Progress Bars in python

2006-07-12 Thread Hari Sekhon
Hi, I've written a script which backs up a huge bunch of files, but I don't want the script to output the file names as it does this as it clutters the screen, I only output errors. So in order to see that the script is working and not stuck, I'd like to implement some kind of progress bar o

Re: Progress Bars in python

2006-07-12 Thread Hari Sekhon
On 12/07/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the output of the script is sent to a logfile, this tends to puke all> over the logfile... creating one additional entry per iteration, but it's a> good start and I'll look at that link which looks very promising. there's no way to do this

threading._start_new_thread executes twice?

2006-07-19 Thread Hari Sekhon
I'm got a script which has a function with a while 1: loop that seems to execute the line it's doing twice instead of just once on each pass when called in a thread...#Script Startimport threading,time,cherrypy def func():    while 1:    print time.ctime()    time.sleep(30)threading._start_

cherrypy tracing back all the time

2006-07-23 Thread Hari Sekhon
I've got a very simple script with cherrypy but for some reason the cherrypy server is constantly tracing back but it stays up, kind of, the performance etc though shows that something is wrong.import cherrypyimport threading def someFunc():    while 1:    print "working"threading._start_new_th

Re: cherrypy tracing back all the time

2006-07-23 Thread Hari Sekhon
On 23/07/06, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a very simple script with cherrypy but for some reason the cherrypy server is constantly tracing back but it stays up, kind of, the performance etc though shows that something is wrong.import cherrypy import threading d

xml.sax problem, help needed.

2006-08-01 Thread Hari Sekhon
I've written an xml parser using xml.sax which works most of the time but often traces back when trying to read a file. The output of the traceback is below: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cherrypy/_cphttptools.py", line 271, in run main() File "/

Re: Open file handles?

2006-08-16 Thread Hari Sekhon
danielx wrote: Is there an equivalent in windows? Jon wrote: Perhaps using os you could work with lsof [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html] Jon Thomas Bartkus wrote: This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. . How ca

Re: os.path.normpath

2006-08-16 Thread Hari Sekhon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a windows box and passing a string like "../foo/../foo2" to normpath which then returns "..\\foo2". But if this string is going into a webpage link it should really be "../foo". Is there any way to tell os.path.normpath

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
Do whichever makes you happy I'd say The only real difference is coding style and the formatting options of the %s way that I can see. %s is negligibly slower in my tests, but we're talking the tiniest fraction of a second over thousands of iterations, not worth considering... -h H

Re: excepthook doesn't give exact line number

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
inside an excepthook then I'd be grateful to hear them. -h Hari Sekhon Peter Otten wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: The problem is that the excepthook gives the line of the topmost called function rather that the actual line that generated the error the way you get it with a normal tracebac

Re: excepthook doesn't give exact line number

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
eback since the traceback was fed to the excepthook? Is there another way of getting the traceback like you see when the exception isn't caught? Thanks for the help. -h Hari Sekhon Peter Otten wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: The problem is that the excepthook gives the line of the top

difference between import from mod.func() and x=mod.func()

2006-06-20 Thread Hari Sekhon
What is the difference in terms of efficiency and speed between from os import path and import os path=os.path I would think that the import from would be better, just curious since I read somewhere on the web, some guy's code tutorial where he did the latter and said it was for efficiency/s

What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of doing this? Consider the following: - try: import def notifyme(traceback): code to tell me there is a problem except Exception, traceback: notifyme(traceback) Would this code not work because i

Re: difference between import from mod.func() and x=mod.func()

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
ort from" it is then unless anybody has anything else to say on the matter.ThanksHariOn 20/06/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote:> What is the difference in terms of efficiency and speed between>> from os import path>> and>> import os>

Re: WinPops

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
seen. It would be better if there was just a cross platform library for this protocol so you could justimport winpopwinpop.send (host,message)Too much to ask?HariOn 01/06/06, Peter Gsellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Roger Upole wrote:>> "Hari Sekhon" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memory error with zipfile module

