Re: question about class, functions and scope

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > nephish: > > one more question. > > the functions defined above the classes that the could be called from > > within the classes, they do not need a 'self' declaration because they > > are not part of a class, right? > > Class

in over my head ascii

Hello there, i need to write a script that can transfer info back and forth with a data server at so-and-so ip. i have Programming Python, which covers socket programming. So thats cool. But what i need to know how to do is make a message in ascii that is what the server is looking for. for examp

Re: check to see if value can be an integer instead of string

Thanks guys, No, i did not know about isdigit ? very helpful. Thanks. esp liked the "overloaded doohicky' bit. thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: in over my head ascii

i think like byte 1 = 'S' byte 2 = 'T' and byte 3 = 'X' still new at this, and thanks for the references -sk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: in over my head ascii

ok, part of what i have to do is know how many bytes will be sent. in ascii is it one byte per character ? like "password" would be 8 bytes long? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: in over my head ascii

i know that those characters exist, the docs say that the server does not want the special "ETX" and "STX" characters, but the 3 ascii characters "STX" and "ENX" i am not sure why. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: in over my head ascii

i'm not sure, but its kinda been a pain in the hinder for a newbie like me to find it in their docs. thanks for all the help guys, let you know how it goes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: in over my head ascii

ok, i am stuck again. from the docs, the byte stream is supposed to look like this: 'S' 'T' 'X' [length indicator] [message type] [message] 'E' 'N' 'X' the length indicator it says is a four byte integer number of a value N ( N would be how long the message body is ) the message type comes f

Re: in over my head ascii

indeed i did not. thanks for the tip. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

need a start point for wsdl

hello there, i have recently been tasked with grabbing info to pipe into our database from an information server. The server guys told me i need to grab their wsdl file. Untill earlier this afternoon, i had no idea what wsdl is. From what i gather, it is much like SOAP. So anyway, any pythoneers ou

dirrection for simple record keeping app.

Hey there, i have been spending some time learning python. i do enjoy it so. Heres the deal. i need some dirrection advice. i have a friend that wants me to set up a customer database for him. Easy stuff like name, phone number, email address. and current status. he also wants to be able to print t

Re: dirrection for simple record keeping app.

wow thanks, i think i am going to check out sqlite. acce$$ is not possible because of the cash. ick. i am interested in learning the code anyway, but just want to learn python instead of javascript right now. i have a simple cgi-script working to display info to the browser (from apache) but the sc

How do i read just the last line of a text file?

Hey there. i want to set a variable to represent the last line of a text file how do i do that? or even better, how do i create a list of the lines of a text file? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do i read just the last line of a text file?

cool. thanks for the help guys ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

cgi help

Hey there, i am trying to write an online application using the cgi module. what i want to do is have an html form display a drop-down list and have the values of that list be the lines of text written in a file. this would be updated almost every time the site is visited. i have been sucessful in

Re: Rss lib in python?

Hey man, i would like to know this too. hope someone knows... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cgi help

whoa, thanks been trying to figgure this out for a week. cant wait to try it this weekend. thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

weird cgi problem w/ apache

Hello all. i have a strange problem with some python cgi scripts. the deal is. i keep loosing permission to write to a file created by a cgi script. the file is created in a directory created by a python script. but after the file is created by the cgi script, another script in the same folder

need some cgi help please

Hey there. Here is the deal i have a script that is supposed to open a file based on criteria from a web form. i cant seem to get it to work though. here is the code: form = cgi.FieldStorage() DataRecord = form['DataTime'].value Customer = form['CustName'].value # should be automatically fill

Re: need some cgi help please

no takers? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: need some cgi help please

i fixed it. the program was going nuts because there were spaces in the name of the file. go figgure. anyway, i changed the way i format the timestamp that becomes the file name and removed the spaces. working all better now. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

Hey there, i have a python cgi script that prints out html just fine in the Opera browser but doesnt print at all under FireFox. weird, eh? i am getting nothing in the apache logs about any error. perhaps its a firefox issue, but i doubt it. any suggestions. simple script here.. -- http://mail.p

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

Well, i don't have an app that will automaticlly check a page for errors, unless bluefish will do it, i am not sure. the page it is supposed to print out is a response to a form entry. here is the source from Opera if one of you guys want to look at it. Customer Data Watkins Crop Consulting

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

Ok, i made a change in the source. now here is the source from Opera, still cant get firefox to work with me. Customer Data Watkins Crop Consulting 1915 Cherokee Dalhart, Tx 79022333-5943 gandalf Field field one Crop crop one GS growing, yep Weeds many weeds Water lots o water

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

fixed, thanks for all of your help. i am pouring over python texts and the problem is html... duh looking for a more efficient way to jerk all of the hair outta my head. thanks a whole lot. your awesome -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

