PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

Hi there I am having trouble to install PIL 1.1.7 on CentOS. I read and followed the instructions from http://effbot.org/zone/pil-imaging-not-installed.htm However, I still get the "The _imaging C module is not installed" error if I run the selftest: $ python selftest.py *** The _imaging C m

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 92, Issue 40

PIL will compile and install if you don't have some development libraries and then simply not work or not work up to full steam when used. To avoid this, you need to install the appropriate libraries, among which are: libjpeg-devel freetype-devel libpng-devel Dear Albert Thank you for your

Re: PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

> PIL will compile and install if you don't have some development > libraries and then simply not work or not work up to full steam when > used. > > To avoid this, you need to install the appropriate libraries, among > which are: > > libjpeg-devel > freetype-devel > libpng-devel Dear Albert Tha

Re: PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

I had this happening to me as well someday. I recall that first installing it (python setup.py install), and then rerunning selftest, solved that error. I tried that as well. Here is the summary of the install process: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/libImaging/ZipEncode.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/

How to use a timer in Python?

Hi there, on a Linux machine running Python 2.3.5. I want to create a file 'newfile' in a directory '/tmp' only if there is no file 'transfer.lock' in '/temp'. A cronjob creates a file 'transfer.lock' in '/temp' directory every 15 minutes while the cronjob is doing something. This job takes aro

Re: How to use a timer in Python?

Hi Sybren and Wolfram, thank you very much for the time.sleep() tip. My program reads like this now. import os import time WINDOWS_SHARE = 'C:\\Temp' while 'transfer.lock' in os.listdir( WINDOWS_SHARE ): print "Busy, please wait..." time.sleep(10) f = open(WINDOWS_SHARE + '/myfile', 'w

Re: How to use a timer in Python?

> That all sounds very race-y to me! The cron-job and the other process > need to take the same lock, otherwise the cron-job will start 1ms > after the other process checks for transfer.lock and before it has a > chance to create newfile and there will be trouble. > > Using files as locks isn't b

Question about parsing a string

Hi there, I would like to parse a string in Python. If the string is e.g. '[url=http://www.whatever.org][/url]' I would like to generate this string: 'http://www.whatever.org";>http://www.whatever.org' If the string is e.g. '[url=http://www.whatever.org]My link[/url]' I would like to generate

ftplib question - ftp.dir() returns something and ftp.nlst() does not

Hi there, I am using the ftplib library to connect to a ftp server. After I got connected, I can see a list of file in the current directory using ftp.dir() or ftp.retrlines('LIST'). But using ftp.nlst() returns an empty list which seems somehow strange to me. Here is, what I did: >>> from ftp

Re: ftplib question - ftp.dir() returns something and ftp.nlst() does not

> add > > ftp.set_debuglevel(3) > > so you can see what the goes on the wire (without that information, it's hard > to tell if it's a bug in the library or a glitch in your server). > > Hello Fredrik , thank you for your reply. I did a "ftp.set_debuglevel(3)" and ftp.nlst() now prints:

Re: ftplib question - ftp.dir() returns something and ftp.nlst() does not

> it's not obvious how Python could translate '' to anything other > than an empty list, so it sure looks like a server issue. > (or is a problem with running in passive mode? can you test with- > out using passive mode on the same server?) I thought using "ftp.set_pasv(0)" sets active mode

How to ping in Python?

Hi there, I could not find any "ping" Class or Handler in python (2.3.5) to ping a machine. I just need to "ping" a machine to see if its answering. What's the best way to do it? Kind regards, Nico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Remove HTML tags (except anchor tag) from a string using regular expressions

Hello, I want to remove all html tags from a string "content" except xxx. My script reads like this: ### import re content = re.sub('<([^!>]([^>]|\n)*)>', '', content) ### It works fine. It removes all html tags from "content". Unfortunately, this also removes xxx occurancies. Any idea, how to mo

How to copy a file from one machine to another machine

Hi there, I would like to copy a file from one machine (machine #01) to another (machine #02). machine #01: Suse Linux 9.2, Samba 3, Python 2.3.5 machine #02: Windows Machine, Destination Dir: \temp\files\ Both machines are in one network so they can communicate each other. In order to be able