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
On 20/05/06, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roger Miller a écrit :> The basic problem is that the zipfile interface only reads and writes> whole files, so it may perform poorly or fail on huge files.   At one> time I implemented a patch to allow reading files in chunks. However I >

Re: What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
Jon Ribbens wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hari Sekhon wrote: I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of doing this? You could do this maybe: import sys def excepthook(exc_type, exc_value, tb):

Re: What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
Jon Ribbens wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hari Sekhon wrote: I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of doing this? You could do this maybe: import sys def excepthook(exc_type, exc_value, tb):

Re: What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
Hari Sekhon wrote: Jon Ribbens wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hari Sekhon wrote: I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of doing this? You could do this maybe: import sys def excepthook(exc_type, exc

Re: memory error with zipfile module

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: Is it me or is having to use os.system() all the time symtomatic of a deficiency/things which are missing from python as a language? it's you. I take it that it's still a work in progress to be able to

Re: memory error with zipfile module

2006-06-21 Thread Hari Sekhon
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I take it that it's still a work in progress to be able to pythonify everything, and until then we're just gonna have to rely on shell and those great C coded coreutils and stuff like that. Ok, I'm rather fond of Bash+cor

Re: What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

2006-06-22 Thread Hari Sekhon
On 21/06/06, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote:> I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of> doing this?>> Consider the following: ->> try:>import > >>>def notifyme(traceback):>

style question

2006-06-26 Thread Hari Sekhon
Is it better to do: message = """This is line1. This is line2 This is line3\n""" or message = "This is line1.\n message = message + "This is line2\n" message = message + "This is line3\n" Since the first method does not follow python's clean and easy looking indentation structure but the seco

Re: style question

2006-06-26 Thread Hari Sekhon
MTD wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: Is it better to do: message = """This is line1. This is line2 This is line3\n""" or message = "This is line1.\n message = message + "This is line2\n" message = message + "This is line3\n"

Re: style question

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
On 26/06/06, Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote:> Claudio Grondi wrote:> <<> When necessary to skip first line _and_ indentation:>>   message = """ >>   This is line 1>>   This is line 2>>   This is line 3>>   """.replace('\n  ', '\n')[1:] # adjust here '\n  ' t

how to do -vv for very verbose?

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
I'm using optparse.Optionparser to take switches for a script I'm writing, but I can't see how to give it -vv for very verbose. the option for -v is simply set to True by the option parser if present, whereas I really want a numeric value, 1 if there is -v and 2 if there is -vv. Any ideas on h

Re: style question

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
Claudio Grondi wrote: > Hari Sekhon wrote: >> On 26/06/06, *Claudio Grondi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Scott David Daniels wrote: >> > Claudio Grondi wrote: >> > <<>> >

Re: how to do -vv for very verbose?

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm using optparse.Optionparser to take switches for a script I'm writing, but I can't see how to give it -vv for very verbose. the option for -v is simply set to True by the option parser if present, whereas I really want

Unbound Local error? How?

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
I've got some code as follows: import re re_regexname = re.compile('abc') . . various function defs . def func1(): ... func2() ... def func2(): if re_regexname.match('abc'): if __name__ == '__main__': func1() but this returns the Traceback: UnboundLoc

Re: Unbound Local error? How?

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: import re re_regexname = re.compile('abc') . . various function defs . def func1(): ... func2() ... def func2(): if re_regexname.match('abc'): if __name__ == '__main__': func1()

Re: Unbound Local error? How?

2006-06-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I've got some code as follows: import re re_regexname = re.compile('abc') . . various function defs . def func1(): ... func2() ... def func2(): if re_regexname.match('abc'):

catching syntax errors via excepthook?

