. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

Thank you Jeff very much for your quick reply. It saved me really much time of digging in the wrong direction. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> I took the advice from this web page: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q100027/ Ok, I had found this page myself during Googl

Re: Send password over TCP connection

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:13:14 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > "dcrespo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [quoted text muted] > > No. It's vulnerable to dictionary search. Use SRP if you can. Where can I learn more about this? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: convert char to byte representation

I've always read it written that the number that is returned by ord(c) is the "decimal" (not hex, not octal) representation of the ASCII/UNICODE character that is stored in memory location pointed to by variable c. While the result is an integer (as it couldn't really be anything else), I believe

Re: Works only in interactive mode

That looks like a different module named pcop getting in the way. If there's another pcop.py in the directory where you're running it as a script, then that gets priority and you'll end up with an error like the one you got. However, if you run it interactively, then that directory is not checked,

Re: [Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:42:34 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:50 am, phil hunt wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:05:12 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e. >> >read

Re: Send password over TCP connection

Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:13:14 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >> >>Use SRP if you can. > > Where can I learn more about this? http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2945.html Ciao, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

The following site contains my routines to access information from the Microsoft SCSIPASSTHROUGH layer under windows. These routines allow you to access the storage devices mounted under windows using SCSI commands. The dll that I provide will work with Python 2.3 http://starship.python.net/crew/s

WMI - Restore Setting in Python

Hi,I am beginner in Python. I have some questions on WMI Service in Python. I was able to use properties of Class Restore in WMI, but not able to use the method. Here is the sample code that I done, anyone can help me?import win32com.clientstrComputer = "."objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("

Re: Function decorator that caches function results

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:39:23 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> only if you're obsessed with CPython implementation details. > > No. I'm obsessed with finding out what closures are, since nobody seems > to have a good definition of them! On the contrar

Python, COM Servers, and Multi-Threading

I have been considering using Python and the Reportlab library for generating PDF reports for the back-end of a web based application. The application runs most of its background tasks on a dedicated server that is Windows based (Win2K or Win2k3). The program that launches the tasks requires a CO

Re: Python's Performance

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > I'd consider that BASIC to be a fully interpreted language, as the > tokens are still a one-for-one equivalence of the source code. Python, > UCSD, and Java are not one-for-one, so on that basis, they fit the > definition of a compiled language... That's an interesting d

Re: Works only in interactive mode

Hi Sam, thank you very much. Your diagnosis was perfect! Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Send password over TCP connection

Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No. It's vulnerable to dictionary search. Use SRP if you can. > Where can I learn more about this? http://srp.stanford.edu as already mentioned. Also, RFC 2945 describes an older version (still ok). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: Send password over TCP connection

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:21:55 +0200, Michael Ströder wrote: > Dan Stromberg wrote: >> [quoted text muted] > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2945.html > > Ciao, Michael. OK, thanks for the reference. I guess I neglected to stress that we're talking about using random strings of characters, not dic

Re: Function decorator that caches function results

Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, a crack at a definition: a closure is a function in which some > of the variable names refer to variables outside the function. That's misleading, I'd say a closure is a combination of a function (executable code) and a lexical environment (the valu

Re: Library functions

How exactly do you do that? Just to get some kind of an idea, perhaps you could share bits of code? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's Performance

Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I agree that there are many shades of grey here, but there's also a >> > real black that's sharply distinct and easy to find -- real nativ

Re: rrdtool?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:18:29 -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > By sheer coincidence I was looking into the same thing today. I just > downloaded the latest rrdtool release (rrdtool-1.2.11) and I noticed a > /bindings/python subdirectory. I haven't played with it yet, as I still > need to install tons

Form Filling in XML

if i have the following chunck of code how can I look at the Text Nodes of Fillin and compare them with the Element Nodes of Form and if they are equal put the Text Node of Fillin into the Text Node of Form ie)=Monday so put maandag it between and so maantag thanks for the insight import xml.d

Re: Python on the Power PC

Unfortunately I am completely new to using the Pocket PC - the Python error message appear to come up in 2 "waves" or screens - the first screen contains the error message re can't find tkinter and is only visible for a fraction of a second (repeated running and trying to get the eyes to focus on e

Re: Changing console text color

Thank you. I appreciate the help. Steve Larry Bates wrote: > You can use this module to control console windows background and > text colors. > > http://www.effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm > > -Larry Bates > > Steve M wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been trying to change the text color

Re: convert char to byte representation

[Format recovered from top posting.] Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2005-10-10, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to xor the byte representation of every char in a string with its predecessor. But I don't know how to convert a char int

Re: read serial data from a barcode reader/scanner using python

Edgar wrote: > is there a way to program python to read serial data from a barcode > reader/scanner http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ > and then using the parallel port of the PC to activate an > electromagnetic door lock. http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html For other options see Go

Re: Continuous system simulation in Python

In your simulator how much do you want Python to do? I ask this because your subject title implies you want to write your simulation code in Python but a simulator written entirely in Python would be very slow. Python is an interpreted language and pure Python code is not suitable for simulating

Why asci-only symbols?

Out of random curiosity, is there a PEP/thread/? that explains why Python symbols are restricted to 7-bit ascii? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: how do you pronounce wxpython

Peter wrote: > Although the wxPyWiki seems to be pronounced wix-pee-wi-kee (as it says > on the front page) so maybe it is pronounced wix-Python... you never > know... That's _definitely_ how it's pronounced. Here. Where I am. When I'm speaking. If, however, we're near Mike Fletcher and he's

Re: Python's Performance

Harald Armin Massa wrote: > """ > What is Python? > > Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming > language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. > """ > taken from > http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html > > maybe someone could update that??? Maybe we shou

Newbie needs help. Setting PYTHONDOCS to read HTML.

I have installed Python 2.4.2 from Python.org. I type "help()" and I get basic help. In help, I type "keywords" and I get an error saying, "Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the Python HTML documentation files could not be found. If you have installed them, please

pyparallel and MAKE controller board for CRYDOM AC/DC switches

Greetings. I am trying to write a small application for controlling CRYDOM AC and DC switches from the parallel port using pyparallel. The project is described in the latest issue of MAKE magazine Vol.3 pg 86. All of the examples are in C, VB, Linux, Unix but not a thing in Python. Seems lik

Re: Newbie needs help. Setting PYTHONDOCS to read HTML.

You can still use it, but you can't use the help. I don't know but this has always been better than the help for me! =D-- -Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's Performance

On Monday 10 October 2005 01:21 pm, Donn Cave wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > I am not very well acquainted with these technologies, but it sounds > like variations on the implementation of an interpreter, with no > really compelling distinction between them. When a program is deployed

Re: rrdtool?

I don't know of any, so maybe it's time to roll our sleeves :-) Actually, a while ago I started a python project called perfstats () which uses SNMP to retrieve various system performance metrics, stores them into a Firebird database, then displays them u

Re: pyparallel and MAKE controller board for CRYDOM AC/DC switches

Recalling the parallel pinout, pin 3 is data bit 2. Have you tried def BIT(x): return 1< pgprfRaNUTBBH.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python reliability

Ville Voipio wrote: > I am not building a redundant system with independent > instruments voting. At this point I am trying to minimize > the false alarms. This is why I want to know if Python > is reliable enough to be used in this application. > > By the postings I have seen in this thread it se

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