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When I try to build and install python from source It configures and makes fine but upon 'make install' I always get to this point: Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax ... Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/__init__.py ... Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/_exceptions.py ... Compiling...

If I create a large array of data or class, how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ? Assign it to an empty list ? thanks, Stef Mientki

i want to create a CGI script which simply prints out values given via the URL (such as when a GET is performed). So if I have a script named, foo.cgi ....and I access it by going to: http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?name=john&age=90 I want foo.cgi to print out: name: john age: 90

hi people. when i create a widget, such as a toplevel window, and then i destroy it, how can i test that it has been destroyed? the problem is that even after it has been destroyed, the instance still exists and has a tkinter name, so testing for None is not feasible: >>> import Tkinter >>> fin = None >>> fin1 = Tkinter.Toplevel()

Greetings, since there was no reponse to my previous post about an existing FastCGI server in python, I've taken to writing my own. (which of course I'll share--*if* there's something to share ;) My problem now, is that I need to send certain binary data over a socket. That is, I want to make some bytes, and stuff them in a TCP packet, send...

im try to activate the tutorial code for wxPython, it is working properly when i tell it to import * from wxPython.wx but with an error about the package, i've done as i was told to change the import to wx and change all wxsomething to wx.something but when i start it it gives me an error that say Traceback (most recent call last): File...

With a python program, I saved a ics file to a json one.The json file contains calendar info. My purpose is to replace a few specific strings (hours) by different ones (Keywords). basically 8:00 to Meeting1 ; 9:00 to Meeting 2 and so on. The Json content looks something like this "11/18/21 09:00 UTC-12/19/25 09:45 UTC Meeting-boss: - None". This...

hi, I am a beginner in Python. I wish to know how can i filter a list of strings using wild characters.ie Lets say i have list countries = . I need only the list of string starting with 'a'. thank you

Hello, can I determine somehow if the iteration on a list of values is the last iteration? Example: for i in : if last_iteration: print i*i else:

Does anyone have a function to convert back and forth between NT style paths and POSIX style? It seems trivial, but I want to make sure I don't overlook some obscure detail. Is it a simple matter of translating / and \ characters? FYI, I need a Python function that does what cygpath does so that I can run a script on either NT or UNIX or...

Microsoft Hatred, FAQ Xah Lee, 20020518 Question: U.S. Judges are not morons, and quite a few others are not morons. They find MS guilty, so it must be true. Answer: so did the German population thought Jews are morons by heritage, to the point that Jews should be exterminated from earth. Apparently, the entire German population cannot...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, My Proglem is, I get after a query on a mysql database with module MySQLdb a tuple but I need this output from database as a string. can anybody help? - -------------- database ---------

I looked all over the net but could not find if it is possible to insert wildcards into strings. What I am trying to do is this: I am trying to parse text from a Bible file. In case you're not familiar with the way the Bible organizes itself, it is broken down into Books > Chapters > Verses. The particular text I am working with are organized...

I am using Python's CTypes module to import functions from a DLL into Python. Some of the DLL's functions take enum type arguments, eg: olDaGetDASS (HDEV hDev, OLSS OlSs, UINT uiElement, PHDASS phDass); //(this function is in C form) typedef enum olss_tag

Schools over!!! Now its time to play. I would like to learn how to make objects move from one location to the next on a canvas widget. For example: from Tkinter import * class square: def __init__(self, canvas, xy, color, change): self.canvas = canvas self.id = self.canvas.create_rectangle(-10-abs(change),

I'm confused about how to use the update_idletasks method. In my program, I have a handler for a button in which execution will linger. During that time, I would like for the GUI to continue to show signs of life. I have a Pmw MessageBar in which I display a status message. I figured out that if I run update_idletasks on that MessageBar,...

I'm not sure if Python can do this, and I can't find it on the web. So, here it goes: try: some_function() except SomeException: some_function2() some_function3() ...

somebody who is a regular expression guru... how do you negate a word and grep for all words that is tire but not snow tire or

Hi! I'm playing with entry again and trying to restrict length of entry widget to certain number of character, so users cannot enter more character into it. Any ideas? Reg. Michael Onfrek

I have successfully used the sort lambda construct described in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/377443.html. However, how do I take it one step further such that some values can be sorted ascending and others descending? Easy enough if the sort values are numeric (just negate the value), but what about text? Is the...

I have a line of characters that need to be separated. One example is like this: 513413;dialog_513413;Sally Mae has some jobs for you.; Three sets of data all split into three groups placed in one line. What I would like to do is be able to read each group up to the semicolon (obviously without including it when it becomes displayed or used...

The standard split() can use only one delimiter. To split a text file into words you need multiple delimiters like blank, punctuation, math signs (+-*/), parenteses and so on. I didn't succeeded in using re.split()...

i ahve a program that takes certain textsnippets out of one file and inserts them into another. problem is it jsut overwrites the first riow every time. i want to insert every new piece of text into the next row. so: 1. how do i write to a new line every time i write to the file? 2. if i dont want to write to a new line but just want...

I followed discussion in the group about this problem: ImportError: No module named fcntl I found out there are two modules: FCNTL fcntl the first one is obsolete and shouldn't be used. But the second one is usable.

Hopefully I can explain this correctly. I am trying to take a MySQL select statement, get the output into a list, then upload that list back to the MySQL server. cursor.execute("SELECT stuff FROM place WHERE thing = 3 ORDER BY track_id ASC") This spits out a tuple of integers ... ((1L,), (2L,), (3L,), (4L,), (5L,), (6L,), (7L,), (8L,),...