2006-07-03 Thread Hari Sekhon
I've written an except hook into a script as shown below which works well for the most part and catches exceptions. import sys def myexcepthook(type,value,tb): do something sys.excepthook=myexcepthook rest of script (now protected by catchall exception hook) I've been intentionally int

Testing a website with HTTPS login and cookies

2006-09-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
Hi everyone, I want to create a test that will do a proper login test to a web site but I need some pointers. I need to login to the website by accessing an https url and posting to that, which should return a very small 302 reply with the address of the internal page. I need to take that page

Re: are there any lib for receive hotmail ?

2006-09-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
crapers I've heard of, but haven't tried. -tkc I know this isn't technically helping, but why use hotmail when gmail is so much better and gives you pop access? Even old yahoo gives you pop access to your mailbox Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sending emails using python

2006-09-07 Thread Hari Sekhon
send email? I would, but I don't use exchange server. :) The one exchange server I used in the past didn't accept SMTP mail. errr, I used to admin Exchange, if it does accept SMTP then how could it function as a live mail server? Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sending emails using python

2006-09-07 Thread Hari Sekhon
f and wouldn't be so discriminating... but then you can't hope for the world with windows only "techies"... although in fairness, Exchange and Outlook is a great combination... you could always try ximian's exchange connector for evolution, I managed to get some emails

best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-11 Thread Hari Sekhon
it'd be nice if it ran on windows too). -h -- Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-11 Thread Hari Sekhon
Steve Holden wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I am writing a wrapper to a binary command to run it and then do something with the xml output from it. What is the best way of making sure that the command is installed on the system before I try to execute it, like the python equivalent

Re: best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-11 Thread Hari Sekhon
Rob Wolfe wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I am writing a wrapper to a binary command to run it and then do something with the xml output from it. What is the best way of making sure that the command is installed on the system before I try to execute it, like the python equivalent of

Re: best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-11 Thread Hari Sekhon
Steven Bethard wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I am writing a wrapper to a binary command to run it and then do something with the xml output from it. What is the best way of making sure that the command is installed on the system before I try to execute it, like the python

Re: best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-11 Thread Hari Sekhon
Tim Williams wrote: > On 11/09/06, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Steve Holden wrote: >> Hari Sekhon wrote: >> >> >> The easiest way to test whether the command will run is to try and run >> it. If the program doesn't ex

Re: best way of testing a program exists before using it?

2006-09-12 Thread Hari Sekhon
th.exists('/dir1/dir2/filename'): >print_something_and_exit(filename) > > :) > problem with that is that the path may change between installations on different machine and I can't guarantee /dir1/dir2 which is why a test of all dirs in the path is more portable. --

Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-09-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
esses the way I can in shell. I am running this on linux. Thanks -h -- Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-09-29 Thread Hari Sekhon
process by this name is running. If so, print msg and exit. simple. -h Hari Sekhon MaR wrote: > A very brutal but simple and effective method is to bind() to a socket > on localhost eg (127.0.0.1, 4711), listen() but never accept(). > Any other process trying to to bind() on the same port

Re: Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-09-29 Thread Hari Sekhon
mains and causes minor annoyance (to somebody who knows that is, more annoyance to somebody who doesn't). -h Hari Sekhon Paul Rubin wrote: Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Seeing as there doesn't seem to be a good answer to this (or at least not one that we hav

Re: Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm not sure if that is a very old way of doing it, which is why I was reluctant to do it. My way actually uses the process list of the os (linux) and counts the number of instances. If it is more than 0 then another process is ru

Re: Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
AMENDMENT: The line number_procs=commands.getstatusoutput('ps -ef|grep %s|grep -v grep|wc -l' % scriptpath) was supposed to be number_procs=int(commands.getstatusoutput('ps -ef|grep %s|grep -v grep|wc -l' % scriptpath)[1]) -h Hari Sekhon Hari Sekhon wrote:

commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
2 number. So I tried os.system('somecommand') in the interactive python shell and it too returned the same result for the exit code as the unix shell, 12, but re-running the commands.getstatusoutput() with the exact same command still gave 3072. Is commands.getstatusoutput() broken or

