Re: Appeal for python developers (THIS IS A TROLL)

2005-03-05 Thread Dave Reed
On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:34, Thomas Rösner aka TRauMa wrote: > BOOGIEMAN wrote: > > Please include "goto" command in future python realeses > > I know that proffesional programers doesn't like to use it, > > but for me as newbie it's too hard to get used replacing it > > with "while", "def" o

Re: mxDateTime on Mac: Fatal Python Error

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Reed
On Monday 07 March 2005 17:51, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to get mxDateTime working on a Mac so that I can use pyscopg > > and cx_Oracle. The Egenix base package builds and installs quite > > happily, but then when I try to import it I get > > > > > >>>import

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Reed
On Monday 29 November 2004 14:13, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source > > doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect > > its sources? > > To avoid embaras

Re: system requirements for python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Reed
On Monday 13 December 2004 18:17, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > ben wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade python from 2.2 to 2.4 on a RH9 system, and can't > > find any rpm that will let me install it. > > Is FC3 required for python 2.4? > > No. However, you may have to build Python yourself. Try using the

Re: Redirecting ./configure --prefix

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Reed
On Monday 13 December 2004 21:15, Dan wrote: > I suspect this isn't specifically a Python question, but I > encountered it with Python so I thought I'd ask here. > > I'm running Linux (Fedora 2), and just downloaded the Python 2.4 > kit. I did the following from my user account: > ./configur

Re: what would you like to see in a 2nd edition Nutshell?

2004-12-30 Thread Dave Reed
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 18:01, Alex Martelli wrote: > So -- ctypes is definitely getting a _mention_, at least... the issue > remains of whether we're talking one paragraph, like for all other > extending-tools that were already thus mentioned in the 1st edition, or > a couple of pages (I

Re: How to parse the os.system() output in python

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Reed
On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I use os.system() to execute a system command in python. > Can you please tell me how can I parse (in python) the output of the > os.system() ? > > Thank you. Sounds like you want os.popen, not os.system. http://docs.python.org/l