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From: jepler at inetnebr.com (Jeff Epler)
Date: 21 Feb 1999 18:21:29 GMT
Subject: New (?) suggestion to solve "assignment-in-while" desire
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We all know what the problem looks like:
while 1:
x=sys.stdin.readline()
if not x: break
....
well, someone can write an "xreadlines" which permits
for i in xreadlines(sys.stdin):
....
but next, who knows what "x"-function we will need.
And, at the same time, "for" embodies a test (for IndexError) and an
assignment (to the loop variable). So what we need is a nice, generic
class to embody this sort of functionality, with the ability to use an
arbitrary test on the assigned value, as well as accept an arbitrary
exception as an "end of loop" marker.
This is an implementation of the "lazy" class, which does what I've
discussed:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
class lazy:
def __init__(self, function, test=lambda x: not x, exception=None,
index=0):
self.f=function
self.t=test
self.e=exception
self.i=index
def __getitem__(self, i):
try:
if self.i: ret=self.f(i)
else: ret=self.f()
except self.e:
raise IndexError
if self.t(ret):
raise IndexError
return ret
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
here are some uses of it: xreadlines, and "xrange1" a limited
reimplementation of xrange.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
xreadlines=lambda x: lazy(x.readline, exception=EOFError)
xrange1=lambda min, max, inc: lazy(lambda x, min=min, inc=inc: min+inc*x,
lambda y, max=max: y>=max, index=1)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
the basic
for i in lazy(f):
body
is the same as:
while 1:
i=f()
if not i: break
body
but you can embellish with more complicated tests, exception tests, or
whatever.
The class assumes it will be called in a "for-like way" so please refrain
from taunting it.
Jeff

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From: jepler at inetnebr.com (Jeff Epler)
Date: 21 Feb 1999 18:21:29 GMT
Subject: New (?) suggestion to solve "assignment-in-while" desire
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We all know what the problem looks like:
while 1:
x=sys.stdin.readline()
if not x: break
....
well, someone can write an "xreadlines" which permits
for i in xreadlines(sys.stdin):
....
but next, who knows what "x"-function we will need.
And, at the same time, "for" embodies a test (for IndexError) and an
assignment (to the loop variable). So what we need is a nice, generic
class to embody this sort of functionality, with the ability to use an
arbitrary test on the assigned value, as well as accept an arbitrary
exception as an "end of loop" marker.
This is an implementation of the "lazy" class, which does what I've
discussed:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
class lazy:
def __init__(self, function, test=lambda x: not x, exception=None,
index=0):
self.f=function
self.t=test
self.e=exception
self.i=index
def __getitem__(self, i):
try:
if self.i: ret=self.f(i)
else: ret=self.f()
except self.e:
raise IndexError
if self.t(ret):
raise IndexError
return ret
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
here are some uses of it: xreadlines, and "xrange1" a limited
reimplementation of xrange.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
xreadlines=lambda x: lazy(x.readline, exception=EOFError)
xrange1=lambda min, max, inc: lazy(lambda x, min=min, inc=inc: min+inc*x,
lambda y, max=max: y>=max, index=1)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
the basic
for i in lazy(f):
body
is the same as:
while 1:
i=f()
if not i: break
body
but you can embellish with more complicated tests, exception tests, or
whatever.
The class assumes it will be called in a "for-like way" so please refrain
from taunting it.
Jeff

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From: wavers at mail.pt (waver)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:25:30 +0000
Subject: help-me please
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Hi!
i am a portuguese guy that heve some questions about Python.
I read some tuturials but all only talk about how to program with Python
and
that is very important) but i want to know some other things:
1-What do we do with Python?
2-Can Python do some programs ?
3-Python is a language only to Internet or can do some programs ?
4-Explain how do i write my things in Python , i know that in the Python
Shell we can write some commands but if i want to build some thing in Python
i write in notepad and then how do i test it ??
5-Does any Web Hosting Server support Python?
I know that are some lhamme questions but i want to learn Python so first i
nedd to know how does Python word and what does it do.
So please try to answear my questions , and for that email-me wavers at mail.pt
because i don`t know how to work with newsgroup.
Thank very much AND PELASE ANSWER MY QUESTION WITH ANY EMAIL TO
WAVERS at MAIL.PT .
Byeeeeee
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From: python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu (David Fisher)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:48:27 -0600
Subject: Simple tuple question
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From: python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu (David Fisher)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:37:38 -0600
Subject: making py modules with C
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From: python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu (David Fisher)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:32:35 -0600
Subject: making py modules with C
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Content preview: I don't know about the make but I can point out a few syntax
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From: python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu (David Fisher)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:37:41 -0600
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From: python at rose164.wuh.wustl.edu (David Fisher)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:31:02 -0600
Subject: Code basics
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Content preview: Hi JJ, You indicate a block with indentation. Like so: while
notDone: chip = self.getNumberOfSomething() if chip == 10: print "Tjohoo"
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From: mail at to.me (Usenet User)
Date: 28 Apr 1999 05:53:36 GMT
Subject: GUI other than Tkinter (TVision?)
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Anyone interested in wrap this TVision with python?
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/tvision.html
Turbo Vision is the good old TUI (Text User Interface) we
used in Turbo C++ and it is GPLed. It is written in C++ and maybe someone
want to wrap it with python.
==========
What's Turbo Vision?
Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that
implements the well known CUA widgets. With TVision you can create an
intuitive text mode application, intuitive means it will have CUA like
interface (check boxes, radio buttons, push buttons, input lines, pull
-down menues, status bars, etc.). All the people acustomed to the
Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Motif, GTK, etc. interfaces will understand the
interface at first sight.
===========

