On 9/3/2011 3:03 AM, Carl Banks wrote:
On Friday, September 2, 2011 11:43:53 AM UTC-7, Tim Arnold wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the 'with' context manager for a sqlite3 connection:
with sqlite3.connect(my.database,timeout=10) as conn:
conn.execute('update confi
On 09/07/11 18:22, Laurent wrote:
Anyway I was just asking if there is something better than
enumerate. So the answer is no? The fact that I have to create
a tuple with an incrementing integer for something as simple
as checking that I'm at the head just sounds awfully
unpythonic to me.
I've ma
On 02/24/2011 04:46 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, MRAB wrote:
On 24/02/2011 16:41, Verde Denim wrote:
x = '0D'
y = '0x' + x
print "%d" % int(y,0)
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
what am i not seeing here??
I can only assume that at some point you assign
his announcement or your sourceforge.net page, do you
say a single word about what this application actually is.
Just a few sentences describing what the application does would go a long
way toward stirring up interest in this app.
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want your app to
run on a web server so people use it through your browser). Please
clarify.
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is plan A (I have plans B and C)
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On 08/03/2011 14:55, Edward Diener wrote:
I have multiple versions of Python installed under Vista. Is there any
easy way of switching between them so that invoking python and file
associations for Python extensions files work automatically ?
Well, the answer depends a bit on how au fait you ar
On 08/03/2011 15:58, Tim Golden wrote:
On 08/03/2011 14:55, Edward Diener wrote:
I have multiple versions of Python installed under Vista. Is there any
easy way of switching between them so that invoking python and file
associations for Python extensions files work automatically ?
Well, the
ying to pass this
>parameter to the next function so that the distance from the start
>node can be calculated
How do those numbers say anything about the distances between nodes?
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On 09/03/2011 6:12 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
On Windows I have installed Python 3.2 and PyOpenGL-3.0.1 and am getting the
following error :-
File "c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\OpenGL\platform\win32.py", line 13
except OSError, err:
^
It works okay on my Linux machine r
On 03/11/2011 04:24 AM, GrayShark wrote:
Oh yes, Cobol also worked on VMS (yikes! the columns just
right issues!).
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. PAIN-PAIN-PAIN.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY 'Thanks for dredging up painful memories'.
DISPLAY 'I've spen
On 11/03/2011 16:05, Chris Hulan wrote:
On Mar 11, 9:56 am, Thomas W wrote:
I`m thinking about creating a very simple revision system for photos
in python, something like bazaar, mercurial or git, but for photos.
The problem is that handling large binary files compared to plain text
files are q
On 03/11/2011 09:59 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
**
agent = os.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
# determination of user browser
agent = agent.lower()
if 'chrome' in agent:
agent = 'Chrome'
if 'firefox' in agent:
agent = 'Firefox'
if 'opera' in agent:
agent = 'Oper
On 03/11/2011 12:21 PM, noydb wrote:
I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
players). Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
learning how to do things better.
###
import random
for my inquiry. Also, if there is an index of PEPs, a link
to such would also be appreciated.
thanks
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You can find the list of all PEPs at http://python.org/dev/peps/
Thank you for the links David.
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> http://davidmarek.cz
And interesting web site. The future is with us.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
om.
3)Cut down on the number of executables by using 'loaderers'.
4)I modified legacy code to take lessons from the MVC architecture,
and in fact my architecture following these changes could be
called 'LMVCC' for
loader
model
view
controller
config
I hope I&#x
ve never used a debugger with python. Never had to, python's
error messages have always been my friend and mentor, but in this
case there are no error messages.
I would welcome hints on how to trouble-shoot this issue.
TIA
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* Tim Johnson [110312 10:41]:
<...> 3)Cut down on the number of executables by using 'loaderers'.
