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Sorry if this is an extremely stupid question: I produced some Python modules with TKinter stuff and now I want to use that from my main program. The windows have wuite some user interaction. It's easy to bring them to the screen, but how do I make the communication (i.e. variables) between the main and the modules happen? Currently I...

Hi there, is there any simple reason why IEEE special values are so poorly supported in python? Are there any serious efforts to change that? NaN and Inf are an extremely useful concept for numerical calculations and they would mix perfectly with the concepts in NumPy, anyhow, the support seems to be absolutely minimal. (The ideas in PEP...

Hiya I just woundering how would I go about detecting addition, deletion or change to files in a folder? Ideally id like to look at a linux directory and say watch all its contents and then have my script flag up a message when one of these events occurs not only would it want to watch the directory, but also the

Hi, I should like to make a distribution (using Tkinter), with standard DLLs removed. pythonXX.dll is no problem. tcl und tk, which make the mass of mega bytes, cannot be removed because _tkinter.pyd seems to expect them in the same directory (Question 1) Is there a configration or path setting in py2exe/distutils I

Hi, I cannot find out what I miss with my iterator example. I have a linked list class Queue which has a 'Head' attribute and the following def __iter__(self): if self.Head == None: raise StopIteration return self.Head

Can any Pythonwin guru help me here? I had this problem with Python 1.5.2 and thought upgrading to 2.2.3 would help, but it didn't. Note I get this error on a win ME machine. Prior to that, I ran Pythonwin on a Win 98 and never got this problem. Very frequently, when I try to open Pythonwin it refuses to open and nothing happens, until I...

I'm in love with Lundh's Introduction to Tkinter manual, but I couldn't find in it the answer to this simple question: How do I set the properties of the main application (such as background color, fonts, etc)? I know I can do it widget by widget, but since the default for each widget is to inherit the properties of the Application, I was...

Hi, I would really appreciate help on this from all ye Win-oriented people. I have been using python under Linux for quite a while, know little about windows. I just upgraded my Python on WinME machine from Python 1.5.2 to 2.2.3 (in a separate directory). Using the Pythowin Pythonpath browser, I edited the python path to add my scripts...

I use PythonWin on WinXP. Every time I change a module, I have to leave PythonWin and re enter to make it notice I have made changes. I guess this is not the normal way to do that.. do I have to store the module at a specific place? Is there a kind of "reset" command to make the main module update specific data?

Does anyone have a reference to a quick how-to for using the cx_Oracle prepare and execute methods to pre-parse a sql statement and execute it in a loop to perform efficient inserts into Oracle tables? I've been looking around and haven't come across anything. My assumptions for using this aren't working as expected. Thanks, Glenn...

I'm writing a Python script which can be called from the command-line, and I want to use my module doc string as the CL help text, but I don't know how to access my module object from inside the module. I've tried searching for an answer, but haven't found anything. Please excuse me if I'm missing something simple, I'm a newbie to Python. ...

I'm having a devil of a time with signal handling under BSD 4.4 with Python and I was hoping that this might ring a bell with someone. Using the Webware Application Server (a multi-threaded Python application), I fork off a process to run independently and do some heavy-duty multi- threaded I/O churning. The process is launched with...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, this one I did try before coming here... :) I am trying to report the status of what is going on to the status bar of the main window of my wxPython app. I know I'm on the right track with SetStatusText() but it doesn't always alter the text. What the program is doing is taking a...

Hello, How can I check if a file is binary or text? There was some easy way but I forgot it.. Thanks in adv.

Hello- I have a function that returns to me a text representation of Unicode data, which looks like this: ...

Hi, I'm using emacs now. How to run etags so that I can search into my own source code as well as those site-packages source? Thanks a million! Yun

Supposedly, recent versions of SWIG can be made to work with MS VC++'s non-standard integer data types. According to a recent SWIG ChangeLog entry: %apply long long { __int64 }; should make Swig happy. But it doesn't. I get Syntax Errors on each line where __int64 appears. Am I missing something? I'm new to SWIG (but not to Python...

Hi, Newbie here. Is there a way to have output from a python program go to the screen the way it does if I use "set -x" in a shell script? thanks in advance

We've run into minidom's inabilty to handle large (20+MB) XML files, and need a replacement that can handle it. Unfortunately, we're pretty dependent on a DOM, so a pulldom or SAX replacement is likely out of the question for now. Has someone done a more efficient minidom replacement module that we can just drop in? Preferrably written in C?

Hi Folks, I have a string filled with much text converted from a tuple. when I try to do someting like this: exclusion = re.sub("\\xf6", "%F6", exclusion) # ö exclusion = re.sub("\\xfc", "%FC", exclusion) # ü exclusion = re.sub("\\xe4", "%E4", exclusion) # ä exclusion = re.sub("\\xdf", "%DF", exclusion) # ß

At my work we are in the process of building a tool to test an XML based API. Basically, XML in and XML out over http. Currently, there are two engines that do all of the schema validations, xml diffs, sending/receiving, etc. One of these engines in implemented in C# and the other in Java. Now the choice comes down to which scripting...

I use to write C++ Apps that called Tcl/Tk from C++. I such done with Python?

Has anyone experienced the problem where PythonWin debugger hangs you stop the debug session? I'm running Windows 2000. Python 2.3. I have to kill it through the task manager each time. Thanks

Hi all, I just installed the wxPython-2.4.1.2 demo RPM on my RedHat Linux 9.0 machine, which has Python 2.2.2 on it, and I'm having a problem running the demo.py program. Here is a trace of the results: python demo.py The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, -*-arial-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,...

I'm trying to test a web application using a tool written in python. I would like to be able to generate random values to put in fields. I would like to be able to generate random dates (in a specified range), random strings (specifying allowed characters and a distribution of lengths), or choose randomly between several generators (for better...