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Are any of the database modules (dbm, gdbm, etc.) supported in Python running on Windows? Just dumbdbm? Many thanks!

Hi, How can I control the location of the bytecode files? The reason I ask is I want to place the bytecode in a directory different than source code for backup reasons. Our backup system is directory based and I only want to have source code backed up, not object files or pyc files. Thanks,

Is there a unique session ID created in a Python CGI app.? If not, and I suspect not, what is the best way to keep track of the session that loads each web page? I need to store form data from multiple forms completed by the user. What is the best way to keep track of which user is which? Thanks!

What's the best method for coloring simple markup? <xyz att="val" att="val"> You can assume it is not HTML or XML or valid anything except markup which happens to look somewhat like them. You can assume xyz < > = and " always exist for each tag. What methods are usually employed?

Hi, When compiling Sketch's streamfilter C extension the errors below are raised during linking. What could cause the errors? (Python 2.3, MinGw 1.1 with GCC 2.95.3-6, Windows 98) Here are the occurrences of FilterType that may be relevant: ------- C:\sketch\sketch-0.7.12\Filter\filterobj.c: 949: PyTypeObject FilterType = {

I've been trying to get Tix running with Python on Windows. Since there is no binary distributions of Tix for Windows, it seems the easiest way to install Tix is through IDiscovery's IDEStudio 1.9 (http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/Idle/). This went fine and I ran the "Install Tix into Python" option at the end of the installation, with...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy! Suppose I have a list A containing elements that I want to put into list B if they satisfy some property. The obvious way of doing it would be, B =

As you add more items, say text lines, in Text widget, it gets too slow and almost impractical to use on. Take idle for example. If the text gets bigger(e.g. print urllib.urlopen('http://www.amazon.com').read() ), it becomes too sluggish to use as an "interactive" shell. I have tried wxPython and it seems to have the same problem (from my...

Hi all, I was thinking about developing a drag and drop application and was curious how difficult it is to do. Basically I want to have a set of objects that I move around the screen and drop into place. Anyone else ever done it? Got any tips? Thanks, Marc

I have the following function (with some things removed): def add_stock(): stockw=Tk() stockw.title("New stock solution") sofl=Frame(stockw) sofl.pack() u=StringVar() u.set("M") cw=OptionMenu(sofl,u,"M","m","u","v","w")

Hallo newsgroup, because so many people helped me, I hope for help onesmore. If I compile a python py file to a pyc file, will there the paths of the included files (or other paths) hardly be written to the pyc file and why. (Does not find this import file without this path anymore?) Which sense is behind there? TIA,Birgit

I would like to override the distutils install class. It doesn't look like it was designed for that. Do I have to import distutils.command and overwrite its install attribute? I didn't see anything about this sort of thing in the distutils docs. Thx, Skip

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Does anyone know if there is an "in-ram" dictionary based database for Python. I can see some applications where this can really be powerful in applications requiring 10,000 records or less. Is such a database available? If so, who is working on it, or where is it? I've heard that Python supports a stand-alone database. I looked

Hello, I can't seem to be able to specify the delimiter when building a DictReader() I can do: inf = file('data.csv') rd = csv.reader( inf, delimiter=';' ) for row in rd: # ...

I have to read and process a large ASCII file containing a mesh : a list of points and triangles. The file is 100 MBytes. I first tried to do it in memory but I think I am running out of memory therefore I decide to use the shelve module to store my points and elements on disks. Despite the fact it is slow ... Any hint ? I think I have the...

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i'm trying to display output from a linux command line program and i'm getting a lot of junk. i was told that pulling out escape sequences like this regex: \033*; would do it but that doesnt catch them all. i'm seeing the little box characters for instance. the only way i've found thus far is this: building the regex object: regex =...

I have written a parser using htmllib.HTMLParser and it functions fine unless the HTML is malformed. For example, is some instances, the provider of the HTML leaves out the <TR> tags but includes the </TR> tags. Apparently, htmllib and more likely sgmllib do not parse an end tag if a corresponding start tag was not found. Does anyone know...

Hello, in the site I found a lot of complicated examples, but I can't find the simple one I'm looking for. The problem is: I have 1 jython file (script1.py) with a function named 'calculate', and a java file (run.java).

Hello, I have a simple question I can't find on the FAQ. I want to instantiate a PyFunction from a Java class, but the function is on a jython file (script1.py). How can I get a PyFunction object referencing the function in the external file?

Once in a while, I get bitten by the fact, that mutating list methods such as 'append' or 'extend' return None instead of the (mutated) list itself. Is there a compelling reason for that? I googled around, but didn't find anything about this. Thanks Stephan

Is there a way of programmatically saving the text in an IDLE session?

I'm curious how I can make Python print text in color.

All, Our python database has accidentally grown over 2Gb and we have the older version that does not support large files, when we tried to pack it to get it back below 2Gb it crashed and we can not restart the services or web pages. Is there any fix for this problem? we are unable to upgrade our python version at this stage. Our wise/...