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Hi, Have anyone know how to import the DLL in C program? Actually, I have used the statement 'PyRun_SimpleString' to import .PY, Such as, r = PyRun_SimpleString("import os"); It's be fine.

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I'm want to create a superclass with nothing but attributes and properties. Some of the subclasses will do nothing but provide values for the attributes. (I'd also like to make sure (1) that the subclass provides actual values for the attributes and (2) that no "client" module adds or removes attributes or properties, but I don't know how...

Is there a preferred way of passing data out of a Sax parser? My Sax content handler constructa an object for the rest of the program to use, but I'm not sure how to pass it to the rest of the program. Ways I can see: a. Put it in a global (blech!) b. Add a parameter to the handler's __init__ method, that takes some sort of mutable...

Hi, I wonder if Python can connect to the object models exposed by Excel or Word. Thanks in advance, Ken Hutson San Antonio, Texas

Dear, How is the wonderful PYTHON for me. It attracts me with its additional variety. I am developing in C program as well as first to use C++ with extending & embedding PYTHON. It seems not to easy. What do I mean? See that following steps what I am doing.

I am trying to write a program in which the users will each enter their names and when all names have been entered, I want to randomly sort this list of names several times and then show the order in which they have beeen sorted. I tried using sort(), but this only sorts the names in the order in which they are entered. Any suggestions? Thanks,...

I did a cursory look at google but couldn't seem to find what I wanted. I need a script that can parse and create a proper record structure for windows event logs that are saved as tab delimited format. The event logs they produce seem unnecessarily complicated. Was hoping someone had already made something like this. I'd like to avoid...

I'm having some trouble using proxy authentication. I can't figure out how to authenticate with a Squid proxy. I know for a fact the proxy is using Basic instead of Digest for the authentication. I can authenticate just fine using Mozilla. I've done some Google searches, but the closest piece of code I've is is for HTTPBasicAuthHandler: ...

I had a class called rule and a subclass of rule, called bgpRule, in a file called bgp.py. I decided to move the rule class to its own file, called rule.py. The original file did "import rule". I forgot to change bgpRule's __init__() method from calling rule.__init__() to call rule.rule.__init__(). Amazingly, this caused no immediate...

I started off trying to use bsddb with my standard mandrake 9 python 2.2.1 package. The shell reported back no such module. Strange, thinks I. I thought it was standard in the package, it was when I was using Windows. So I uninstalled Python, downloaded the latest python 2.3 and compiled it from source. Now when I try to import bsddb, I...

Does anyone know of some ISPs that have Mod_Python installed. Most seem to allow Python CGI but not things like Mod_Python or Spyce. Is this a viable solution or should I just learn PHP. I would prefer to leverage my Python knowledge but I also would like a fast robust solution. Thanks Joey.

Is there a way to define functions after the main part of a Python script? Example: #!/usr/local/bin/python # this code yields a NameError print_message("hello world")

Does anyone have a a windows installer for pyopengl built for python2.3 on win32 that they can send me, or a link? Thanks, John Hunter

Hi, I am new to pogramming. I have written a small program which retrieves emails from server, unless all the messages are loaded only then it displays on screen properlely. Whole thing works fine if I use events to activate logMail() after start but I don't know how to activate an event at the start (witout pressing mouse or menu key)...

How could I know how much memory uses an object? Something like: >> a = >> memused(a) n Thanks!

Hi, I have an application that starts a second thread, that receives messages via a socket-server and puts that messages into a queue. The main thread is polling that queue for new messages. My problem is that the main thread takes to much of the time polling the empty queue while the socket-server thread doesn't get enough time for...

Hi everyone ! Could someone point me to infos about securing python for use as CGI or mod_python for a shared hosting environnement ? I searched google, but did not find anything specific :( I'm not an admin myself, but I try to convince my hosting admins to install Python. For now, their answser is that they don't know how to secure...

Hello, I have a menu, "Foo", and a cascade submenu under it, called "Bar", that has a number of menu items. If I want to delete all of the menu items under "Bar", but would like to keep "Bar" (i.e. an empty cascade menu with no items), how do I know how many items there are? I assume I should use deletemenuitems("Bar", 0, ???)

hi, i have already problems using py2exe.. i'm using python 2.2, wxPython and audiere for a little mp3 player.. once I've build the exe with py2exe, when launching the application: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 9, in ? File "imputil.pyc", line 103, in _import_hook File "<string>", line 52, in...

What is the best way to access Win API functions that are not present in the various extension packages. Is writing a C extension the only solution? Thanks for any help. Károly

I just started using python a few weeks ago. This is my first program. You input your income and what percent you want to save then it tells you how much to put away. The the code works, but it puts in the word "none" after it calls the function. Is the call sytax incorrect? I'd appreciate any feedback you could offer . # savings.py ...

hello there. I've been searching the web (including the www.python.org :) but in vain of finding recent documentation for the python MOP. I see some information on python 1.5---is this the best and still valid information today? sincerely \kasper --

Real quick, I have account X and I want a python script that goes in and looks for emails sent from Y and then to save them. i'm trying to go off the swen killer I have listed below (which i took from someone on this NG): import poplib import time print 'Start at', time.asctime()

Hi, Can anyone tell me where sys.path gets initialized? I know that I can import sys and then execute sys.path.append(pathname), but I'd prefer not to have to do that everytime I use PythonWin or Idle. I'm using Python on both Linux and Windows XP, and I suspect the process is different for each. Thanks in advance, Mike