Sheesh! Typo, meant to say 'loaders'..
sorry
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* Terry Reedy [110312 13:28]:
> On 3/12/2011 2:53 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> Is 'cgilib' *your* wrapper of the cgi module, or from a third party.
cgilib is my module. I use the cgi module as follows:
## code below
import cgi
self.form = cgi.FieldStorage(keep_blank
g to want to use "select". You can store the objects in
a dictionary where the key is the socket number. That way, you can use the
result of the select and get your network object directly.
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I use
> >the name `cgitools' and only the name `cgitools'. I'm sure
> >this comes from a side effect somewhere in the process.
> >thanks for the reply
One other thing I just realized:
The process stops inside of a function call to another object
method, if th
* Tim Johnson [110313 08:27]:
> One other thing I just realized:
> The process stops inside of a function call to another object
> method, if that method call is removed, the process teminates.
> :) I may have a solution later today, and will relay it to you if
> found. M
* Terry Reedy [110313 13:46]:
> On 3/13/2011 3:17 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >* Tim Johnson [110313 08:27]:
>
> Your fundamental problem is that you changed the api of your module.
> When you do that,
No. I created a 'fork' of the original so that the 'fork&#
* bukzor [110313 15:48]:
>
> Thanks Tim.
>
> I believe I understand it. You create loaders in a flat organization,
> in the same directory as your shared library, so that it's found
Not in the same directory as shared libraries.
> naturally. These loaders use custom c
* Ben Finney [110313 17:15]:
> Tim Johnson writes:
>
> > I need to be better informed on naming conventions for modules. For
> > instance, I need to create a new module and I want to make sure that
> > the module name will not conflict with any future or current python
I've written a script to do just this, called switchpy.bat.
It's described here:
http://apipes.blogspot.com/2010/10/switchpy.html
Or you can just grab the latest version at:
https://bitbucket.org/tlesher/mpath/src/3edcff0e8197/switchpy.bat
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e)
sys.path = sys_path
return module
## 3 :: use the imp module
import imp
def my_import(module_name,path):
fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module(module_name,[path])
module = imp.load_module(module_name, fp, pathname, description)
return module
TIA
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64 bit machines.
There shouldn't be any difference. What error do you get, exactly?
Also, let me point out that you can access the registry in a couple of
ways, without invoking the overhead of WMI. I grant you that they are a
bit wordier, but it might get you around this issue.
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On 15/03/2011 07:16, Virgil Stokes wrote:
Suppose that I have some Python code (vers. 2.6) that has been converted
into an *.exe file and can be executed on a Windows (Vista or 7)
platform. What can one do to have this *.exe executed at a set of
specific times each day?
Well, once you've got an
On 15/03/2011 08:30, Cornelius Kölbel wrote:
I am using the python.msi (at the moment 2.6) in a project and want to
deploy the python package smoothly and nearly automatically.
So my question is, if the python.msi provides some parameters, to pass
the information like which components to install
On 15/03/2011 03:42, KishoreRP wrote:
I am working on creating a python script to find Installed programs in
Uninstall folder in registry, the script works perfectly fine on 32
bit machines but errors out with a wmi error on 64 bit machines.
You don't say what the error is (and your snippet doe
You have to add the colon to the end of the statement if this is an
accurate representation of the statement so:
"for i in range(len(list)):" instead of "for i in range(len(list))"
On 3/15/2011 2:01 AM, Sachin Kumar Sharma wrote:
BB,
I am getting error on the following syntax while r
On 17/03/2011 08:58, Laurent Claessens wrote:
file_list = []
for root, _, filenames in os.walk(root_path):
for filename in filenames:
file_list.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
What does the notation "_" stands for ? Is it a sort of /dev/null ?
I know that in the terminal it represents
On 18/03/2011 16:41, JSkinn3 wrote:
I'm new to python and I am trying to figure out how to remove all sub
directories from a parent directory using a wildcard. For example,
remove all sub directory folders that contain the word "PEMA" from the
parent directory "C:\Data".
I've trying to use os.w
uot;def",
"for" or any other variable which matches a keyword?
