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PEP315 (Enhanced while loop) suggests a syntax as follows... do: ... while condition: ... The motives are IMO good, but I don't like this solution. It replicates a problem with the C do loop (even though this is actually different to the C do loop).

Hello: Could you tell me How I can send an email using WIN2000? What do I need? Thanks

i want to write a thread in python that listens for client connections to a socket and creates new server threads for each of the connections it detects. is there a simple way to do this by using socket.listen(1) and socket.accept()? -- dominik

Here is a discussion draft of a potential PEP. The ideas grew out of the discussion on pep-284. Comments are invited. Dart throwing is optional. Raymond Hettinger ------------------------------------------------------------- PEP: 323

Hi, I am re-engineering a lot of existing Web JSPs and hoping to have each JSP execute a Python script to specify the page contents i.e. a easy way for end users to modify aspects of the pages without deep Java know-how. I have proven the above by creating an interpreter in each page and simply executing a script file.

Howdy, I want to know how to tell if a forked process is done. Actually, my real question is that I want to run a shell script inside of a python script, and after the shell script has finished running, I want to do more stuff *condition* on the fact that the shell script has finished running, inside the same python script. The only...

Greetings, I am attempting to get MySQLdb 0.9.2 installed on Mac OS 10.2 with a Fink distribution of Python 2.2.2. I have seen only a few posts on the subject, some of them relate to "conflicting header files," but I don't know what to do about conflicting header files, or where I would find them, and once I found them, which ones to...

i need help with Python lexical scanner for this assignment, i have create a scanner using the Flex scanner generating tool. The requirements of the scanner are as follows: 1) Accept input via stdin (standard input). 2) Return output via stdout (standard output) 3) Recognize tokens of the Python programming language 3.1) Tokens are...

I'm nearly there building a Python extension module to access a set of functions in a .dll, but I'm getting an unresolved external error for one of the function calls (using MS Visual C++ V6). The function prototype is: extern short __stdcall SharewareLimit(char * s1, char * s2, short i); which I'm calling from:

hi, i have written a simple socket program in python to connect to a windows machine.On the server side i am running a windows socket program which works perfectly fine,my server program waites at accept() for a connection to be established.on the client side however i am not able to connect and am getting an error "10061 connection...

I've written a Python script that runs a MS Windows program using popen. However, at the end of the Windows program, a dialog box appears and asks for the user to click on OK. Is there a way to have Python set focus on the dialog box and click OK so my script can continue? Does anyone have an example?

Hello: Is it possible to get a row from a text-file? This text-file is located in a web page. And a value from an excel located in a web-server? (Sheet1!cell A1) Regards

I have a fairly large program that uses a number of third-party modules. After a few hours the program eats several 100M of memory. Does Python provide any tools that can help in determining where the memory is used? Ideally, I would like to see a tool that can list all objects by memory-usage, but any tool that can return the number of...

I should like to search certain characters in a string and when they are found, I want to replace other characters in other strings that are at the same position (for a very simply mastermind game) for my pupils. This very simple thing does not seem simple at all. If I use strings, I cannot replace their parts (though I can use...

I'm working on a prototype of a new application in Python. At some point, if this ever turns into a product, the powers that be will almost certainly demand that it be done in Perl. My job will be to convince them otherwise. The basic design of the application is object oriented. I've never used Perl's OO features, so I'm not in a good...

Thanks to people who submitted content for the Python Glossary: http://manatee.mojam.com/python-glossary I just completed a first pass at folding it into the Python tutorial. It's now a separate appendix to that document. It will take awhile for the changes to show up on the website and in distributions, but if you have named CVS access...

Hi Below is a line taken from Andy Dustman's MySQLdb module: def Connect(*args, **kwargs): I would be grateful if somebody explain the meaning of the astarisks, since I was under the impression that pointers are not used in Python and the above look very must like pointers to me -- Best Regards

In the program shown below, all of the connections to the servers are using port 443 and https (TLS protocol) -- both the initial connection to login.postini.com and subsequent connections to user-3.postini.com. It works, and I don't mind that it's encrypting the sessions as well as the login, but I'd like understand why the connections to...

Studying the module datetime, found that you can create a date instance like: mydate = datetime.date(2003, 9, 15) but also you have others constructors. For example: mydate = datetime.date.today() How is this trick implemented in Python? (think the module is in C or

Studying the Tim Peter's FixedPoint code, found this: # can we coerce to a float? yes = 1 try: asfloat = float(value) except: yes = 0 if yes: self.__init__(asfloat, p)

I've got a problem using urllib2 to get a web page. I'm going through a proxy using user/password authentification and i'm trying to get a page asking for a HTTP authentification. And I'm using python 2.3 Here is an exemple of the piece of code I use: import urllib2 #Proxy handler proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" :

Does anyone know of a barcode generator for Python? I'm looking to do this on Windows. It would be nice to find something free, but that's not necessary (so long as it's reasonable). It doesn't have to be Python-specific, either, so long as I can call it from Python. I'd love to hear any suggestions. I've seen bookland.py, but the kind...

hi, I am using python and pygtk. In my program I want to realize a status thing with a DrawingArea. But my problem is that this area is not updated while my program is running. Is there a way I can force pygtk to refresh to widgets? Arne

Hi, I'm using Python 2.3s timeout sockets and have code like this to read a page from web: request = ... self.page = urllib2.urlopen(request) and later:

Hi, I need advice on printing from python. The reports are simple text-based pre-formatted HTML files that must be send to a printer. I was hoping that there is a way to print the report making use of the existing HTML functionality of Netscape or IE. I found an example of creating Word docs on Mark Hammond's site...