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From: mcannon at 21stcentury.net (Michael J. Cannon)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:40:19 -0500
Subject: Python and Nutcracker
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Dr Tschammer:
Speaking from experience, both in supporting (independently of
DataFocus) and porting, all I can say is be careful of the I/O and
exception handling in the Nutcracker, especially when addressing issues
involved in Winsock and calls to any messaging .dll's or libraries.
Also, your users will have to disable the Nutcracker service manually
when doing backups from NT databases on the server (especially SQL
server and Oracle) and then manually restart, as cron and at -type calls
are problematic with the Nutcracker services running. Finally, license
WinBatch for your customers/users as they will need it.
Personally, I have given up on Nutcracker as support is both expensive
and a nightmare of frustrated users. My preferred platform is now Java
(via javat) or a mix of c (GNU C or C+/++) and python.
For a taste of what you're in for as far as support, check out the EDI-L
mailing list and watch for messages on Harbinger's TLE product (formerly
UNIX PREMENOS), or see if you can't get in contact with someone who will
honestly critique NUWC's efforts (prominently featured on the DataFocus
site).
My feeling is that Nutcracker was a good idea with a rushed
implementation. With all the faults of NT, to depend on a set of
libraries existing as a service, poorly implemented, is asking for
trouble.
"Dr. Armin Tschammer" wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone experience with Python and Nutcracker ?
> We are using embedded Python in our application which
> is developed under HPUX.
> We are now porting our application to Windows NT
> with the help of the Nutcracker library.
> Has anyone already done such stuff ?
>
> Armin

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From: faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:49:24 +0200
Subject: Pointers to variables
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Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> for ( var, str ) in [( self.min, 'min_units' ),
> ( self.max, 'max_units' )]:
> if cnf.has_key( str ):
> var = cnf[ str ]
> del cnf[ str ]
>
> It doesn't assign values to self.min, self.max (both integers). The values
> of these variables are inserted into the tuples and not references to the
> variables themselves, which is the problem.
>
> How can I cause a reference to the variables to be stored in the tuples
> instead of their values?
Hi there,
I've been trying to understand the purpose of the code in your fragment
and your question for a minute or so, but I'm not entirely sure I get it
yet.
I'm assuming what you want is to get 'cnf[str]' assigned to self.min or
self.max.
What you could do is something like this:
for str in ('min_units', 'max_units'):
if cnf.has_key(str):
setattr(self, str, cnf[str])
del cnf[str]
Tuples, by the way are immutable, so you can't change what values their
elements point to after they've been created (though if these values
point to other things themselves you can change that). That is, you
can't do this:
foo = (value1, value2)
foo[0] = "hey"
But, if you'd use a mutable list, you still run into trouble. If you say
this:
mylist = [None] # list with a single element
None
variable_i_want_to_change = "Foo" # a variable I want to
change
mylist[0] = variable_i_want_to_change # okay, mylist[0] points to
same data
mylist[0] = "Bar" # now mylist[0] points to
different data
then 'variable_i_want_to_change' won't change. You've simply changed
what value mylist[0] points at. This is because a string (and integers
etc) are immutable values in Python. If you use a mutable value such as
a dictionary, you get this:
mylist = [None]
variable_i_want_to_change = {}
mylist[0] = variable_i_want_to_change
mylist[0]["some key"] = "bar" # indeed changes
variable_i_want_to_change!
# mylist[0] = "Bar" -- doesn't work, makes mylist[0] point elsewhere
I suspect I'm making things sound horribly complicated when they aren't
really. I can keep all this in my head easily, it's just hard
communicating it. I can understand the confusion with pointers from C,
but note that this is the actual semi-equivalent C code (of the first
fragment, not the dict one, and using ints instead of strings):
/* Initialize the variables, assume easy allocate functions which do all
the
malloc() calls I don't want to figure out right now */
int** mylist = allocate_list();
*mylist[0] = 0;
/* now we have a list with a pointer to an int value, which is 0 */
int* variable_i_want_to_change = allocate_int();
*variable_i_want_to_change = 1;
/* now we have a variable which points to an int value, which is 1 */
*mylist[0] = *variable_i_want_to_change;
/* now the data mylist[0] points at becomes 1 too */
*mylist[0] = 2;
/* now the data mylist[0] points at becomes 2 */
/* has the data *variable_i_want_to_change changed? no. I hope! :)*/
I don't expect this explained a lot. I feel like Tim Peters somehow...
:)
Regards,
Martijn

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From: tville at earthlink.net (susan e paolini)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:01:30 -0400
Subject: what do you do with Python
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I never see jobs with Python advertised so what is it that Python does?
Thanks for the advice

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From: roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:02:40 -0400
Subject: padding strings
Message-ID: <roy-2904991402400001@qwerky.med.nyu.edu>
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Given a string, I want to generate another string which is exactly N
characters long. If the first string is less than N, I want to blank-pad
it. If the first string is greater than N, I want to truncate it.
What's the most straight-forward way to do that?
--
Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine

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From: larsga at ifi.uio.no (Lars Marius Garshol)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 07:33:09 +0200
Subject: SNMPy update
References: <7e1hiq$a71$1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <7ear25$ksf$1@news-sj-3.cisco.com> <14089.11820.416453.80124@bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us>
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* Jeremy Hylton
|
| expect that I'd want to release it given the export control hassles.
| However, it seemed clear to me that an ASN.1 compiler could be
| written to generate the encode/decode routines. If someone is
| interested in that, I've got some design notes and rough code on how
| to do the encode/decode and on how to build a backend for SNACC.
I'd be interested in that. I've been thinking of doing a pure-Python
LDAP client.
--Lars M.

