Mailman 3 November 2007 - python-uk

Cambridge & East Anglia Pub Meeting, 4th Dec
by Tony Ibbs Nov. 26, 2007

Nov. 26, 2007

The second meeting of the Cambridge & East Anglia Python group will be at 8pm on Tuesday 4th December, at the Carlton Arms (http:// www.thecarltonarms.co.uk/) This time we've got an agenda: * when future pub meetings will be held * whether we want to join O'Reilly's discount scheme * some discussion about how we might organise talks (particularly where) Tony Ibbs / Tibs -- tibs(a)tibsnjoan.co.uk http://www.pyconuk.org/community/Cambridge_and_East_of_England http://groups.google.com/group/campug

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What else is running on my machine?
by Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk Nov. 19, 2007

Nov. 19, 2007

Is there a cross-platform of determining what other processes (or in Windows terms, other applications) are running? Is it possible in a cross-platform way to ask some other application to shut down, wait a while, and then test to see if it did shut? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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Where is a Python program running?
by Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk Nov. 19, 2007

Nov. 19, 2007

Under Windows XP, I could have a program running under python.exe or pythonw.exe or under IDLE. How can I test within a python program which of these situations apply? At the moment, for example, I have a program which runs under python.exe because it might produce some output - certainly while writing it there's quite a few inline print statements. I set a flag as soon as any output is produced (whether error messages, intentional trace statements, whatever), and at the end of the program if the flag is set then execute: toldtostop = "" while toldtostop.upper() <> "QQ": toldtostop = raw_input("\nEnter QQ to close window...") If nothing has been printed that's not done, and the console window just shuts. If I were to use pythonw instead, presumably I'd need to find some other way to display output? If I test these programs under IDLE the toldtostop/QQ stuff is just a nuisance, so I'd prefer to be able not to have it run. I suppose that also applied to a.n.other.ide - so is there a general way to test if any ide is in use? There's a possibility that some of what I'm writing may also get run on Mac and/or Linux/Unix systems. Do whatever methods I might use to test what's going on work cross-platform? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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Reading a file of tab-separated values
by Jeremy Nicoll - pyuk Nov. 16, 2007

Nov. 16, 2007

Is there a simple way to read a whole (modest sized, parameter) file of lines of tab-separated lines into one Python data-structure? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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London Python meetup, Wednesday, December the 5th
by Simon Brunning Nov. 13, 2007

Nov. 13, 2007

Details here: http://tinyurl.com/2cvtlq -- Cheers, Simon B. simon(a)brunningonline.net http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ GTalk: simon.brunning | MSN: small_values | Yahoo: smallvalues

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