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Using python on the web
by Charley Horse June 2, 2000

June 2, 2000

I've just started fooling with python. I've looked around the python site and a number of the other sites referenced there and am a bit puzzled. Umm... how does one go about using python for web applications, especially database driven apps? Almost everything deals with python just as a language, as C++ would be. Not much about the web specifically. I was a bit shocked to find the only direct refs on about this at python.org are entwined with CGI (unless I missed it). I have no exposure to CGI, but rather to php, CF, and ASP, so python has gone from looking very attractive to looking... well, like a puzzle. I know about Zope, but am interested in how one uses python on the web just by itself. Thanks

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IDLE & Win 95
by gary_thomson＠yahoo.com June 2, 2000

June 2, 2000

I've installed Python 1.5.2 and Tcl/Tk on my machine. I wanted to use IDLE. Downloaded it from the net and overwrote the IDLE folder in the Tools directory. When I go to IDLE (Python GUI) in the Start menu, nothing happens. Similarly double clicking idle.pyw. What makes this more mysterious is that I managed to do this at work (under Windows 98) without any problems. IDLE is cool! Hence I'd like to be able to work with it at home. can anyone see what I need to do to get it working? TIA Gary Thomson garyt(a)garyt.force9.co.uk Try MindProbe. Let your PC read your mind Visit http://www.garyt.f9.co.uk

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Why should I switch to Python?
by Aaron Turner May 29, 2000

May 29, 2000

A friend of mine is trying to convince me we should do a project using ORBit in Python. I've been coding Perl for over 3 years and really like it. (Especially it's syntax and ability to grok my programming style.) Now, I understand the Perl vs. Python war and everyone has their preferred taste in the matter. What I'd like to hear from people is what technical resons I should switch to Python. Are there any features that Python has (perhaps in it's OO offering) that Perl lacks? From what I can tell people tend to prefer Python over Perl mostly for its syntax, which I find very likable. Thanks.

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any non programmers out there?
by Collin Greene May 26, 2000

May 26, 2000

I don't need technical help. What I need is basic help and instruction, you wont need to baby me through it and I love to work on y own I just need someone who can introduce me the this wonderful lang called python and help me with the daily ins and outs of it. thanks Greene(a)hctc.com

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Customize keybindings in IDLE??
by Thomas Weholt May 24, 2000

May 24, 2000

Hallo, Idle is coming along fine now, but the key-bindings suck. How can I change this to the good-old CTRL+C for copy, CTRL+V for paste etc. ??? And would the changes be saved between sessions?? ( Saw another post asking about saving syntax-coloring setup yearlier so ... ) Thomas

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os.path.walk() question.
by Andrew McDowell May 15, 2000

May 15, 2000

I didn't see this question mentioned in any older posts so forgive me if I'm dragging up and old topic...but: I need to find out if a file exists under a directory hierarchy. The hierarchy could be quite large so I don't want to continue recursing through the hierarchy if the file is found one or two directories down. Is there a way that you can tell os.path.walk() to stop searching? I suppose I could customize the code, but my first notion was that someone on the group had probably addressed this before. Any advice would be much appreciated :) -Drew

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Filtering web proxy
by Oleg Broytmann May 12, 2000

May 12, 2000

Hello! I want a filtering web proxy. I can write one myself, but if there is a thing already... well, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. If there is such thing (free and opensourse, 'course), I'll extend it for my needs. Well, what are my needs? I am braindamaged idiot, who do not want to see banners, pop-ups and all the crap, so I run Navigator with graphics/Java/ Javascript/cookies turned off 99% of the time. But for some sites I need to go to preference dialog and turn it on manually. Then turn it back off before visiting another site. (I need frames, tables and other features, so I am not using lynx; yes, I know there are "links" and "w3m", and yes, I use them from time to time; anyway I run Navigator). It is tiresome. I want to automate the task. So I want to turn graphics/script/cookies forever on, but filter the crap in the proxy. For 99% sites I'll just remove the junk. For some sites (a list of which I'll care manually) the proxy will pass HTML, graphics and cookies unchanged (or a bit modified, 'cause in any case I don't want to eat Doubleclick's cookies attached to their ads). Once I tried Junkbuster, but found it inadequate. My need is simple - just a short list of "white" sites. Never tried adzapper... I wrote dozen HTML parsers in Python, so I can write one more, and turn it into a proxy, but may be I can start with some already debugged code? Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.russ.ru/~phd/ phd2(a)mail.com Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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xitami configuration?
by Steven May 11, 2000

May 11, 2000

I'm just starting out with python after programming php3 for the past 8 months and i'm trying to set it up with xitami. could an xitami/python user please tell me what line to add to my filters section in the setup file? I tried: .py=D:\progra~2\python\python.exe which will envoke python and run a simple script fine, but won't pass any arguments (unless i'm doing it wrong). If this is correct, how do i pass arguments to a script?

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Python - Next Release Questions
by Matheus Rodrigues May 10, 2000

May 10, 2000

Where can I find a list of features that will be present in the next release ? What are the impacts of the changes in my current applications ? Is there any improvements in the language ? Matheus ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Doesn't anybody write to paper anymore?
by Albert Wagner May 9, 2000

May 9, 2000

I've searched the docs and my "Learning Python" book and I can't find anything on printing to a real printer. Through trial and error I finally made the following work: printer = open('/dev/lp0', 'w') printer.write("page 1\n\r\f") printer.write("page 2\n\r\f") printer.close But it writes directly to the printer port. I would like to pass it into the queue. IO redirection in the shell is ugly and awkward. Also, assigning "printer" to "os.stdout" does not work. Someone please help a newbie. -- Small is Beautiful

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