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11,538,607 | 2012-07-18T09:46:00.000 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,iis-7,iis-7.5 | 11,539,473 | 3 | true | 1 | 0 | Right click on your website in IIS7 manager and
add a virtual directory
name it with the same name of your folder you want IIS to handle. lets say static
add the path to your real static folder in your application mine was in myproject/static then ok
and here you go :) | 1 | 3 | 0 | I successfully deployed my Django site to IIS7 but I still have problems about how to configure IIS to serve the static files. I tried many many things from the internet but nothing seems to work. Everything is working fine on Django server (manage.py runserver) and with debug = True, but as soon as I turn off debug (d... | What are the problems with loading CSS and JS from Django to IIS7? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2,367 |
11,540,645 | 2012-07-18T11:48:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | java,python,html,symfony,liipfunctionaltestbundle | 26,174,556 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | As noted above:
You need to install JDK, not only JRE. That is because you need java compiler. | 1 | 3 | 0 | I would like to use html5 validator from LiipFunctionalTestBundle in my Symfony2 project.
So, I followed instructions on bundle's github page, but I got this error during python build:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './syntax/relaxng/datatype/java/dist/html5-datatypes.jar'
indeed, there is a "dist" fol... | html5 checker compilation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 218 |
11,542,640 | 2012-07-18T13:32:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,database,django,unit-testing | 11,544,226 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | This is the default behavior of Django's transactional test case to perform a rollback after each test.
There is nothing preventing you, though, to have a module function, test case method or to override TestCase.setUp() to dynamically create test data. In fact, whenever you find yourself duplicating code, like creati... | 1 | 0 | 0 | Currently when I run a set of unit-tests on Django, each test makes its own database. This means that traversing multiple features of the site all require a user sign up, login, etc.. It would be much simpler if they all fetched from the same temporary database - anyway to do this? | How to make Django unit-tests all retrieve from the same test database? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 133 |
11,543,297 | 2012-07-18T14:07:00.000 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,function,global-variables | 11,543,600 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | There's no way to declare them all as global, and you really don't want to. Those 20 variables probably should be turned into an object with 20 attributes instead. | 1 | 28 | 0 | Is there a simple way to make all variables in a function global?
I have 20 odd variables in a function and naming them global one by one doesn't make nice code... to me anyway :) | Make all variables in a Python function global | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27,439 |
11,543,991 | 2012-07-18T14:41:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,numpy,nearest-neighbor | 11,564,801 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | I don't know of anything which provides the functionality you desire out of the box. If you have already written the logic, and it is just slow, have you considered Cython-ing your code. For simple typed looping operations you could get a significant speedup. | 1 | 1 | 1 | I have an array that looks something like:
[0 x1 0 0 y1 0 z1
0 0 x2 0 y2 0 z2
0 0 x3 0 0 y3 z3
0 0 x4 0 0 y4 z4
0 x5 0 0 0 y5 z5
0 0 0 0 y6 0 0]
I need to determine set of connected line (i.e. line that connects to the points [x1,x2,x3..], [y1,y2,y3... | How to determine set of connected line from an array in python | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 526 |
11,544,870 | 2012-07-18T15:27:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,monitoring,timing,sampling | 11,545,079 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | I suspect there are likely several Python packages out there that -help- with what you want. I also suspect Python is not the right tool for that surpose.
There is the timeit module
There is time module with clock() which is NOT a wall clock but a CPU usage clock (for the application initializing the time.clock() objec... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am trying to sample cpu registers every millisecond and calculate the frequency. To have an accurate measurement, I require that the sampling time to be very accurate. I have been using the time.sleep() to achieve this but sleep is not very accurate past 1 second.
What I would like to do is set up a counter and sampl... | Python Accurate Sampling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 182 |
11,545,577 | 2012-07-18T16:03:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,django | 11,550,187 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | Do not add #!/usr/bin/python . Use virtualenv and activate it before running python manage.py your_command . When you will be familiar with virtualenv try virtualenvwrapper. | 1 | 1 | 0 | When I run ./manage.py, I get the following error,
from: can't read /var/mail/os.path
./manage.py: line 4: import: command not found
./manage.py: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `0,'
./manage.py: line 7: `sys.path.insert( 0, abspath( join( dirname( file ), 'external_apps' ) ) )'
What is it!!! How can I resol... | Python path setting error with manage.py | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,723 |
11,545,759 | 2012-07-18T16:11:00.000 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,testing,tdd,bootstrapping | 11,546,149 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | Yes. One of the examples Kent Beck works through in his book "Test Driven Development: By Example" is a test runner. | 2 | 2 | 0 | I am currently writing a new test runner for Django and I'd like to know if it's possible to TDD my test runner using my own test runner. Kinda like compiler bootstrapping where a compiler compiles itself.
