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General discussion list for the Python programming language
September 2001 - page 1
Thomas Weholt — 99930366401 Sep 2001*
Sorry for that stupid subject, but ... Take this piece of code : def parse(s): keywords = [] dict = {} while 1: try: str(s % dict) break except KeyErr...
David B Terrell — 99930404201 Sep 2001
getpass (on unix anyway) should print the prompt to stderr or better yet /dev/tty (I was too lazy to implement that one) and get the prompt from /dev/...
PING Help (1 Reply)
brian — 99930409901 Sep 2001*
Hello Kinda new to python here is what I am trying to do working with windows nt a simple ping script this is what I have....
raising SyntaxError while parsing file? (2 Replies)
Roy Smith — 99931020001 Sep 2001*
I've got a class which parses a data file, and I want to be able to signal a parse error. Would it be appropriate to raise SyntaxError for that, o...
User preference file in Win32 (2 Replies)
Gillou — 99931070301 Sep 2001*
Hi, Sorry, this is not 100% Pythonic question, but as I'm in process to write a Unix/Win32 app. I need to know where it's usual to store user ...
James Garrison — 99932658101 Sep 2001*
I accidentally changed the Site Root setting for a Zope folder, and now all attempts to access the folder from the admin interface (i.e. to fix the si...
Something like Perl's -c flag? (1 Reply)
Mark Atwood — 99932664701 Sep 2001*
Does the Python interpreter have anything like Perl's -c flag, which does a static syntax and sanity check without actually running the script?...
Roman Suzi — 99933589101 Sep 2001
This reminds me of fabulous MS Outlook Express behaviour:{ ... help> ;-) I think, this is not acceptable in the interpreter and is misfeature. ...
help "too active" misfeature (1 Reply)
Emile van Sebille — 99935140401 Sep 2001*
Note that this still occurs in current cvs, and that since 2.1 there is no need to import help and when you don't things work right. Otherwise, se...
JBuilder (2 Replies)
yaipa — 99935264301 Sep 2001*
Has anyone developed a "plug-in" for Jbuilder? I use it at work for Java Development and would like to use it at home for Python. I would us...
newbie.string.listless (7 Replies)
FMH — 99935897201 Sep 2001*
Hi Trying to to process a list and use a string function on each item in the list, then return a new list with the Capitalized items. The output is co...
Converting a text file to a string? (2 Replies)
eif — 99936163401 Sep 2001*
can anyone please help me out here? - im running a python cgi script that outputs a database in a text file format something that looks like this: 999...
tigger5978 at theslotsaretalkingtome.com — 99936595601 Sep 2001
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams — 99936767101 Sep 2001
I'd like to be able to change the "Release" parameter when generating RPMs with Distutils so that different package names are generated ...
browse builtins and Dedent in Win32 (1 Reply)
Mark_Pryor — 99937165901 Sep 2001*
Hi, Using ActivePython v 2.1.212 on Win98 While coding interactively in PythonWin, how can I browse the __builtins__ and have them appear in a drop do...
Bug or feature? (4 Replies)
Gerson Kurz — 99937233101 Sep 2001*
Consider: class a: def b(self,x): print "call #1" def b(self,x): print "call #2" v = a() v.b(42) This code raises no warning, and ...
Gary Richardson — 99939533302 Sep 2001
This code fragment (from Pmw.Blt documentaion): from Tkinter import * import Pmw master = Tk() if not Pmw.Blt.haveblt(master): # is Blt installed? pri...
eif — 99939626502 Sep 2001*
thanks for the help before guys - what im trying to do now is iterate through two nested lists - im trying to compare the third element of each list a...
How to make UEdit support python? (6 Replies)
Formalin — 99942229802 Sep 2001*
How to make UEdit support python?...
tigger5 at theslotsaretalkingtome.com — 99942316802 Sep 2001
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ANN: PyOpenGL2 final (3 Replies)
Tarn Weisner Burton — 99943073002 Sep 2001*
The final release of PyOpenGL 2 is now available. PyOpenGL2 is a complete rewrite of PyOpenGL using the wrapper generator SWIG (you don't need SWI...
scrypto 1 september 2001 (4 Replies)
Jaap Spies — 99943586502 Sep 2001*
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String Comparisons returning score (3 Replies)
Clayton Brown - Emmie Osawa — 99943813902 Sep 2001*
Is there an approved standard library/function/algarithm for comparing two similar strings and returning a percentage match? I am aware of soundEx.py ...
