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New Python Books
by python＠commandprompt.com Nov. 3, 2001

Nov. 3, 2001

Hello, I recently posted this message to comp.os.python: Hello, I represent LinuxPorts.Com (http://www.linuxports.com/) and I have been approached by a printer to possibly publish OpenSource books. To start these books would just be paper versions of the actual documentation. In this case, the Python Documentation and we were wondering if this would be of interest to the Python Community. I spoke with the printer and we both have agreed that if we do this that we will be providing a portion of the Gross Profits back to the individual projects. In this case the Python project. Anyway, if this of interest to you please go to http://www.linuxports.com/ and make your vote. It will help us determine the demand for such a book. ----- We received about 8 responses with feedback that we much appreciated and would now like to solicit some more. If the people that read this email could just think about a few of the following questions and provide some feedback we would be very thankful. We are considering publishing the current set of Python documentation as a single volume versus several volumes such as toExcel does. Would this be of interest to the Python community? One person made mention of the "Vaults of Parnassus" if we were to include a snapshot of this would this be of interest? We are also considering "paying" someone to write a book about Python. Unfortunately, unlike traditional publishers the author would not get paid until the book was done, and then it would be on the basis of per book sold. We are aware that this is not the normal way of doing things, but we are not Prentice Hall and this would be the only way "currently" that we could pull this off. Is there anyone on this list that feels confident enough in their Python skills and writing ability to be able to perform such a task? Last but definitely not least, no matter what we do, if we publish a Python book, 20% to 40% of the Gross Profits would go back to the PSA. Thanks for your time: Joshua Drake Webmaster - LinuxPorts.Com WebMaster - LinuxDoc.org

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How to prevent a web client from timing out
by aiglauer April 8, 2001

April 8, 2001

Not a purely python question, but..... I have written a number-crunching app in python. which is being accessed on our intranet. All pages generated on-the-fly in python. Some of the calculations can take a while though (calc time anything from 5secs to 30 minutes) and I get the client timing out and the server will then kill the calculation process. Can I rig it so that the calculation process will still complete and write its output to a file so that I can use it later? (Writing to a file is not a prob - preventing the thing getting slapped is). Thanks Alexis Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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does pythonwin support adsi`
by test Jan. 17, 2001

Jan. 17, 2001

and were to I get examples? thanks tr

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CGI with Python
by u＠book.co.th Jan. 9, 2001

Jan. 9, 2001

Hi experts, I am very new with python and linux. and i want to create a CGI script in binary format. first of all, i had a script that written in .py. and i compiled it with python command line... python -c "import sourcefile" after that i got a file with .pyc extension in a binary format. is it able to run as CGI? anyway i heard that there is a tool called "Freeze". i have tried to freeze a .py code to make an executable file... you know?, it made a huge executable... any suggestion? regards, Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Re: Interprocess comunication
by pointal＠lure.u-psud.fr Nov. 21, 2000

Nov. 21, 2000

On Wed, 31 May 2000 10:04:21 +0200, lminuti(a)eid.it (Luca) wrote: >: I have a question: when occur a specific kind of event I need to notify it >: to some other instance of the same application. But I don't know how to >: realize a comuniction between different process. This is generally an operating system dependent problem. Except if you goes to distributed objects protocols like CORBA. See what interprocess communication tools or sharable objects are available on your platform, or specify what it is so people could help you. A+ Laurent.

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What is Python?
by Mark Nov. 21, 2000

Nov. 21, 2000

What is Python and where can I find out more about it? Thanks, Mark :o)

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Public Domain Python
by quinn＠pfennig.ugcs.caltech.edu Oct. 28, 2000

Oct. 28, 2000

Y'know, all this smoke and noise about python license issues makes me think of Tim Peters' Public Domain advocacy. Not that I know anything about legal anything, but hey, it sounded good to me. How 'bout it, guys? :) who-needs-a-silly-old-license-anyway-ly y'rs

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Mapping Python to CORBA
by Andrew MacKeith Oct. 25, 2000

Oct. 25, 2000

Is there any standard for mapping standard Python types to CORBA IDL types? I have read the CORBA Python Language Mapping spec, which describes how CORBA IDL types are mapped to standard Python types. The reverse mapping is not documented. In some cases it is clear (such as string -> string, int -> long, float -> double), but for others (dictionary, list) it looks as if I have to write my own interface.

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Of what use is 'lambda'???
by tye4 Oct. 25, 2000

Oct. 25, 2000

The lambda definition is limited to only one expression, and everything you do with lambda, can also be done with plain functions. >>> adder1 = lamda a, b : a + b >>> def dosum(a, b): return a + b >>> adder2 = dosum >>> adder1(2, 3) 5 >>> adder2(2, 3) 5 So, does lamda have a feature that regulars funcs have or is just there for convenience?? -tye4

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MySQLdb binaries for Windows
by echuck3＠my-deja.com Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

I used to be able to get this at ftp://ins-networks.de, but not anymore: C:\>ftp ins-networks.de Connected to ins-networks.de. 220 ins-networks.de NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready. User (ins-networks.de:(none)): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 451 Login failed, can't set startup dir to /usr/public_ftp/insadmin: Permission denied. Connection closed by remote host. And I don't see anything but source at the MySQLdb page: http://dustman.net/andy/python/MySQLdb/ So my question is, does anyone else have these for say Python 2.0b2? -Chuck -- http://webware.sourceforge.net Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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