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On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 09:49 +0100, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> Terry Reedy writes:
> >
> > For the reason Stefan explained and hinted above. Try the following instead:
> >
> > def fib_iter(n, _cache = [1,1]):
> > k = len(_cache)
> > if n >= k:
> > for i in range(k, n+1):
> >_cache.appen
Hello: I'm trying to put together a test platform on a slax OS.
Python 2.7 packages appear to be at /user/lib/python2.7.
Where is the appropriate place to put a .pth file?
Note, I have django on this system too, but slax does not resolved
system paths. And that is 'slax' not &
* Tim Johnson [110325 12:59]:
> Hello: I'm trying to put together a test platform on a slax OS.
> Python 2.7 packages appear to be at /user/lib/python2.7.
>
> Where is the appropriate place to put a .pth file?
I must have stumped the chumps. And this chump hasn't used
On 03/25/2011 04:40 PM, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:03:55 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Hey, all. A co-worker asked me a question, and I've got no idea how (or
if) it can be done. Bottom line: he'd like to save off the text from an
interpreter session, his thinking being that
that this is a version problem. I'd like to try
_sqlite3.so for python 2.7 (32-bit). If anyone has one or can tell
me where get one, I would appreciate it. I am reluctant to install
2.7 on my workstation right now.
thanks
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* Alexander Kapps [110327 13:58]:
> On 27.03.2011 23:24, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >I have python 2.6.5 on my main workstation with ubuntu 10.04. I am
> >attempting to set up a temporary test platform on an asus netbook
> >with slax running from an SD card. I have installed a py
* Alexander Kapps [110327 15:14]:
> On 28.03.2011 00:21, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> >>Python 2.6:
> >>http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=3118
> >
> > That module is *not* trusted. See the warning?
>
>
> You don't trust an unveri
* Tim Johnson [110327 16:59]:
> * Alexander Kapps [110327 15:14]:
> > On 28.03.2011 00:21, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >>Python 2.6:
> > >>http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=3118
> > >
> > > That module is *not* trusted.
included, and this has been used by fans
to provide ongoing bugfixes and improvements.
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On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 12:42 +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> We are making a prototype program in Python. I discovered the output was
> non-deterministic, i.e. I rerun the program on the same input files and
> get different output files. We do not use any random calls, nor
> threading.
>
> One of us
On 03/29/2011 08:14 PM, monkeys paw wrote:
How do i delete a module namespace once it has been imported?
I use
import banner
Then i make a modification to banner.py. When i import it again,
the new changes are not reflected. Is there a global variable i can
modify?
Delete it from sys.modules
On 30/03/2011 8:03 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 3/30/2011 5:10 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
3/ if you want to do the 2/ but require a painful long prologue to your
test, then you may want to use the builtin reload. Use it with care,
because any existing object created from the previous module
On 30/03/2011 20:01, John Nagle wrote:
Is there some way to get the USB ID of a serial port through
pyserial on Linux and/or Windows? USB serial port devices have
device names determined by when they were plugged in. So, if
you have more than one USB serial device, you need the USB device's
built
On 03/31/2011 07:43 PM, candide wrote:
Suppose you have a string, for instance
"pyyythhooonnn ---> "
and you search for the subquences composed of the same character, here
you get :
'yyy', 'hh', 'ooo', 'nnn', '---', ''
>>> import re
>>> s = "pyyythhooonnn ---> "
>>> [m.group(0)
On 03/31/2011 07:43 PM, candide wrote:
"pyyythhooonnn ---> "
and you search for the subquences composed of the same character, here
you get :
'yyy', 'hh', 'ooo', 'nnn', '---', ''
Or, if you want to do it with itertools instead of the "re" module:
>>> s = "pyyythhooonnn ---> "
>>
e yourself look exactly like a human being
at a browser. Fortunately, that's not too hard.
