Re: Can you recommend an Experienced Python/SQL contract developer for this 6 - 12 month contract in NYC?

> Thanks, > > Ben Diamond > The Forum Group > Information Technologies Division > 260 Madison Ave > Suite 200 > NY, NY 10016 > T. 212 687 4050 x355 > > C. 201 313 6009 > www.forumgrp.com PLEASE, don't include all that Microsoft HTML crap at the end of your post! Good

Re: Need an example program that implements rpm -pql via import rpm

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:24:24 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I look everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Could someone please > point me to a small example program that does an import rpm, takes an > rpm file as an argument and gets the list of files contained in the > file, the same as if I had

Re: Good literature about python twisted

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:34:52 -0700, gelonida wrote: > Hi, > > Just wanted to learn more about python twisted and wanted to buy the > O'Reilly book. > > However I noticed, that the book is from 2005. > > > Is this book still worth it or is there anything better to learn about > twisted. > > I

Re: Dump interpreter history?

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:03:55 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. A co-worker asked me a question, and I've got no idea how (or > if) it can be done. Bottom line: he'd like to save off the text from an > interpreter session, his thinking being that you've already tried to get > what you want

Re: Looking for up to date documentation for Python/Tkinter

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:47:35 -0800, Kintaro wrote: > Oh wise usenet users, > > Please speak unto me the URL which contain the latest documentation on > Python/Tkinter programming. > > I have seen Fredrik Lundh's introduction to tkinter (and others) and > it appears to be for an earlier version o

Handling some isolated iso-8859-1 characters

I'm working on an app that's processing Usenet messages. I'm making a connection to my NNTP feed and grabbing the headers for the groups I'm interested in, saving the info to disk, and doing some post-processing. I'm finding a few bizarre characters and I'm not sure how to handle them pythonically.

Re: Handling some isolated iso-8859-1 characters

> No, it's not you, those headers are formatted following RFC 2047 > > Python already has support for that format, use the email.header class, > see Excellent, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Re: Handling some isolated iso-8859-1 characters

> ... print ord(c), unicodedata.name(c) > ... > 65 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A > 110 LATIN SMALL LETTER N > 97 LATIN SMALL LETTER A > 239 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS > 115 LATIN SMALL LETTER S Looks like I need to explore the unicodedata class. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: question relateding to parsing dbf files.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:20:20 +0530, Krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello all. > I need to parse some dbf files through python. > the reason being that I have to migrate some old data from dbf files > to postgresql. > all that I need to know is if some one has got a working code sample > using dbfpy. >

Re: I Need A Placeholder

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:03:47 -0700, Ampedesign wrote: > I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except > function like such: > > try: > # Do some code here > var = 1 # For example > except: > #Do nothing here > > The only problem is if I leave a co

Re: Determining when a file has finished copying

> Thanks for your replies, they are helpful. I should have included in > my initial question that I don't have as much control over the program > that writes (pgm-W) as I'd like. Otherwise, the write to a different > filename and then rename solution would work great. There's no way to > tell from

Re: Perl to Python using MqSQLdb

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:51:19 -0700, Mike P wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been given a Perl script that i'm trying to convert into python. > The aim of the script links to MqSQL database, but i'm stuck on one > part > >my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql)|| >die "Could not prepare SQL statement

Re: Best way to gain root privileges

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:26:26 +, GSO wrote: > I'm sure this question is as old as time, but what is the best way to > gain root privileges? (Am using Python 2.6.5, pygtk2 v2.16, Gtk > v2.18.9, on RHEL6.) Gain root privileges for a script? Write a c wrapper to call the script, chown it (the w