Re: Urllib vs. FireFox

Right. If you want to get the same results with your Python script that you did with Firefox, you can modify the browser headers in your code. Here's an example with urllib2: http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/05/27/urllib2_setting_http_headers.html By the way, if you're doing non-trivial web scr

Re: from package import * without overwriting similarly named functions?

If you're concerned about specific individual functions, you can use: from package1 import some_function as f1 form package2 import some_function as f2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Confused: looking for a simple XML parser

ere that I don't know what to use. What tool should I use? Thanks, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Submitting forms over HTTPS with mechanize

, I might try modifying some similar Perl code a friend sent me that logs into lexis.com. Thanks so much, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Submitting forms over HTTPS with mechanize

On Sep 3, 10:17 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rex wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am working on an academic research project where I need to log in to > > a website (www.lexis.com) over HTTPS and execute a bunch of queries to > > gather a data set. I

Is it possible to download only the of a web page?

I am writing a script that executes a bunch of queries through a form on a website and reads the results. I am only interested in the section in the of each web page. Currently, each page the server returns is about 100kb and contains a bunch of HTML and Javascript, all of which I don't need; I d

Running Python interpreter in Emacs

I have to set my load-path to my python interpreter? Thanks, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

Hi Skip and Philippe. I added the path for Python to PATH, but I still get the same message (when I try executing the current buffer, I get the message: "The system cannot find the path specified." Philippe, I have the above lines of code in my .emacs file. As for my environment, I'm running Emac

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

I have the following in my .emacs: (add-to-list 'load-path "C:\Program Files\Python24") Is that enough? I didn't see anything similar to that in your .emacs file, so I'm wondering if I'm supposed to add the path to my PATH elsewhere. Thanks, Rex -- http://ma

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

put python.exe explicitly somewhere; could someone refer me to a place where I can read about these things? Thanks! Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Debugger Confusion

GUD, PDB, and others. Which ones do I need? Thanks, Rex Eastbourne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Debugger Confusion

Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Debugger Confusion

One thing: is it possible to go through the code within emacs? Doing it on the command line is useful, but it would be very helpful if I could have a little marker within the emacs buffer that showed me where I am. Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Debugger Confusion

Also, when I try running pdb in my Emacs shell, I get very weird behavior: for instance, I'll hit 'h' and enter twenty times with no output. Then, all of a sudden, twenty output messages will pop up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

Yes! Thank you so much! (For some reason, by the way, I had to copy python.exe to my c:/ directory, since the computer could never find the path in program files/python24. But when I did that, and used setq-py-python-command, it worked. I now have python.exe in two locations.) -- http://mail.pyth

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

Yes, I knew that copying it to my root was a kludge. But between that and not having it work, I chose the former. (As you might be able to tell from my posts, I tried multiple things and was frustrated.) I tried putting quotes around "c:\program files\python24". It still didn't work. I chose to in

Printing literal text of an argument

re the function was first called? Thanks, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Printing literal text of an argument

I'm dealing with global variables, which is very rarely). Any way around this? Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bicycle Repair Man usability

hame this project is not active; it seems like such a great idea. Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bicycle Repair Man usability

hame this project is not active; it seems like such a great idea. Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

I'm new to Python with a new windows 8 machine (64-bit OS). Learning programming mainly for fun. Naturally I downloaded Python 3.3 (who doesn't want the latest and greatest). What I want involves functions related to the normal distribution. Based on my google research, it appears that SCIPY

Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

ebruary 10, 2013 1:10:32 PM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 10/02/2013 17:35, Rex Macey wrote: > > > I'm new to Python with a new windows 8 machine (64-bit OS). Learning > > programming mainly for fun. Naturally I downloaded Python 3.3 (who doesn't > > want the

Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

I should have added that the setup gives an error window "Cannot install" "Python version 3.3 required, which was not found in the registry." On Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:11:20 PM UTC-5, Rex Macey wrote: > The setup of numpy-1.7.0 leads to a Setup window with a mes

Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

I am sure I have python installed. I have been running it. in command line the window title is c:\python33\python.exe. The first line begins Python 3.3.0. Later in the line is the string "64 bit ] on Win32". Thus it appears I am trying to run a 32bit numpy with a 64bit python. (Seems like a

Is there a graphical GUI builder?

I'm new to Python and only a hobbyist programmer. A long time ago I used Microsoft's Visual Basic which had a nice (graphical) facility for creating GUIs which was part of the development environment. I'm wondering if there's a utility for Python to build GUIs. I see that there is TKinter, wh

tkinter / gui

Here is one general and one specific question about creating GUIs using tkinter from a newbie. I have created a class in which to hold some data. I want to create a GUI to get the data from the user and store it in the object. Browsing the web I see that a lot of examples on GUIs have the for

listbox binding..what is the current selection?