Assuming it's possible, how can it be done? | Is it possible to TDD when writing a test runner? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 123 |
11,545,759 | 2012-07-18T16:11:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,testing,tdd,bootstrapping | 11,546,191 | 2 | true | 1 | 0 | Bootstrapping is a cool technique, but it does have a circular-definition problem. How can you write tests with a framework that doesn't exist yet?
Bootstrapping compilers can get around this problem in several ways, but it's my understanding that usually the first implementation isn't bootstrapped. Later bootstraps wo... | 2 | 2 | 0 | I am currently writing a new test runner for Django and I'd like to know if it's possible to TDD my test runner using my own test runner. Kinda like compiler bootstrapping where a compiler compiles itself.
Assuming it's possible, how can it be done? | Is it possible to TDD when writing a test runner? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 123 |
11,547,150 | 2012-07-18T17:37:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | javascript,python,html,file | 11,547,371 | 6 | true | 1 | 0 | You just need to get the data you have in your python code into a form readable by your javascript, right?
Why not just take the data structure, convert it to JSON, and then write a .js file that your .html file includes that is simply var data = { json: "object here" }; | 1 | 1 | 0 | I'm working on automatically generating a local HTML file, and all the relevant data that I need is in a Python script. Without a web server in place, I'm not sure how to proceed, because otherwise I think an AJAX/json solution would be possible.
Basically in python I have a few list and dictionary objects that I need... | How to transfer variable data from Python to Javascript without a web server? | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 10,066 |
11,554,676 | 2012-07-19T05:50:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,database,data-structures,filesystems | 11,554,828 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | I suggest to follow the Unix way. Each file is considered a stream of bytes, nothing more, nothing less. Each file is technically represented by a single structure called i-node (index node) that keeps all information related to the physical stream of the data (including attributes, ownership,...).
The i-node does not... | 1 | 4 | 0 | I have a data organization issue. I'm working on a client/server project where the server must maintain a copy of the client's filesystem structure inside of a database that resides on the server. The idea is to display the filesystem contents on the server side in an AJAX-ified web interface. Right now I'm simply u... | Data structures in python: maintaining filesystem structure within a database | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 1,195 |
11,554,892 | 2012-07-19T06:11:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django | 11,555,375 | 3 | false | 1 | 0 | Usually, for projects that are going to be used by only one installation, I usually name my projects as "who will be using the system" (e.g. the organization's name) and the apps as "major features of the system".
However, if your app is really that simple that you don't expect to be using multiple apps, then django m... | 1 | 17 | 0 | When creating projects which contain just a single app, what are the good ways to name the project?
I can think without any confusion how to name my app but I need a project name for it. (Can i create a app without a project? If yes, Is it good to do that ?)
[Update]
I saw some projects on github which contain single ... | Good ways to name django projects which contain only one app | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6,056 |
11,556,783 | 2012-07-19T08:25:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,sqlite,parallel-processing | 11,557,147 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | Firstly, make sure any relevant indexes are in place to assist in efficient queries -- which may or may not help...
Other than that, SQLite is meant to be a (strangely) lite embedded SQL DB engine - 41 million rows is probably pushing it depending on number and size of columns etc...
You could take your DB and import i... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I have a huge database in sqlite3 of 41 million rows in a table. However, it takes around 14 seconds to execute a single query. I need to significantly improve the access time! Is this a hard disk hardware limit or a processor limit? If it is a processor limit then I think I can use the 8 processors I have to paralleli... | reducing SQLITE3 access time in Python (Parallelization?) | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 204 |
11,559,752 | 2012-07-19T11:20:00.000 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,plone | 11,560,834 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | This can be achieved in two ways, these two methods are differentiated in Step 3:
Step 1: Records are generally written in a line in zinstance.log. (There are some instances where it is written in multiple lines, so you need to handle exceptions). So here you can use readline function to read each record.