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From: sweeting at neuronet.com.my (sweeting at neuronet.com.my)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:11:31 GMT
Subject: converting perl to python - simple questions.
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> > Anyway, since I know that there are a few ex-perlmongers on the list,
> > would somebody be so kind as to confirm whether I've translated
> > the following code snippets correctly :
> >
> > a) Perl's "defined".
> > [perl]
> > if (defined($x{$token})
> >
> > [python]
> > if (x.has_key(token) and x[token]!=None) :
>
> If should be enough to do
>
> if x.has_key(token):
>
> under the probably-correct theory that the Perl is just asking "does hash
> 'x' have key 'token'?" "None" is a specific valid value, not at all
> "undefined", so checking x[token] against None doesn't make sense unless
> you've established your own consistent program-wide convention of using None
> to *mean* something like undefined. Which is dicey. After e.g. "del
> x[token]", a reference to x[token] doesn't yield None, it raises the
> KeyError exception.
For years, I've been thinking of "None" in Python as "null" in javascript,
meaning "no value set" and so it was actually quite interesting to see that
Perl has "exists" and "defined" functions for dictionaries.... I had
translated "exists($dictionary{$token})" into "dictionary.has_key(token)"
and hence went overboard when I translated "defined(...)"
Anyway, from testing it does appear that both defined() and exists()
can be simply replaced with dico.has_key(token) in my scripts.
> > b) RE's.
> > [perl]
> > if ($mytext !~ /^\s$/)
> >
> > [python]
> > if not (re.match('^\s$'), mytext)
>
> Hmm. The Perl says "if mytext isn't a single whitespace character", which
> is an odd thing to check! If that's the intent, fine.
Yes, loads of double-byte character processing ...
> Python's "match"
> already constrains the search to begin at the start of the string, so the
> leading "^" isn't needed (use Python's "search" if don't want that
> constraint).
aaaah - subtle. Thanks.
>So:
>
> if not re.match(r"\s$", mytext):
>
> Get in the habit of using r-strings for writing regexps; they'll make your
> backslash life much easier.
Thank you for pointing that out - the perl stuff's been screwing
with my head and making me confused, \s being ok in that language.
> Another thing to note is that high-use regexps can be compiled, and if
> they're always used in the same way (match vs search) you can capture that
> choice too. So this may be more appropriate:
>
> is_single_whitespace = re.compile(r"\s$").match
>
> while whatever:
> ...
> if not is_single_whitespace(mytext):
> ...
> ...
Thank you very much - I'd read the excellent howto on python.org and that
described this too. I chose not to compile just for clarity since I'm still
trying to work out if I've translated the code from perl to python
correctly. But I will optimise later...
> Hoisting the regexp compilation out of the loop can be a substantial win.
>
> > Since I know neither perl nor chinese, it would be nice if somebody
> > could help me remove one of the variables in my debugging.
>
> native-speakers-of-both-say-chinese-is-easier-to-read<wink>-ly y'rs - tim
after today, i'd be inclined to agree :)
chas
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From: parkw at better.net (William Park)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:20:42 -0400
Subject: HTML "sanitizer" in Python
In-Reply-To: <s72703fc.021@holnam.com>; from Scott Stirling on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:49:55PM -0400
References: <s72703fc.021@holnam.com>
Message-ID: <19990428152042.A708@better.net>
Content-Length: 4007
X-UID: 16
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:49:55PM -0400, Scott Stirling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Python. I have an idea of a work-related project I want
> to do, and I was hoping some folks on this list might be able to
> help me realize it. I have Mark Lutz' _Programming Python_ book,
> and that has been a helpful orientation. I like his basic packer
> and unpacker scripts, but what I want to do is something in between
> that basic program and its later, more complex manifestations.
>
> I am on a Y2K project with 14 manufacturing plants, each of which
> has an inventory of plant process components that need to be tested
> and/or replaced. I want to put each plant's current inventory on
> the corporate intranet on a weekly or biweekly basis. All the plant
> data is in an Access database. We are querying the data we need and
> importing into 14 MS Excel 97 spreadsheets. Then we are saving the
> Excel sheets as HTML. The HTML files bloat out with a near 100%
> increase in file size over the original Excel files. This is
> because the HTML converter in Excel adds all kinds of unnecessary
> HTML code, such as <FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> for every single
> cell in the table. Many of these tables have over 1000 cells, and
> this code, along with its accompanying closing FONT tag, add up
> quick. The other main, unnecessary code is the ALIGN="left"
> attribute in <TD> tags (the default alignment _is_ left). The
> unnecessary tags are consistent and easy to identify, and a routine
> sh!
> ould be writable that will automate the removal of them.
>
> I created a Macro in Visual SlickEdit that automatically opens all
> these HTML files, finds and deletes all the tags that can be
> deleted, saves the changes and closes them. I originally wanted to
> do this in Python, and I would still like to know how, but time
> constraints prevented it at the time. Now I want to work on how to
> create a Python program that will do this. Can anyone help? Has
> anyone written anything like this in Python already that they can
> point me too? I would really appreciate it.
>
> Again, the main flow of the program is:
>
> >> Open 14 HTML files, all in the same folder and all with the .html
> >> extension. Find certain character strings and delete them from
> >> the files. In one case (the <TD> tags) it is easier to find the
> >> whole tag with attributes and then _replace_ the original tag
> >> with a plain <TD>. Save the files. Close the files. Exit the
> >> program.
Hi Scott,
I shall assume that a <TD ...> tag occurs in one line. Try 'sed',
for i in *.html
do sed -e 's/<TD ALIGN="left">/<TD>/g" $i > /tmp/$i && mv /tmp/$i $i
done
or, in Python,
for s in open('...', 'r').readlines():
s = string.replace('<TD ALIGN="left">', '<TD>', s)
print string.strip(s)
If <TD ...> tag spans over more than one line, then read the file in
whole, like
for s in open('...', 'r').read():
If the tag is not consistent, then you may have to use regular
expression with 're' module.
Hopes this helps.
William
>
> More advanced options would be the ability for the user to set
> parameters for the program upon running it, to keep from hard-coding
> the find and replace parms.
To use command line parameters, like
$ cleantd 'ALIGN="left"'
change to
s = string.replace('<TD %s>' % sys.argv[1], '<TD>', s)
>
> OK, thanks to any help you can provide. I partly was turned on to
> Python by Eric Raymond's article, "How to Become a Hacker" (featured
> on /.). I use Linux at home, but this program would be for use on a
> Windows 95 platform at work, if that makes any difference. I do
> have the latest Python interpreter and editor for Windows here at
> work.
>
> Yours truly,
> Scott
>
> Scott M. Stirling
> Visit the HOLNAM Year 2000 Web Site: http://web/y2k
> Keane - Holnam Year 2000 Project
> Office: 734/529-2411 ext. 2327 fax: 734/529-5066 email: sstirlin at holnam.com
>
>
> --
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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From: aa8vb at vislab.epa.gov (Randall Hopper)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:23:44 GMT
Subject: Bug with makesetup on FreeBSD
In-Reply-To: <19990416215633.C2020@ipass.net>; from Randall Hopper on Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:56:33PM -0400
References: <19990416143607.B1546743@vislab.epa.gov> <19990416215633.C2020@ipass.net>
Message-ID: <19990417112344.A1624668@vislab.epa.gov>
X-UID: 17
Andrew Csillag:
|Randall Hopper wrote:
|> Andrew Csillag:
|> |makesetup in Python 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 bombs on lines in the Setup file
|> |that use backslash continuation to break a module spec across lines on
|> |FreeBSD.
|>
|> BTW FWIW, I just built 1.5.2 last night on 3.0-RELEASE using the 1.5.2c1
|> port. Worked fine. But it may not invoke makesetup under the hood.
|
|It does invoke makesetup (that's how the Makefile in Modules gets
|written). I'm also running FreeBSD 2.2.8, so it may be a bug in /bin/sh
|that has been subsequently fixed... The quick test is to try this on
|your 3.0 machine
|
|$ read line
|some text here\
|
|On my 2.2.8 machine after I hit return after the \, I get a command line
|prompt, not a "blank prompt" that would mean that the read wasn't done.
It must be something else then, because here with stock Bourne shell:
|$ read line
|some text here\
|$ echo $line
|some text here\
I get the same behavior you describe, but no build breakage.
Randall