I have a listbox with two strings "Fixed" and "Random". It is bound by the following statement: lbLengthtype.bind('',set_lengthtype) Here's the beginning of the set_lengthtype code: def set_lengthtype(event=None): s=lbLengthtype.get(tk.ACTIVE) print(s) . The print(s) statement

Re: listbox binding..what is the current selection?

rch 5, 2013 8:26:12 PM UTC-5, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 6:54:45 PM UTC-6, Rex Macey wrote: > > > I have a listbox with two strings "Fixed" and "Random". > > > [...] Here's the beginning of the set_lengthtype code: > &g

Re: list.append not working?

ear! to the declaration at the beginning. Just went through a long bug search due to a similar behaviour. Terrible. I try to view the body of a loop as if it were a separate function/method. If it makes sense from that point of view, it will make sense in 3 months. I mean, why would you want ot initialize something when you're done with it? Cheers, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling Exe from Python

se import os os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, pathToExe, pathToExe, parm1, parm2, parm3, ) Remember that pathToExe must also be the first parameter. There are many other flavors of os.spawn, check documentation! Good luck, Rex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 0 == False but [] != False?

Steven D'Aprano : > On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:59:32 +, Tim Roberts wrote: > >> As a general rule, I've found code like "if x == False" to be a bad idea in >> ANY language. > > > Surely that should be written as "if (x == False) == True"? > > Why compare to False? " if not x : ... " It reall

Re: Handwriting Recognition

y thing I could find that may be helpful to you: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tomoe/ > > This includes a "stroke editor" and an engine which may suit your > needs. Hope this helps.. > > Good luck! > We use a neural net. Can't say much as I didn

read lines

Hi, I have a text file like this; 1 -33.453579 2 -148.487125 3 -195.067172 4 -115.958374 5 -100.597841 6 -121.566441 7 -121.025381 8 -132.103507 9 -108.939327 10 -97.046703 11 -52.866534 12 -48.432623 13 -112.790419 14 -98.516975 15 -98.724436 So I want to write a program in python that reads eac

multidimensional "arrays"

in python, when I want to use arrays, I follow this way; DATA = [0] * nint and when I want to use I do; DATA[i] = do you know how to do similar but in two dimensions ? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Deleting lines from a file

Hi, I need to write a program which reads an external text file. Each time it reads, then it needs to delete some lines, for instance from second line to 55th line. The file is really big, so what do you think is the fastest method to delete specific lines in a text file ? Thanks -- http://mail

Re: Deleting lines from a file

and regardless of the speed, what do you think would be the best method to do this ? Michael Bentley wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Horacius ReX wrote: > > > I need to write a program which reads an external text file. Each time > > it reads, then it needs to dele

Python; jump to a concrete line

Hi, sorry but after looking for information, I still did not get how, when reading a text file in python, can one jump to a concrete line and then read the different data (separated by spaces). In each line there is different number of columns so sometimes i get kind of "index out" error. Is there

Extract a number from a complicated string

Hi, I have to read some data from a file, and on each block it always appears the followng string; xyz.vs.1-81_1 . It appears a lot of time with different numbers like; xyz.vs.1-81_1 xyz.vs.1-1234_1 xyz.vs.1-56431_1 and so on My problem is that I need to extract from this string the number. For

Mix different C source files into a single one

Hi, I have a C program split into different source files. I am trying a new compiler and for some reason it only accepts a single source file. So I need to "mix" all my different C source files into a single one. Do you know about some type of python script able to do this kind of task ? Thanks

Look for a string on a file and get its line number

Hi, I have to search for a string on a big file. Once this string is found, I would need to get the number of the line in which the string is located on the file. Do you know how if this is possible to do in python ? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Look for a string on a file and get its line number

Hi, thanks for the help. Then I got running the following code; #!/usr/bin/env python import os, sys, re, string, array, linecache, math nlach = 12532 lach_list = sys.argv[1] lach_list_file = open(lach_list,"r") lach_mol2 = sys.argv[2] # name of the lachand mol2 file lach_mol2_file = open(lach_

Complicated string substitution

Hi, I have a file with a lot of the following ocurrences: denmark.handa.1-10 denmark.handa.1-12344 denmark.handa.1-4 denmark.handa.1-56 ... distributed randomly in a file. I need to convert each of this ocurrences to: denmark.handa.1-10_1 denmark.handa.1-12344_1 denmark.handa.1-4_1 denmark.han

non-uniform string substituion

Hi, I have a file with a lot of the following ocurrences: denmark.handa.1-10 denmark.handa.1-12344 denmark.handa.1-4 denmark.handa.1-56 ... distributed randomly in a file. I need to convert each of this ocurrences to: denmark.handa.1-10_1 denmark.handa.1-12344_1 denmark.handa.1-4_1 denmark.han

Mysterious EOFError

Hi, I'm executing a python script as a cron job. When I run it myself from the command line it works, but when cron executes it I get an EOFError: File "/home/rex/cronscript.py", line 6, in ? level = int(raw_input("hello?")) EOFError: EOF when reading a line It&#

Re: Mysterious EOFError

= raw_input('Prompt: ') # What I want to do is execute a scheduled task that prompts me for something and allows me to enter it and have it stored somewhere. I'm on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks in advance! Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:07:54 -0700, Rex Eastbour