[Tutor] If you don't close file when writing, do bytes stay in memory?

2009-10-09 Thread xbmuncher
Which piece of code will conserve more memory? I think that code #2 will because I close the file more often, thus freeing more memory by closing it. Am I right in this thinking... or does it not save me any more bytes in memory by closing the file often? Sure I realize that in my example it doesn

[Tutor] Reading individual file from tar file as a file object

2009-10-08 Thread xbmuncher
I have a large tar.bz2 file that I want to extract certain files directly to an FTP path. Since the extract() method doesn't accept ftp paths... I wanted to read the files from the tar file like a file object or file I/O stream. Is there a way to do this? Here's my pseudocode: import tarfile def

Re: [Tutor] Stop a long loop in python console or in wxpython?

2009-06-08 Thread xbmuncher
ed this other process. How does the timer help in this? From my experiences with python, python doesn't let anything get in its way until its done with the current process unless you end it immediately with ctrl c or pressing X. It won't even let you type text into the console while it

[Tutor] Stop a long loop in python console or in wxpython?

2009-06-07 Thread xbmuncher
hon, which is gui of choice for python. I'll settle for a way to do it via console as well. The overall idea is, is that I want to cut short the process of a piece of code in order to start another piece of code. Can you help me with this? Thanks. -xbmuncher

Re: [Tutor] Spell checking source code?

2009-06-01 Thread xbmuncher
if you're on windows, notepad++ has a spell check feature in it using aspell On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Allen Fowler" wrote > > Are there any utilities to help "spell check" source code? (Docstrings, >> etc) >> > > I used to have an emacvs script that could do it fo

Re: [Tutor] Why does it display traceback info here and not there?

2009-05-30 Thread xbmuncher
5 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "xbmuncher" wrote > > Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\path to file\script.py", line 1, in >> >> h = open('file2.dat', 'rb') >> File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line

[Tutor] Why does it display traceback info here and not there?

2009-05-30 Thread xbmuncher
I have a script called: script.py and here are the contents: h = open('file2.dat', 'rb') data = h.read(1120) h.close() print(data) input("Press ENTER to exit") I am editing it in Notepad++ and I set it up so I can run in on python.exe (I have python30) from the program, it sends these parameter

[Tutor] Can't print a string, gives me syntax error

2009-05-25 Thread xbmuncher
I ran this in IDLE: >>> t = 'hi' >>> print t SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1) I've also tried this as sample.py : import string text = 'hello world' print text It gives me a syntax error on "print text" line What's going on? ___ Tutor maillist

[Tutor] Search for hex data in file

2009-05-24 Thread xbmuncher
I've been reading about ways to convert strings and what not to hex and back and forth. I'm looking for the fastest and least memory intensive way to search through a file for a hex value and gets its byte offset in the file. This hex value (that I'm looking for in the file) is of course a hex repr

[Tutor] listen in on other program's tcp connections

2008-12-15 Thread xbmuncher
On windows XP, I'm running a program that sends TCP connections on port 5039. I'v ran wireshark to determine this. I want to create a simple program that listens for these connections and intercepts and then turns the data transferred into a string. From there I'd obviously like my program to act a

[Tutor] auto referer handler/opener for urlib2?

2008-10-20 Thread xbmuncher
I was reading about urllib2 openers.. Can I make any kind of def or function and make the urllib2 "urlopen" function run through this function first before opening a url? For example, something like a reporthook function. What I want to do is this: def autoReferer(handle): if handle.lastRequest.ur

Re: [Tutor] retrieving httponly cookies on accessing webpage with urllib2

2008-10-18 Thread xbmuncher
here: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#headers On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to mimic my firefox browser in requesting a webpage wi

[Tutor] retrieving httponly cookies on accessing webpage with urllib2

2008-10-16 Thread xbmuncher
I'm trying to mimic my firefox browser in requesting a webpage with python. Here are the headers obtained by wireshark when I accessed it with firefox: GET /dirName/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.website.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

Re: [Tutor] Monitoring HTTP connections?

2008-10-07 Thread xbmuncher
on proxy programs: i want to sniff the http requests that are being made internally from a program I have no control over, so a proxy server won't work, because I can't make the program access the internet through a proxy, its not a browser that is making the requests Perhaps, you can tell me the

[Tutor] Read a random record in dictionary object from csv module reader?

