PySizeof: almost useful

2006-02-10 Thread Ian Leitch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I'm writing a little module to calculate the size of given objects, I just need a few little pointers to get the thing into a useful shape. Code here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/Code/PySizeof/ The points I'm confused about are: 1. My m

Re: Terminating a function

2006-02-17 Thread Ian Leitch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Astan Chee wrote: > I was thinking of threads but I just simply want to terminate a (global) > function after it has been running for more than 5 minutes regardless of > state. > I was assuming I needed threads because it can calculate time elapsed > (

Re: Another stupid newbie question

2006-02-17 Thread Ian Leitch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Byte wrote: > How can I make the following code: > > from random import random > > > > def stuff(a, mx): > x = 2 > while x == 2: > x = random() > if x == mx: print x > else: print 'No luck,', x > x = 2 > > S

Re: Class subscripting

2006-02-17 Thread Ian Leitch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronny Mandal wrote: > Assume we have a class Foo, and instance called bar. > > a variable called baz1 has the value 3.0, baz2 is uninitialized > > Is there a way of reflecting the variable with such syntax: > > print bar[], where var_index is a numb

Re: Get parameters from URL using CGI

2006-02-18 Thread Ian Leitch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abcd wrote: > i want to create a CGI script which simply prints out values given via > the URL (such as when a GET is performed). > > So if I have a script named, foo.cgi and I access it by going to: > > http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?na