Re: Send password over TCP connection

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 Server creates a hash string from > >4. Client

Re: Batteries Included?

"Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of the first things I wanted to do when I start learning Python was > to produce a simple standalone application that I could distribute to > my users (windows users). Python's moto is "Batteries Included", but > where are the batteries for making exe files

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>Ignoring all the other issues, any solution which actually requires the >password to be stored on the server is a bad solution. Administrators >should not have access to user passwords, and in addition users should >not be put in the position of having to trust your server-side security >to

Re: Batteries Included?

Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I might be wrong expecting that a language whose moto is "Batteries > > Included" would be able to produce exe files. > > Indeed, you're wrong. Why would such an ability be included in Python? distutils.exe, included in Python, in fact does have the a

Re: Let My Terminal Go

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > A user of my application points me to a behavior in gVim, > the text editor, that I would like to implement in my > application. > > When gVim is launched from a shell terminal, it completely > frees the terminal. You can continue to use

Re: Batteries Included?

Mike Meyer: > After you create a setup.py file for you program, doing > > "python setup.py bdist --formats=wininst" > > should do the trick. > > Of course, I don't own a Windows box, so I can't check it, but when I > ask a setup file for help on formats, it tells me the wininst format > is

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>If you really want to do it right, use SRP, . > > This is a bit offtopic here. I read the RFC and I do not see why SRP is not vulnerable to dictionary attacks. If I have a working client software then I can use it to reveal passwords. Isn't it a dictionary attack? Can

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Re: Batteries Included?

> I might be wrong expecting that a language whose > moto is "Batteries Included" would be able to produce exe files. Are > there plans to do this in the future version of Python? Yes, you are wrong expecting that. Creating an exe-cutable is windows specific and python _tries_ to be platform neu

Re: Send password over TCP connection

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a bit offtopic here. I read the RFC and I do not see why SRP > is not vulnerable to dictionary attacks. > If I have a working client software then I can use it to reveal > passwords. Isn't it a dictionary attack? Dictionary attack in this con

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Benjamin Niemann wrote: > Frank Millman wrote: > > > I will try to explain my experience with popen() briefly. > > > > I run through all the scripts and create a StringIO object with the > > string I want to pass. It is about 250 000 bytes long. If I run psql > > using popen(), and pass it the stri

Re: Question about StringIO

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > 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

Re: Let My Terminal Go

On 10 Oct 2005 22:58:08 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I implement this in my application written in python? Google for "python daemonize". -- jk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Op 2005-10-10, Terry Hancock schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 p

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Re: Send password over TCP connection

Paul Rubin wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>This is a bit offtopic here. I read the RFC and I do not see why SRP >>is not vulnerable to dictionary attacks. >>If I have a working client software then I can use it to reveal >>passwords. Isn't it a dictionary attack? >>

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> Thanks for this pointer. I have read it, but I don't think it applies > to my situation, as it talks about 'reading' from the child's stdout > while the child is 'writing' to stderr. But that is exactly the point: the psql blocks because you don't read away the buffered data. Start a thread, re

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Re: Question about StringIO

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > Thanks for this pointer. I have read it, but I don't think it applies > > to my situation, as it talks about 'reading' from the child's stdout > > while the child is 'writing' to stderr. > > But that is exactly the point: the psql blocks because you don't read > away th

Re: Looking for info on Python's memory allocation

Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano enlightened us with: > >>he says that every time you try to append to a list that is already >>full, Python doubles the size of the list. This wastes no more than > If, on the other hand, you double the memory every time you run out, > you have to copy much

Re: Learning Python

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:20:35 +, dannypatterso wrote: [snip] >> I'm a hobby programmer using mostly BASIC(s) and some Java. I know >> procedural programming and I know what encapsulation, inheritance and >> polymorphism are but I have very little experience in using them as >> I've written ju

Re: Question about StringIO

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > My scripts are used to create the tables in the database. I didn't > > think that DB-API covered that. > > The DB-Api covers executin arbirary SQL - either DDL or DML. It is > surely centered around DML, but that doesn't mean that its not usabel to > issue "create ..."

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Re: A faster shutil.rmtree or maybe a command.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes I must delete 2 very big directory's. > The directory's have a very large tree with much small file's in it. > > So I use shutil.rmtree() > But its to slow. > > Is there a faster method ? Is os.system("rm -rf %s" % directory_name) much faster? -- Giovanni Ba

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On 11 Oct 2005 00:10:01 -0700 Paul Rubin wrote: > Personally I think including a .exe packager in Python would be a > great idea. As a Linux user I can't easily run Windows-specific > utilities like Inno Setup. So I don't have a good way to make .exe's > from my Python code that Windows users ca

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A little. I think its yust to big to handle it. I'm going to ask it in a freebsd forum, maybe they know how to speed up. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: Looking for info on Python's memory allocation

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > If I have a generator or other iterable producing a vast number of > items, and use it like this: > > s = [k for k in iterable] > > if I know beforehand how many items iterable would possibly yield, would > a construct like this be faster and "use" less memory? >

Re: Batteries Included?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because you can't run it yourself? If you cannot run the > freshly-made exe yourself, why would you want to distrubute it, > without even trying? But if you can, then you can run the InnoSetup > as well. Obviously I'd want someone to test the .exe before putting it in

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Hello, Thank you. That's all I needed. For some reason, I had always assumed forking was an expensive process. I guess I was ill-informed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Let My Terminal Go

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Re: strange import error with Python-2.4.1

