Controlling Excel with win32com

2005-11-16 Thread Al Christians
I'm starting to test a python application that creates an Excel workbook, then fills in values for some cells and formulas for other cells. The formulas involve circular references, which will cause Excel to take a little time to update and iterate through the successive approximations of find

Re: IronPython 0.9 Released

2005-08-07 Thread Al Christians
EP wrote: > > yes, my apologies to all things Iron and or Python. > > "language" and "version" can be confusing if one stays up late without > coffee, or perhaps if one has not been debugging their English code properly. > Still, it's a bit of a PITB to me that it says XP and not Win2000. Al

Re: PyChecker lives, version 0.8.15 released

2005-09-03 Thread Al Christians
Neal Norwitz wrote: > Special thanks to Ken Pronovici. He did a lot of work for this > release and helped ensure it occurred. > > Version 0.8.15 of PyChecker is available. It's been over a year since > the last release. Wow, time really does fly. Since it's been so long > I'm sure I screwed so

Re: Code to read Cobol data files

2005-09-21 Thread Al Christians
none wrote: > Hi, > Any one know of some code to read cobol data files > > thanks > timb I posted some here maybe 5+ years ago that would convert COBOL comp-3, comp-4, and comp-5 fields (as from Realia) to whatever. I suppose you can still find it in google somewhere. There was some help

Article on Hi-Fi Myths

2005-02-20 Thread Al Christians
I learned Friday night that the hi-fi talk is our most popular tape. This page: http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/Cable_Controversy/Cable_Controversy.htm Gives a somewhat different take on the controversy, almost certainly bizarre. It's a long page and the interesting part is near the end. The

Re: Working with Huge Text Files

2005-03-18 Thread Al Christians
I did some similar stuff way back about 12-15 years ago -- in 640k MS-DOS with gigabyte files on 33 MHz machines. I got good performance, able to bring up any record out of 10 million or so on the screen in a couple of seconds (not using Python, but that should not make much difference, maybe ev

Re: Working with Huge Text Files

2005-03-18 Thread Al Christians
Michael Hoffman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will only be this simple if you can guarantee that the original file is actually sorted by the first field. And if not you can either sort the file ahead of time, or just keep reopening the files in append mode when necessary. You could sort them

Re: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

2004-12-23 Thread Al Christians
Web browser "widgets" seem pretty limited to me, though. You don't even have something as simple as a combo box (i.e. an editable entry with a drop down), let alone the rich set of widgets something like wxwidgets offers. Also web development doesn't seem as coherent to me as development with a

ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
I started having some problems running python programs (python 2.3) from the Win2k command line. I would get crashes with an NTVDM error. Even just executing python would cause it. I upgraded to python 2.3.5, and no difference. When I rearranged my path to move cygwin and a bunch of other s

Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
does cygwin include a hidden file that hides python on the path? Al Christians wrote: I started having some problems running python programs (python 2.3) from the Win2k command line. I would get crashes with an NTVDM error. Even just executing python would cause it. I upgraded to python 2.3.5, an

Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
Alexander Schremmer wrote: Windows tries to execute the cygwin symbolic link and fails. Correcting your path works (as you said). One thing about that: I re-installed python (ie upgraded to python 2.3.5) and it did not solve the error. I assume that the python 2.3.5 installer is so well-mannered