Re: How to copy a file from one machine to another machine

> This isn't really a Python question, as this problem would exist > irrespective of the language you are using. > > One possibility would be to run Samba (www.smaba.org) on the Linux > machine so it offered a share to the Windows machine. Then you could > just write to a UNC path (\\server\pat

How to use writelines to append new lines to an existing file

Hi there, I would like to open an existing file that contains some lines of text in order to append a new line at the end of the content. My first try was: >>> f = open('/tmp/myfile', 'w') #create new file for writing >>> f.writelines('123') #write first line >>> f.close() >>> f

String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

Hi there, I have a string 'Michèle' that represents the firstname of a person. What's the best way to get all possible versions of this name if I consider to use these characters: e, è, é, ê I'd like to have a function that returns a list of the following names when passing 'Michèle' as parame

Re: String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

> This sounds like a homework problem. You might try splitting the name > at the e's, check the length of the resulting list and do that many > nested loops. This was my idea too but I am wondering if there are any scripts for tasks like this. Nico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: python-soappy

> can anybody point me to a tutorial, howto or example code of > python-soappy...? google did not have really useful results about... This might be helpful: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth5/ http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm Nico -- http://mail.

How to change the path for python binary?

Hi there, I have installed Python 2.3.5 on Suse Linux 10. If I enter "python" in the shell, the Python 2.3.5 interpreter is called. After I installed Python 2.4.3. the Python 2.4.3 interpreter is called which is the default behaviour I guess. "which python" brings me "/usr/local/bin/python" whi

Convert binary image to JPEG with 72 dpi

Dear list members,I have the binary content of an image file and it's filename.I neither know the resolution nor the dpi of the image.No I need to convert this binary content into a 72 dpi jpeg image. Furthermore I have to resize the image so neither the width nor the height is bigger than 250 pixe

PIL on Python 2.4 - ImportError: No module named _imagingft

Dear list members, I have installed Python 2.4.3. and PIL 1.1.5. on a Suse Linux 10 64 Bit machine. If I try >>> import _imagingft I get this error: ImportError: No module named _imagingft Did I miss something? On my 32 But Linux with Python 2.3.5. everything works fine. Kind regards, N

Re: PIL on Python 2.4 - ImportError: No module named _imagingft [Solved]

> If I try > > >>> import _imagingft > > I get this error: > ImportError: No module named _imagingft > > Did I miss something? Yes, I did. Somehow, there was no "_imagingft.so" in the PIL directory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

os.popen3() - how to close cmd window automatically?

Dear Python developers, I use a short python script in order to run an external application plus to open a browser displaying a default page. My Setup: Python 2.4.3. / Windows2000 # -- # Script "shortcut.py" import os import we

Re: os.popen3() - how to close cmd window automatically?

> replace console=[... by windows=[... in your setup.py Works perfect. Thank you, Rony! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Search substring in a string and get index of all occurances

Hi there, I would like to search for a substring in a string and get the index of all occurances. mystring = 'John has a really nice powerbook.' substr = ' ' # space I would like to get this list: [4, 8, 10, 17, 22] How can I do that without using "for i in mystring" which might be expens

Searching a string and extract all occurancies of a substring

Hi there, in a text with no carriage returns I need to look for all occurancies of this string: ... The ... can contain different values. I need to extract the string between and . Example text: This is a test. A test. /www/mydoc1 And I need to extraxt /www/mydoc1 and /www/mydoc2 from thi

Re: Searching a string and extract all occurancies of a substring

> Try Beautiful Soup, or if your input is simple enough, the re module. Hi Gabriel, I first tried "HTMLParser" and wrote this short script: from HTMLParser import HTMLParser from htmlentitydefs import entitydefs class MyDocParser(HTMLParser): def __init__(self): self.paths = []

Re: Searching a string and extract all occurancies of a substring

> This works as long as there are no other Tags in the content > that I parse. Got it. I forgot to handle the 'attrs' parameter in handle_starttag(). Changed it to: def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): if tag == 'parameter': if attrs == [('key', 'infobox_path')]:

Re: Searching a string and extract all occurancies of a substring

> is this XML, or just something that looks a little like XML ? Unfortunately, something that looks a little XML so I can't use a XML parser. But the HTML parser does the job. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