Step 2: After... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I created a content rule to run a logger action, when a new content is added viz a file. When I run the view of the zinstance.log file,on linux I see all the logs. I wish to send the output for each logger action separately to another log file, so that it contains log concerned to that rule only where ever applicable i... | Can I format the output of logger action of a content rule as CSV in Plone 4.1? | -0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 85 |
11,561,744 | 2012-07-19T13:18:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,python-3.x,cygwin | 11,573,304 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Ok.one solution i have found is that i can invoke cygwin through command window and then pass instructions using subprocess.However being able to run python 3.2 codes from cygwin would have been more preferable to me rather than the other way round!! | 1 | 1 | 0 | I need to be able to run python 3.2 scripts from cygwin.However,the current setup of cygwin shows it isnt compatible with that.I searched on the internet and saw in some other forums that people have ben unable to do it.Anyone here has any idea how to do it? | Running python 3.2 programs from cygwin(windows 7 user) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 319 |
11,562,279 | 2012-07-19T13:47:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,python-3.x,excel-2007,openpyxl | 11,783,592 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | I believe you can access the font colour by:
colour = ws.cell(row=id,column=id).style.font.color
I am not sure how to access the cell colour though. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am parsing .xlsx files using openpyxl.While writing into the xlsx files i need to maintain the same font colour as well as cell colour as was present in the cells of my input .xlsx files.Any idea how to extract the colour coding from the cell and then implement the same in another excel file.Thanks in advance | How to detect colours and then apply colours while working with .xlsx(excel-2007) files on python 3.2(windows 7) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 116 |
11,562,721 | 2012-07-19T14:11:00.000 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | python,pythonpath | 11,576,705 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | If I set PYTHONPATH to contain that prefix's site-packages directory, the egg is added to sys.path and the module can be imported.
Adding some directory to PYTHONPATH doesn't trigger processing of .pth-files in it. Therefore your zipped egg won't be in sys.path. You can import a module from the egg only if the egg it... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I have a python module packaged by distutils into a zipped egg installed in a custom prefix. If I set PYTHONPATH to contain that prefix's site-packages directory, the egg is added to sys.path and the module can be imported. If I instead from within the script run site.addsitedir with the prefix's site-packages director... | site.addsitedir doesn't add egg to sys.path | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3,434 |
11,564,743 | 2012-07-19T15:58:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | imagemagick,python-imaging-library,jmagick | 12,406,407 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | Do you mean resize to fit in a bounding box? If so, you can use -resize WIDTHxHEIGHT to scale an image to fit within WIDTH and HEIGHT, maintaining the original aspect ratio.
For JMagick, I guess that should translate to some resize() method. | 1 | 1 | 0 | Is there a bounding box function in ImageMagick similar to the one in PIL?
Specifically one I can use with JMagick?
I'm finding it so hard to make the switch from PIL to JMagick - any good documentation out there? I've looked through the java docs and it's just not helping me.
Thanks! | Is there a bounding box function in ImageMagick? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1,197 |
11,565,271 | 2012-07-19T16:30:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python | 36,500,008 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | For clarity to anyone who comes across this old question.
PythonWin's interactive shell window can be cleared by highlighting all the text and then pressing delete just like it were a text editor. | 1 | 1 | 0 | When I use something like Pythonwin I always have to highlight everything in the debugging window and press delete to get rid of everything. Is there a way to make the program autoclear the debug window? | Clearing screen in Python (when using Pythonwin) | 0.132549 | 0 | 0 | 1,178 |
11,565,313 | 2012-07-19T16:32:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,google-app-engine,redirect,jinja2 | 11,565,405 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | The easiest way is to use HTML forms, the POST request for submitting the form should include the values on the submit. | 1 | 7 | 0 | I am relatively new to Python so please excuse any naive questions.
I have a home page with 2 inputs, one for a "product" and one for an "email." When a user clicks submit they should be sent to "/success" where it will say:
You have requested "product"
You will be notified at "email"
I am trying to figure out the best... | passing variables to a template on a redirect in python | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 6,838 |
11,565,662 | 2012-07-19T16:53:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,google-app-engine,jinja2,voting-system | 11,565,728 | 2 | true | 1 | 0 | Store the voting user with the vote, and check for an existing vote by the current user, using your database.
You can perform the check either before you serve the page (and so disable your voting buttons), or when you get the vote attempt (and show some kind of message). You should probably write code to handle both s... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am writing a web app on google app engine with python. I am using jinja2 as a templating engine.