Re: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
at this moment. -h Hari Sekhon Steve Holden wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm running a command like import commands result = commands.getstatusoutput('somecommand') print result[0] 3072 However, this exit code made no sense so I ran it manually from the command line in

Re: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
ny explanations welcome... -h Hari Sekhon Steve Holden wrote: > A famous Holden typo - it should have been "12 * 256 == 3072", but > really it shouldn't have been beyond you to perform a division of 3072 > by 12 (given that you already knew the number 12 was potenti

Re: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
ok, I was thinking of shifting using subprocess, guess I'd better do that and forget about this waste of time. thanks Hari Sekhon Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm sorry, this may seem dense to you but I have to ask. What on earth are you tal

Re: Making sure script only runs once instance at a time.

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
ur lockfile with pid embedded. I've actually used a very similar method in bash before for something, saving the pid and env vars and then using the binary kill -0 to test if a program is alive by finding out whether a signal could be sent to it. Works nicely there too. -h Hari Sekhon F

Re: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

2006-10-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
l scripting and I've never even heard of this thing before, I guess only the really battle-scarred old skool ones may know of it. -h Hari Sekhon Scott David Daniels wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm running a command like import commands res

excepthook doesn't give exact line number

2006-10-03 Thread Hari Sekhon
exc(). Here it doesn't seem to work, it always give "None", likely because the excepthook has taken it or something. Any guiding wisdom from the masters out there? Much appreciated, thanks for reading. -h -- Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to handle large lists?

2006-10-03 Thread Hari Sekhon
ad of using keys in dicts rather than using positional indexes in lists/arrays... At least that is what I thought. Can anyone confirm this? -h Hari Sekhon Bill Williams wrote: > I don't know enough about Python internals, but the suggested solutions > all seem to involve scanni

Re: Best way to handle large lists?

2006-10-03 Thread Hari Sekhon
aster than dicts and that variables stored in lists were faster referenced/used. It was one reason that was cited as to why local vars are better than global vars. The guy actually did a looping test and timed it to show the speed difference. Can anybody please step in and correct us? -h Hari S

Re: Best way to handle large lists?

2006-10-04 Thread Hari Sekhon
perhaps it would be a quicker lookup? On the other hand, if it is nearer the end of the set of keys would it not be slower? Does this make it more dependent on the search order whether a list or a dict is faster? Or am I completely on the wrong track? -h Hari Sekhon Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari

Re: How do I add users using Python scripts on a Linux machine

2007-01-01 Thread Hari Sekhon
t;/usr/sbin/useradd -m -d /home/newuser -s /bin/ksh") > > Dan > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Hari Sekhon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Strange IO Error when extracting zips to a network location

2006-05-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
Hi, I've written a script to run on windows to extract all zips under a given directory path to another directory path as such: python extractzips.py The purpose of this script is to retrieve backup files which are individually zipped under a backup directory tree on a backup server. This

Re: Strange IO Error when extracting zips to a network location

2006-05-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
ents=zip.read(x) outfile.write(contents) but I still get the same result. -h Hari Sekhon wrote: > Hi, > I've written a script to run on windows to extract all zips under a > given directory path to another directory path as such: > > python extractzips.py extracted files un

memory error with zipfile module

2006-05-19 Thread Hari Sekhon
I do import zipfile zip=zipfile.ZipFile('d:\somepath\cdimage.zip') zip.namelist() ['someimage.iso'] then either of the two: A) file('someimage.iso','w').write(zip.read('someimage.iso')) or B) content=zip.read('someimage.iso') but both result in the same error: Traceback (most recent call l

WinPops

2006-05-26 Thread Hari Sekhon
Hi, Is there a way of sending winpops (Windows Pop-Up / Net Send messages) in python? Perhaps some library or something that I can use under both Windows and Linux? Hari -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list