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On 01/04/2011 15:25, Tim wrote:
hi,
I can't seem to find the development version of python2.7.1; maybe
there isn't one any longer, but according to this post, there was a
bug in the configure script that affects freebsd machines; the patch
to fix it was made, but I think I'm not p
On 01/04/2011 16:34, Tim wrote:
On Apr 1, 10:55 am, Tim Golden wrote:
On 01/04/2011 15:25, Tim wrote:
hi,
I can't seem to find the development version of python2.7.1; maybe
there isn't one any longer, but according to this post, there was a
bug in the configure script that affec
gt; want to limit him/herself to 80 characters in 2011?
I'd rather have two files open with 80 columns in them than a single
file with 160 columns and have to switch between files.
Tim Wintle
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;ve got a system in reasonable shape. You have full control over the
display and you can make the code files go anywhere you like when you run
pdflatex on your file.
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On 04/11/2011 05:44 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, MRAB wrote:
I'm not sure that "setdefault" should take **kw args for this because
of its existing argument structure (key + optional value).
A new method like "updatedefault" may be better, IMHO. It would act
like "
"Hans Georg Schaathun" wrote in message
news:aca678-b87@svn.schaathun.net...
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:58:34 -0400, Tim Arnold
> wrote:
> : If you already know LaTeX, you might experiment with the *.dtx docstrip
> : capability.
>
> Hi. Hmmm. That's a
On 13/04/2011 15:59, Jonno wrote:
I have the following unicode object:
u'3,"Some, text",more text'
and I want to split it into a list like this:
[3,"Some, text", more text]
In other words I want to split on the comma but not if it's inside a
double-quote.
You want the csv module which is desi
rallel *processes* as you have cores/CPUs
(assuming you're designing an application that can have multiple
instances running in parallel so that you can run over multiple servers
anyway).
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On 04/16/2011 02:17 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Emacs can run Python in a buffer, and has “tabbar-mode” to
display a row of tabs
Likely the same features are available in Vim, by I've never
used Vim for lots of Python coding.
Vim since v7 has offered tabs, though I personally stick mostly
to split-
On 04/17/2011 04:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
No, it's not. Vim is THE way.
Clearly there is only one standard text editor, and that's ‘ed’
While it's funny, I'm curious how many folks on c.l.p have done
any/much python coding in ed. I've had to do a bit on a router
running an embedded Linux t
On 18/04/2011 09:29, Tracubik wrote:
Hi all,
i'm reading a python tutorial in Ubuntu's Full Circle Magazine and i've
found this strange use of %s:
sql = "SELECT pkid,name,source,servings FROM Recipes WHERE name like '%%%s%
%'" %response
response is a string. I've newbie in sql.
why do the code
DARD-XML')
Am I at the correct starting point?
If so, I can take it from there
If not,
Can someone recommend a better approach?
thanks
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art of the local namespace of the
outer function, but it's not part of the local namespace of the lambda.
You can solve this through the common lamba idiom of a closure:
lst=filter(lambda x,posttype=posttype: x["type"].lower()==posttype,lst)
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On 04/23/2011 11:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
harrismh777 wrote:
If an operation like (+) is used to add 1 + '1' then the
string should be converted to int and the addition should
take place, returning a reference to object int (2).
No, the int 1 should be cast to a string, and the result
shoul
On 26/04/2011 14:48, Oltmans wrote:
Greetings, I hope you're doing well. I'm stuck in a strange issue,
most likely due to my own ignorance. I'm reading a config file using
ConfigParser module and passing database related info to _mssql.
[ ... ]
Config file looks like following
[DB_INFO]
serv
On 04/26/2011 01:42 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote:
Thomas, have you tried bzr (Bazaar) and if so do you consider hg
(Mercurial) better?
And why is it better? (bzr is widely used in ubuntu, which is
my favourite distro at present).
Each of the main 3 (bzr, hg, git) have advantages and
disadvantage
On 27/04/2011 11:43, est wrote:
I need to ship python runtime environment package on Windows, if I
want to stripping unnessasery functions from python27.dll to make it
as small as possible(and perhaps finally UPX it), which parts of
python27.dll do you think can be removed?
