Code Review

2011-05-24 Thread ad
Hello all, Please review the code pasted below. I am wondering what other ways there are of performing the same tasks. This was typed using version 3.2. The script is designed to clean up a directory (FTP, Logs, etc.) Basically you pass two arguments. The first argument is an number of days old to

Re: Code Review

2011-05-25 Thread ad
On May 25, 4:06 am, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > ad wrote: > > Please review the code pasted below. I am wondering what other ways > > there are of performing the same tasks. > > On a unix system, you would call "find" with according arguments and then > handle the

Re: Man Bites Python

2009-04-17 Thread AD.
On Apr 17, 11:11 pm, Aaron Brady wrote: > Man bites python. > Python bites dog. > Dog bites man. or just: man,python bites python,man No need for the temporary value in Python. -- Cheers Anton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-01 Thread AD.
On Feb 2, 4:14 am, rantingrick wrote: > On Feb 1, 8:27 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant > wrote: > > > In a more serious way, just count the people who second your > > prosposition. It's around 0. It is usually a good sign that you're > > wrong. This rule kinda applies to anyone, don't take it personnal

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-06 Thread AD.
On Jun 7, 10:55 am, ant wrote: > My concern is simple: I think that Python is doomed to remain a minor > language unless we crack this problem. I'm curious why you think fragmented GUI choices is a particular problem for Python compared to other languages? Or why this is the main issue holding Py

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 14, 2:34 am, Stephen Hansen wrote: > HTML+CSS have some very strong advantages. Simplicity is not one of > them. Precision web design these days is a dark art. (Go center an image > vertically and horizontally in an arbitrary sized field!) I agree, and I know that's a rhetorical question,

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 15, 11:59 am, Ed Keith wrote: > But that is in a fixed size field, That's why I used the same image definition in two different sized divs to show that the images position wasn't determined by the divs size. > can you make the height change based on the height of the browser window, and

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 15, 12:06 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > "Arbitrarily sized" was the key point ;-) In that, you set the sizes of > the div's explicitly. As I said to Ed, I think you missed why I included the exact same image in two divs of different sizes. That was to show it was still centered no matter wha

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 15, 1:03 pm, Ed Keith wrote: > Nice! I've been looking for that trick for some time. > > Thank you, A lot of people (including pro web designers even) aren't really aware of what CSS can actually do. Part of the problem is that everyone only learnt the semi working subset that wouldn't fal

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 15, 1:21 pm, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > Anton, > > Very nice. > > As an aside: I don't think you need to explicitly set your image size, Yeah, I only did that because I was assuming the image path would actually be broken (and it was for me too) - it was just to 'simulate' a 100x100 image

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread AD.
On Jun 15, 1:58 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > Very nice. And interesting. "position: absolute" there is a mystery to > me and seems to be key, I'm not sure entirely what it is doing to the > layout manager in that scenario, but it seems to do the trick. The Cliff Notes: position: absolute allows d

Re: Python documentation too difficult for beginners

2010-11-02 Thread AD.
On Nov 3, 7:43 am, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2010-11-02, jk wrote: > > > As for the 9 paragraphs statement, there's a usability book that > > applies here - it's called "Don't make me think". I shouldn't have to > > Anything that promotes a lack of thinking sends up red flags in my head. > We want to

zipfile handling

2007-11-06 Thread ad-hoc
is there a rename utility for zipfile that can rename a directory inside a zipfile? also what's the best way to change the a file content inside a zip? So if i have the following file in the zip file: A/a1.txt A/a2.txt B/b1.txt I want to rename A to be A1, and B to be B1, as well as changing the