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Hi all, I have a silly question. Is there are simple way to check if the computer is connected to the Internet? It seems this should be a pretty straight-forward thing to do, but as I am totally unfamiliar with sockets and such, I ask for your help before getting my hands dirty. Cheers, Mickel G.

Hello, Is there a way to check if a command executed in ms-dos returns 0 (success) or greater than 0 (fail) ? In Unix the module commands.getstatusoutput returns exit status.. Thanks in advance.

Hello, Is there a way to check if a command executed in ms-dos returns 0 (success) or greater than 0 (fail) ? In Unix the module commands.getstatusoutput returns exit status.. Thanks in advance.

Are there any charting or graphing modules for python that can write PNG, JPEG, or GIF graphics? I have found a couple of nice looking packages that can make beautiful postscript, PDF, or SVGs (PyChart and ReportLab) but they can't make PNGs, GIFs, or JPEGs. (On my Solaris machine with Python 2.2 they don't.) Or are there any simple UNIX...

Is this possible? In my CGI app. I display a web page with a link (anchor). When the link is clicked I want to exectute a python script rather than go to an HTML page. Many thanks.

for the formula J = I / (12 * 100) where I is low (like about 8 to 15) I get 0. But when I do it with a calculator it's actually .008333 for example if I were 10. Is there a way I can get python to recognize the .008333 instead of it just giving me 0? TIA for your help! -- Audio Bible Online: http://www.audio-bible.com/

We at NeuroKode Labs, LLC, are proud to announce the release of Python Database Objects (PDO) 1.0.1. The current release adds support for PostgreSQL via the pgdb Module. As released previously: Python Database Objects (PDO) provides an easy to use Object Oriented API for database developers. PDO utilizes DB-API modules for database access,...

Hi, I have a main program that uses a lot of definitions in different classes. They are included like this: from subclass1 import * from subclass2 import * My problem is: whenever I make changes in one of the classes I have to close and reopen the main program for the changes to take effect. This is kind of annoying, because I always...

I want to use IE or Netscape to print my documents which are in HTML format. Whould com/activex be the way to do it? Are there examples of how I can acieve this? Many thanks Tertius

Hi, i'am looking for a db2 driver for windows the DB2 servers runs on as400 if that makes any difference. Thanks, Philip

Hi, I'm getting vast numbers of fake upgrade emails containing some kind of virus. My rather old client can be made to reject these based on some patterns in the subject line. They're nearly all based on the word 'New', 'Latest', 'Microsoft', 'Patch', 'Pack', ... etc etc. Is there a python tool that can be made to delete these from my POP3...

Hi all! As I saw Alex Martelli's post about a mbox cleaner based on POP3, I thought, it could be possible to do that based on IMAP too. That way I could ask the server for mails having attached EXE files and delete all those mails on the server. This would save me a lot of traffic over my phone line connection. But I'm missing one...

Is there a scp (ssh) written in Python ? Regards, Michael

I'm looking for a way to create multiple namespaces / dictionaries from within a Python C extension. I'd like to replicate something like: a\__init__.py a\b\__init__.py a\b\c\__init__.py Where a\__init__.py import b and b\__init__.py imports c. Python 2.2.3 (#1, Jul 9 2003, 16:15:35)

Hello everybody! I need advice and expertise of the community for the following problem. I'm going to make a psycholinguistic experiment. In this experiment the auditor is asked to listen to some text and to press the button when some event occurs. I need to find out reaction time on different inputs and, therefore, I need 1) rather...

Hi I am coding a C++ COM object which I want to access in Python. For that I do have some detail questions and need help since I am not that familiar with the documentation itself of Python and win32com yet. 1. How do I know that...

All my mailboxes have been filling up with files of about 130k to 150k, no doubt copies of some immensely popular virus. So, I've no doubt lost lots of real mail because of "mailbox full" conditions (the proliferating fake bounce messages more or less ensure nobody knows their mail to me has bounced, either). As an emergency response I and...

Hi- I'm trying to import a countylist.py file in idle, and it isn't working. What am I doing wrong? >>> os.listdir(os.getcwd()) >>> import countylist Traceback (most recent call last):

This may have been asked before but I can't find it. If I have a rectangular list of lists, say, l = ,,], is there a handy syntax for retrieving the ith item of every sublist? I know about for i in l] but I was hoping for something more like l. Hilde

Hi, Suppose I have a dictionary containg nested dictionaries. Something like this: >>> pprint.pprint(dataset) {'casts': {'experimenter': None, 'location': {'latitude': None, 'longitude': None}, 'time': None,

Hi everybuddy, I am experiencing some really weird problems when using the findertools from an Tkinter app (MacPython 2.2.3). When I start another application (i.e. a Browser), the Application starts behaving strangely. It does not seem to continue until I switch back and forth between it and the Tkinter app. Only then will it continue...

Greetings all, A few months ago I said I'd put together a page listing all of the python HTTP proxies that I knew of. And now the time has come..... http://xhaus.com/alan/python/proxies.html I'll be keeping that page up to date as much as I can, so please feel free to contact me with updates, corrections, etc.

*** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeed.com *** I can figure out how to set the standalone attribute in the <? xml version="1.0 ?> tag eg <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?> closest I have got to what I need is: <?xml version="1.0" ?> <?standalone yes?> <xpg creator="crusher" version="1.0"> <etr>

Is it possible to distinguish if script is running on python command line (python.exe) or IDLE? -- regards, sjf :)

Hello, I am using python-2.2.2 on linux-ARM. Python itself works OK. However, importing pickle gives me *very* strange results: The first 'import pickle' fails with "ImportError: No module named StringIO" If I immediately do a second 'import pickle', it works????