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August 2001 - page 1
Terry Reedy — 99662574901 Aug 2001
Here's a deja vu article for the 100,000 post celebration [8<) In a 40-article comp.lang.python thread accessable as http://groups.google.com/g...
Question... (2 Replies)
Adonis Vargas — 99662638601 Aug 2001*
how come this code does not seem to popup on any broswer i attempt to send HTML data to: (c, a) = s.accept() c.send('HTTP 200 OK\n') c.send(...
sdf — 99663075901 Aug 2001
I want to process all the files in a diretory,and ignore the subdirectorys in it ,I use os.listdir() to list all the items,but I do not know whether t...
smtp authorization...how to? (3 Replies)
chajadan — 99663855501 Aug 2001*
I started pokin' around in the smtplib and tried sending an e-mail. My smtp server requires a username and password, yet there is no method for ei...
Will Ware — 99663954601 Aug 2001
#!/usr/bin/python """Probabilistic micropayment scheme I am not a big-time web jock. Big-time web jocks will laugh at my simplistic use...
Willy Heineman — 99664029101 Aug 2001
Due to overwhelming requests (1 or 2 every 6 months or so) I'm releasing a new version of win32comm compatible with Python 2.1.1 at http://www.uco...
Sean Reifschneider — 99664680501 Aug 2001
Since python.org is deeply unhappy, I'll announce the SRPMs on the tummy.com site so that folks who want it now can get access to it, until python...
Parzival Herzog — 99664798901 Aug 2001
I am using ActiveState Python 2.1 on Win 2000. I am trying to call a method of an object from C, using code like this: --- in C code: static PyObject ...
sdf — 99665126801 Aug 2001
I use mkdir('doc'),but this directory is exists,so it throw an err. how can force to do this...
sdf — 99665928101 Aug 2001
belowing is example from document,but how to save newdoc to a file, I use writexml,but failed. from xml.dom.minidom import Document newdoc = Document(...
Dial-Up w/ Python on Win32: (1 Reply)
Xione Wrent — 99666488001 Aug 2001*
Is there any way to launch a .DUN file (Dial-Up Networking) on a Windows box using Python?...
Kemp Randy-W18971 — 99667136601 Aug 2001
Actually, I was thinking of a similar idea. The context is to get one million people to send me a dollar, and in return, I would send each a personal ...
Simon Brunning — 99667512101 Aug 2001
Program' at <http://www.crosswinds.net/~agauld/>, or 'How to think like a Computer Scientist', at <http://www.andamooka.org/reade...
Brian Eoff — 99667736601 Aug 2001
When using the commands.getstatusoutput(......) what should the except be? Would OSError work, or should I use IOError because I am trying to manipula...
Портовая, 19 — 99667800301 Aug 2001*
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Typing system vs. Java (1 Reply)
Simon Brunning — 99668006501 Aug 2001*
<http://musi-cal.mojam.com/~skip/python/trace....>. Cheers, Simon Brunning TriSystems Ltd. sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk...
newbie (2 Replies)
Theasolon — 99668625401 Aug 2001*
I'm newbie to this all, and done some research. I want to start to learn programming, and I believe Python is a good language to start. I have abs...
Kemp Randy-W18971 — 99668634601 Aug 2001*
I have a "question" on what this message is about. -Original Message- From: Kemp Randy-W18971 Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:13 AM To: p...
Rishi R. Roy — 99668657701 Aug 2001
I was hoping someone could help me with this. I'm trying to compile python but am having no success in figuring out where and what changes I need ...
Fred L. Drake — 99668660001 Aug 2001
The development version of the documentation has been updated: http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/ Incremental updates, including some useful im...
Query about Types SIG status (1 Reply)
Michael Abbott — 99669033601 Aug 2001*
(Copy of mail sent to types-sig at python.org) I'd be very grateful if someone could post a summary of the current status of the Python Types SIG....
Embedding problem, undefined symbols (1 Reply)
Rick Wagner — 99669257301 Aug 2001*
I'm trying to embed Python (v1.5.2) in a C application and having trouble with importing modules. The C app compiles fine, but the Python interpre...
ram13282001 at yahoo.com — 99669456801 Aug 2001
The first time I received this in my e-mail I deleted it! And later wished I had it back! I had to wait months before someone E-mailed me again with t...
Scott — 99669790301 Aug 2001
Dear Future Millionaire: I'll make you a promise. READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END! - follow what it says to the letter - and you will not worry whethe...
Python on Sun Cobalts? (1 Reply)
Matt Yarbrough — 99670350901 Aug 2001*
I am trying to run an application (Zope) on a Sun Cobalt box that works just fine on Intel boxes, but when I run it on the damn MIPS box I get: Traceb...
Arthur_Siegel at rsmi.com — 99670658401 Aug 2001
My posts follows Alex's, which expresses sentiment quite similar to what I had expressed early on. I do not question Guido's design genius. I ...
