Python web-programming tools: several questions

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Giorgi Lekishvili <gleki at gol.ge> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I wonder if anybody finds time to give me some hints regarding:
> > - which module should be used to generate random names for uploaded
> > files?
>
> I'd just use a simple counter for the filenames. If you must use CGI (yuck!),
> you can for example use a SQL database for storing the counter value. Using a
> decent database backend, you can use sequences for this. In case of MySQL
> (yuck!), you'll have to work around missing features again.

Yeah, I must use CGI. I am trying to figure now out how to make Webware running
for web-hosting purposes, but until this...


>
>
> Another option is to roll your own. Perhaps with time.time() and
> os.path.exists().
>
> > - where is MySQLdb for windows? The links I have seem to be broken
>
> At the same place where you can find the sources and Linux RPMs:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
>
> > - I tried to install PIL for Python22 (on Win: on Linux everything is
> > OK). It won't:( as it can't find tk installation. What's wrong? I must
> > have missed something trivial.
>
> Perhaps you de-selected TKinter when installing Python? Try installing Python
> again with Tkinter enabled (this is the default, anyway).

No, Tkinter works, and Pmw also: installation was pretty easy:)

>
>
> -- Gerhard