Python Forum

Hello, Can we have a download option for upcoming Python 2.3 without TCL/Tk? Though I know the extremely popular Tkinter is the default GUI of Python, I see one immediate advantage of a download option without TCL/Tk 1) Download size is less and it is a boon for people like me with slow modem connection. 2) Tkinter with TCL/TK can be a...

Hi all I would like some advice, and I hope that the good people on c.l.p will give me the benefit of their experience. I am busy developing an accounting package, using Python and wxPython, together with PostgreSQL on a Unix platform or SQL Server on a Windows platform. I am a qualified accountant and have been developing accounting...

I find that cgitb fails to show error context if I've changed my default directory, so I tried to subclass cgitb and get it to save the directory we were in when the program started. Didn't work. I'd appreciate your eyes. Problem--this apparently fails to find my sourcefile when #os.chdir is uncommented from this cgi program...

Does anyone know of a way to dynamically reload all the imported modules of a client module? I'm writing a program that I have broken down into quite a few submodules, and the 'configuration' is done with modules too. As I am developing the app, I need to test bits and pieces here and there. This is what I currently do: In each...

I am trying to convert some group 4 Tif images to JPG. I can load the image fine and can read attributes but every method I call raises this error (IOError: decoder group4 not available). Is there any extra package that I am needing. I searched the PDF help and the PIL website and can't find any reference to anything like that.

Hi, I need some information on how to deal with strings which I have divided by using split(). I'm new to python and don't know how to handle these split up strings. And I some one could recommend a good tutorial I would be very glad. Can't hardly find any. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I use a free webhosting. The problem is that if a user visits my website, together with index.html( my first webpage) also 2 other web pages with ads are open. Is it possible somehow to prevent that? Or is it possible to close those 2 web pages (more or less full of advertisements) and let only mine available? Thanks for help. Ladislav

Hello! I am trying to embed Python into an xmms plugin using Debian/unstable/i386, gcc 3.3.1 and Python 2.2.3+. The plugin is a shared library loaded by xmms. The plugin is dynamically linked with the python library. Running scripts works but when I try to import python extensions I get these kinds of errors: Traceback (most recent...

What's the score on this (the ASPN python compiler) - is it a true compiler for python ? - what does it output - binary or C++ for .NET framework............ if the latter then it could be very cool as it may work with the PocketPC 2003 SDK.... for producing binaries for PDAs from python... cool... (I'm sure my terminology is way out of line...

One of the benefits of python always thrown about is how easy it is to use as a macro language. While this certainly has wide applicably, I have always been interested in a little more; namely, the ability to record and then edit macros, as in MS Word, Excel, etc. A recent post...

Greetings. I am struggling to track down what I presume is a bug in my code. The trouble is that it only raises its head occasionally. I have managed to prune the code to the following: shutTest.py -------------------------------------------------------- import cPickle def test2(iterations): for i in range(iterations):

Is there any interest in adding a "Haskellish" take function to itertools? I know its easy enough to roll my own, I've been using: take = lambda iter, n: which works, but I was wondering if it was common enough to get into itertools? -Dan

Up until recently, Python was the only language I'd ever seen that used the % operator for string replacement. Today, I was perusing the C++ Boost libraries, and discoverd that boost::format uses a very similar syntax. The following lines print the same thing in Python and C++, respectively. print "int->%i, string->%s" % (42, "wugga,...

I need to call a C++ DLL from Python, for which I'm planning to use boost.python. But the DLL has been written to a VBA interface, and this means it expects to get variable length arrays as Windows Variants instead of lists or tuples. Anyone know how to construct a convincing Windows Variant in Python?

Hi, I wrote some little python programs which run without problems. Now I'd like to compile them into byte-code. What do I have to do? Platform: SuSE Linux 8.2

Hello All, I'm looking for a PDF parser. Any pointers? 10x. Miki

Hello. Is it possible to convert python program to linux executable program? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Ruslan

while i worked with xml in zope using python i got the following error. Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: documentElement i've installed pyxml,xmllib ,xmldocument .

In order to learn sockets in Python I am trying to write a simple group chat server and client. I need a little nudge, please. My question contains some GUI but only as decoration. The root question is asyncore / asynchat. I have read that twisted makes this all simple, but, I wanted to get my hands dirty here for educational purposes. ...

Is there some way to turn off mysql autocommit when connecting? I see no reference to "autocommit" in the db api doc. I'm trying to use transactions with mysql (using innodb tables), and it looks like I can use "begin", but am wondering if there is some other way to just turn off autocommit. Thanks, Chris

(I did try to google for an answer to this, but couldn't find anything, although plenty of instances of the warning). I don't understand this warning: >>> import fcntl C:\Program Files\Python23\lib\fcntl.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the FCNTL module is deprecated; please use fcntl DeprecationWarning) >>>

Hi, I have a query regarding threads. Is it possible to create thread pools in python.i.e. create threads and then retrieve the memory allocated to it so that the same threads can be used over and over again rather than creating new threads each time i wish to execute functions many times. If its possible plz do let me know how to do so. Can...

Does (can) an inheritance scheme like this have any adverse effects (pitt-falls) for the App class inheriting class 'A' twice? Thanx in advance for your input. class A: A_attr = 'A' ... def A_methods(self): ...

Hi all, quick one, I hope I am explaining this properly, I am wanting to do some introspection on custom object instances, for example: import md5 >>> m = md5.new() >>> type(m) <type 'md5.md5'>

Does anybody know where can I get the html version for offline browsing? It's cumbersome to use the pdf. I've got dial-up and I can't connect all the time to see the reference.