bloody freshman question regarding strings

Christian Guenther chris at blaue-elise.net
Sun Jun 23 07:13:52 EDT 2002


Wow, that was quick. Many thanks for the responses. I suppose 
I have to learn a lot about pythons sysntax and way it handles 
objects and stuff.

I always had bit of a problem understanding OO-concepts.

	chris

Am Son, 2002-06-23 um 10.35 schrieb Christian Guenther:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm absolutely new to python - also I'm not a beginner in programming.
> I bought myself a book called "Einführung in python" - should be
> "introduction to python" in the original - by Markus Lutz and David
> Asher published by O'Reilly. This book is good, nevertheless I'm a bit
> in a hurry because I have to write a script that is supposed to populate
> an LDAP-directory for user-authentication. 
> By the way: Is there a module for python -> ldap? 
> 
> My biggest question at the moment is why can't I do something like this:
> 
> def mailmsg(severity message opts target recipient):
> 	# first create the message body
> 	msgbody="computer: " + COMPUTER + "\n
> 	         system:   " + SYSTEMTYPE + "\n
> 		 cpu:      " + CPUTYPE + "\n
> 		 kernel:   " + KERNELVER + "\n
> 		 date:     " + DATE + "\n
> 		 \n
> 		 severity: " + severity + "\n
> 		 message:  " + message + "\n\n"
> 
> 
> I want to generate messages - to concole and to mail-recipients - that
> show the status of user-processing. This message should include all the
> information you see above - they are stored in global vars - a severity
> and of course a message itself. Let alone, it just doesn't work and I
> know I do this in a nodo way, I just don't have alot of time left ;-)
> 
> Could someone point me to the right direction????
> 
> 	chris
> 
> 
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