Re: Problem with subprocess.call and windows schtasks

2012-11-20 Thread Tom Borkin
Using shlex, I now have this: #!\Python27\python import os, subprocess path = os.path.join("C:\\", "Program Files", "Apache Group", "Apache2", "htdocs", "ccc", "run_alert.py") #subprocess.call(['SchTasks', '/Create', '/SC', 'ONCE', '/TN', '"test"', '/TR', path, '/ST', '23:50']) subprocess.call(['Sc

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Alan Meyer
On 11/20/2012 11:29 AM, mherrmann...@gmail.com wrote: > ... generate_keystrokes? ... Not bad. "gen_keystrokes", or even "keystrokes" might also do. I suggest using a name that is unique enough that you can grep through piles of code and find where it's used. "type" fails that test. "genera

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Chase
On 11/20/12 06:18, Michael Herrmann wrote: > am having difficulty picking a name for the function that > simulates key strokes. I currently have it as 'type' but that > clashes with the built-in function. Just to add one more to the pot, Vim uses "feedkeys()" for a similar purpose. -tkc -- ht

Re: Greedy parsing of argparse/positional arguments

2012-11-20 Thread Joshua Landau
On 20 November 2012 10:02, Johannes Bauer wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a problem with Python3.2's argparse module. The following sample: > > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog = sys.argv[0]) > parser.add_argument("-enc", metavar = "enc", nargs = "+", type = str, > default = [ "utf-8" ]) > pars

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:00:59 -0600, Tim Chase wrote: > On 11/20/12 06:18, Michael Herrmann wrote: >> am having difficulty picking a name for the function that simulates key >> strokes. I currently have it as 'type' but that clashes with the >> built-in function. > > Just to add one more to the po

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:08:24 +, Prasad, Ramit wrote: >> I believe that your initial instinct for the name of this function was >> correct. It automates typing, so you should call it "type" or (for >> those paranoid about shadowing the built-in, "type_str". >> >> > I can too easily see somebo

Re: Problem with subprocess.call and windows schtasks

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/20/2012 06:41 PM, Tom Borkin wrote: (Please don't top-post. Now we lose all the context) > Using shlex, I now have this: > #!\Python27\python > import os, subprocess > path = os.path.join("C:\\", "Program Files", "Apache Group", "Apache2", > "htdocs", "ccc", "run_alert.py") > #subprocess.ca

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Chase
On 11/20/12 19:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:00:59 -0600, Tim Chase wrote: >> Just to add one more to the pot, Vim uses "feedkeys()" for a similar >> purpose. > > What does it feed to the keys? In Vim's case, the signature would be something like def feedkeys(str, mode='m

Re: proxy??

2012-11-20 Thread Jorge Alberto Diaz Orozco
When I try to open facebook or search something using google it is just not working. gives me forbidden or not found errors. that's why I think the problem is about the headers of the request. On 20/11/12 15:29, Joshua Landau wrote: On 20 November 2012 14:48, Jorge Alberto Diaz Orozco mailto:j

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Chase
On 11/20/12 19:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > *Accidental* shadowing of names is a bad thing, because you get > unexpected bugs. *Deliberate* shadowing is not. We're all > consenting adults here, if somebody calls "from module import > type", and shadows the builtin type, that's their right to shoot

Re: Web Frameworks Excessive Complexity

2012-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:07:54 +, Robert Kern wrote: > The source of bugs is not excessive complexity in a method, just > excessive lines of code. Taken literally, that cannot possibly the case. def method(self, a, b, c): do_this(a) do_that(b) do_something_else(c) def method(self

Re: Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Evan Driscoll
On 11/20/2012 05:46 PM, Alan Meyer wrote: On 11/20/2012 11:29 AM, mherrmann...@gmail.com wrote: > ... generate_keystrokes? ... Not bad. "gen_keystrokes", or even "keystrokes" might also do. I would emphatically vote "no" for "keystrokes". That's a noun, not a verb. What does it do? Tell you

Re: Getting a seeded value from a list

2012-11-20 Thread frednotbob
> >The former can be generated from the seed each >time you enter the level; the latter must be generated the first time then >stored. > Random.random() is already populating the levelSeed list; I've set it as part of new_game() so that any time the player begins a new game, the levelSeed list

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Alan Bawden
Since the event being generated is commonly called a "keystroke", and since my dictionary defines the noun "stroke" as being: "the act of striking", a good verb to choose for the action itself would seem to be "strike": strike('a') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

moving object along circle

2012-11-20 Thread sparx10
I'm trying to move an object along a circle (orbit), and I did come up with this: radius = 100 from math import sqrt for x in range(-radius,radius): y = sqrt(radius**2-x**2) print(x, y) however it moves faster at the beginning and end of the range (y value changes faster than x value) b

Re: Getting a seeded value from a list

2012-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:18:17 -0800, frednotbob wrote: > The problem, in a nutshell, is this: > > When the player starts a new game, make_map() randomly generates level > 'Foo' as the player's starting floor. Floor 'Bar' is similarly > generated as the player descends from 'Foo' to 'Bar. > > Ea

Re: Getting a seeded value from a list

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > Each time the player goes from 'Foo' to 'Bar' (or vice versa), make_map > randomly generates a new layout for either level. > > What I'd like to do is select values from 'levelSeed' and assign them to the > levels that make_map generates so that the pla

Re: Getting a seeded value from a list

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:41:24 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> However, this still means that the player will see the exact same level >> regenerated every time, absolutely fresh. As previously stated in this >> thread, that's not usually a

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:25 PM, rh wrote: > To counter your question. 10 sec. poll for the name for the law that > states that people will discuss/argue the most over those things > having little or no significance. You mean bikeshedding? Parkinson's Law of something-or-other... not the Law of

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

2012-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:35:27 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > And yet, trivial though it may seem, function naming in a permanent API > is pretty important. Threads like this can be the difference between > coherent and useful APIs and veritable piles of excrement. "There are only two hard problem

Suitable software stacks for simple python web service

2012-11-20 Thread Kev Dwyer
Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester >From the point of view of the requester, th

Creating a torrent file & associated tracker through a django web app

2012-11-20 Thread ashish
Hi c.l.p folks Following is a description of what i am trying to achieve : The user should log into a django web app, select a file & the web app should generate a .torrent file & a private tracker(http://IP_ADDRESS:PORT_NUMBER/announce) for that .torrent file. Basically, i want to programmati

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