Help requested -- importing stuff from a .COM DLL into python

2006-05-31 Thread John D Salt
I wonder if some kind soul can help me in my struggle with DLLs? I am trying -- not because I want to, but because I have been told to -- to import things from an API that exists as a bunch of .COM DLLs. I had originally hoped to get them into a Python 2.4 program by a simple import statement

Re: network simulator in Python ?

2007-02-22 Thread John D Salt
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Feb 21, 12:26 pm, "DanielJohnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was wondering if anyblody can suggest me a network simulator [Snips] >> I am looking for a simulator [Snips] > Google for Scapy I don't think Scapy is

Re: [silly] Does the python mascot have a name ?

2006-05-16 Thread John D Salt
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ? I always assumed it was Monty, but I confess to not having the slightest factual basis for this belief. All the best, John. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [silly] Does the python mascot have a name ?

2006-05-17 Thread John D Salt
Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-September/185612.html "Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty". All the best, John. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [silly] Does the python mascot have a name ?

2006-05-18 Thread John D Salt
John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:Xns97C6ADE23FCAcastleamber@ 130.133.1.4: > John D Salt wrote: > >> Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-September/1

Re: [silly] Does the python mascot have a name ?

2006-05-19 Thread John D Salt
Mel Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:_s2bg.8867$aa4.296233 @news20.bellglobal.com: [Snips] > Just reinforces the central truth. The mascot doesn't > *have* a name. Most things don't. Most things don't have names? I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't hav

Re: Software Needs Philosophers

2006-05-23 Thread John D Salt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Snips] > Wrong. We live in a paradise of ideas and possibilities well beyond the > wildest dreams of only 20 years ago. What exciting new ideas exist in software that are both important and cannot be traced back to 1986 or earlier? I'd like

Re: Software Needs Philosophers

2006-05-23 Thread John D Salt
"John A. Bailo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Snips] > What exciting new ideas exist in software that are both important and > cannot be traced back to Doug Engbart's 1968 presentation at Xerox > Parc? The only two I would think worth mentioning are Nygaard et al's idea

Re: Software Needs Philosophers

2006-05-23 Thread John D Salt
Eli Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Snips] > I correct: We live in a paradise where we finally have to processing > power to realize all those ideas that were too inefficient 20 years > ago. That sounds more reasonable. In my more jaundiced moments, I think that