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sleep function?
by tiddlerdeja＠my-deja.com April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Does python have a sleep function? e.g. sleep(60) to wait 60 seconds? I realise this is a lame question, but I have no python documentation around just now. Thanks. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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ODBC error trap resolved! Now...
by Daley, MarkX April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

OK, so the error trapping is good, but now I run into an append problem. I have a list defined in the beginning of the function, like so: servername = ['ServerA', 'ServerB', 'ServerC'] for index in servername: try: #Big routine to collect and write data to a file. except dbi.opError: servername.append(index) So, if one of the servers doesn't make the connection, it gets added to the end of the list until it does connect. This worked great in my test scripts, but when put to practice, I get this: Traceback (innermost last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ? collect.collect() File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python\collect.py", line 51, in collect servername.append(index) AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'append' I didn't see this when I tested my append function. What do I not understand about lists in this context? Once again, thank you for all your help in advance. - Mark

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Concatening string and integer
by JJ April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Hi! I want to concatenate a string containing both strings and integers like: strTemp = 'I make test number: ' + iMyNumber + ' once again' It doesn't work, how should I do this? BR Joacim

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Re: file open() problem
by Joshua Macy April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

That's the right syntax, and it works for me (admittedly, on Linux, Win95, and WinNT, not Win98) Python 1.5.2 (#1, Sep 17 1999, 20:15:36) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> f = open('file.txt', 'r') Traceback (innermost last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'file.txt' >>> f = open('file.txt', 'w') >>> f.write('Spam, Eggs, and Spam') >>> f.close() >>> f = open('file.txt', 'r') >>> r = f.readlines() >>> print r ['Spam, Eggs, and Spam'] >>> Have you done anything that might have hidden the builtin "open" with a different one? Is this the first thing that you're doing at the >>> prompt, or have you entered some "from blah import *" lines first? Joshua ekw1(a)my-deja.com wrote: > > I am using python1.5.2 on windows98se. all of the following gives me > an error. > > f = open('file.txt', 'r') > f = open("file.txt", "r") > f = open('c:/dir/file.txt', 'r') > f = open('c:\dir\file.txt', 'r') > f = open("c:/dir/file.txt", "r") > f = open("c:\dir\file.txt", "r") > f = open("c:\\dir\\file.txt", "r") > > The error from the python shell for any of the above is: > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "<pyshell#17>", line 1, in ? > f = open('file.txt', 'r') > TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation > > Can anyone help me? Thanks. > > ekw > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

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Need help with COMObject for Zope
by deepak_marda＠my-deja.com April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Hi, I am trying to use the COMObject for Zope. I have the latest versions of Python and Zope and from what I see working, COMObject is installed in the right place. I created a COMObject with id = word and Dispatch = "Word.Application". WHen I try to connect this COM object, it raises the following exception Error Type: com_error Error Value: (-2147221008, 'CoInitialize has not been called.', None, None) Can you please help me how I can make it work? I have Word (from Office 2000) installed and the following works from a vanilla python code: - >>>import win32com.client >>>o = win32com.client.Dispatch ('Word.Application') >>>o.Visible = 1 >>> ... and so on Please help, Deepak Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Wanted Daniel Larsson
by FR Chalaoux April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Hi, I looking for the right e-mail adress of "Daniel Larsson", the creator of Pythondoc? "Daniel.Larsson(a)vasteras.mail.telia.com" seems to be incorrect. Bye, FR.

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Converting = to ==
by Warren Postma April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

I have an "end user query tool" that uses Python expressions, but I want comparisons to be able to be written either as A=B or A==B then I want to compare them using Python's Eval function. Problem is if you search and replace all = with == then users have to use the single-equals convention, and some of them will be python programmers, and will want to use the "non idiot mode" of the query tool. So i did this, but is there a better way? >>> string.replace( string.replace("a=b a==b", "=", "=="), "====","==") a==b a==b Warren

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web site test framework? in python?
by tiddlerdeja＠my-deja.com April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

I'm looking to build a test framework to use for websites that I may build. I'm looking for more than broken link checks. I'd like to post form submissions to pages and check for correct/desired results to be returned. I know I could write specific scripts for each site, but I'd like a generic solution. I was wondering if anyone else had been down this path. I was thinking about solutions along the lines of... I was thinking of having JSP or ASP pages check for a testing variable (registry or environment). If pages were called in test mode they would return XML to be parsed which would can then be used as input data to call the page again (this way you could store the test data with the page you are testing). The XML would also contain the desired correct data to check against to ensure the page is working correctly. You could then have a script crawling a site, calling a page once to get the test case, and calling it again to see if it has worked correctly. There are problems with this solution in that you can have dependencies on pages. I.e. one page must be called before another if it is to work correctly. I'd also like to code the testing framework in Python. Again, has anyone any experience in this testing websites arena? Perhaps I'm trying to reinvent the wheel? Any info greatly appreciated. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Re: The Simple Economics of Open Source
by neelk＠brick.cswv.com April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Bill Anderson <bill(a)libc.org> wrote: > > *All* software is under copyright or patent. By your argument, no > software is commodity. Minor correction: it's possible to place software, like any other IP, in the public domain. Some quite significant open source projects, such as the CMUCL Common Lisp compiler, are in the public domain. j Neel

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Best database to use with Python
by thomas＠cintra.no April 28, 2000

April 28, 2000

Hi, What database-system is easiest, fastest etc. to use with Python? I`ve looked at MySQL, but it seems a little overkill just to get a little more functionality than Berkley DB-functionality. What about Postgres? mSQL? Postgres comes with my Linux distro and seem smaller than MySQL. How does it compare to MySQL when it comes to administration and speed, scalability etc. ? I`m doing alot of index-lookups for a Yahoo/Altavista/WhatEverSearchEngine-like web-app. <entering_demand_mode> It have to be fast, capable of HUGE amounts of data, free and easy to install and administer. </entering_demand_mode> Hints???! Thomas

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