Hi there, I'd like to install Python 2.3.5. on a 64-Bit OS (Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10) on an AMD Opteron 64-Bit machine. I have to use Python 2.3.5. Do I need a special source archive or can I use "Python-2.3.5.tgz" from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.5/Python-2.3.5.tgz ? Is there

Re: Installing Python on a 64-Bit OS

> Several changes have been made to Python 2.4 and 2.5 to support > AMD64-Linux better, and not all of these changes have been > incorporated into Python 2.3, as this software is no longer > maintained. > As others have said: you should really try to use the python 2.4 > that comes with the operat

ldapsearch example in python-ldap?

Hi there, on a linux machine I am running this ldapsearch from the command line: ldapsearch -x -h myldaphost.mydomain.com \ -D "CN=ldapuser,CN=Users,DC=mydomain,DC=com" -w "secret" \ -b "CN=ANYCOMPUTER,CN=Computers,DC=mydomain,DC=com" How can I do this with python-ldap? Regards, Nico

Python's email module - problem with umlauts in some email clients

Hi there, I wrote a short python script that sends an email using python's email module and I am using Python 2.3.5. The problem is, that umlauts are not displayed properly in some email clients: + On a windows machine running thunderbird 1.0.2 umlauts are displayed properly. The email he

Splitting a string

Dear Python users, I'd like to split a string where 'and', 'or', 'and not' occurs. Example string: s = 'Smith, R. OR White OR Blue, T. AND Black AND Red AND NOT Green' I need to split s in order to get this list: ['Smith, R.', 'White', 'Blue, T.', 'Back', 'Red', 'Green'] Any idea, how I can spl

Re: Splitting a string

> re.split("(?i)\s*(and not|and|or)\s*", s) Thanks, Frederik for the step by step howto! And also thanks to you, Dylan. re.split("(?i)\s*(and not|and|or)\s*", s) is almost right. I changed it to: words = re.split("(?i)\s*( and not | and | or )\s*", s) in order to handle words containing "or"

How to use unix_md5_crypt from Perl in Python?

Dear list members, I have a Perl script which crypts a password using a clearteaxt password and a username. Example: username = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password = 'root' The crypted password is: 'roK20XGbWEsSM' The crypted password always starts with the first 2 characters of the username (

Find & Replace hyperlinks in a string

Hi there, I have a string containing some hyperlinks. I'd like to replace every hyperlink with a HTML style link. Example: Replace 'http://www.foo.com/any_url' with 'http://www.foo.com/any_url";>http://www.foo.com/any_url' What's the best way to do this if I have a few hundret s

Sorting a list of dictionaries by dictionary key

Hi there, I am looking for a way to sort a list containing dictionaries. This is my example list: [{'Title': 'ABC', 'from_datetime': DateTime('2006/04/25 12:45:00 GMT+2')}, {'Title': 'DEF', 'from_datetime': DateTime('2006/04/18 12:45:00 GMT+2')}, {'Title': 'GHI', 'from_datetime': DateTime('200

Re: Sorting a list of dictionaries by dictionary key

> assuming that DateTime returns something that compares correctly, you can > do something like: > > def sortkey(item): > return item.get("from_datetime") > > data.sort(key=sortkey) > > (assuming Python 2.4 or later) Thank you very much, Frederik. Unfortunately, I can only use P

Re: Zope Guru...

> In doing some research into Workflow apps regarding document > management, I came across Zope. Given that it's Python Based, I > figured I'd shout to the group here... If you want to develop an application with Zope+Python from scratch, there are a few Zope products out there that handle wor

How to open https Site and pass request?

Hi there, I am trying to open an https site and pass a request to it in order to simulate the submit of an HTML form on a https site that sets an authentication cookie for a tomcat application, so the the URL I am trying to open points to a web form provided by the tomcat webserver. I tried (P

Re: How to open https Site and pass request?

> >>> import urllib > >>> import urllib2 > >>> the_url = "https://myserver/application/login.do"; > >>> user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)' > >>> headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent } > >>> values = { 'username' : 'myuser', 'password' : 'mypasswd' } > >>> data = u

Re: How to open https Site and pass request?