Robin Becker wrote: > Whilst testing the excellent xlrd http://www.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.3a1 > I came across the following strangeness when trying to add an import of os to > assist with debugging/tracing. > > > At line 66 I replaced > > import sys > > with import sys, os > > and then ran py

Re: strange import error with Python-2.4.1

Steve Holden wrote: > Can I ask if you are specifying a source encoding in your file with a > pragma (?) like > > # -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*- > > I've noticed what appear to be spurious syntax errors from time to time > on such files, and have been attempting to debug the problem for some > time

Re: strange import error with Python-2.4.1

"Robin Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This behaviour doesn't occur with 2.4.2 or 2.4 only with 2.4.1. I looked for > some bug fix in the recently released 2.4.2 that related, but couldn't find > anything obvious. One of the various codecs fixes, I think. Bu

Re: Idle bytecode query on apparently unreachable returns

[Tom Anderson]: > What puzzles me, though, are bytecodes 17, 39 and 42 - surely these aren't > reachable? Does the compiler just throw in a default 'return None' > epilogue, with routes there from every code path, even when it's not > needed? If so, why? Since unreachable code is never executed, t

Re: Python's Performance

Steve Holden wrote: > And we definitely need "agile" in there. Bugger, I'll go out and come in > again ... Used in the same breath as the word "bugger", I'm not sure the phrase "go out and come in again" is entirely appropriate for a family forum. ;-) But I'm also not sure I ought to post that

Re: Merging sorted lists/iterators/generators into one stream of values...

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Re: Send password over TCP connection

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >> Ignoring all the other issues, any solution which actually requires >> the password to be stored on the server is a bad solution. >> Administrators should not have access to user passwords, and in >> addition users should not be put in the posi

Re: Python's Performance

Peter Hansen wrote: > But I'm also not sure I ought to post that to the group, so I'll spare > them and just inflict the thought on you! Or, maybe I'll just fail to trim the newsgroup line and accidentally post to the group anyway. Yes, that's just what I'll do. Sorry folks. :-) -Peter -- ht

Re: strange import error with Python-2.4.1

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Can I ask if you are specifying a source encoding in your file with a >>pragma (?) like >> >># -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*- >> >>I've noticed what appear to be spurious syntax errors from time to time >>on such files, and have been attempting to deb

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Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > or is the "proper python" way simply this: > > def fn(*values, **options): > if "cmp" in options: comparison = options["cmp"] > else: comparison = cmp > # rest of function here > > and thus ignoring the wrong parameter names? I

Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

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Re: Let My Terminal Go

Mike Meyer wrote: > The easy way to do all these things - from C, anyway - is with > daemon(3). That isn't wrapped as part of the Python library. The > easiest way to solve your problem may be write a wrapper for that > call. If daemon exists on enough systems, submitting your wrapper as a > patch

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Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

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Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

Max M wrote: > Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > >> I must be missing something but what is the proper way to do a >> function using such arguments ? > > >> - ability to take an unspecified number of "positional arguments" > > > You should probably pass a sequence to the method instead. You ca

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Christian Stapfer wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Christian Stapfer wrote: >> >>>"George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> "Christian Stapfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><[EMAIL P

Re: Send password over TCP connection

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Re: Merging sorted lists/iterators/generators into one stream of values...

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Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

"Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what you're saying is that instead of: > > def fn(*values, **options): > > I should use: > > def fn(values, cmp=cmp): > > in this specific case? > > and then instead of: > > fn(1, 2, 3, cmp=...) > > this: > > fn([1, 2, 3], cmp=...) > > > >

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Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

George Sakkis wrote: > "Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I think I'll re-write to use a list instead > > > Actually in most cases you don't need to assume it's a list; any > iterable is usually good enough. You can always turn it into a list (or > a tuple or a set or..) in t

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Re: Merging sorted lists/iterators/generators into one stream of values...

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On 11 Oct 2005 07:07:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wrote a .py file and it works fine, my goal is to pass argument to > that py file when it get executed, and accept that argument within py > file, eg. i prefer a command like below: > > python test.py -t > > and then, i

how to execute .exe file ?

hi all~ i used to drive .exe file working by writing a simple batch file, i thin python may do this as well bu i dunno how to, any help ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

In comp.lang.perl.misc Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>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 from > strangers, espec

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

On 2005-10-10, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 s

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

On 2005-10-10, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. I assumed you could tell that from my accent. :) >>

Re: how to(can we ?) pass argument to .py script ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > howdy~ > > i wrote a .py file and it works fine, my goal is to pass argument to > that py file when it get executed, and accept that argument within py > file, eg. i prefer a command like below: > > python test.py -t > > and then, i may get "-t" within test.py for late

Re: Can module access global from __main__?

Everything you said is absolutely correct. I was being lazy. I had a main program in module, and wanted to reorganize it, putting most of it into a new module. Being python, it actually only took a small effort to fix this properly, so that in B.py, what were global variables are now passed as a

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>If you're saying that people have no choice but to trust that their >passwords, stored in the clear on the server of some idiot who didn't >know better, are safe from casual administrator observation and safe >from hackers stealing the password file, then you shouldn't be allowed >anywhere ne

Re: Python reliability

Ville Voipio wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Bartkus wrote: > >>All in all, it would seem that the reliability of the Python run time is the >>least of your worries. I agree - design of the application, keeping it simple and testing it thoroughly is more important for reliabili

Re: how to(can we ?) pass argument to .py script ?

hey i got it ! tks guys ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to share a python list of objects

kyle.tk wrote: > So I have a central list of python objects that I want to be able to > share between different process that are possibly on different > computers on the network. Some of the processes will add objects to > list and another process will be a GUI that will view objects in the > list.

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