Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread Andrea D'Amore
You make hard to follow your messages both by sending lot of messages and not using an adequate quoting. Please pick a posting style [1] (possibly interleaved) and stick to it. On 2014-08-31 23:35:09 +, andydtay...@gmail.com said: Andrea - yes I am using the virtualenv interpreter as the Pyc

Re: This could be an interesting error

2014-09-01 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: or words in Foreign like "cwm" Seeing that "w" is a vowel in Welsh, there should probably be a special version of the program for Welsh speakers. (Welshlatin? Pigwelsh?) -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: subprocess module usage

2014-09-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Sep2014 14:33, Earl Lapus wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: Glad it's working! But please, don't just take my word for it and make a black-box change to your code. When you invoke subprocesses, be sure you understand what's going on, and when shell=True is appro

Re: subprocess module usage

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Not really. If the arguments are coming in from the command line, someone (a > user, even if that user is the programmer) typed them. Even if not > malicious, they can still be mistaken. Or just unfortunate. I'm guessing that what he means

Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread andydtaylor
Posting style point taken. Google groups doesn't exactly help you with that. * You guys have probably been tinkering with this stuff for years. I haven't. * Your man on the street would say I described the error fairly well. * It's not like I wasn't trying my best to fix it myself * So far as e

Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 2014-09-01 12:32:38 +, andydtay...@gmail.com said: Google groups doesn't exactly help you with that. Drop it, get a usenet client or subscribe the mailing list (the newsgroup and the ml are bridged IIRC). * Your man on the street would say I described the error fairly well. That m

Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:32 PM, wrote: > Posting style point taken. Google groups doesn't exactly help you with that. > > * You guys have probably been tinkering with this stuff for years. I haven't. > * Your man on the street would say I described the error fairly well. > * It's not like I wasn

Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 01/09/2014 13:32, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote: Posting style point taken. Google groups doesn't exactly help you with that. Thunderbird is as good a solution as any although there are plenty of other choices. * Statements like "Please equip yourself with a tool that provides us with som

[Announce] tabhistory - tab completion and command history

2014-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I am happy to announce an upgrade to the tabhistory module, which brings advanced tab completion and command history to Python 2.4 through 3.3 and beyond. Features Tab completion -- * At the beginning of lines, pressing the TAB key indents the line. * Inside string

Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Python's input() or raw_input() function is good for getting a single line of text from the user. But what if you want a more substantial chunk of text from the user? Here's how to call out to an external editor such as ed, nano, vim, emacs, and even GUI text editors: import tempfile def edit(edi

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Anyone able to test it on Windows for me please? > Seems to partially work. I added an 'import os' at the top, and a simple test call to the function, and it did give me my editor (nano) and retrieved the text. It did give a warning, though

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Roy Smith
In article <54049ab7$0$29972$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > import tempfile > > def edit(editor, content=''): > f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+') > [...] > command = editor + " " + f.name > status = os.system(command) Hmmm. Didn't we jus

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Roy Smith wrote: > Hmmm. Didn't we just have a thread about passing external data to > shells? > > $ mkdir '/tmp/;rm -rf;' > $ TMPDIR='/tmp/;rm -rf;' python > Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) > [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informa

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Anyone able to test it on Windows for me please? >> > > Seems to partially work. I added an 'import os' at the top, and a > simple test call to the function, and it did give me my editor (nano) > and retrieved th

Information

2014-09-01 Thread getachewagmuas
Hey I am Getachew , I am using cantera, python xy 2.7.6. My question is how can i convert XML file to Ct. py file format. Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: subprocess module usage

2014-09-01 Thread Akira Li
Earl Lapus writes: > Hi, > > I made simple test program using the subprocess module (see attached: > exec_cmd.py). I ran it passing variations of 'ls' command options. > > I encounter exceptions every time I use '-l' options. Example runs > where exception occurs: > # ./exec_cmd.py ls -al > # ./e

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-09-02 04:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Read $VISUAL, if it exists, otherwise $EDITOR, if it exists, > otherwise fall back on something hard coded. Or read it from an ini > file. Or create an entry in the register. Whatever. That's up to > the application which uses this function, not the fun

Re: Information

2014-09-01 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:40 PM, wrote: > Hey > I am Getachew , I am using cantera, python xy 2.7.6. My question is how can i > convert XML file to Ct. py file format. > > > Thanks > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list This is a general purpose python list. Googling a bit

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Sep2014 04:02, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Roy Smith wrote: Hmmm. Didn't we just have a thread about passing external data to shells? $ mkdir '/tmp/;rm -rf;' $ TMPDIR='/tmp/;rm -rf;' python Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm not really seeing how this is a security vulnerability. If somebody can > break into my system and set a hostile GIT_EDITOR, or TMPDIR, environment > variables, I've already lost. Agreed. If I'm calling on your program and setting EDITO

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> C:\>Python34\python 123123123.py >> cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: C:\DOCUME~1\M\LOCALS~1\Temp\tmp94rcwd57 >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /DOCUME~1/M/LOCALS~1/Temp/tmp94rcwd57 > > That's arguab

Re: Psycopg2 package installation puzzle in Pycharm - any thoughts?