Olaf Meding — 99670715301 Aug 2001
Why would this call fail: vc6.Documents.CloseAll() This call works: vc6.Documents.Open( "D:/CVS/machine/tools/test_couch/test_couch.dsw" ) T...
Hamish Lawson — 99670760001 Aug 2001
I'm using Holger Meyer's DBAPI-compliant ingmod module for interfacing to Ingres databases. After collecting my data and closing the database ...
sdf — 99672314002 Aug 2001
I want to get the first child node of one node,but because of the indent problem(I think so),the first two child is not what i want ,but the '\n...
fleet at teachout.org — 99672341502 Aug 2001
learn programming, and I believe Python is a good language to start. I have absolutely no experience in programming, so does anyone here have any tips...
engsol at teleport.com — 99672675202 Aug 2001*
I'm brand new to Python, and am reading all the books I can, as I'm sure the other "newbies" are. As a result, I breadboard ...
Converting from strings to integers (4 Replies)
Stephen Smith — 99672774702 Aug 2001*
Hi, I'm new to Python and am just trying out an example of file I/O. I am trying to read a file (successfully), and then multiply a value by anoth...
Python Poll (1 Reply)
Emmanuel Jeandel — 99672835102 Aug 2001*
Hi there ! I wonder whether s.o has some statistics about : What is python used for ? I would suggest : i. Scripts (Bash-like) ii. Web (CGI Scripts/ Z...
range(2.9); coercions (1 Reply)
John Machin — 99672906102 Aug 2001*
Does it concern anyone that range(2.9) *silently* returns [0, 1]? A strict reading of the documentation suggests that it should return [0, 1, 2] (beca...
Jerry Gitomer — 99674108602 Aug 2001*
I am building an application using the Pmw widget set and can't figure out how to do what show = '*' does for the plain vanilla Tkinter En...
Tom — 99674421302 Aug 2001*
I find this odd. In my experiments with Python 2.1.1 on Windows 2000, a user-defined method can be based on a 'builtin function'. In other wor...
Simon Brunning — 99675016602 Aug 2001
(snip)<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&a...>. Cheers, Simon Brunning TriSystems Ltd. sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk...
Cosby Jon — 99675879102 Aug 2001
Where is Markus Oberhumer these days? He no longer appears to have a Web site at the University of Linz. I'd like to link to his PySol home page, ...
grok.py (module I found) (4 Replies)
Martijn Faassen — 99675933802 Aug 2001*
Hi there, I've found this module somewhere linked from the Vaults of Parnassus, but then my browser crashed and I can't find the link anymore....
compiling standard python modules (1 Reply)
Janno Kusman — 99676192102 Aug 2001*
Hi! I'm trying to compile python to embed platform running NetBSD on MIPS based CPU. I have managed to compile python executable and it seems to w...
urllib help (2 Replies)
Brian Kelley — 99676386402 Aug 2001*
I'm struggling with a relatively simply problem. I'm trying to fill out the parameters in a form using urllib. I appear to be able to set the ...
How to define a GLOBAL Variable ? (5 Replies)
Peter Moscatt — 99676814502 Aug 2001*
If I wish to define a variable that I want to become global to ALL classes within a .py file - how is this best achieved ? Pete...
is there a JDOM like library? (2 Replies)
David — 99676981302 Aug 2001*
Is there a DOM/XML GPL'd library for Python that is as easy to use as JDOM? Element root = doc.getRootElement(); Element child = root.getChild(...
ANN: More XML support for Python etc (1 Reply)
Dave Kuhlman — 99677022802 Aug 2001*
I've implemented wrappers for the parser in libxml2 and simple wrappers for the top level functionality in libxslt. You can learn more about libxm...
Nadav Horesh — 99677306802 Aug 2001
Isn't it a consistency loop-hole that slices object shortcut --- n:m:k is valid only in indexing expression and not elsewhere? Of course there cou...
Steve Holden — 99677353502 Aug 2001
I've been working for some time to come up with a handy way for the relatively new Python database user to get stuff out of a database. For other ...
Lee Harr — 99677821202 Aug 2001
I am trying to get pygimp running, but it seems that gimp is not finding the plugins. This is on FreeBSD 4.3 Anyone have the magick incantation to mak...
Zope (3 Replies)
Roar Johansen — 99677916702 Aug 2001*
Hi! I've resently begun to learn Zope (and therefore Phyton). My question: Is there any newsgroup aimed at Zope? Roar Johansen...
Wild Bill — 99678223402 Aug 2001*
How would you fill in the missing lines? codeObj = compile(sBody, "", "exec") # # Turn 'codeObj' into function 'f...
Help with Parsing HTML files (1 Reply)
Charlie Clark — 99678240502 Aug 2001*
As part of a prototype I need to be able to plug in several different content websites and pull headlines to put them on my own website through the me...