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From: wdrake at my-dejanews.com (wdrake at my-dejanews.com)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:54:25 GMT
Subject: Oracle Call Interface
References: <7gb3hn$lse$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990430003346.3541A-100000@saga1.Stanford.EDU> <3729ADDA.8E51C1D0@palladion.com>
Message-ID: <7gcu8v$8gp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Content-Length: 1854
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I was interested in using Oracle's Advanced Queuing (AQ), specifically the
asynchronous event notification features.
Thanks
In article <3729ADDA.8E51C1D0 at palladion.com>,
Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Chang wrote:
> >
> > > If anyone has experience writing applications directly to the Oracle Call
> > > Interface (OCI), in Python or JPython please send me examples or
references on
> > > how to do it.
> >
> > Yuck! What are you planning to do? Do you really really need to write
> > directly to the OCI or can you use one of the available Oracle extension
> > modules?
> >
> > About a year ago, I used the oracledb module from Digital Creations with
> > Oracle7. It's very nice, but not optimized, and thus slow for large
> > queries. Since then, Digital Creations has made DCOracle
> > (http://www.digicool.com/DCOracle/; their commercial extension module)
> > open source, so I guess that will replace oracledb. I haven't looked at
> > it, but according to the FAQ, it's "much faster."
> >
> > I strongly advise you to use an extension module or JDBC if at all
> > possible. Writing to the OCI is extremely ugly -- all the stuff we try to
> > avoid by using python!
>
> ODBC/JDBC solutions suffer from "least-common-denominator" symptom; one can't
> easily exploit Oracleisms. I haven't played with DCOracle yet, but wrapping
OCI
> into a nice Pythonic package would be a big win in some situations (passing
> array parameters to stored procedures is the one I most often want).
>
> --
> =========================================================
> Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com 713-523-6582
> Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com
>
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From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:15:54 GMT
Subject: Python 2.0 compatibility
In-Reply-To: <GIOP2.37825$A6.19136587@news1.teleport.com>
References: <GIOP2.37825$A6.19136587@news1.teleport.com>
Message-ID: <000401be83c1$3a66e060$7fa22299@tim>
Content-Length: 1985
X-UID: 19
[Paranoid User]
> We have selected Python as the scripting language for the next
> generation of one of our embedded systems.
Good choice! Take the opportunity to expand it to all of your systems.
> This is a very fast-track project scheduled to ship near the end of
> the first quarter of 2000.
In Internet time, that's about a century from now; but in Python time, it's
just the early part of next year <wink>.
> I ran across a quote that said something to the effect that Python 2 will
> be incompatible with Python 1. Before I make a decision as to whether we
> freeze with Python 1.5.2, or migrate to Python 2 when it is released, I
> need to find out the extent of truthfulness in the "quote".
>
> So, if anyone in-the-know about Python 2 could let me know the proposed
> extent of its compatibility with 1.5.2 I would really appreciate it.
If anything concrete is known about Python2, it's inside Guido's inscrutable
head. Don't worry about it. Since it doesn't yet exist (nor even a wisp of
a sketch of an outline of a design document), it's all speculation.
My guess is it will end up being more compatible than most dare to hope --
or to fear <0.7 wink>. By and large, the only suggestions Guido has seemed
especially keen about are considered by many to be legitimate design errors
in Python1 (the rift between types and classes is a clear example of that;
that e.g. 3/2 returns 1 instead of 1.5 is a controversial example).
It doesn't much matter for you, though, since Python 1.6 will still be part
of the 1.x line, and won't come out before the end of this year. If the
much-later-still Python2 does turn out to be wildly incompatible, there are
enough people using the Python1 line that someone other than Guido is likely
to take over its maintenance (even if not active future development) -- and
*certain* to take it over if enough companies care enough to pay for that
service.
speaking-for-the-professional-prostitutes-of-the-world-ly y'rs - tim

