Python Forum

Hi, I have a class that reads most common files (text, images, tar archives, zip archives). I just read in the whole thing and decide then what to do with it - create a gtk.TextView, gdk.pixbuf, or tables-of-contents, whatever. Looking at the functions in the appropriate modules shows that most of them want to read from external files....

I want to user the newgroup of python, but I do not use it! can you give me a hand?

I'm looking for something (usable from python) that provides networked directory/registry type functionality to a bunch of Linux and Solaris servers. LDAP's one alternative, but the LDAP servers are heavy heavy beasts, so I was hoping for something that's actually lightweight, rather than "lighter than X.500". Thanks, Anthony

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I'm working with strings that contain xml escape codes, such as '0' and need a way in python to unescape these back to their ascii representation, such as '&' but can't seem to find a python method for this. I tried xml.sax.saxutils.unescape(s), but while it works with '&', it doesn't work with '0' and other numeric codes. Any suggestions on...

I have been reading a book about the evolution of the Basic programming language. The author states that Basic - particularly Microsoft's version is full of compromises which crept in along the language's 30+ year evolution. What to you think python largest compromises are? The three that come to my mind are significant whitespace,...

Hello everybody, I created a simple COM server, by copy and paste of the first example from the book by Mark Hammond. I registered the server, and was able access its functionallity from another python script, and from Word. Then I tried accessing the server from another tool (which is my real task). The problem was, it was not in the...

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I've been looking at using python and it's been going fairly well so far, i can call C from python and python from C fine but now i've hit a snag and i'm wondering how you guys have got around it. I have to initialise python inside my C project so that i can make calls to python modules whenever i need to but i can't create a dll for the...

I'm currently working on a new version of py2exe, which will require Python 2.3 and later, because it uses the zipimport mechanism. Since py2exe is a distutils extension, and since C compilers are commonly available on most platforms except Windows, it would be fairly easy to let py2exe generate a C source file installing this import hook,...

Hi. I'm trying to embed Python as a scripting language for my Win32 application. What I need is to provide my own text console and my own memory manager. Is it possible to do that without replacing all printfs and mallocs in the Python source? Even if I do that, how is that going to work for third-party modules I import? Thanks Ivo

Here is an example of the behavior: ------- code start ----------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/python #bugtest - test of class attribute initiation class Config: a = 1 b = 2 c = 3

I'm getting the following error when I attempt to run an app with Python 2.3. I suppose this was silently ignored under 2.2. With debugging I see that s==0 in _int = int ...... def atoi(s , base=10): return _int(s, base) is the cause of the error. Has int changed or is it the source of the

I'm puzzled by Python's behavior when binding local variables which are introduced within exec() or execfile() statements. First, consider this simple Python program: # main.py def f() : x = 1 print "x:", x f()

Recently there has been a lot of progress concerning the integration of midi into python. A midipy.cpp for Python20 is found and various compiling efforts having been undertaken to compile it for Python23. See the other threads about midipy.cpp for more info. However, seeing that the resulting midipy.pyd is only 48 kilobyte long and seeing...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, this one has me scratching my head. Right now my application is working fine. I have a tree control which contains a 2-level deep tree. The first level is directories while the second level are files in those directories. The user clicks on the file they want to manipulate and it is...

Dears: I use a 4KBytes HTML content to do this benchmark, it is just a simple test of python based web server. mod_python with Apache Lifting the server siege... done. Transactions: 4864 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 30.43 secs

Interested in any opinions, studies, etc., concerning the GUI tool(s) to use for Python. Specifically, which would you recommend (and why) for building GUI apps in Python: TKinter BOA PyQT Thanks, Dennis

Why wouldn't quote-stuffing solve the problem, and let you treat \ as an ordinary character? In a raw string, it's no good for preventing end-of-quoting anyway, unless you want the literal \ in front of the quote you are escaping. Quote-stuffing is a variation on the old quote-doubling, extended to deal with triple quotes as well (which...

How do I say: x = string.find(files, 'this', 'that', 'the-other') currently I have to write it like this to make it work: x = string.find(files, 'this') y = string.find(files, 'that') z = string.find(files, 'the-other')

For those interested, I've made a preview-2 release of Python for .NET. Python for .NET is a near-seamless integration of the CPython runtime with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). It lets you script and build applications in Python, using CLR services and components written in any language that targets the CLR (C#, Managed C++,...

I'm using the Blender game engine and it only supports python 2.0. I used calldll in python 2.1 separately and it works great for my I/O calls using a windows dll. I need calldll.pyd for python 2.0. Does anyone have an archive of this older routine. Sams website only posts 2.1 and later.

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I use Office 2000, and I have recently upgraded to python 2.3 and win32all-155.exe The following code worked in python 2.2: xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application") xlApp.Visible = 1 xlApp.Workbooks.Add() xlApp.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(sys.path + '\\temp.xls') wb = xlApp.Workbooks("temp.xls")

Hello, I am begining to learn the Python language and I am enjoying its flexibility. I do have a question. I am considering using Python for web development. I have found that a huge number of web hosts offer support for PHP. How hard is it to find a Web Host that will allow you to you to run your own Python scripts, web or app server,...