I currently have it set up so that users can upvote and downvote posts but right now they can vote on them as many times as they would like. I simply have the vote record in a database and then calculate it right afte... | how to prevent multiple votes from a single user | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 430 |
11,566,537 | 2012-07-19T17:50:00.000 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql | 11,566,922 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | select top 1 * from tablename order by date_and_time DESC (for sql server)
select * from taablename order by date_and_time DESC limit 1(for mysql) | 2 | 3 | 0 | I have a mysql table with coloumns of name, perf, date_time . How can i retrieve only the most recent MySQL row? | Retrieving only the most recent row in MySQL | -0.033321 | 1 | 0 | 1,336 |
11,566,537 | 2012-07-19T17:50:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql | 11,566,549 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY date, time LIMIT 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | I have a mysql table with coloumns of name, perf, date_time . How can i retrieve only the most recent MySQL row? | Retrieving only the most recent row in MySQL | 0.099668 | 1 | 0 | 1,336 |
11,567,357 | 2012-07-19T18:48:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql | 11,567,806 | 2 | true | 0 | 0 | Quite simple and straightforward solution will be just to poll the latest autoincrement id from your table, and compare it with what you've seen at the previous poll. If it is greater -- you have new data. This is called 'active polling', it's simple to implement and will suffice if you do this not too often. So you ha... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am creating a GUI that is dependent on information from MySQL table, what i want to be able to do is to display a message every time the table is updated with new data. I am not sure how to do this or even if it is possible. I have codes that retrieve the newest MySQL update but I don't know how to have a message ev... | Scanning MySQL table for updates Python | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 1,004 |
11,567,431 | 2012-07-19T18:53:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | python,timeout,jobs,beanstalkd,beanstalkc | 11,570,528 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | Calling beanstalk.reserve(timeout=0) means to wait 0 seconds for a job to become available,
so it'll time out immediately unless a job is already
in the queue when it's called. If you want it never to time out,
use timeout=None (or omit the timeout parameter, since None is the default). | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am using Python 2.7, beanstalkd server with beanstalkc as the client library.
It takes about 500 to 1500 ms to process each job, depending on the size of the job.
I have a cron job that will keep adding jobs to the beanstalkd queue and a "worker" that will run in an infinite loop getting jobs and processing them.
eg... | Getting jobs from beanstalkd - timed out exception | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,433 |
11,570,786 | 2012-07-19T23:28:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,tkinter | 11,580,799 | 3 | true | 0 | 1 | You will have to set this up yourself, but it's definitely possible. You'll simply need to make appropriate bindings for <ButtonPress-1> (identify the item to be dragged), <ButtonRelease-1> (implement the drop), and <B1-Motion> (provide feedback during the drag) | 2 | 5 | 0 | I can see how to cut and paste nodes in a tree or move them up and down using buttons or key bindings. Is there a way to implement dragging and dropping nodes around the treeview? | tkinter treeview - drag and drop? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 4,459 |
11,570,786 | 2012-07-19T23:28:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,tkinter | 41,599,442 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | Could not leave comment on solution so added my 50c here:
to resolve the issue dragging via multilevel tree up and down, you need to specify the parent ID when moving, as per line below:
tv.move(s, tv.identify_row(event.y), moveto)
this might be usefull for someone... | 2 | 5 | 0 | I can see how to cut and paste nodes in a tree or move them up and down using buttons or key bindings. Is there a way to implement dragging and dropping nodes around the treeview? | tkinter treeview - drag and drop? | 0.26052 | 0 | 0 | 4,459 |
11,573,261 | 2012-07-20T05:13:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,virtualenv | 22,811,410 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | If you want to run a program outside of the virtualenv, just run your system python executable (e.g. /usr/bin/python) instead of the one in the virtualenv. | 3 | 10 | 0 | For activation there is a script that activates a virtualenv from an already running python interpeter using execfile('C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py', dict(__file__='C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py')). However since I can still import packages that are not in the virtualenv from the curren... | How to activate/deactivate a virtualenv from python code? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,178 |
11,573,261 | 2012-07-20T05:13:00.000 | -3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,virtualenv | 11,573,607 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | This souds like bad idea. You are trying to modify environment of your script within this script. Please explain why?
Can't you do it hierarchical? Use one script to run different scripts in different virtualenvs. | 3 | 10 | 0 | For activation there is a script that activates a virtualenv from an already running python interpeter using execfile('C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py', dict(__file__='C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py')). However since I can still import packages that are not in the virtualenv from the curren... | How to activate/deactivate a virtualenv from python code? | -0.148885 | 0 | 0 | 6,178 |
11,573,261 | 2012-07-20T05:13:00.000 | -4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,virtualenv | 18,660,299 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | at the command line, type the word 'deactivate' | 3 | 10 | 0 | For activation there is a script that activates a virtualenv from an already running python interpeter using execfile('C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py', dict(__file__='C:/path/to/virtualev/Scripts/activate_this.py')). However since I can still import packages that are not in the virtualenv from the curren... | How to activate/deactivate a virtualenv from python code? | -1 | 0 | 0 | 6,178 |
11,574,025 | 2012-07-20T06:35:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-views | 11,576,960 | 3 | true | 1 | 0 | Runing a script from the javascript is not a clean way to do it, because the user can close the browser, disable js ... etc. instead you can use django-celery, it let you run backgroud scripts and you can check to status of the script dynamically from a middleware. Good luck | 1 | 0 | 0 | Lets say I have a view page(request) which loads page.html.