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From: paul at prescod.net (Paul Prescod)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:00:33 GMT
Subject: padding strings
References: <roy-2904991402400001@qwerky.med.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <3728AC50.9085F2C0@prescod.net>
X-UID: 20
Roy Smith wrote:
>
> Given a string, I want to generate another string which is exactly N
> characters long. If the first string is less than N, I want to blank-pad
> it. If the first string is greater than N, I want to truncate it.
>
> What's the most straight-forward way to do that?
How about this:
def mypad( s, num ):
return string.ljust( s, num )[:num]
--
Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
"Microsoft spokesman Ian Hatton admits that the Linux system would have
performed better had it been tuned."
"Future press releases on the issue will clearly state that the research
was sponsored by Microsoft."
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/1999/9904221410.asp

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From: janssen at parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:33:08 GMT
Subject: HTTP-NG Support?
In-Reply-To: <002201be8c08$1969e570$8b7125a6@cpda6686.mcit.com>
References: <002201be8c08$1969e570$8b7125a6@cpda6686.mcit.com>
Message-ID: <cr7YEI0B0KGW10rKZr@holmes.parc.xerox.com>
X-UID: 21
I've been using Python with HTTP-NG a lot, via ILU. ILU Python
implements the w3ng wire protocol and the w3mux protocol and most of the
type system -- the only thing missing is local objects, and I'm working
on them now.
Bill

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From: donn at u.washington.edu (Donn Cave)
Date: 26 Apr 1999 16:40:25 GMT
Subject: Emulating C++ coding style
References: <371F8FB7.92CE674F@pk.highway.ne.jp> <371F9D0C.4F1205BB@pop.vet.uu.nl> <7foe7r$15mi$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> <37245184.3AADF34D@pop.vet.uu.nl>
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Martijn Faassen <faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl> writes:
| Donn Cave wrote:
...
|> It's not much like C++ here, but it's uncanny how it reeks of Python!
|> Namespaces, references!
|
| Indeed. Not having used that class attribute trick often myself, I
| wasn't aware of this surprising behavior. I suppose in order to get the
| C++ behavior it's best to use a module global variable.
Not at all, either way is fine - the class scope is just as good a place
as the module scope, for me it's the perfect place for things that are
specific to the class.
It's the usage that you have to watch out for, and while there are some
perils for the unwary, in the long run it's also an opportunity to gain
a deeper understanding of how simple Python is. Same for module attributes -
common problem, someone imports a module attribute like
from foo import shared
shared = 5
and then wonders, how come no change to the attribute as seen from other
modules. The right way to set to a module attribute - if you must do this
at all - is
foo.shared = 5
and just the same for a class attribute (of class Foo):
from foo import Foo
Foo.shared = 5
In general, you have the problem only when your usage doesn't reflect the
design. If it's really a class attribute, but you set it in the instance
scope, if it's really an external module attribute but you bind it into
the present module's scope during import. Python bites if you trick it.
Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
donn at u.washington.edu

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From: xx_nospam at delorges.in-berlin.de (Jo Meder)
Date: 16 Apr 1999 17:07:59 +0200
Subject: HTML Authentication with Python
References: <7f5iru$rlm@news.acns.nwu.edu> <14102.27498.772779.5941@bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us> <7f6577$8kp@news.acns.nwu.edu> <37171EDE.9DFD027A@quantisci.co.uk>
Message-ID: <m3vhew1u40.fsf@delorges.in-berlin.de>
X-UID: 23
Stephen Crompton <scrompton at quantisci.co.uk> writes:
[Excellent explanation of HTTP-Authentication snipped]
If you still need to do the authentication yourself, e.g. because the
username/password combinations are held in a database that is not
supported by your Webserver: It can be done and how you do it depends
on the type of server you use. I have a working solution for Apache
(which works by (ab)using the rewrite-module) and a solution for Roxen
Challenger that I'll test in Real Life(tm) soon.
Jo.
--
xx_nospam at delorges.in-berlin.de
is a valid address - ist eine gueltige Adresse.

