🌐 Mailman 3 May 2005 - Python-list - python.org

msvccompiler issues
by Lucas Raab May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

I'm trying to compile a package from source and whenever I tried to compile, distutils gave me error about not have VC7. However, I've got VB7 and so I've also got the VC7 compiler that came in the installation. BTW, I've got Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Python 2.4.1. I tried looking the distutils code, but it's way over my head. I found the find_exe function in msvccompiler.py file, but it seems to be not finding cl.exe. I made sure the path to cl.exe was set in the winXP Path variable. Any help is appreciated. -- -------------------------- Lucas Raab lvraab"@"earthlink.net dotpyFE"@"gmail.com AIM: Phoenix11890 MSN: dotpyfe "@" gmail.com IRC: lvraab ICQ: 324767918 Yahoo: Phoenix11890

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Re: Webbrowser On Windows
by andrea_gavana＠tin.it May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

>It seems to me that there is no way to create a new instance of Internet >Explorer (if there are already some IE windows opened). >Does anyone know a possible solution? Or a workaround (without using >startfile, maybe?) that will force IE to create a new instance? Should I suppose no solution exists? Thanks for every suggestions. Andrea

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autoconf wizard wanted
by Heiko Wundram May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

Hi all! Although it's slightly OT: I've written PAM, NSS and PPPd plugins which do authentication (and other things) against a running Python daemon, communicating via a Unix domain socket. For the C part of the whole adventure (the modules for PAM, NSS and PPPd), I'd love to have some form of autoconf/automake installation routine before I distribute the whole thing, but I myself am not knowledgeable with the use of automake and its likenesses, as they always seem like black magic to me. For me, a makeit.sh shell script suffices to create the libs... ;) If there's anybody who'd want to work together with me on this project (to have a look at the C code and also to create some form of autoconf/automake magic), would you kindly contact me offlist. The sources as they stand now (basically the C code plus some rudimentary form of daemons to test against, the rest is in the works) are available from my blog (which is in german, but just read the last entry) whose URL is in my sig. Thanks for your time! -- --- Heiko. listening to: Muse - Falling Down see you at: http://www.stud.mh-hannover.de/~hwundram/wordpress/

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Wrapping c functions
by Glenn Pierce May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

Hi I have been trying to wrap a c library called FreeImage for python and am having trouble with a couple of functions. One function is FreeImage_Load which takes parameters (enum, const char*, int) I have wrapped the function with the following code static PyObject * freeimage_load(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { int format, flags; char* filename = "None"; FIBITMAP *dib = NULL; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "isi", &format, filename, &flags)) return NULL; dib = FreeImage_Load(format, filename, flags); return Py_BuildValue("o", dib); } However I am getting a segmentation fault at PyArg_ParseTuple. Also I have little Idea what to return from the function. FIBITMAP * is an opaque pointer that I pass to other FreeImage functions, I pretty certain Py_BuildValue("o", dib) is wrong. There is also the function unsigned char *FreeImage_GetBits(FIBITMAP *dib); I and not sure how to return the bits to python. I would probably like to display an image with the gtk function drawable.draw_rgb_image(*gc*, *x*, *y*, *width*, *height*, *dith*, *rgb_buf*, *rowstride*) here the RGB Image data is packed in a string as a sequence of 8-bit RGB pixel triplets but I have no idea how to get from unsigned char * to that. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.
by Engineer May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

I'm looking for a Python interpreter written in BASIC, preferably Visual Basic, and one written in VBA would be best of all. An alternative would be a Python-2-Basic compiler. Unfortunately I have to develop some special purpose code in an organization where my only development environment is Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications. The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be "safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, Cygwin) are "unsafe" and can't be installed. The result is that any software I write must be bootstrapped from MS Office VBA. So, if I want Python, I need a Python interpreter in VBA. If you respond, please send a copy to pcolsen(a)comcast.net

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Reusing object methods?
by Ivan Voras May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

Can this be done: (this example doesn't work) ---- class A: def a_lengthy_method(self, params): # do some work depending only on data in self and params class B: def __init__(self): self.a_lengthy_method = A.a_lengthy_method # I know that data in "self" of class B object is compatible # with that of class A object ---- I want to 'reuse' the same method from class A in class B, and without introducing a common ancestor for both of them - is this possible in an elegant, straightforward way?

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Writing to log file when script is killed
by Harlin Seritt May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

I am looking for a way for my script to write to a log file saying something like this: I was killed at time.asctime() I would like to be able to do this if/when the script is killed by means rather than my own. How in the world would I accomplish this? Thanks, Harlin

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Re: Which IDE is recommended?
by Ville Vainio May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

>>>>> "John" == John J Lee <jjl(a)pobox.com> writes: John> Dave Cook <davecook(a)nowhere.net> writes: John> What are those compelling features of Pydev, for an emacs John> user? http://pydev.sourceforge.net/features.html Code completion and debugger are the most obvious ones. Eclipse itself is also quite a "feature". -- Ville Vainio http://tinyurl.com/2prnb

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Re: Can .py be complied?
by jjl＠pobox.com May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

Steve Holden <steve(a)holdenweb.com> writes: > John J. Lee wrote: [...] > > I'm hesitant to label everybody who disagrees with you (and me) on > > that a zealot. Though I tend to take the same side you do, I'm not [...] > Well, we appear to agree. Please note I wasn't labelling anyone a > zealot, simply implying that I didn't want the discussion to descend > to blind repetitions of principle with no supporting arguments. [...] Sorry, I wasn't reading carefully. I suppose really my thought was directed more at the programming world in general, which often feels free to label free software advocates as loonies (I've been guilty of this myself, I'm sure). Of course, lots of them *are* loonies, but that's beside the point. ;-) John

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compare two voices
by Qiangning Hong May 1, 2005

May 1, 2005

I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want the following function in it: The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software records it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by the teacher, and gives out a score to indicate the similarity between them. This function will help the students pronounce properly, I think. Is there an existing library (C or Python) to do this? Or if someone can guide me to a ready-to-implement algorithm?

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