2014-09-01 Thread andydtaylor
Mark - it's more that I just didn't understand what you mean. Here's you: Probably an out and out programmer; uses a number of languages; a decade of experience, educated in best practice via your experience. Here's me: Idiot. A decade of experience in VBA and Excel in mindless finance jobs, h

error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread Om Prakash
Hi, I am writing this program from https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html but getting the error as singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "send_email.py", line 18, in msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message NameErr

Re: error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Sep2014 05:05, Om Prakash wrote: I am writing this program from https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html but getting the error as singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "send_email.py", line 18, in msg['Subject'] = 'The c

Re: error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread MRAB
On 2014-09-02 00:35, Om Prakash wrote: Hi, I am writing this program from https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html but getting the error as singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "send_email.py", line 18, in msg['Subject']

Re:error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread Dave Angel
Om Prakash Wrote in message: > Hi, > > I am writing this program from > https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html > > but getting the error as > > singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "send_email.py", line 18, in > msg[

Re: ANN: binario - simple work with binary files

2014-09-01 Thread Tim Roberts
Rustom Mody wrote: >On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 6:58:42 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote: >> To the equivalent code with struct: > >> import struct > >> dscrp = "H?fs5B" > >> f = open('file.dat') >> stuff = struct.unpack( dscrp, f.read() ) > >> print stuff > >> In both cases, you have to

Define proxy in windows 7

2014-09-01 Thread Om Prakash
Hi, I am wondering how to define proxy setting in env variable on windows 7, I want this so i can use pip to pull packages for me, the same setting though working earlier on windows xp. http_proxy = "proxy name:80" now this same setting doesn't work, i tried doing in the cmd.exe prompt. set

Re: error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread Om Prakash
On 09/02/2014 05:29 AM, MRAB wrote: On 2014-09-02 00:35, Om Prakash wrote: Hi, I am writing this program from https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html but getting the error as singhom@debian:~/pythons$ python send_email.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "send_email.p

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread gschemenauer3
On Monday, September 1, 2014 11:11:34 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Python's input() or raw_input() function is good for getting a single line > > of text from the user. But what if you want a more substantial chunk of > > text from the user? Here's how to call out to an external editor such

Re: Define proxy in windows 7

2014-09-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Sep2014 06:25, Om Prakash wrote: I am wondering how to define proxy setting in env variable on windows 7, I want this so i can use pip to pull packages for me, the same setting though working earlier on windows xp. http_proxy = "proxy name:80" now this same setting doesn't work, i tri

Re: Define proxy in windows 7

2014-09-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I am not a Windows user, but on UNIX systems the format of http_proxy and > https_proxy is: > > http://proxyname:3128/ > > being the proxy hostname and port number respectively. You're saying: > > proxyname:8080 > > instead. (Note, http

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

2014-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Cameron Simpson wrote: > It is not just about being hacked. > > It is about being robust in the face of unusual setups. > > If I were producing this function for general use (even my own personal > general use) it would need to be reliable. That includes things like > $TMPDIR having spaces in it

Re: error while writing program to send mail.

2014-09-01 Thread Denis McMahon
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:05:41 +0530, Om Prakash wrote: > fp = open("message", 'rb') "message" here is a string literal > fp.close should be fp.close() > msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of $s' % message message here is a variable. The variable named message has not previously had a value assig

Re: ANN: binario - simple work with binary files

2014-09-01 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 6:05:19 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > >On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 6:58:42 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote: > >> To the equivalent code with struct: > >> import struct > >> dscrp = "H?fs5B" > >> f = open('file.dat') > >> stuff = struct

urllib2 redirect error

2014-09-01 Thread Sumit Ray
Hi, I've tried various versions but continue to get the following error: -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

urllib2 redirect error

2014-09-01 Thread Sumit Ray
Hi, I've tried versions of the following but continue to get errors: - snip - url = 'https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm' request = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler).open(url) - snip - Generates an exception: urlli