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A couple of (minor) things I'd like to see in the Python _environment_
by chris patti Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Firstly, let me just say that coming from a fairly Perl-centric background, learning Python has been a breath of fresh air - things actually MAKE SENSE more of the time than not :) With that out of the way, there are a couple of things I genuinely miss that I think would benefit Python tremendously: * A command line driven documentation browsing system, similar to 'perldoc' in the Perl world. (Python's entities have doc strings - maybe those could be leveraged?) * An interactive debugger invokable with a command line option to the Python interpreter. - I know about PDB, and it does in fact work, but oh how I miss the ability to simply do: perl -d foo.pl and from there be able to set breakpoints, examine the script in operation etc. Sorry if this steps on anyone's toes or hearkens back to Holy Wars already fought long ago - these just _feel_ to me like limitations that could (at least in the doco case) easily be fixed. Thanks, -Chris P.

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Any graph editors?
by lin li Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Hi there, I am doing a prototype where I need a customized graph editor. Eventually the editor is going to end up in Java. For the prototype, however, I want to use something easier to play with, like Python. As a lazy person, I'd like to start from somewhere more than scratch. So here is the question: is there any implementation of some graph editors in Python, JPython (or maybe Java) that I can copy and modify? Please answer to the news group. My ISP is having serious problems with the mail server now. Thank you very much. I-am-thinking-of-something-cute-for-this-place-ly y'rs Lin

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DCOracle on Oracle 8.1.x
by R.Fehrenbacher＠iname.com Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Did anybody have success with this combination on Solaris 2.6 (or other OS) and Python 1.52. Got the module compile all right, and most things I checked so far work. However some donŽt: Example: cursor(select * from v$session) raises ORA-01455 error, whereas cursor(select sid,serial#,username,osuser from v$session) works just fine. I had a similar problem with another select * from a v$xxxxx table which I can't remember now. Again, when I specified the fields explicitly things worked. Could anybody veryfy this problem on Oracle 8.0.5 e.g., or on other installations. Cheers, Roland Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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newbie question: stdin, stdout, stderr?
by Warren Postma Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

How do you first USE, and second REDIRECT stdin, stdout, and stderr from within a Python program?

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imaplib and fetch results
by Harald Terkelsen Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

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? Harald

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Keywordargument in string.split
by P.J.W.S. Vrijlandt Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Hi all, I have this error I don't quite understand. Why can't I give 'sep' as a keyword argument? It seems that the string module I import, is not the string.py in the standard distribution but a not-quite-equivalent c-implementation of it. Patrick ---------------------- Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> import string >>> string.split('abcd', sep = 'c') Traceback (innermost last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ? string.split('abcd', sep = 'c') TypeError: this function takes no keyword arguments >>> def split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=0): # = string.split print s, sep, maxsplit >>> split('abcd', sep = 'c') abcd c 0

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RE: How to differentiate Win98 from NT ?
by Pieter Claerhout Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

As I said before, use M. A. Lemburg's platform.py module. You can find it here: http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/ Kind regards, Pieter Pieter Claerhout - PClaerhout(a)creo.be Response Center - Applications Support Creo Europe - Excelsiorlaan 21 - 1930 Zaventem - Belgium Tel: +32 (2) 711 14 00 - Fax: +32 (2) 720 96 71 -----Original Message----- From: Svante Kleist [mailto:Svante.Kleist@edt.ericsson.se] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:50 PM To: python-list(a)python.org Subject: Re: How to differentiate Win98 from NT ? Not very solid, I'd say. In my case, NT lives in D:\nt40 / Svante In article <86du41$lv0$1(a)gxsn.com>, matt(a)resonation.co.uk says... > try : > if os.environ['windir']=="C:\\winnt": > # do whatever > else: > .... > > > -- http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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RE: How to differentiate Win98 from NT ?
by Pieter Claerhout Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Try Marc's platform.py module. Here is the URL: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/platform.py Pieter -----Original Message----- From: Svante Kleist [mailto:Svante.Kleist@edt.ericsson.se] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:04 AM To: python-list(a)python.org Subject: How to differentiate Win98 from NT ? Dear Pythonists, "os.name" says "nt" for both Windows NT and Windows 98. In order to differentiate between the two, I could search for the existence of "cmd.exe", but that feels rather clumsy. Better suggestions, please? / Svante Kleist /NEMESIS systemDesign, Stockholm -- http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: SourceForge question
by Kiss, Arpad Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

Hi, Dirk-Ulrich Heise <hei(a)adtranzsig.de> wrote in message news:<948972527.962905(a)news.adtranzsig.de>... > Hi! I'm a clueless Windows user and i want to start a > tiny project in SourceForge. > I have a CVS binary and the files for my first release. > I need: Advice on where to get a SSH binary for Windows Try this: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ci2/ssh/ Arpad > and how to set up the initial CVS tree. It doesn't need > to be perfect, this will not become a big team effort, > i suppose. Somebody who already has set up a > SourceForge project out there? Tanks for any > advice. > > -- > Dipl.Inform. Dirk-Ulrich Heise > hei(a)adtranzsig.de > dheise(a)debitel.net >

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Off-topic: Looking for Ennio Simoni (a special Python specialist. ..)
by Alessandro Bottoni Jan. 27, 2000

Jan. 27, 2000

[Excuse me for the off-topic post, but I really have no alternatives...] I'm trying to get in touch with an old friend, and a very good Python specialist, who worked with me in a CAD software house, Eurograph, in Padova, Italy, in 1995/1996: Software Engineer Ennio Simoni. Ennio, can you please contact me? Should anybody knows how can I contact Ennio, please let me know. (My e-mail addresses are listed below) Many thanks for your attention. -------------------------------- Alessandro Bottoni (Corporate address: Alessandro.Bottoni(a)Think3.com) (Personal address: alessandro.bottoni(a)libero.it) Web Programmer Think3 inc. (www.think3.com)

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