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hello, i read that it is bad to use threads with tkinter. so my question is how does one create a gui program with sockets? at one point you have to call mainloop() which does not return. then you are not free to do stuff with the sockets. what's up with that? thanks so much for your time!

Hi: I want to write a procedure to automatically upload some files for me, but I'm getting stuck. Before I write my own gruesome put() function, I wanted to check if there is an easier way. Here's what I can do so far: >>>import ftplib >>>conn = ftplib.FTP('ftp.example.com') >>>conn.login(user='userid', passwd='passwd')

I don't know if this is really a Python question of a MySQL question, but i am hopen that there is enough overlap that someone can help me ;-) I have a unit test suite for our server that loads a clean database image for many of the tests. I use p = os.popen('mysql -u uid -ppassword mydatabase', 'w') p.write(sql_commands) to load the...

I have a program that listens on an IRC channel and logs everything to XML on standard output. The format of the XML is pretty straightforward, looking like this: <channel name='#sandbox'> <message user='PeterScott'>Hello, my bot</message> <message user='PeterScott'>This is a message</message> <nickchange> <oldnick>PeterScott</oldnick>...

Does gd lib or gdmodule support clipping? I would like to set a clip rectangle and when I issue drawing commands (like im.polygon) have only the part of the polygon inside the clip rectangle displayed. Thanks, John Hunter gd-2.0.15 gdmodule-0.42

I'm using the MIMEText module as part of sending email with no problem until I put it through py2exe. Then I get this error: LookupError: unknown encoding: ascii .... on this line ... File "email\Encoders.pyc", line 85, in encode_7or8bit .... which looks like this ...

Is there any way to display a photoimage background in a toplevel/frame? I tried replacing my topmost widget with a canvas but the ripple effects on placement and other widgets got too high. Is there some way to specify a transparent background on a frame? Then I could overlay a (tranparent) canvas window over the photoimage on the basic...

This version is beta software. CUTE is a QT and Scintilla based code editor, scriptable with python. CUTE is completely configured with python scripts. The python API allows to define new commands, which can be mapped to a shortcut or added to a menu. There is a handbook for CUTE, but this is still work in progress. The CUTE/python API is...

I am most pleased with Python 2.3 on Mac OS X! A lot of stuff just plain works, "right out of the box", so to speak, that I had to struggle with a bit in order to install and get working properly, before. WxPython is notable in that category, and this helps PythonCard installation and use quite nicely. Thanks to Guido and all who...

Does anyone know when this is due to be released? I am assuming that this version will cover Python 2.3, and be the first book to fully do so. Ron Stephens

all examples performed with: Python 2.3+ (#2, Aug 10 2003, 11:09:33) on linux2 (2, 3, 0, 'final', 1) This is a recursive import:

Greetings, I just installed zope, version 2.6.1-10 on a debian distribution, but I cannot get to second base. When I try to add the tutorial to a folder, I get an error message stating that an emergency user cannot own an object. So I clicked onto the help page and found the tutorial there. But I got the same error when I tried to follow...

hi there i have just started with mac development and i use applescript at the moment for iTunes and iPhoto automation. but i'd like to do it from python. does anybody know weather that's possible and if there is a add on for that? thanks, leo

As I read the instructions, jython requires that the python.home system property be set or the location of the jython.jar be in the java.class.path sstem.property (aka the classpath that was passed to the JVM). I want to be able to add jython to web applications such that each web app has its own registry file. Because the methods of...

In today's experiment, I was wondering if I could make the comparison operators (<,<=,>=,>) work on classes (types) according to inheritance. The idea is, for example, classes lower in the class hierarchy would be less than (more specialized) than classes they inherit from. class A(object): pass class B(A):

I would like to extract the font and family name from a TTF file. I have been looking at fontTools ttLib, which parses the ttf file and provides lots of helpful information, but cannot find the name. >>> from fontTools import ttLib >>> tt = ttLib.TTFont("cour.ttf") tt seems like a good place to find it, but I can't. The data appear to...

Hi I have set up httpd.conf according to installation and configuration instructions in the mod_python documentation. Yet when I enter the following URL http://localhost/test.py all I get is an Apache view of my htdocs directory. They if I click on test.py and open file dialog pops up. If I give the file a cgi extension and enter the...

Hi! I want to write a "client-server-application" (only running on the same machine) or actually I've already begun with and have problems with the interprocess communication. The server, when started, opens a FIFO and opens it with open(infifo, 'r'). Then I check the content of the file with while 1: line = serverIn.readline()

When I try and run pycrust, I get... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycrust", line 4, in ? from wxPython.lib.PyCrust.PyCrustApp import main File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/wxPython/lib/PyCrust/PyCrustApp.py", line 8, in ? from crust import CrustFrame

Greetings python-list! The good news is that I've been having a blast with Python since early Spring. I've had great success in both learning the language from online / usegroup resources and implementing it in one of my projects. However, I can't pretend to be an expert, and I do not have a strong comp sci background. This is a...

Hi I'm trying to build Imaging 1.1.4 in Solaris 9, I get passwd the first step i.e the building of libImging. However when I execute a python setup.py build I get the following error - gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.9-sun4u-2.2/_imaging.o build/temp.solaris-2.9-s un4u-2.2/decode.o build/temp.solaris-2.9-sun4u-2.2/encode.o...

HI, this is my code params = {} params = '*****'; params = '***'; params = '**********'; params = '******'; params = '****';

Hi everyone, Hopefully a quick question for someone out there-- If I have a file at C:\Python23\myfolder\mymodule.py why can't I say (from python prompt or anywhere else): import myfolder.mymodule ???? When I try to do that I get the following error message:

Python 2.3 >>> def foo(): .... foo.a = 1 .... >>> vars(foo) {} >>> foo() >>> vars(foo) {'a': 1} >>>

Greetings, I wrote a couple of custom dummy extensions in Python (one a pure Python and the other a C) and i managed to compile and install them without a problem: $ make python2 setup.py build running build