Re: Is there a limit to os.popen()?

2006-07-11 Thread sreekant
> kr = string.strip(os.popen('make kernelrelease').read()) If make is being executed, I presume that the python script has rw access to the location. How about x=os.system("make kernelrelease > my_report 2>&1 ") kr=open("my_report").read() Just a blind throw. Good luck sree -- http://mail.p

Re: threading troubles

2006-07-11 Thread sreekant
Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>>>>> sreekant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (S) wrote: > >> S> I decided in the end to use fork and all is well. > > But how are you doing the callback then? From your code it looks like the > callback is called after the external c

Re: How to use images at the bachground?

2006-07-12 Thread sreekant
pipehappy wrote: >> hi all, >> how to get out of the python shell which is executing a command? >> how to use images in the background of a page in Tkinter? > > on Unix, ctrl-c or ctrl-d may do the job. > on Windows, ctrl-z will do > Hi I presume you meant putting a image as a background for a T

Re: threading troubles

2006-07-12 Thread sreekant
Oh dear. For the time being I will leave it with fork and leave it at that. Ta sree > You may be missing nothing. If I recall correctly a similar problem was > once reported on the pygtk-list. Some investigation showed that some > programs couldn't be reliably run from a thread, using os.system.

problems with midi programming in python

2006-07-05 Thread sreekant
Hi folks I hope someone here might be able to help. I scavenged some info and even code from the net and am trying to write a module that reads a text file and spits out a midi file. So far I managed to make it work to the level of reading a text file with appropriate notes, octaves, transposi

Re: problems with midi programming in python

2006-07-05 Thread sreekant
ly to sreekant UNDER_SCORE At Yahoo DhoTT Com Thanks sree > Here's a snippit which does work: > > def intToVarNumber(x): > """ Convert INT to a variable length MIDI value. """ > > lst = chr(x & 0x7f) > while 1: >

Re: problems with midi programming in python

2006-07-05 Thread sreekant
Simon Forman wrote: > Not related to your actual question, but note: > >> if len(result) == 0: > > empty lists test as False, so this can just be > >> if not result: > > > > and > >> result[len(result)-1] -= 128 > > you can index lists with negative ints, backwards fro

Announcement : Octavia

2006-07-07 Thread sreekant
Hi folks I just released a text to midi converter. Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/octavia http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=171815 It uses a text description of music and runs the body of the music source file in python, leaving full facilities of python in

threading troubles

2006-07-10 Thread sreekant
Hi folks What am I doing wrong in the following? I just want to run fluidsynth in the background. # class MyThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, cmd, callback): self.__cmd = cmd self.__callback = callback threading.Th

Re: Howto or Tutorial for tokenize module for a newbie?

2006-07-10 Thread sreekant
TY wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone point me to a Howto or Tutorial for tokenize module for a > newbie? I read the documentation but it doesn't have a lot of info... > Thanks! > Hi there I don't know if I got your requirement. But I used a own version of tokenizer which can use more than one deli

Re: threading troubles

2006-07-10 Thread sreekant
Hi there I tried as advised. Now the function gets called only after I hit quit button which calls gtk.main_quit() at which point, the ui stays on but not responsive, while the fluidsynth runs in the fg, then ui disappears as the fluidsynth finishes and presumably the thread dies. xc = thread

Re: threading troubles

2006-07-11 Thread sreekant
I decided in the end to use fork and all is well. Thanks sree -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list