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Distributing programs
by Jason Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

A non-python programming friend of mine has said that any programs made with Python must be distributed with, or an alternative link, to the source of the program. Is this true?

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python guru.. for a short conversation regarding bittorrent..
by bruce Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

hi.. i'm not a python developer, but i have a few questions regarding python (some quite basic), and bittorrent. i'm looking to talk to someone/anyone who has experience with the infrastructure of bittorrent, not just running a bittorrent client app... the bittorrent mailing lists/groups haven't been responsive, so i figured i'd try here... if there's anyone here that i could talk with (phone) who's knowledgable about these areas, i'd appreciate it. i'm trying to get a much better understanding of the actual underlying app. thanks -bruce bedouglas(a)earthlink.net

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Setting optimum gtkhtml2 widget size.
by Sam Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

I'm putting gtkhtml2.View() inside a gtk.ScrolledWindow, which goes into a gtk.Dialog.vbox. How do I obtain gtkhtml2.View's preferred height, and set the dialog's height accordingly, given a specific width? I can do a gtk.Dialog.set_default_size() up front, specifying the width and height large enough for everything, then create all the widgets, and realize them. But then, even after I realize everything I can't get any useful metrics from gtkhtml2.View(). None of the usual suspects -- get_size_request, get_allocation -- give anything useful. I also tried not using a ScrolledWindow, but adding gtkhtml2 as gtk.Dialog.vbox's child.

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how to send a SIGINT to a Python process?
by Michele Simionato Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

Is there a way to send a SIGINT/KeyboardInterrupt to a Python process (knowing the pid) that works both on Unix and Windows? Michele Simionato

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Re: Nufox : Xul + Python
by Michael Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

Lars Heuer wrote: >> Oops: > >> http://artyprog.noip.org:8080 > > > Again Oops: :)) > > http://artyprog.no-ip.org:8080 Looks intriguing, but the examples on the site won't work for me. I suspect they won't for anyone else either, because the code in the webpages appears to try and contact a server in a private address space, specifically 192.168.0.40. Which is a pity, because it looks interesting :-) Regards, Michael.

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Python CGI Script
by Efrat Regev Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

Hello, I'm a data-structures course TA trying to write a python CGI script for automatically compiling and testing students' projects. Unfortunately, I've run into some questions while writing this, which I couldn't solve with the various (and helpful) python-CGI documentation. (It's possible that I'm posting to the wrong group; if so, I'd appreciate suggestions for the appropriate group.) 1. In my HTML page, I have the following: <form method="post" action="submission_processor.py" enctype="multipart/form-data"> ... </form> In the above, submission_processor.py is the python CGI script. I didn't write a URL in the action field, since I'm first testing everyting on a local machine (running FC4). The first line of submission_processor.py is #!/usr/bin/python and I've done chmod +x submission_processor.py When I hit the "submit" button, my browser (Firefox on FC4) doesn't run the script; it asks me whether it should open submission_processor.py or save it to disk. I couldn't figure out why. 2. My HTML page has the option for an instructor to list the various submissions and scores. Obviously, this should be inaccessible to students. The instructor has a password for doing this, therefore. Suppose I place the password inside a python script, and give this script only +x permission for others. Is this adequate as far as security? Thanks in advance for answering these questions. Efrat

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Problems posting with urlencode
by Joseph Chase Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

I have the following form : <form action="/auction/create/" method="post"><p><label for="auction_created">Created</label><br /></p> <p><label for="auction_user">User</label><br /><input id="auction_user" name="auction[user]" size="30" type="text" value="" /></p> <p><label for="auction_auction_title">Auction title</label><br /><input id="auction_auction_title" name="auction[auction_title]" size="30" type="text" value="" /></p> <p><label for="auction_auction_url">Auction url</label><br /><input id="auction_auction_url" name="auction[auction_url]" size="30" type="text" value="" /></p> <p><label for="auction_modification_rec">Modification rec</label><br /><input id="auction_modification_rec" name="auction[modification_rec]" size="30" type="text" value="" /></p> <p><label for="auction_state">State</label><br /><input id="auction_state" name="auction[state]" size="30" type="text" value="" /></p><input name="commit" type="submit" value="Create" /></form> I post the form data with the following calls: params = urllib.urlencode({"auction[user]" :user, "auction[auction_title]": auction_title,"auction[auction_url]": auction_url, "auction[modification_rec]" :recommendation, "auction[state]=": state,"commit":"Create"}) print "Storing...." data = urllib.urlopen(self.baseUrl,params) When I go and view the inserted record, the record exists, but the field values are null. It is my thinking that the backend needs the "id" value for each input value; how do I add that data to the urlencode() call? When I utilize the above form, all is inserted and all of the field values appear. What data am I not accounting for with my program; for its obvious that the browser is sending something to the server that my application is not. Thanks.

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Re: Python 3! Finally!
by Steven D'Aprano Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:06:26 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > Someone proposes that in the case that there is a > filename collision, the user might simply be prompted to decide on a > filename. You mean like every single other GUI application that saves files does? > Firefox devs totally reject that idea (and rather > vehemently). You see, that would totally freak out the end user, You mean like they freak out when it happens with IE, Word, Excel, Pagemaker, Quark Xpress, Photoshop, Gimp, OpenOffice, Access, Corel Draw, Outlook, Opera, and Kwrite (to mention just a few)? > and that is *certainly* not a good solution. Heaven's no, we can't be having with that sort of thing. > So the interim solution, for over a year, has been to leave it broken > for everyone... Because of course end users certainly won't be confused to save a file called "Fred1" and find "Fred2" instead, oh no. I'm surprised that they don't just add Yet Another Secret Option to Firefox's preferences: FileCollision, with two possible values: "Do the wrong thing" and "Ask the user". After all, more preferences are always good, right? -- Steven.

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Statement orders
by Monu Agrawal Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

Hi I am making a gui based tool. When user preses a perticular button I am running a heavy command, before this I want to say user to wait with a image showing infront of her. My code is like: def loadData(self): top=Toplevel(self.parent) top.focus_set() self.parent.wm_title("Loading Data...") os.system('a heavy command') os.system('another heavy command) top.destroy() Now when I apply it, it first runs the os.system commands then it shows the top level. I tried with putting sleep just before os.system() it didn't help. Is some statement reordering going on, or I am missing something?

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What encoding is used when initializing sys.argv?
by Petr Prikryl Oct. 1, 2005

Oct. 1, 2005

Hi, When solving the problem of passing the unicode directory name through command line into a script (MS Windows environment), I have discovered that I do not understand what encoding should be used to convert the sys.argv into unicode. I know about the rejected attempt to implement sys.argvu. Still, how the sys.argv is filled? What encoding is used when parsing the cmd line internally? To what encoding is it converted when non ASCII characters appear? Thanks for your time and experience, pepr -- Petr Prikryl (prikrylp at skil dot cz)

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