Now after successfully loading page.html, I want to automatically run a python script behind the scene 10 - 15 sec after the page.html loaded. How it is possible?
Also, is it possible to show the status of the script dynamically (running/ stopped/ Syntax Erro... | How to invoke a python script after successfully running a Django view | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 382 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 11,575,518 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | I suggest using configuration files for that and to not version them.
You can however version examples of the files.
I don't see any problem of sharing development settings. By definition it should contain no valuable data. | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 11,576,543 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | EDIT: I assume you want to keep track of your previous passwords versions - say, for a script that would prevent password reusing etc.
I think GnuPG is the best way to go - it's already used in one git-related project (git-annex) to encrypt repository contents stored on cloud services. GnuPG (gnu pgp) provides a very s... | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 0.047024 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 11,666,554 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | Encrypt the passwords file, using for example GPG. Add the keys on your local machine and on your server. Decrypt the file and put it outside your repo folders.
I use a passwords.conf, located in my homefolder. On every deploy this file gets updated. | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 0.023525 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 11,689,937 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | Provide a way to override the config
This is the best way to manage a set of sane defaults for the config you checkin without requiring the config be complete, or contain things like hostnames and credentials. There are a few ways to override default configs.
Environment variables (as others have already mentioned) ar... | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 0.035279 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 49,701,069 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | This is what I do:
Keep all secrets as env vars in $HOME/.secrets (go-r perms) that $HOME/.bashrc sources (this way if you open .bashrc in front of someone, they won't see the secrets)
Configuration files are stored in VCS as templates, such as config.properties stored as config.properties.tmpl
The template files cont... | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 0.023525 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,575,398 | 2012-07-20T08:11:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,django,git,version-control | 11,713,674 | 17 | false | 1 | 0 | You could use EncFS if your system provides that. Thus you could keep your encrypted data as a subfolder of your repository, while providing your application a decrypted view to the data mounted aside. As the encryption is transparent, no special operations are needed on pull or push.
It would however need to mount th... | 6 | 140 | 0 | I keep important settings like the hostnames and ports of development and production servers in my version control system. But I know that it's bad practice to keep secrets (like private keys and database passwords) in a VCS repository.
But passwords--like any other setting--seem like they should be versioned. So what ... | How can I save my secret keys and password securely in my version control system? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36,273 |
11,576,502 | 2012-07-20T09:21:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,gmail,password-protection | 11,576,535 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Have the script request the password when running.
Note, I wouldn't advise that it accept the password as a command line argument as this isn't very secure because it will be logged in the command history etc. | 2 | 2 | 0 | I have a script which will log into a STMP server (GMail's) to send an email notification. How can I do this without distributing the password in plain text? | Distribute a script, but protect the password | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 168 |
11,576,502 | 2012-07-20T09:21:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,gmail,password-protection | 11,576,594 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | check if your provider offers an smtp server that doesn't require authentication and use that instead. | 2 | 2 | 0 | I have a script which will log into a STMP server (GMail's) to send an email notification. How can I do this without distributing the password in plain text? | Distribute a script, but protect the password | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168 |
11,579,009 | 2012-07-20T12:04:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,reminders | 11,579,056 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | You could simply have the alarm thread sleep until the next event. This will necessitate waking that thread when a new event is inserted earlier than the current earliest event. | 2 | 1 | 0 | I want to code a reminder program in python. I don't really have much experience, but I was thinking of a few ideas. My main way of doing this would be with a timer from the thread module that ran every second, and have it look through all reminders and stopwatch see if the time matches any of these reminders, but this... | Best way to code a reminder / stopwatch program in python? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1,745 |
11,579,009 | 2012-07-20T12:04:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,reminders | 11,579,097 | 2 | true | 0 | 0 | If you keep your reminders sorted, you only really need to check the next one in the list every second.
