Python

DOS Follies (Was: Docstrings...)
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0100 mk <mrkafk(a)gmail.com> wrote: It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true, it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -, and to hell with established practice... 3 Mar 2010 17:31

Old farts playing with their toys (was: Docstrings...)
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:34:51 +0000 MRAB <python(a)mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: But I was still able to play Nim and Duck Shoot (after keying it in)! Did you ever play Star Trek with sound effects? I was never able to get it to work but supposedly if you put an AM radio tuned to a specific frequency near the side... 3 Mar 2010 17:31

CGI, POST, and file uploads
On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:48 PM, I wrote: Can someone tell me how to upload the contents of a (relatively small) file using an HTML form and CGI in Python 3.1? As far as I can tell from a half-day of experimenting, browsing, and searching the Python issue tracker, this is broken. followed by a detai... 3 Mar 2010 15:15

GZRBOT 0.2 BETA1 released
Hello World ! Welcome to the world of Active API ;] Google released their new Wave API so i quickly ported GZRBOT to the new API. Now we can finally push to waves instead of using polling. This makes pushing feeds to waves possible, and this is one of the main things GZRBOT can do. We now use pubsubhubbub serv... 3 Mar 2010 15:15

Sort Big File Help
John Filben wrote: I am new to Python but have used many other (mostly dead) languages in the past. I want to be able to process *.txt and *.csv files. I can now read that and then change them as needed – mostly just take a column and do some if-then to create a new variable. My problem is sorting ... 3 Mar 2010 17:31

Installing Scrapy on Mac OS X 10.6
Has anyone successfully installed Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org ) on a Mac OS X machine running 10.6.x? The Documentaion says Mac OS X ships an libxml2 version too old to be used by Scrapy...But doesn't say which version of OS X.. I am wondering if the version of libxml2 is also not compatible.. ... 3 Mar 2010 16:24

Eric4 vs Python3.1
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Someone using Eric4 to program with Python3/3.1? What can i do, because he insist to use only Python2.6.4. Att -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuOZO... 3 Mar 2010 14:08

SOAP 1.2 Python client ?
Hi, I am looking for a SOAP 1.2 python client. To my surprise, it seems that this does not exist. Does anybody know about this ? The following clients seem to be both unmaintained and still supporting only SOAP 1.1 : - SUDS - zsi - SOAPy cheers, Philippe ... 23 Mar 2010 08:57

A "scopeguard" for Python
For C++ Petru Marginean once invented the "scope guard" technique (elaborated on by Andrei Alexandrescu, they published an article about it in DDJ) where all you need to do to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception, is to declare a ScopeGuard w/desired ac... 8 Mar 2010 09:40

Few early questions on Class
Dear Group, I was practising some early example of class if you can kindly let me know where I was going wrong. I am pasting directly from IDLE. There may be slight indentation problem. I am using Python 2.6.4 on Windows XP Service Pack 3. The Code and the output: class Student: def _init_(self,name... 3 Mar 2010 10:39