Re: instance method questions

2007-08-22 Thread Frederick Polgardy
On Aug 22, 10:23 am, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) how do I dynamically inspect an object to determine if it has an instance > method? (there is a class method with the same name) class Foo: def foo(self): pass x = Foo() import types >>> isinstance(x.foo, types.MethodType) T

Re: Eval and raw string ??

2007-08-22 Thread Frederick Polgardy
On Aug 22, 11:06 am, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eval() doesn't seem to recognize the r'string' format. Is there a way > around this. > Example: > If I input: -> eval("r'C:\tklll\ndfd\bll'") > I get the output: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > eval

Re: How do I express a backslash in a string?

2007-08-22 Thread Frederick Polgardy
On Aug 22, 1:19 pm, Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "'" > "'" > >>> "\'" > "'" > >>> "\\'" > "\\'" > >>> "\\\'" > "\\'" > > This is quite different than any other language > that I am used to. Normally, a double backslash > takes away the special meaning of the last backslash, > and so you

Re: Learning Python using a book based on version 1.5

2007-08-22 Thread Frederick Polgardy
On Aug 22, 3:27 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > A friend of mine dropped off a copy of Sams Teach Yourself Python in > 24 Hours published in 2000. I skimmed the first couple of chapters > looking for the interpreter version and the book was based on version > Py

Re: simple spider in python

2007-08-23 Thread Frederick Polgardy
On Aug 23, 8:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, i'm new to the forum so: hello everybody (should I say > "world"?) ^_^ > I'm trying to do a simple spider in python which: > > 1) ask google a query > 2) parse the data > > I'm a python newbie so *any* help would be very, very welcommed.