Also, you don't have to check every second - you can take longer naps, when you know nothing is going to happen for a few hours - just be sure to wake up, when a new reminder is set ;) | 2 | 1 | 0 | I want to code a reminder program in python. I don't really have much experience, but I was thinking of a few ideas. My main way of doing this would be with a timer from the thread module that ran every second, and have it look through all reminders and stopwatch see if the time matches any of these reminders, but this... | Best way to code a reminder / stopwatch program in python? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,745 |
11,579,232 | 2012-07-20T12:19:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-1.4 | 11,582,196 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | Think of it in the same way that you would use any 3rd-party app in your project. "Re-usable" doesn't mean "without dependencies". On the contrary, you'd be hard-pressed to find an app that doesn't have at least one dependency, even if it's just dependent on Django or core Python libraries. (While core Python libraries... | 2 | 22 | 0 | I try my best to write reusable Django apps. Now I'm puzzled how to put them all together to get the final project.
Here is an example of what I mean:
I have a picture app that stores, resizes and displays images. Also I have a weblog app that stores, edits and displays texts. Now I want to combine these two to show bl... | How to bind multiple reusable Django apps together? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5,702 |
11,579,232 | 2012-07-20T12:19:00.000 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-1.4 | 11,579,395 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | This is a good question, and something I find quite difficult to manage also. But - do you imagine these applications being released publicly, or are you only using them yourself? If you're not releasing, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
The other thing is, dependencies are fine to have. The pictures app in your exa... | 2 | 22 | 0 | I try my best to write reusable Django apps. Now I'm puzzled how to put them all together to get the final project.
Here is an example of what I mean:
I have a picture app that stores, resizes and displays images. Also I have a weblog app that stores, edits and displays texts. Now I want to combine these two to show bl... | How to bind multiple reusable Django apps together? | 0.244919 | 0 | 0 | 5,702 |
11,579,652 | 2012-07-20T12:44:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,mks | 12,109,258 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Before starting Python and using os.getcwd(), in your console you probably used "cd c:\your_path". It matters if this 'c' is lower or upper. | 1 | 1 | 0 | On Windows if i use MKS toolkit shell, os.getcwd() function returns value in lower case. However on using windows cmd, it returned exact path.
Is it possible in Python by any means for os.getcwd() to return the exact path (without converting to lower case on Windows)? | Python prevent os.getcwd() to give lower case results on windows using MKS shell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 402 |
11,584,856 | 2012-07-20T18:18:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,numpy | 11,585,354 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | I could be wrong, but it seems to me like your issue is having repeated occurrences, thus doing the same conversion more times than necessary. IF that interpretation is correct, the most efficient method would depend on how many repeats there are. If you have 100,000 repeats out of 1.7 million, then writing 1.6 milli... | 1 | 1 | 1 | I have to read a very large (1.7 million records) csv file to a numpy record array. Two of the columns are strings that need to be converted to datetime objects. Additionally, one column needs to be the calculated difference between those datetimes.
At the moment I made a custom iterator class that builds a list of lis... | How to efficiently convert dates in numpy record array? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 420 |
11,585,494 | 2012-07-20T19:04:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | mysql,python-2.7 | 11,585,571 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Without doing something like replicating database A onto the same server as database B and then doing the JOIN, this would not be possible. | 2 | 0 | 0 | Database A resides on server server1, while database B resides on server server2.
Both servers {A, B} are physically close to each other, but are on different machines and have different connection parameters (different username, different password etc).
In such a case, is it possible to perform a join between a table ... | MySQL Joins Between Databases On Different Servers Using Python? | 0 | 1 | 0 | 214 |
11,585,494 | 2012-07-20T19:04:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | mysql,python-2.7 | 11,585,697 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | I don't know python, so I'm going to assume that when you do a query it comes back to python as an array of rows.
You could query table A and after applying whatever filters you can, return that result to the application. Same to table B. Create a 3rd Array, loop through A, and if there is a joining row in B, add that ... | 2 | 0 | 0 | Database A resides on server server1, while database B resides on server server2.
Both servers {A, B} are physically close to each other, but are on different machines and have different connection parameters (different username, different password etc).
In such a case, is it possible to perform a join between a table ... | MySQL Joins Between Databases On Different Servers Using Python? | 0 | 1 | 0 | 214 |
11,585,886 | 2012-07-20T19:35:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python | 11,585,951 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | It effectively creates a copy. It doesn't actually create a copy. The main difference between having two copies and having two names share the same value is that, in the latter case, modifications via one name affect the value of the other name. If the value can't be mutated, this difference disappears, so for immut... | 1 | 15 | 0 | On p.35 of "Python Essential Reference" by David Beazley, he first states:
For immutable data such as strings, the interpreter aggressively
shares objects between different parts of the program.