Great Advice, can see that saving me a few headaches thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

stuck in cgi-image mess

i have an html form with a drop-down list that lists a bunch of images. how can i get my cgi script to load the image ? i have imported cgi and os text entered from a form and read from a file do ok, but i cant seem to get it to load an image. the form writes all of the entries as lines in a .txt

need help with converting c function to python function

hello all, i have a c function from some modbus documentation that i need to translate into python. it looks like this: unsigned short CRC16(puchMsg, usDataLen) unsigned char *puchMsg ; unsigned short usDataLen ; { unsigned char uchCRCHi = 0xFF ; unsigned char uchCRCLo = 0xFF ; unsigne

freakin out over C++ module in python

lo there all ! i have a huge delima, i have to be able to connect to a data server and recieve info from it. The servers software guys release some visual C++ modules that one can incorporate into a visual C++ project. Which is great, but i am developing in linux, and only am very familliar with p

Re: freakin out over C++ module in python

ok, well enough, looked at struct and it does seem to be what i am after. for that anyway. thanks, guess i will just have to take the time and pull it apart. cheers sk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: freakin out over C++ module in python

pyconstruct looks cool. i dont know if the classes are using the plain berkely-ish code. i couldn't find anything in it that pointed to send() recv(), & such. i found other stuff like SetSocketOpt() and so on like this : long CClientSocket::ConnectToServer(LPCTSTR serverAddr, UINT port) {

Re: freakin out over C++ module in python

wow , thanks for the tips and the link.. i can at least see whats going on here. this project is beginning to look believable to me. i have another question.. later , in this same class, after it goes thru some error handling, it returns like this return COM_SUCCESS; but i cannot find where COM_SU

Re: freakin out over C++ module in python

sounds cool, most stuff i write is strife with try - except thanks for the tip -sk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

another question about buffers

lo there all ! i finally got my script to receive info on a socket. but i need to somehow set up a loop that will continue to listen for more info comming across the same socket. the way it works is, i log in with a login and password, it shoots back an acknowlagement, then i send a request for d

Re: another question about buffers

i think it may be, i am just doing a while 1: loop to just wait for whatever comes in. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

hey there, i have a script that waits for message packets from a data server over a socket. it goes a little like this: while 1: x+=1 databack = sockobj.recv(158) if databack: print 'caught a message %s bytes ' % len(databack) if len(databa

Re: need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

thanks for the info, i will likely use the first link you posted with the async module just to get it going, but i want to learn more about twisted for later. there is even an O'Reilly book on it i see. thanks for the tips, sk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

ok, thanks for all the suggestions, gents, i clearly have more to read on this. i have discovered that the server will send a request for the heartbeat ping if its almost timed out, so i use the length of the message to determine what to do with it. msg = sockobj.recv(1024) if len(msg) == 158:

Re: need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

ok, every message starts with "ENX" and ends with "STX" in between are several parts. the first is the message length sent as an unsigned long int (according to the docs) this is four bytes. The next is the message type - another 4 bytes that corrospond to a certain chart. for example, the login is

Re: need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

yeah, he he -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

can i set up a mysql db connection as a class ?

hey there, i have a huge app that connects to MySQL. There are three threads that are continually connecting and disconnecting to the db. The problem is, if there is an error, it faults out sometimes without closing the connection. i connect like this. db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="M

Re: can i set up a mysql db connection as a class ?

This is great ! ok, i dont really have a lot of time to get into the ORMS (before your post, this is the first i have heard of it) and my stuff is due on Monday. he he. but, if i am able to make a global db connection, and multiple cursors pointing to the same connection object, how do i pull tha

Re: can i set up a mysql db connection as a class ?

So this opens and closes the connection every time i run the query? thats cool. i think that would fit in well. so when i need to run the query, i pass something like query = "SELECT * FROM `Table` WHERE `foo` = 'bar'" result = DB_Connector.Execute(query) and the result would be the same as if i

Re: can i set up a mysql db connection as a class ?

way cool, i think that this will work. thanks very much -sk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

problem with writing a simple module

ello there. i am having a problem getting a module to work right. i wrote a class that is going to be used in a few different scripts in the same directory. it looks like this: #!/usr/bin/python import MySQLdb class DbConnector(object): """ Database Connection object. c

Re: problem with writing a simple module

ok, cool, and thanks very much. That worked. thanks for the info too. i am still new at the OO thing, just tired of doing a copy and paste over and over again. thanks again -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem with writing a simple module

yeah, i have thought of picking that one up. That one, or nutshell. i got programming python, which was way over my head, then learning python, which has helped me a great deal. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem with writing a simple module

ok, thanks everyone. The funny thing about the name conventions is, i was just two days ago looking around on the web for the best way to go about consistancy in variable names, class names, etc.. i have the module working now. thanks to you guys. And i think i understand the container name | obje

Re: problem with writing a simple module

ok, what i posted above had the getOne method, the whole class has a function for getMany, update, and Insert. none of this will be used by an end user, it kinda runs in the background. But, if you have a good link to the docs on the API, i would like to see it. Still kinda new at this. thanks -

Re: problem with writing a simple module

cool, thanks, i was running on some thinner examples i found on the net. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: need a start point for wsdl

cool, thank you very much -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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