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From: fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:49:08 GMT
Subject: CVS module
References: <7evbjf$85f$1@anguish.transas.com>
Message-ID: <001d01be85bc$cd9e92e0$f29b12c2@pythonware.com>
X-UID: 24
Michael Sobolev wrote:
> My quick attempt to find something that would help me to cope with CVS files
> failed. Could anybody advise me whether such a module exist? Under "such a
> module" I mean something that permits to get the complete information about the
> given file:
>
> cvsfile = CVSFile (<full path to file>)
>
> from pprint import pprint
>
> pprint (cvsfile.revisions)
>
> or something alike.
maybe
Demo/pdist/cvslib.py
(in the Python source distribution) could be a start?
</F>

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From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 06:26:17 GMT
Subject: disenchanted java user mumbles newbie questions
In-Reply-To: <3705980A.1C7E9512@swcp.com>
References: <3705980A.1C7E9512@swcp.com>
Message-ID: <000101be7d9a$e1ae88a0$879e2299@tim>
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X-UID: 25
[Alex Rice]
> 1) In the Python 1.5 Tutorial, sec. 9.2 "Python Scopes and Name Spaces"
> there is the following passage:
> ...
> -- however, the language definition is evolving towards static name
> resolution, at ``compile'' time, so don't rely on dynamic name
> resolution!
> ...
> Where can I read more about this move towards for compile time, static
> name resolution and the reasons for it.
Best I can suggest is scouring years' worth of DejaNews. Most of it is
summarized in early postings to the Python Types-SIG, though
(http://www.python.org/, and follow the SIGS link at the top ...).
"The reasons" are the same as everyone else's: a mix of efficiency and
compile-time-checked type safety. I'd say the Python thrust these days may
be more toward adding *optional* type decls, though. OTOH, nothing has
changed in this area of Python for > 5 years, so don't panic prematurely
<wink>.
> For some reason I was envisioning Python as being less like Java and
> more like Objective-C or Smalltalk in terms of dynamic binding.
Yes, it is. It's extreme, though. For example, in
def sumlen(a, b, c):
return len(a) + len(b) + len(c)
Python can't assume that "len" refers to the builtin function "len", or even
that all three instances of "len" refer to the same thing within a single
call (let alone across calls). As to what "+" may mean here, it's even
hairier. In effect, the current semantics require that Python look up every
non-local name and access path from scratch every time it (dynamically) hits
one.
This leads to some pretty disgusting convolutions for speeding "inner
loops", in support of a generality that's wonderful to have but actually
*needed* by very little code. Because of a professional background in
compiler optimization, I'm supposed to be appalled by this <wink>.
> 2) Which reminds me: does anyone have a URL for that Ousterhut (sp?)
> article at Sunlabs about Scripting languages and why scripting rulz and
> where he has a taxonomy of programming languages along 2 dimensions?
> Lost that bookmark and cannot find it again.
It's one of the White Papers at:
http://www.scriptics.com/scripting/white.html
> 3) What's the Python equivalent of depends.exe? --something to find what
> modules your script is depending upon?
Suggest searching python.org and DejaNews and Starship for "freeze" and
"squeeze".
> It seems like one would be able to create a very slim distribution if one
> needed an .exe, couple of .dll only a handful of .py files.
Why do I suspect you're a Windows programmer <wink>? The most advanced
Python distribution system for Win32 is likely Gordon McMillan's, available
for free at
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install.html
May also want to visit the Python DistUtils SIG.
> A Java+Swing application can be 1-2 MB not including the VM! bloat--ed.
Doubt you're going to get off much cheaper with Python + Tcl/Tk, although it
includes two complete language implementations.
> What's a typical size of a bare-bones Python distribution?
Download one, unpack it, and do "dir" <wink>.
soon-even-light-bulbs-will-have-20Gb-hard-drives-ly y'rs - tim

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From: boud at rempt.xs4all.nl (boud at rempt.xs4all.nl)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:03:05 GMT
Subject: GUI other than Tkinter
References: <3721567f.1748033@news> <m2g15oygtk.fsf@desk.crynwr.com>
Message-ID: <FArE96.5A@rempt.xs4all.nl>
X-UID: 26
Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
: mrfusion at bigfoot.com writes:
:
:> Well, I've just about given up on EVER getting Tkinter to work on my
:> Win98 machine. Is there any other GUI module that I can get that
:> doesn't require TCL/TK to be installed on my machine? Isn't there
:> something called GD?
:
: There's pygtk, which uses the gtk toolkit.
:
On Windows 98?
--
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt

