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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