Python Forum

Hi! I want to check from C that the Python Interpreter is still running and it's save to call things like PySys_GetObject, PyFile_WriteString etc. I need this in a C function which might be called during shutdown in a program embedding Python. Currently I get this error: Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread Abort!

hi, for some days now i have problems with python taking a lot of time to start up or run programs. today i installed the python 2.3rc1 but still the same problem. e.g. starting pythonwin 1.53 on winXP (athlon 1200 with 512MB) which normally took only a few seconds now takes at least 15-20 seconds. has anybody had a similar problem or...

Well I thought I would take my first few steps in embedding python today, and had to stop much sooner then I hoped. Where is python22_d.lib? Why is it not in the release? I have 2.2.3, but nowhere is there such a library. Must I get the source and build it myself? I'm using MSVC++ 6.0. Thanks for all help, Dáire Stockdale

Hi, I am using the profile module to watch hot spots in a python application. The default output is already useful but has anyone tried to produce output readable by kcachegrind (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/) ? seb

Hi! I have no idea about python. I got a c++ program which i want to be called from an python script. How do i do that? My programs path under Linux is: /bin/Prinit For any help,

Evening all, haven't seen much discussion on PEP 304 recently, what's its current status? As I'm currently writing something that also allows configuration of where bytecode files go, I finally got around to reading the PEP, and I'm really not convinced I like the approach it takes. It's so broad-brush; PYTHONBYTECODEBASE can only really...

Hi all, I'm using python 2.1 and can't easily upgrade (Zope). I'm using the Queue module to synchronize/communicate between two threads and weakref.proxy objects to avoid cycles. Scenario: thread1: - is the sole consumer (non-blocking get) - holds the reference to the queue

Seen in the Wall Street Journal, Monday, July 21, 2003, page B1. Lee Gomes' "Portals" technology column: "Two Men, Two Ways to Speak Computerese and Two Big Successes". This is a brief, non-technical story on Guido von Rossum, inventor of Python, and Larry Wall, inventor of Perl. I don't think this is available online unless you are a...

I've two modules: main.py and eval.py Eval.py is imported in main.py, but I've a loop in eval.py that must call a function in main.py... I can't import main.py in eval.py too, because that would create an import loop. But I'm thinking a different solution: a pause in a loop to return periodically an

Python's OpenGL.Tk binding makes simple 3D drawing a snap! The default mouse keys for panning and sizing is left and right, for rotation it seems to be the middle key which is on just very few people's mouse nowadays. Of course I tried obvious and not so obvious shift/alt/contrl/mouse combinations- without any success. Is there a...

Here are few more mini-mysteries for your amusement and edification. Again in this episode, the program output is not shown. Your goal is to predict the output and, if anything mysterious occurs, then explain what happened (in blindingly obvious terms). This time, the extra credit is for picking-out the three that surfaced as errors in...

i'm looking to start learning python. could someone recommend a good beginner's book for me? thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For free web access to 50,000+ newsgroups, please visit

Hi Eric, I've been quietly going around the web asking people to please fix the broken Tuxedo links to your pages as I find them. Hint.-- Hint-- http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ Your aware that many of the links in the books are still pointing to Tuxedo I'm sure. I also know how very busy you are.

or is it just me? I am having a problem with using a dictionary as an attribute of a class. This happens in python 1.5.2 and 2.2.2 which I am accessing through pythonwin builds 150 and 148 respectively In the sample code you see that I have class Item and class Dict class Dict contains a dictionary called items. The items dictionary...

hi, i wrote a small application which extracts a javadoc similar documentation for xslt stylesheets using python, xslt and pyana. using non-ascii characters was a problem. so i set the defaultending to UTF-8 and now everything works (at least it seems so, need to do more testing though). it may not be the most elegant solution (according...

I'm working with IIS on W2K server. I'm trying to use module "wmi" in a CGI script but with no success. The following works: import cgitb; cgitb.enable() cgi.test() .... but the following isn't working:

OVERVIEW Albatross is a small toolkit for developing highly stateful web applications. The toolkit has been designed to take a lot of the pain out of constructing intranet applications although you can also use Albatross for deploying publicly accessed web applications. In slightly less than 3000 lines of Python (according to pycount)...

Hi, I'd like to write a simple portable browser plugin for Internet Explorer, Netscape and if possible other navigators too. Is there a way to do that using Python? For now I'd like to develop something like the GoogleBar, but I'd also like to know how to develop "in-frame" plugins such as Flash or Realplayer. I searched comp.python.com...

Hi, I have downloaded and installed Python 2.3 RC1 in a Windows 98 SE computer. IDLE 1.0 does not work very well: a) When I open with IDLE 1.0 RC1 a program written with IDLE 0.8, non-ASCII characters (like voyels with accents) are changed to wrong characters. b) If a program has non-ASCII characters, save or save as work when a new file is...

Does it worth to make "object" keyword a reserved one? I'd like to avoid oddities like this: Python 2.3c1 (#44, Jul 18 2003, 14:32:36) on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> class c(object): pass .... >>> object = 4 >>> class c(object): pass

Hi, I did some googling, and found that there doesn't seem to be a pure python MySQL communication module. There is one for perl however, Net::MySQL. I was wondering if there was a specific reason why something similar hasn't been implemented in Python, a limitation of the language or libraries perhaps? I briefly scanned through the perl...

In the new Python game I'm developing, I need to crop out individual tiles from larger tilesets, and maintain transparency. Unfortunately, I've run into major deficiencies in both Tkinter and PIL (PyGame, wxPython, PyQt, etc. are not really suitable for this program, for a number of reasons, and I have zero interest in discussing why right...

Greetings. If I want to write a screensaver for Linux using Python, how can I detect that the user has not touched the keyboard or mouse for the last 5 mins? Sincerely, Hans Deragon --

Just a quick thought I had as a stumbled out of bed this morning ... when I program some tricky piece of code well in another language I say to myself ... "Gee I was clever" when I program a tricky well written piece of code in Python I say to myself ...

Hiya im trying to pull tags off a website using python ive got a few things running that have the potential to work its just i cant get them to becuase of certain errors? basically i dont what to download the images and all the stuff just the html and then work from there, i think its timing out because its trying to downlaod the images...