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From: justin at linus.mitre.org (Justin Sheehy)
Date: 23 Apr 1999 22:09:54 -0400
Subject: Python too slow for real world
References: <372068E6.16A4A90@icrf.icnet.uk> <3720A21B.9C62DDB9@icrf.icnet.uk> <3720C4DB.7FCF2AE@appliedbiometrics.com> <3720C6EE.33CA6494@appliedbiometrics.com> <y0jaevznhha.fsf@vier.idi.ntnu.no>
Message-ID: <glmvhemn4zx.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org>
X-UID: 27
mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:
> (And... How about builtin regexes in P2?)
Um, why? I don't see any need at all for them to move from
module-status to core-language-status.
The only way that I could understand the desire for it would be if one
wanted to write little scripts that were basically just some control
flow around regexes and string substitution. That is, something that
looked like most of the programs written in that other P language. ;-)
In all seriousness, what reason do you have for making that
suggestion? I am willing to believe that there might be a good reason
to do so, but it certainly isn't immediately obvious.
-Justin

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From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:26:21 GMT
Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should
In-Reply-To: <1288614834-78399188@hypernet.com>
References: <1288614834-78399188@hypernet.com>
Message-ID: <000a01be8188$b7f56280$749e2299@tim>
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[Gordon McMillan, among others with Netscape vs IE experience]
> ...
> Having recently ported a sophisticated applet using JNI (Sun's new
> native interface) to JRI (older Netscape) and RNI (older IE), I too
> can kick and scream.
> [guess the outcome <wink>]
I'm no browser wizard -- just took a few stabs over the past year & a half
at writing some relatively simple Java applets, JavaScript and HTML for the
amusement of my family. No CSS, no frames, nothing at all even remotely
cutting-edge. One Netscape-using sister had dozens of problems with *all*
of these, most eventually determined to be cases of NS not meeting the
appropriate std, and-- far too often --crashing her machine.
Fact is NS dropped the browser ball a couple years ago, then poked holes in
it, then attached industrial-strength vacuum cleaners on the off chance any
air remained.
> ...
> When's the last time you closed a GUI from the file menu??
Hey, I'll close a stinking GUI any way I can <wink>.
right-next-to-my-reboot-foot-pedal-ly y'rs - tim

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From: mwh21 at cam.ac.uk (Michael Hudson)
Date: 18 Apr 1999 01:09:48 +0100
Subject: Plugins, or selecting modules to import at runtime
References: <924379180.825429211@news.intergate.bc.ca> <924385178.948235039@news.intergate.bc.ca>
Message-ID: <m34smeyek3.fsf@atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>
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X-UID: 29
Gerald Gutierrez <gutier at intergate.bc.ca> writes:
> Never mind. I just found the module "imp".
That's waay overkill for what you need; the builtin function
__import__ will do nicely:
Python 1.5.2 (#2, Apr 14 1999, 13:02:03) \
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> __import__("sys")
<module 'sys' (built-in)>
>>> s=__import__("sys")
>>> s
<module 'sys' (built-in)>
>>>
HTH
Michael
> Thanks.
>
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >I'd like to write a program in Python in which the user can select one of
> >several modules to execute through a function that has the same name in all the
> >modules. I don't believe "import" lets me pass it a string. There is also
> >reload(), but the module to reload must be previously imported.
> >
> >This is very similar to plugins like that used in Netscape, Photoshop and the
> >GIMP.
> >
> >Can someone please give me a hint?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Please forward replies to gutier at intergate.bc.ca.

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From: tavares at connix.com (Chris Tavares)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:14:26 -0400
Subject: pythonwin COM Update link out of date
References: <slrn7gt244.3s6.bernhard@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> <7em639$fto$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au>
Message-ID: <370F78E2.8EA7433E@connix.com>
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X-UID: 30
Mark Hammond wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote in message ...
> >http://www.python.org/ftp/python/pythonwin/pwindex.html#oadist
> >
> >Gives a bad link to the MS Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q164529.
> >The link is bad and I cannot relocate the article with the search
> >engine on that site and other methods... :(
> >
> >The closest I could get was:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q139/4/32.asp
> >from
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/downloads/LNP195.asp
> >
> >Hmmmm.... is there a potential danger in installing oadist.exe?
>
> There _shouldnt_ be any danger!
>
> These days it is getting quite unnecessary. If you have (I believe) IE4 or
> Office 97, you are pretty up-to-date, and that includes many PCs these days.
>
> You could try installing the Python stuff, and see if it works. Also, see
> my other post this morning as to why the install may fail - try this out
> first.
>
> Mark.
Another option is to download DCOM for Win95 - that'll get the user up to date
and then some!
-Chris

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From: bernhard at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Bernhard Reiter)
Date: 18 Apr 1999 04:31:27 GMT
Subject: NT: win32api and win32ui import error
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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 01:33:46 GMT, hj_ka at my-dejanews.com <hj_ka at my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>I don't know whether this is also related: when I installed
>win32all-124.exe, I got a few warnings:
>
>"Registration of the (AXScript/Python Interpreter/Python Dictionary)
>failed. Installation will continue, but this server will require
>manual registration before it will function."
I had the same warnung and also cannot run the win32 extentions.
(import win32com.client e.g. fails for me.)
Mark Hammond suggested to update some DLLs and it might
very well be a problem related to old DLL version.
(I didn't manage for some reasons to update my DLLs here on my
Windows95 system, so I finally gave up. Any Windows Hacker with
experience in this speak up and offer help! ;-) )
Mark said, that the following dll and their versions might
be relevant:
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
msvcrt.dll
The following are used, but should be fine:
pywintypes15.dll
python15.dll
kernel32.dll
user32.dll
You can check the version number in the explorer im C:windows/system
with properties.
Maybe an upgrade package including these .DLLs from support.microsoft.com
can help.
Please report back, If you found a solution...
Bernhard

