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Dennis Ritchie Interview
by Jeff Bauer Dec. 6, 2000

Dec. 6, 2000

Interesting comment from Dennis Ritchie in a LinuxWorld interview: "What is changing is that higher-level languages are becoming much more important as the number of computer-involved people increases. Things that began as neat but small tools, like Perl or Python, say, are suddenly more central in the whole scheme of things." http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-12/lw-12-ritchie.html Jeff Bauer Rubicon Research

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Re: resource module??
by Martin von Loewis Dec. 6, 2000

Dec. 6, 2000

etsang(a)my-deja.com writes: > Hi has anyone who has used the resource module?? > I am using Python 1.5.2 but when I try to import resource module, it > is not there.. It's a compile-time option. > Does anyone know anything about this module? does it come with Python > 1.5.2?? Sure, it comes with 1.5.2. Modify Modules/Setup to activate it. Regards, Martin

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an apply question
by Alan Marchand Dec. 6, 2000

Dec. 6, 2000

In Python 2.0: What am I doing wrong? #!/bin/env python ############# MyMap = { 'Key1' : 'func1', 'Key2' : 'func2', 'Key3' : 'func3', 'Key4' : 'func4' } def func1 ( ): print "Here's func1" items = MyMap.items( ) for x in range( len(items) ): key, func = items[x] if key == "Key3": apply( func, ( ) ) ------------------------- c:\devpy\python test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 17, in ? apply( func, ( ) ) TypeError: Call of non-function (type string) Thanks. Alan.

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How do packages and .pth files work under Windows (Py 2.0)
by Jonathan Gilligan Dec. 6, 2000

Dec. 6, 2000

I am having problems understanding how .pth files are supposed to work under windows. The Python 2.0 documentation has several inconsistent descriptions. In one place, it says that under Windows and Mac, .pth files are only interpreted if they are in the python root. Elsewhere the documentation indicates that they are interpreted if they are in the lib\site-packages directory. Here is the basic problem. I have packages bar, far, and gar, all of which I want to be subpackages in the package foo, so I can write "import foo.bar as FB". If bar is a working package, the Python documentation suggests that II should be able to do what I want if I put the directory bar (containing the bar package, which has a valid __init__.py) inside a directory "site-packages\foo" and put a file "foo.pth" in the site-packages directory with the single line "foo". However, this does not work for me. Somehow, Python does not seem to understand the foo.pth file, and python complains "ImportError: No module named foo" Here are the details: I am trying to get the mx tools installed on my computer and have python 2.0 built from cvs sources in D:\Sources\python\python\dist\src and am trying to get mxTextTools installed somewhere so that I can use the following line (from the Martel genome parsing package): from mx import TextTools as TT I have installed mxTextTools in D:\Sources\Python\Python\dist\src\lib\site-packages\mx\TextTools. If I set PYTHONPATH to "D:\Sources\\Python\Python\dist\src\lib\site-packages\mx" then I can "import TextTools" but if I set PYTHONPATH to "D:\Sources\Python\Python\dist\src\lib\site-packages" then I cannot "import mx.TextTools". I keep getting an error message: "ImportError: No module named mx" This occurs even if I create a "mx.pth" file in "site-packages" with the single line "mx". I have also tried putting the "mx" directory and the "mx.pth" file in the python root (D:\Sources\python\python\dist\src). I have the registry correctly set up: "HKLM\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.0" has subkeys "InstallPath" with default value "D:\Sources\Python\Python\dist\src" "PythonPath" with default value "D:\Sources\Python\Python\dist\src\lib;D:\Sources\Python\Python\dist\s rc\lib\site-packages;d:\Sources\python\python\dist\src\pcbuild;D:\Sour ces\Python" Can anyone help me figure out how to get packages to work in the way I am trying to? It would help me enormously if there were a way to get Python to print out a list of where it looks when it tries to resolve an "import". Is this possible? Thanks for any help that anyone can give me. Jonathan Gilligan

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an apply question
by Alan Marchand Dec. 6, 2000

Dec. 6, 2000

In Python 2.0: What am I doing wrong? #!/bin/env python ############# MyMap = { 'Key1' : 'func1', 'Key2' : 'func2', 'Key3' : 'func3', 'Key4' : 'func4' } def func1 ( ): print "Here's func1" items = MyMap.items( ) for x in range( len(items) ): key, func = items[x] if key == "Key3": apply( func, ( ) ) ------------------------- c:\devpy\python test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 17, in ? apply( func, ( ) ) TypeError: Call of non-function (type string) Thanks. Alan.

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win32security.AdjustTokenPrivileges
by Patrick Blanchette Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

I, I'd like to reboot a windows NT station using a Python script. It is supposed to be possible using the Python extensions for Windows. I try the following code but an exception is thrown after the call to AdjustTokenPrivileges: ----------------------------------------------- hProcess = GetCurrentProcess() processToken = OpenProcessToken(hProcess, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY) procPrivValue = LookupPrivilegeValue (None, SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME) AdjustTokenPrivileges (processToken, 0, (provValue, SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED) ) ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT | EWX_FORCE, 0) --> Traceback (innermost last): File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? TypeError: A TOKEN_PRIVILEGES object must be a tuple of (LARGE_INTEGER, int) ----------------------------------------------- How should I use the AdjustTokenPrivileges function? thank

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Random string
by Jay O'Connor Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

All, Is there a good algorithm or existing function for creating a random string such as "AFYGADFGWETOQW6DSJD", suitable as a 'session id' for a web session Thanks Take care, Jay

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Re: Tkinter frame items?
by Sam Schulenburg Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

Thanks for the help Mattthew,and Fredrik. As usual If I had read the whole manual I wold have found it. Your quick responce has saved me a lot of time. It always supprises me how simple a solution to GUI programing is under Python versis Windows C++ and MFC. Sam Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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win32security.AdjustTokenPrivileges
by Patrick Blanchette Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

I, I'd like to reboot a windows NT station using a Python script. It is supposed to be possible using the Python extensions for Windows. I try the following code but an exception is thrown after the call to AdjustTokenPrivileges: ----------------------------------------------- hProcess = GetCurrentProcess() processToken = OpenProcessToken(hProcess, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY) procPrivValue = LookupPrivilegeValue (None, SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME) AdjustTokenPrivileges (processToken, 0, (provValue, SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED) ) ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT | EWX_FORCE, 0) --> Traceback (innermost last): File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? TypeError: A TOKEN_PRIVILEGES object must be a tuple of (LARGE_INTEGER, int) ----------------------------------------------- How should I use the AdjustTokenPrivileges function? thanks

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Re: Tkinter frame items?
by Fredrik Lundh Dec. 5, 2000

Dec. 5, 2000

Sam Schulenburg wrote: > I have a Tkinter program under windows2000 where I have added a quit > menu item to exit the program, with a prompt to the user to verify the > desire to exit. My problem is that the user can still click the upper > right exit square and close the program. I would like to capture the > event triggered by clicking on this item. you can use a WM_DELETE_WINDOW handler. see example 7-2 under "protocols" on this page: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/events-and-bindings.… cheers /F

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