New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-02 Thread JohnV
I am using Python 2.5 r25:51908 MSC v.1318 32 bit (Intel) on wind32 I am totally new to Python and started yesterday going over a couple of examples I found in the documentation which address a problem I am trying to solve. I have successfully opened a file and read the results adapting this code

Re: New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-02 Thread JohnV
Here is what var data collected: 302 Found Found The document has moved http://www.thenational.us/pages/ htmlos/001863.1.059070780420726458">here. Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_mono/ 2.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 Server at thenation

Re: New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-02 Thread JohnV
I got it! You can see the code at the bottom of this post. Sorry for three posts on this question. I have to run the program one time just to get the dynamically generated redirect URL for the POST (it looks like this) The document has moved http://www.thenational.us/pages/htmlos/ 001863.1.05907

Re: New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-02 Thread JohnV
Thanks for your suggestion, but I am not able to get it to work for me. My original script was: f = open('C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt', 'r') read_data = f.read() f.close() import httplib, urllib params = urllib.urlencode({'textarea1': read_data}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-

Re: New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-04 Thread JohnV
On Mar 2, 10:13 pm, JohnV wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion, but I am not able to get it to work for > me. > > My original script was: > > f = open('C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt', 'r') > read_data = f.read() > > f.close() > > import ht

Re: New User - Using tutorial and Docs - POST returns 302 Found

2009-03-06 Thread JohnV
> Sorry, I think you didn't get my later post -- than in fact was from a   > month ago... > Seehttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/613312/ > urllib2 should handle a 302 redirect automatically. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina I went to the link you provided and sure enough there was your

File Compare with difflib.context_diff

2009-03-18 Thread JohnV
I have a txt file that gets appended with data over a time event. The data comes from an RFID reader and is dumped to the file by the RFID software. I want to poll that file several times over the time period of the event to capture the current data in the RFID reader. When I read the data I wan

Re: File Compare with difflib.context_diff

2009-03-18 Thread JohnV
Maybe something like this will work though I am not sure of my quotes and what to import import shutil f = open(r'C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt', 'r') read_data1 = f.read() f.close() shutil.copy('C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\newdata.txt', 'C:\Users\Owner \Desktop\out.txt') file = open(r'C:\Users\O

Re: File Compare with difflib.context_diff

2009-03-18 Thread JohnV
The below code does the trick with one small problem left to be solved import shutil import string currentdata_file = r"C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\newdata.txt" # the current download from the clock lastdata_file = r"C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt" # the prior download from the clock output_file =

Re: File Compare with difflib.context_diff

2009-03-19 Thread JohnV
Here is the latest version of the code: currentdata_file = r"C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\newdata.txt" # the latest download from the clock lastdata_file = r"C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt" # the prior download from the clock output_file = r"C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\out.txt" # will hold delta clock dat