COM MakePy utility in PythonWin (2 Replies)
Maan Hamze — 99943940502 Sep 2001*
1. In addition to using the excellent Lemburg's mxODBC, I have been using DAO to connect to Access using Jet engine, and using ADO too. Of course ...
wxpython (1 Reply)
Jock Mackenzie — 99943978402 Sep 2001*
I have been learning python/wxpython & have written a small program in wxpython that asks for input from the user [using the function wxGetNumberF...
beendover at theslotsaretalkingtome.com — 99944008402 Sep 2001
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Freezing Jython PY scripts (1 Reply)
Maan Hamze — 99944475202 Sep 2001*
I need to be able to create a Jython compiled JAR file that can be run on a PC without Jython on it. With Test.py I am compiling with jythonc -j Test....
Help with Unicode? in Tkinter? (5 Replies)
Sheila King — 99945437102 Sep 2001*
OK, my son and I are writing him a drill program for practicing his French vocabulary. Basically, a textfile contains English/French word pairs. His p...
Hello people. I have some questions (20 Replies)
jeroen paul goudsmit — 99946566402 Sep 2001*
Hello people I've heard about python and i thought that it coulb be a nice language for me to use. is it true that it can be used in every O.S.? I...
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams — 99947732803 Sep 2001
What's the easiest way in C to get the contents of a PyUnicodeObject (or a PyStringObject for that matter) as UTF-8?...
Tkinter design problem (2 Replies)
Janos Blazi — 99947800403 Sep 2001*
Suppose I have a table realized az an array of buttons. It seems sensible that all buttons are bound to the sam callback procedure. But the callback p...
calling __init__ more than once? (5 Replies)
Roy Smith — 99947814003 Sep 2001*
I've got a file parsing class which in which I call a single parser object repeatedly to parse additional files. Something like: p = myParser() st...
Delaney, Timothy — 99947891803 Sep 2001
I suspect the simplest thing here would be to use Jython and AWT or Swing. http://www.jython.org Probably the easiest way for a beginner to get a GUI ...
Tomas Styblo — 99947980203 Sep 2001
htmltmpl is a templating engine for separation of code and HTML, targeted mainly at web applications. It's similar and compatible with HTML::Templ...
Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters — 99948197503 Sep 2001
Although the below is rarely very Pythonic, you can lean on the 'eval()' function and 'exec' statement to get the same "variable ...
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams — 99948836903 Sep 2001
Well, I've slaved and toiled for two days straight, gone almost without sleep, and nearly had my brain explode, and what do I have to show for it?...
Eric Co — 99949161003 Sep 2001
hi, i write a C/C++ extension module under windows. it compile to be a dll, say spam.dll. then i use "import spam" to import this module to ...
Chris Dutton — 99949233703 Sep 2001
I was just idly browsing earlier today, and all of a sudden, for no reason, lots of stuff made sense. So to test my oodles of new knowledge, I started...
Tim Peters — 99950075303 Sep 2001
Python's builtin 3-argument pow() exists because, e.g., >>> pow(3L, 500, 7) 2L >>> can be done very much faster, and with much l...
Robert Sand — 99950177603 Sep 2001
Hi! My name is Melissa Foster and, while YOU may have been stuck behind your computer for hours a day last weekend, I took the weekend off - and STILL...
Fred Pacquier — 99950625603 Sep 2001*
Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I believe I did my homework (docs, FATS, Google etc.) and the answer still eludes me : how do I print 246...
Hans Nowak — 99950639903 Sep 2001*
Un an entirely unrelated note, maybe there should be dictionary comprehensions, too... :) { k,v for k,v in dict if type(v) = type("") } ...
Is there any python 2.1 decompiler ??? (1 Reply)
Frederic Quin — 99951195103 Sep 2001*
Hi all, I am looking for a python 2.1 decompiler... Regards, Frederic...
Alexandre Courbot — 99951841403 Sep 2001
Hello everybody, In the project I'm working on, (written in C++) we use Python as a scripting language, to control the behavior of game elements (...
Christof Ecker — 99951867203 Sep 2001
Hi you cracks, I want to manipulate the Tkinter Text "insert" method in such a way, that all the default bindings use my python method inste...
Simon Brunning — 99952024403 Sep 2001
file. Cheers, Simon Brunning TriSystems Ltd. sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk...
Charles — 99953060303 Sep 2001
I need connect a python apps linux to a microsoft sql server via tcp. anyone has a ideia ? regards.. Charles...
spex66 — 99953740403 Sep 2001*
Hi there, I ask mysel, if there is a tricky (or simple) way to build a dictonary with the list-comprehesion-style: [x for x in y] thanks for any hint ...
cgi type=file problems (4 Replies)
Dag — 99954277803 Sep 2001*
I have a HTML form with a type=file input element and I simply want to get the file name as a string. I'm not interested in the actual file. Howev...