2008-10-06 Thread xbmuncher
import csv reader = csv.DictReader(open("test_csv.csv", "r")) reader is not an actual dictionary from my understanding.. so I don't know how to access properties like the 'total items' in the dictionary I want to be able to extract a random dictionary entry from the csv file, how can I do this by

Re: [Tutor] Monitoring HTTP connections?

2008-09-28 Thread xbmuncher
8 at 7:39 AM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:20 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I monitor the HTTP connections my windows xp system makes with > > python? > > > > I'm running a program that m

[Tutor] Monitoring HTTP connections?

2008-09-27 Thread xbmuncher
How can I monitor the HTTP connections my windows xp system makes with python? I'm running a program that makes requests to websites over HTTP, I know this by using a program like wireshark. I'd basically like to have a python program know when this other program makes these requests and be able t

[Tutor] Read active tab url from firefox

2008-08-24 Thread xbmuncher
I want to make a program in python that knows the current url of the active tab in firefox. I want to be able to right click anywhere in my system, notepad, firefox..etc.. and be able to see an added menu option. Any pointers on doing this? Summary of goals: 1. retrieve url of current tab from fir

Re: [Tutor] How to use urllib2.https_open with SSL support in Windows XP for python 2.5.2]

2008-08-18 Thread xbmuncher
I tried it just like both of you suggested and sent a req object straight to urlopen. Here is my code: import urllib2 url = 'https://url.com' headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)', 'Accept' : 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/

Re: [Tutor] How to use urllib2.https_open with SSL support in Windows XP for python 2.5.2

2008-08-18 Thread xbmuncher
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:40 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wanted to use the urllib2.https_open() but it said the module did not > > exist. > > I'm not aware of a

[Tutor] How to use urllib2.https_open with SSL support in Windows XP for python 2.5.2

2008-08-18 Thread xbmuncher
I wanted to use the urllib2.https_open() but it said the module did not exist. The manual says I need SSL support installed. I've done some searching.. but I haven't been able to find an official implementation of SSL support for python 2.5 for windows. If its required for urllib2 I assume its par

[Tutor] Downloading RTSP streams quicker than real time streaming

2008-08-16 Thread xbmuncher
Trying to create a program to download RTSP streams. I know that RTSP streams are live, so its hard to know if the stream will ever end, but the streams I'm concerned about are fixed length. *I wonder if its possible to know if the streaming content is fixed length or not * *Anyways*, I'm wanti

Re: [Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

2008-08-16 Thread xbmuncher
8 at 9:08 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see what the big deal is on coming up with the .{ #{, and other > > bracket types to try to not interfere with normal bracket use in python. > Its > > relatively easy to create a parser to identify the br

Re: [Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

2008-08-13 Thread xbmuncher
2008 at 11:39 PM, Chad Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot there's another way to add braces > > if it_is_way_cool: #{ > print 'coolness' > #} > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I

Re: [Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

2008-08-13 Thread xbmuncher
I'll check out your links. But in response to some of the things said: I'm a fan of indentation, a replacement of indentation with curly braces is not what I was aiming for. If I could have it my way, I'd have indentation and curly braces. I don't want to change official python syntax either.. I ju

[Tutor] Is there python editor or plugin for a python editor for curly brackets around code blocks?

2008-08-12 Thread xbmuncher
Yes I think python is great in its simplicity in typing code but not in its absence of curly brackets to surround code blocks. Personally, it helps me visually see the code blocks as well as saves me constant pain when the compiler complains about broken/missing indents in the code.* I think it wou

Re: [Tutor] Download file via HTTP GET with progress monitoring & custom headers?

2008-08-11 Thread xbmuncher
;Accept' : 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5', 'Accept-Language' : 'fr-fr,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3', 'Accept-Charset' : 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7' } #test it httpDownload(

[Tutor] Download file via HTTP GET with progress monitoring & custom headers?

2008-08-10 Thread xbmuncher
I want to download a file via HTTP GET protocol (perhaps HTTP POST in the future, whatever method should allow relativly easy changes to be made to use POST later on) I need to send custom headers like in urllib2.urlrequest() I need to be able to monitor the download progress WHILE it downloads lik

[Tutor] Back-end Bittorrent Client in python

2008-08-10 Thread xbmuncher
I want to be able to download bittorrent files with the bittorrent protocol in my python program using only the native libraries in it. All I am interested is being able to download & upload simultanaeously, reading parts that make up the torrent package and being able to choose files/folders to do