Re: My function here... ;-)

Roger Merchberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...] So -- I'm the self-proclaimed "Bikini Village Idiot!" ;-) [1]

:)

> Now that I have a few hours to tinker (very few... I had 2 days off last 
> month) I'm going to install Bikini on 2 different machines straight from 
> the READMEs and fix anything, no matter how simple, that  might need 
> improvement.

This is actually a critical contribution; many of the inevitable typos,
unstated assumptions, and other sorts of problems cannot be easily found by me
(or Bruce, or ...) because we simply won't notice them, knowing what we/they
actually intended.  Thanks for deciding to put this effort in.

> service=pop3d
> . /usr/lib/qmail/run-functions
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> What *is* that file?

Oops :).  That is actually from Bruce's qmail-1.03+patches SRPM.  It's a
leftover and isn't used in BikINI -- I copied my qmail-pop3d run script and
used it as a template in my earliest tests of the server.  You can safely
delete both of the above lines from the run script.  I've removed them from
the example one in the package now; thanks for your first found bug :).

> Anywho, I'm about 1/3 thru my O'Reilly PHP book I got last week, so by the 
> end of the week, I'll prolly have a Python book on order - I just don't 
> think I can get thru much here without one... Any suggestions?

"Programming Python" is very good, but is dated -- it was written when Python
1.4 was current.  That doesn't mean it's not worth reading; everything you
learn about Python1.4 is still true today (well, very few exceptions).  Most
"new" things in Python are simply more "pythonic" ways of doing things -- for
instance, list comprehensions in Python2.2 can replace most uses of the map
function and lambda functions.

But wasn't Mark updating Programming Python...? ... let me see ...
Yes, there's a second edition, I'd forgotten.  It's updated to Python 2.0.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/
It's really the best book to learn to program Python in.

"Learning Python" is pretty good too, but since you can already program in
other languages, it's a probably a bit more basic than you would want.

> [1] That said, I'm really not an idiot - I can program in almost 20 
> languages {most of 'em dead, /of course/} and troubleshooting is one of the 
> few things I still truly enjoy WRT to computers.
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