Help with python code!

[gerrymcgovern at gmail.com]

On Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:21:00 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:06 AM, jojo  wrote:
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> > On Sunday, March 31, 2013 4:39:11 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:10 AM, jojo wrote:
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> >> > Im used to C# so the syntax looks bizarre to me! Any help would be great.
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> >> The first thing you'll need to understand about Python syntax is that
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> >> indentation is important. By posting this code flush-left, you've
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> >> actually destroyed its block structure. Could you post it again, with
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> >> indentation, please? We'd then be in a much better position to help.
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> >> Chris Angelico
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> > Hi Chris, thanks for your reply. See code below...
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> Ah, you appear to be posting from Google Groups. You may want to check
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> this page out, as a lot of people rather dislike GG posts.
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> http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
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> The best method is simply to avoid Google Groups altogether.
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> Anyway, some code comments. (Though the biggest comment to make about
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> the code is its utter lack of comments. Not a good idea in any
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> language, for anything more than the most trivial script.)
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> > current_time = time.time() + 60*60+24*30
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> This line doesn't, quite frankly, make a lot of sense; time.time()
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> returns the current time already, but then an offset of one hour and
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> twelve minutes is added.
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> >    if m:
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> >       sue = time.mktime(
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> >         (int(m.group(7)), int(months[m.group(2)]), int(m.group(3)),
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> >           int(m.group(4)), int(m.group(5)), int(m.group(6)),
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> >           int(days[m.group(1)]), 0, 0)
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> >         )
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> >         expire_time = (sue ­ current_time)/60/60/24
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> Here's a likely problem. There's supposed to be an operator - probably
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> a plus sign - between sue and current_time.
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> >        else:
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> >         m = q.search(line)
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> >         if m:
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> >         cert_name = m.group(1)
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> And this last line needs indentation.
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> The very easiest way to debug Python code is to run it. If it runs,
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> great! See what output it made and whether it's correct or not. If it
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> doesn't, Python will give you an exception traceback that points you
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> to the failing line. Get familiar with them, as you'll be seeing them
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> a lot :)
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> Chris Angelico


Ok, thanks Chris!!