Re: Letting a Python application phone home

Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 15:26 schrieb Dieter Vanderelst: This is surely possible. You need to define a protocol for the communication between client and server. As you are planning to send data over the internet you should build it on top of tcp. Look at the python module "socket" resp. "Sock

Re: calling a class instance of function

Hi, Methods i.e functions bound to a class instance (or object) the self argument in their definition: [code] class pid: def add(self, toadd): pass #or some sensible code [/code] If you want to define a method without that implicit self argument you'll have to make this method a st

Re: what is wrong with my code?

Hi, this is the line that breaks your code: def progressTable(progress_table, action, task, pid=len(progress_table) your parameter progress_table is known inside the function, not inside its definition. So "pid=len(progress_table)" won't do. If you really think that it is possible that pid is

Re: Python is removing my quotes!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Dailey schrieb: > Thank you for your response. The back slashes work! It's a bit annoying; but > I have Microsoft to thank for that. It's not Microsoft, you would experience the same problems under any Unix I know of. At least the bash treats q

Re: How to optimise this code?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David N Montgomery schrieb: > class testCase: > def __init__(self, tc): > if tc == 1:self.testCase1() > if tc == 2:self.testCase2() > if tc == 3:self.testCase3() > if tc == 4:self.testCase4() > if tc == 5:sel

Re: Threads and racing conditions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flavio Preto schrieb: > Hi, > > I have a doubt. Supose that i have the minimun class below: > > class db: > def __init__(self): > self.db = {} > def read(self, key): > return self.db[key] > def write(self, key, value): >

Re: Class destruction

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Dailey schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm wondering where the most appropriate location is to cleanup class > objects. For example, i have a file handle as an instance attribute in one > of my classes and I need to call f.close() on it when the class objec

Re: pdf to text

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 have a look at the pdflib (www.pdflib.com). Their Text Extraction Toolkit might be what you are looking for, though I'm not sure whether you can use it detached from the pdflib itself. hth Nils tubby schrieb: > I know this question comes up a lot, s

Re: Cant run application as ./myapp.py

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, I have to guesses: a) The user as which you are trying to run the script is missing the execute right -> fix by chmod u+x MyApplication.px b) You did not specify the interpreter -> the first line of your script should look something like

Re: Exception or not

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I don't think it is a good pattern because you are kind of mixing exceptions with return codes which makes the code a lot less readable later on. I personally would strongly opt for return codes in this case as one would intuitively expect a f

Re: Python Query: Related to locking a resource in a multithreaded environment

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't think the global interpreter lock is what you need ... read here for reference: http://docs.python.org/api/threads.html My approach what be to write one class for reading and writing to the configuration and make that class thread-safe u