some random reflections of a "Python newbie": (1) books, and free sites

[Cameron Laird]

In article <82o0to$6eq$1 at serv1.iunet.it>,
Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
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>2. there appear to be no providers of free webspace
>    that will let one put Python scripts behind the pages,
>    while, if one wants to use Perl instead, some can
>    be found -- and I find this to be a real pity.
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How free?  Like Geocities?  On an individual basis, if you
personally just want to put up a few examples that showcase
Python, I'm sure one of us would contribute space on one of
our business machines.  You can join PSA for $50 a year, and
have space on Starship (is that the current arrangement?
Have I *still* not renewed my membership?!?).  If you have
a favorite local Users Group or Freenet, point them our way,
and perhaps we can help them see how much they want to make
Python available on their servers.
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From: Gary Pennington <Gary.Pennington at uk.sun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Weird threading problem under Solaris
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:29:42 +0000
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Hi,

Stephen Norris wrote:
<snip>
> Are there any Solaris experts out there who know what this means? Anyone
> got any idea how to stop it?

Python is masking signals and the OS can't deliver signals to the
appropriate LWP(thread)(s) (man _signotifywait for the full story).

32 is the SIGWAITING signal. 

So, Python is masking out all signals (for some reason) and the
SIGWAITING notifications are being discarded, 0 as the first parameter
to lwp_sigredirect means discard the signal.

What you really need is a Python expert who can explain to you why
signals are being masked for such a long period. I'm no expert, but I
would guess that signals are masked to allow the use of unintteruptable
library calls within Python. At some point, when Python considers it
safe to do so, the masking is removed and signals handled - which allows
your accept to work.

> 
> Any hints or vague suggestions would be appreciated, I've been after this
> one for about a week now :(
> 

Yours,

Gary

From: Wojciech Zabolotny <wzab at ise.pw.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: How to add element to the list in C extension module?
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Darrell wrote:

> If you can use C++, then make your like easy.
> http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/scxx.html

I'd rather prefere to do it in the pure C, due to the portability reasons.
Anyway, what API function should I use to add a new element to the list
or tuple? I tried to use the PySequence_Concat (like below:)
 ob = Py_BuildValue("[]");
 tmp = Py_BuildValue("{s:i,s:i}","as",3,"bc",5);
 ob = PySequence_Concat(ob,tmp); 
 ...

But I get the following error:
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

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