Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-11 Thread Josef Dalcolmo
You can distribute GPL'ed code in binary form, you just have to make the sources available as well. And, yes I would use this as a test: if your program needs gpl-ed code for some of it's functionality, you have to licence your program according to the GPL - unless you distribute the GPL'ed parts

Re: get a list from a string

2007-06-07 Thread Josef Dalcolmo
simon kagwe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a string "distances = [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]". I want to create a > variable called distances whose value is the list [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]. How > can > I go about that? s = "distances = [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]" exec(s) - Josef -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

getmtime in 2.5 reports GMT instead of local time

2007-05-03 Thread Josef Dalcolmo
Hello, I have tried this only on Windows XP. in Python 2.4 os.path.getmtime() used to return an integer representing the local time. in Python 2.5 os.path.getmtime() reports a float representing the GMT of the file's modification time. Since I could not find any documentation to this behavioura

getmtime differs between Py2.5 and Py2.4

2007-05-07 Thread Josef Dalcolmo
I tried this on Windows only: In Python 2.4 os.path.getmtime returned the local time, in Python 2.5 it seems to return GMT: import os, time print ctime.time(os.path.getmtime(foo)) differs on Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 by the timezone. Now, the implementation of the two stat calls differs on Win

Re: getmtime differs between Py2.5 and Py2.4

2007-05-08 Thread Josef Dalcolmo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> the difference (rounding to an int number of seconds) is just about one >> hour; in certain parts of the world (Europe and Africa), that could >> indeed be a timezone issue. > > With the help of Tony Meyer, we rediscovered the explanation: because > of a bug in the Micros