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Parameters for Zope External Method
by Jyrki Alakuijala Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I have succeeded in creating a Zope external method which causes a python statement to be evaluated for a web request. However, I have failed to pass parameters (other than the special case "self") to that external method. So, where can I find instructions on how to call an external method with parameters? I could not find that in the manuals. Should I use something else than an external method? --Jyrki

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html parsing (htmllib)
by Patrick Tufts Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I want to grab the text from a set of web pages. htmllib seems like what I want, except that want to assign the parsed text to a variable instead of printing it to stdout or a file. What do I need to do? And better yet, has someone already done it? --Pat

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RE: Python online docs are great!
by Kolosov, Victor Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

How do we persuade him to do the same to Zope documentation which really needs it. > -----Original Message----- > From: aahz(a)netcom.com [SMTP:aahz@netcom.com] > Sent: January 22, 2000 9:41 PM > To: python-list(a)python.org > Subject: Re: Python online docs are great! > > In article <slrn88kouc.pej.nobody(a)isis.visi.com>, > Grant Edwards <nobody(a)nowhere.nohow> wrote: > > > >I just want to compliment GvR on the Python online documentation files. > >They are amazingly well done. They are without a doubt the best online > >documentation I've used for anything, anywhere, ever. Often online > >documentation has been chopped up into pages that are way too small, > >and there's no useful index or navigation aids. The result is you > >spend all your time thrashing around because the needed information > >is spread over a half-dozen different pages. I've found the Python > >documents very well organized, comprehensive, and easy to use. > > Fred Drake deserves much of the credit here. I can say from personal > experience that the docs have improved greatly over just the last year. > -- > --- Aahz (@netcom.com) > > Androgynous poly kinky vanilla queer het <*> > http://www.rahul.net/aahz/ > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 > > Have a *HAPPY* day!!!!!!!!!!

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PythonWin 2.0?
by David Max Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

Does anybody know where I can download PythonWin 2.0? The latest I seem to be able to find is build 128, yet I saw version 2.0 demonstrated on Monday at the Python conference. Thanks, - David

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diet Python
by super_banane＠yahoo.com Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

'freeze.py' is a nice utility for deployment, but it does not get far enough, in the sense that it produces the C files and the Makefile, but for the local machine only. That is Ok if you want to ship binaries, but for source code shipping that is not really it. Would it be possible to create a 'diet' Python distribution, without doc, Tools, etc. that would contain only what is needed to compile the interpreter with maybe a limited subset of modules? In that case, it would reduce Python to a small tar file which you could include in your own source code for distribution. This way, people will not even notice that they installed Python. Also good if Python changes in some incompatible ways from one version to another, and you do not want to support the changes. All in all, what would be nice is a 'freeze' version that supports source code deployment on multiple platforms as well. Is there anything going in this direction? Any idea? -- Nicolas Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Cookies
by Anders M Eriksson Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

Hello! I have downloaded the Cookie.py module by Mr Timothy O'Malley, but I can't figure out how to use it:-( if I have this script # --------------------------------------- import Cookie kaka = Cookie.Cookie() try: nPos = kaka['nPos'].value except: nPos = 0 for i in range(20) npos = npos + 1 print "Content-type: text/html\n" print `nPos` kaka['nPos'] = nPos # ---------------------------------------------- Why doesn't this script increase the value of nPos with 20 each time I run it? (well I know that it's because the cookie isn't saved, but why) // Anders --- Enlish isn't my first or second language, so anything that you find offending is not there on purpose it's just due to the translation ;-)

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how do i get user input?
by Jeremiah Rogers Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I hate to ask this as it's almost certainly in the documentation, but what function(and module) do i use to get user input? I've looked and looked and i can't find it. Thanks a bunch for any help.

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Wanted: A python icon for X11
by Harald Hanche-Olsen Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

Would anybody perhaps have some pixmap lying about that might be (or become) a suitable icon for IDLE windows under X11? A picture of a python (the snake) perhaps, or of a can of spam, or something like that? Right now, I only have the generic X icon, and that is of course intolerable. a-portrait-of-John-Cleese-might-also-do-nicely-ly y'rs, -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - "There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind." - Francis Bacon

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Which idiom is better? try: ... except Attr..Err or hasattr?
by pf＠artcom-gmbh.de Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

Look at the following coding alternatives often seen in generic python code: class A: def load(self): # ... do something e.g. load a file try: self.update() except AttributeError: pass class B: def load(self): # ... do something e.g. load a file if hasattr(self, 'update'): self.update() Which coding idiom is better? The second form is one line shorter than the first, but it has the disadvantage, that the method (or attribute) must be named twice. Both idioms are used in the standard libary. Regards, Peter -- Peter Funk, Oldenburger Str.86, 27777 Ganderkesee, Tel: 04222 9502 70, Fax: -60

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Re: imaplib and fetch results
by Piers Lauder Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

On 27 Jan 2000 17:22:29 +0100, Harald Terkelsen wrote: > I've been playing with the imaplib.py module and found some difference > in the returned data of the fetch function depending on the > message_part argument. > > The command: > > typ, data = M.FETCH('13:17', '(FLAGS envelope)') > > returns a list where data[0] is the flags and envelope data from > message 13, data[1] for message 14 and so on. This is what i would > expect. > > But the result of the following command is somewhat different: > > typ, data = M.FETCH('13:17', '(FLAGS body.peek[header.fields (From Subject)])') > > Now data[0] contains the information from message 13 as in the previous > fetch command. I would then assume data[1] to contain the requested > information for message 14, but it doesn't. Instead data[1] contains > the character ')'. data[2] contains the data for message 14 and > data[3] gives me again an ')' and so on. > > Does anybody know why it is like this, or is it a bug? This is a feature, not a bug :-) The reason is that to fix the problem you are seing I would have to enhance imaplib to parse all responses from all commands, and that's something I'd prefer that the user do. The `correct' way to deal with responses from an IMAP4 server is to concatenate all the strings returned, and then parse the response per the RFC. The server's responses to multi-part commands is to return a series of packets in the form "description [literal]" and the imaplib returned data reflects this (you'll see a list item consisting of a tuple of 2 strings). So if the server sends a packet consisting of just a single ')' (presumably terminating a parenthesis in a previous description, probably after some "literal" data), you'll see it as a single list item following the one with the data. Hope that helps! Piers.

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