> That depends on your OS. In Windows, I believe you would have to > recompile Python from source. On Linux, you could probably just get a > package. From Debian, I know that it's python-ssl. I'm sure most the > others would have one as well. Hi Jerry, thank you for your reply. I use Linux an

Re: How to find out a date/time difference

> I use datetime class in my program and now > I have two fields that have the datetime format like this > datetime.datetime(2006, 5, 24, 16, 1, 26) > How can I find out the date/time difference ( in days) of such two > fields? Hi Lad, you could do this: >>> a = datetime.datetime(2006,

Rebuild list of objects with redundancies on objects' attribute

Hi there I have a list of dummy objects which have the attributes 'location', 'name', 'gender'. Now I want to rebuild this list in order to avoid redundancies on objects with the same 'location'. Example: #-- class Dummy: pas

List of paths

Dear Python developers I have the following (sorted) list. ['/notebook', '/notebook/mac', '/notebook/mac/macbook', '/notebook/mac/macbookpro', '/notebook/pc', '/notebook/pc/lenovo', '/notebook/pc/hp', '/notebook/pc/sony', '/desktop', '/desktop/pc/dell', '/desktop/mac/imac', '/server/hp

Re: List of paths

May be not so much pythonic, but works for i in range(len(q)): for x in q[i:]: if x.startswith(q[i]) and x!=q[i]: q.remove(x) ...but works fine. Thanks, Eugene. Also thanks to Andrew. Your example works fine, too. Thanks to remind me of the 'yield' statement! ;-) Regard

Re: List of paths

> Here's a tricky case that doesn't show up in your example: > In each case above, the directory names are distinct. > how about: >['/desk', '/desk/ethanallen', '/desk/ikea', > '/desktop', /desktop/pc', '/desktop/mac'] >Should the answer be ['/desk'] or ['/desk', '/desktop'] ? Hi Scott good po

ftplib timeout in Python 2.4

Hi there, The ftplib has a timeout parameter in Python 2.6 and above. Is there a way to set a timeout in Python 2.4? Regards Nico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ftplib timeout in Python 2.4

I don't know of one so you may need a workaround. What platforms do you > need to support? Suse Linux Enterprise 10, 64 Bit with Python 2.4.4. I need the Python 2.4.4 for a running application Server (Zope). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ftplib timeout in Python 2.4

Try the timelimited function from this recipe Works perfect! Thanks a lot, Jean! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Sort list of dictionaries by key (case insensitive)

Hi there I have the following list 'mylist' that contains some dictionaries: mylist = [{'title':'the Fog', 'id':1}, {'title':'The Storm', 'id':2}, {'title':'the bible', 'id':3}, {'title':'The thunder', 'id':4} ] How I can sort (case insensitive) the list b

Re: Sort list of dictionaries by key (case insensitive)

Er, that should have been mylist.sort(key = lambda d: d['title'].lower()) of course. Thanks a lot for the tip, chris. Unfortunately, I only have Python 2.3.5 installed and can't upgrade to 2.4 due to an underliying application server. In python 2.3 the 'sort()' function does not excepts a

Re: Sort list of dictionaries by key (case insensitive)

Thanks a lot Stefan & Peter. I'm almost there (except sorting of umlauts does not work yet). import locale def sorted(items, key): decorated = [(key(item), index, item) for index, item in enumerate(items)] decorated.sort() return [item[2] for item in decorated] i

Re: Sort list of dictionaries by key (case insensitive)

http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting#Topicstobecovered Works fine. Thanks a lot for your help, Stefan. Regards Nico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Build unordered list in HTML from a python list

Dear list members I have this python list that represets a sitemap: tree = [{'indent': 1, 'title':'Item 1', 'hassubfolder':False}, {'indent': 1, 'title':'Item 2', 'hassubfolder':False}, {'indent': 1, 'title':'Folder 1', 'hassubfolder':True}, {'indent': 2, 'title':'Sub Ite

Re: Build unordered list in HTML from a python list

Use a stack? Whenever you start a new list, push the corresponding closing tag onto a stack. Whenever your "indent level" decreases, pop the stack and write out the closing tag you get. It's straightforward to use a python list as a stack. Thanks for the tip, Kushal. Do you have a short code