[sage-support] Re: Using many local files with remote notebook

2009-12-30 Thread Adam Webb
On Dec 30, 4:45 am, Marshall Hampton wrote: > It seems like this really depends how the files are generated and what > needs to be done to them.  If a scientific instrument is generating > them, perhaps they could be put onto a web server, and then accessed > with urllib functions?    Do they ne

[sage-support] Re: Using many local files with remote notebook

2009-12-29 Thread Marshall Hampton
It seems like this really depends how the files are generated and what needs to be done to them. If a scientific instrument is generating them, perhaps they could be put onto a web server, and then accessed with urllib functions?Do they need to be analyzed one by one, by a person? If so, perh

[sage-support] Re: Using many local files with remote notebook

2009-12-29 Thread Jason Grout
Adam Webb wrote: > > > Well I agree that I don't want just any web-app to have local access. > So I will simply put it down as being a bad idea. > > Using a zip-file is still an option. I called it unfriendly as it > means that the user will have to use another program to prepare the > data fir

[sage-support] Re: Using many local files with remote notebook

2009-12-29 Thread Adam Webb
> > How is it not user-friendly?  (I'm really curious).  Python has some > very nice ways with dealing with zip files.  Here is some pages from a > google search on python and zip: > > http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html > > http://effbot.org/librarybook/zipfile.htm > > Is there a better

[sage-support] Re: Using many local files with remote notebook

2009-12-29 Thread Jason Grout
Adam Webb wrote: > Hi all, > > I often have multiple files for analysis. For example, I might have a > few hundred spectra in a single directory as a single series. I want > to run a script that loads them one at a time, does something on each, > and returns a result in a final file. This works fi