However, later on the same page, he states
For immutable objects such as numbers and strings, this assignment
effecti... | Does assigning another variable to a string make a copy or increase the reference count | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7,377 |
11,587,845 | 2012-07-20T22:40:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql,ssh,password-protection | 11,588,240 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | In my opinion using key authentication is the best and safest in my opinion for the SSH part and is easy to implement.
Now to the meat of your question. You want to store these keys, or passwords, into a database and still be able to use them. This requires you to have a master password that can decrypt them from said... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I'm working on my Thesis where the Python application that connects to other linux servers over SSH is implemented. The question is about storing the passwords in the database (whatever kind, let's say MySQL for now). For sure keeping them not encrypted is a bad idea. But what can I do to feel comfortable with storing ... | Storing encrypted passwords storage for remote linux servers | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 454 |
11,589,862 | 2012-07-21T05:55:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,google-app-engine | 11,595,724 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | You can use remote shell, that is on your app engine sdk.
For example
~/bin/google_appengine/remote_api_shell.py -s your-app-identifier.appspot.com s~your-app-identifier
When you are inside the shell, you will have the db module enabled. in order to use your models, you will have to import them. | 1 | 0 | 0 | Is there some way I can run custom python code on my google appengine app online? Is there a python console somewhere that I can use? I've seen vague references here and there, but nothing concrete. | GAE - Online admin console | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172 |
11,590,033 | 2012-07-21T06:37:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,openerp,identifier | 11,600,778 | 3 | false | 1 | 0 | Apply your filter and change number of visible records to unlimited (press on the field [1 to 80] of 4000 which is on the right top corner of you product tree view). | 1 | 1 | 0 | I have created a function to export data of selected record to a csv file. For example I have opened the product tree view, there are so many filters, I have selected 'service products filter' showing 5 products, then I click on the action and then the export button in my export wizard, these 5 products shown in the tr... | Get all IDs in context that come under the active filters in openerp | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 753 |
11,590,082 | 2012-07-21T06:48:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,sqlite,timezone,dst | 21,014,456 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | you can try this code, I am in Taiwan , so I add 8 hours:
DateTime('now','+8 hours') | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am using python and sqlite3 to handle a website. I need all timezones to be in localtime, and I need daylight savings to be accounted for. The ideal method to do this would be to use sqlite to set a global datetime('now') to be +10 hours.
If I can work out how to change sqlite's 'now' with a command, then I was going... | sqlite timezone now | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 3,357 |
11,590,258 | 2012-07-21T07:19:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,debian,subprocess,scapy | 39,337,469 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | In the spot where you put the command airodump-ng replace that part with timeout 'X's airodump-ng mon'X' | 1 | 0 | 0 | is there a way to use python2.6 with either subprocess.Popen() or os.system() to run two tasks? Example the script will run "airodump-ng" first then this process is sub and is hidden(meaning will not print out from terminal) after which continue run the rest of the script which contain "sniff" function of scapy. I been... | Python: Hide sub-process print out on the terminal and continue the script while sub is running | 0 | 0 | 0 | 665 |
11,590,597 | 2012-07-21T08:14:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,view,model,constants | 11,590,623 | 2 | true | 1 | 0 | You can put it in const.py and import it in view as well as model. | 2 | 2 | 0 | How can I define a constant so it would be available in views.py and models.py? | How can I define a constant for model and view in Django | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,193 |
11,590,597 | 2012-07-21T08:14:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,view,model,constants | 11,596,732 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | It's very likely that views.py will import models.py, so normally it's recommended to put in models.py constants and any other code to be used from views.py, forms.py or any other module inside your app. | 2 | 2 | 0 | How can I define a constant so it would be available in views.py and models.py? | How can I define a constant for model and view in Django | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,193 |
11,591,087 | 2012-07-21T09:41:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,macos,terminal | 11,595,693 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | Automator is great for this.
Your one-line command, as an automator service, could be run from a keystroke.
You can also make a terminal profile that runs the command when the profile is launched.
You could also use applescript editor and make a (relatively simple) applescript that does the 'do script' command, to run ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am writing a Mac program in python that will run in terminal, and have a start.command file to start it up:
#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
exec python "$(dirname "$0")/xavier_root/xavier_I-nil-nil.py"
I was wondering though, if there would be a way to create a .app that would start up this program instead, so that ... | Writing a simple Mac App to start a python document | 0.379949 | 0 | 0 | 115 |
11,592,433 | 2012-07-21T13:05:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,terminal,osx-lion,infinite-loop | 11,592,469 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | CTRL + Z sends to background, CTRL + C is to kill. However I am talking Linux here and Mac might be something different. | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am testing a Log-parser that does a infinite loop (on purpose) with a cool down of 3 seconds every recurrence.