Perhaps have a look
On 04/27/2011 04:24 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone
recommending a VCS tool that has poor merging support (such
as Subversion or, heaven help us, CVS) is doing the newcomer
a disservice.
True enough. But the modern crop of fir
On 04/26/2011 09:45 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Tim Chase writes:
Bazaar (bzr)
Cons:
- was slow, though I understand they've worked on improving this
Right, that's not a count against Bazaar for at least the last several
versions (since 2009 at least). Bazaar is easily fast
On 04/28/2011 04:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
This has been a pretty informative thread so far. Please keep it coming.
I am a hardware development guy and do very little software development.
I have been vaguely aware of tools for version control but inspired by
this thread I have started looking at
On 04/29/2011 05:07 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
How easy and reliable is it to import my svn version history
into one of the three big DVCS-s mentioned here?
I'd say that one of the things SVN has going for it is that it's
the lingua-franca of VCSes, so just about everything (especially
t
On 04/29/2011 12:01 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
wrote:
: I'd say that one of the things SVN has going for it is that it's
: the lingua-franca of VCSes, so just about everything (especially
: the 3 big names mentioned in this thread: hg, bzr, git) can talk
: to svn pretty uneventfully
On 04/30/2011 04:15 AM, Martin Schöön wrote:
You guys are very code focused, which is natural given where we are.
Having absorbed what I have seen here, looked a little at Mercurial,
read a little on the webs of Fossil and Bazaar I start to think there
is great merit in all this VCS stuff for ot
onstant 4. Such an
abomination is simply not possible in C. Is that implemented
under-the-hood with pointers/addresses? Of course it is. However, that
does not change the parameter passing model as defined by the language
specification.
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On 06/05/2011 10:51, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
On Apr 26, 3:39 pm, snorble wrote:
I appreciate any advice or guidance anyone has to offer.
The 'Python Project HOWTO' gives good advice in terms of setting up a
new project, what files and directories to create, what to put in
version control, etc
On 06/05/2011 14:17, scattered wrote:
On May 6, 8:25 am, Christian Heimes wrote:
Am 06.05.2011 14:09, schrieb scattered:
sets could also work
if set('abc')& set(line) == set():
print line
Right!
Sets work in this special case, because the OP just wants to search for
a single char.
On 09/05/2011 15:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[... snippage galore ...]
Slightly abstract comment: while I don't usually get much
enjoyment out of the regular "Python is call-by-value; no
it isn't; yes it is" debates, I always enjoy reading
Steven D'Aprano's responses.
Thanks, Mr D'A.
:)
TJG
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On 12/05/2011 10:45, vijay swaminathan wrote:
I tried using that as well.
The problem is, the thread becomes dead as soon as it executes the
invocation of command prompt.
Can you post the code you're using, please?
This should be simple so maybe you've misunderstood
something in the threading
On 12/05/2011 11:29, vijay swaminathan wrote:
<... snippet from code ...>
print 'Invoking Command Promptt..'
#subprocess.call(["start", "/DC:\\PerfLocal_PAL",
"scripts_to_execute.bat"], shell=True)
subprocess.call(["start", "C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe"],
shell
On 12/05/2011 15:11, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
Please help me in solving the following issue I am facing while
executing my python script. Basically I am executing the OS specific
move command to move a file/dir from one location to another.
Why? Why not use os.rename or shutil.move which already
On 13/05/2011 06:22, vijay swaminathan wrote:
Hi Tim.,
Thanks.. This works as I had expected.
are there any documentation for the subprocess.call method? I tried
going through the python doc but could not narrow down.