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From: bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com (bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:02:28 GMT
Subject: stupid Win-CGI getting started question
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In article <8DA9637FEduncanrcpcouk at news.rmplc.co.uk>,
Duncan Booth <duncan at rcp.co.uk> wrote:
> I didn't say it was impossible to run .py files as CGI, simply that I had
> problems getting it to work. Since my number one priority was not to take
> the web server off-line at all, there were limits to how far I could play
> around with it. I'm sure there must be some way to get it to work, but I
> got enough for my purposes.
Gotcha.
I did some more playing around. No success, but here's what I did/found: When
I try to call a .py file I get the "This server has encountered an internal
error which prevents it from fulfilling your request" message. The NES error
log shows: [15/Apr/1999:10:35:53] failure: for host 192.246.193.43 trying to
GET /pcgi/dntest.py, send-cgi reports: could not send new process (File Not
Found Error) [15/Apr/1999:10:35:53] failure: cgi_send:cgi_start_exec
d:\program files\python\lib\dntest.py failed
If I rename the .py file to .cmd and call it with that name, it works fine.
I'm defining a /pcgi/ path to point to the location of the python files, so
I'm not counting on the suffix to mean anything. All the various CGI folders
get mapped to object name="cgi", but again, since suffix is irrelevant, that
shouldn't be the problem.
I went into mime.types and added the py extension to the cgi reference (note
that cmd is not in that extension list). Still get an error, but the log
changes to [15/Apr/1999:10:52:57] failure: for host 192.246.193.43 trying to
GET /pcgi/dntest.py, send-cgi reports: could not send new process (Error
Number is unknown) [15/Apr/1999:10:52:57] failure: cgi_send:cgi_start_exec
d:\program files\python\lib\dntest.py failed
Does this suggest any clues? I've asked a friend who doesn't know Python but
knows Netscape pretty well. Will report back if he has any suggestions.
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From: garryh at att.com (Garry Hodgson)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:37:27 GMT
Subject: Is Python dying?
References: <7dos4m$usi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7e30fp$8vf$1@news1.rmi.net> <14085.18282.936883.727575@bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us> <7ectjd$516$1@srv38s4u.cas.org> <e5XO2.32678$FZ5.12416@news.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <19990408075544.B983383@vislab.epa.gov>
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Randall Hopper wrote:
> I believe that was Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>.
>
> In shopping for Python books late last month, I happened upon his announced
> plan to write a Tkinter book. So I slipped him an e-mail query asking how
> the book was going and if he had an estimated timeframe (in case it was
> close to market), but I haven't received a response. I assume he's just
> busy like the rest of us.
for what it's worth, fredrik has never replied to any of the mail i've
sent him.
your mileage may vary.
--
Garry Hodgson seven times down
garry at sage.att.com eight times up
Software Innovation Services
AT&T Labs - zen proverb

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From: fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us (Fred L. Drake)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:18:38 GMT
Subject: Can't work this XDR out
In-Reply-To: <371C0CF7.2D1260D7@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>
References: <371C0CF7.2D1260D7@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>
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Matthew Robert Gallagher writes:
> Whilst trying to pack a list xdr packer asks for
>
> (list, pack_item)
>
> what is the pack_item can't work this out as there are no examples
Matthew,
pack_item will typically be another method from the same packer
object. For example, to pack a list of ints, use this:
import xdrlib
p = xdrlib.Packer()
p.pack_list([1, 2, 3], p.pack_int)
I hope this helps. I'll add an example to the documentation.
-Fred
--
Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
Corporation for National Research Initiatives

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From: holger at phoenix-edv.netzservice.de (Holger Jannsen)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:48:58 GMT
Subject: sort of multiple dictonaries
Message-ID: <371F28CA.2240BB7B@phoenix-edv.netzservice.de>
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Hi there,
perhaps a typical newbie-question:
I've got a list of dictonaries like that:
mydics=[{'sortit': 'no412', 'mode': 'nothing'},
{'sortit': 'no112', 'mode': 'something'},
{'sortit': 'no02', 'mode': 'something else'}]
Is there an easy way to get that list sorted like that:
def sortDictonary(aDictonary, theSortKey="sortit"):
....
Result have to be:
mydics=[{'sortit': 'no02', 'mode': 'something else'},
{'sortit': 'no112', 'mode': 'something'},
{'sortit': 'no412', 'mode': 'nothing'}]
Any hints?
Ciao,
Holger

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From: justin at linus.mitre.org (Justin Sheehy)
Date: 29 Apr 1999 11:45:50 -0400
Subject: Designing Large Systems with Python
References: <m37lqz0yoa.fsf@solo.david-steuber.com> <372599D6.C156C996@pop.vet.uu.nl> <7g4a3l$atk$1@news.worldonline.nl> <m3vhehxjhr.fsf@solo.david-steuber.com>
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David Steuber <trashcan at david-steuber.com> writes:
> I would like better python support in XEmacs. There is a python
> mode, but I haven't seen anything about evaluating Python code
> ineteractivly the way you can with Lisp and elisp.
The support for Python in XEmacs will obviously never be as good as
the support for emacs lisp. However, it is already about as good as
it is for other lispy things like clisp, scheme, etc.
One can run a python interpreter in an emacs window. This can be
interacted with directly, or you can send code to it from a
python-mode buffer. It has served my needs fairly well.
> -> ehh, Python?
>
> It looks interesting.