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html?highlight=subprocess%20call
On 13/05/2011 12:03, vijay swaminathan wrote:
1. The class definition as per the documentation is:
/class /subprocess.Popen(/args/, /bufsize=0/, /executable=None/,
/stdin=None/, /stdout=None/, /stderr=None/, /preexec_fn=None/,
/close_fds=False/, /shell=False/, /cwd=None/, /env=None/,
/universal_n
]+
cheers,
--tim
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jens Lechtenboerger <
lech...@helios.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I'm looking for a regular expression to recognize natural language
> words with umlauts but without numbers. While \w with re.U does
> r
On 15/05/2011 12:04 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
Far.Runner wrote:
Hi python experts:
There are two network interfaces on my laptop: one is 100M Ethernet
interface, the other is wifi interface, both are connected and has an ip
address.
The question is: How to get the ip address of the wifi interface
On 15/05/2011 20:23, Jun Hu wrote:
Thanks for the tip, it is really helpful!
however the class of Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration doesn't include
the interface type (you can NOT tell if it is a wifi interface), so I
change the code a bit like following:
import wmi
wlan_int_id=None
for nic in
can
do it without Excel, using the COM interfaces for "structured storage",
like IPropertySetStorage and IPropertyStorage.
>Is pywin32 one of the possible lib available?
You will need PyWin32 in order to use COM to launch Excel, or use the
structured storage interfaces.
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On 05/15/2011 10:29 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
What is it you think you would gain by obfuscating the code,
and why is that worthwhile? What evidence do you have that
code obfuscation would achieve that?
Based on past experience at several employers', the preeminent
reason for obfuscating is to mak
On 17/05/2011 13:53, Yue Chao wrote:
I am new to python and thank you for your help!
the first question is, is there any resource online where we can find
shared python script (like reading a csv file for ready plot making, I
know to use csv module while I find it's not good enough) .
I don't k
On 19/05/2011 20:37, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
Please help me in solving this issue. I want to check the write
permissions on a directory on windows from my python script.
I tried to use *os.access(dirpath, os.W_OK)*to check whether the user
has write access or not, but it gives me incorrect result
On 19/05/2011 20:56, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2011.05.19 02:43 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
This is basically issue2528 [1].
The problem is that, although Windows (and Python)
expose a version of os.access to match the Posix function,
the meaning is so far removed on Windows as to be useless.
Does this
On 19/05/2011 21:40, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2011.05.19 03:08 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
* A R_OK check always succeeds if the file's attributes can be read
at all
So is this the same as F_OK then, or does it return false if the user
isn't allowed to read permissions?
* A W_OK check fa
On 20/05/2011 09:21, Tim Golden wrote:
[... re os.access on Windows ...]
(Sorry; just got back to this this morning). I might raise this on
python-dev.
If you want to follow, my post is here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111530.html
TJG
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On 20/05/2011 18:56, Andrew Berg wrote:
This is probably somewhat off-topic, but where would I find a list of
what each error code in WindowsError means? WindowsError is so broad
that it could be difficult to decide what to do in an except clause.
Fortunately, sys.exc_info()[1][0] holds the speci
IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool us.
One of my favorite math jokes is like that. A teacher asked a student to
reduce the following fraction:
16
64
He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is 1/4".
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On 21/05/2011 16:56, vijay swaminathan wrote:
I'm having some problem in using the communicate() along with the
subprocess.I would like to invoke a command prompt and pass on a .bat
file to execute. I went through the subprocess module and understood
that using communicate, we can send the send
[cc-ing back to the list; please keep the conversation over there...]
On 23/05/2011 13:11, vijay swaminathan wrote:
What I want to achieve is, I want to run a batch file on a command prompt.
The reason for using thread is not for running multiple scripts
simultaneously. It is just to monitor my
On 24/05/2011 09:31, Cathy James wrote:
dear mentor,
I need help with my code:
1) my program won't display file contents upon opening
#1) open file and display current file contents:
f = open ('c:/testing.txt'', 'r')
f.readlines()
If you're running this in an interactive interpreter, I would
On 24/05/2011 11:01, Claudiu Nicolaie CISMARU wrote:
The problem appears when I close the called program (in our case
calc.exe). The (1) part (the call of os.rename) raise an exception:
(32, 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process')
[Error 32] The process
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