Eventually I will link all the data to a GUI front-end so I can call a stop to the loop when the user is ready with parsing.
The (small) problem now is, when testing the output in the Terminal (in OSX) when ... | keyboard interrupt doesn't stop my interpreter | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 6,153 |
11,594,044 | 2012-07-21T16:47:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,wxpython | 11,613,711 | 1 | true | 0 | 1 | Not to my knowledge. Just keep track of the currently selected item's placement in the list and update it by incrementing or decrementing it. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am making a music player in python/wxpython. I have a listbox with all the songs, and the music player plays the selected song. I am now trying to make a "next button" to select the next item in the listbox and play it. How would I go about doing that? Is there something like GetNextString() or something along those ... | how to select next item of wxlistbox in wxpython? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
11,596,371 | 2012-07-21T22:34:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python | 47,405,074 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Yes its the same behaviour in python3 as well | 1 | 20 | 0 | Okay, I got this concept of a class that would allow other classes to import classes on as basis versus if you use it you must import it. How would I go about implementing it? Or, does the Python interpreter already do this in a way? Does it destroy classes not in use from memory, and how so?
I know C++/C are very mem... | How Does Python Memory Management Work? | 0.07983 | 0 | 0 | 40,778 |
11,596,623 | 2012-07-21T23:30:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,string,unicode,decode,encode | 11,596,674 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | Yes, a byte string is an octet string. Encoding and decoding happens when inputting / outputting text (from/to the console, files, the network, ...). Your console may use UTF-8 internally, your web server serves latin-1, and certain file formats need strange encodings like Bibtex's accents: fran\c{c}aise. You need to c... | 1 | 16 | 0 | I tried to understand by myself encode and decode in Python but nothing is really clear for me.
str.encode([encoding,[errors]])
str.decode([encoding,[errors]])
First, I don't understand the need of the "encoding" parameter in these two functions.
What is the output of each function, its encoding? What is the use of t... | I don't understand encode and decode in Python (2.7.3) | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 27,107 |
11,597,835 | 2012-07-22T04:49:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql | 11,919,262 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | I would imagine MySQL has some sort of 'set' logic in it, but if it's lacking, I know Python has sets, so I'll use an example of those in my solution:
Create a set with the numbers of the winning ticket:
winners = set({11, 22, 33, 44, 55})
For each query, jam all it's numbers into a set too:
current_user = set({$query... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am looking for a method of checking all the fields in a MySQL table. Let's say I have a MySQL table with the fields One Two Three Four Five and Big One. These are fields that contains numbers that people enter in, sort of like the Mega Millions. Users enter numbers and it inserts the numbers they picked from least to... | Python MySQL Number Matching | 0 | 1 | 0 | 82 |
11,597,892 | 2012-07-22T05:08:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | java,python,hardware,keystroke,simulate | 11,598,099 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | I'm not on a Windows box to test it against MouseKeys, so no guarantees that it will work, but have you tried AutoHotkey? | 1 | 11 | 0 | I'm looking for a language or library to allow me to simulate key strokes at the maximum level possible, without physically pressing the key.
(My specific measure of the level of the keystroke is whether or not it will produce the same output as a physical Key Press when my computer is already running key listeners (... | Simulate Key Press at hardware level - Windows | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14,658 |
11,599,942 | 2012-07-22T11:35:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,wxpython | 11,603,933 | 1 | false | 0 | 1 | Change the color and use wxTimerEvent to set the delay until you change it back in the event handler. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am using a wx.grid in Python to display stock prices. After the value of a cell changes, I want to change the background and font color for a short period, say 0.5 seconds and then change it back to its original colors. If I do this in a straightforward way, I just change both colors, do a time.sleep(0.5) and change ... | How to let a cell blink for a configurable time in wx.grid when the value changes? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 118 |
11,600,364 | 2012-07-22T12:38:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | java,android,python,sl4a | 12,758,628 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | I have developed Android Apps on the market, coded in Python. Downsides:
Thus far my users must download the interpreter as well, but they are immediately prompted to do so. (UPDATE: See comment below.)
The script does not exit properly, so I include a webView page that asks them to goto:Settings:Apps:ForceClose if ... | 1 | 28 | 0 | I am getting ready to start a little Android development and need to choose a language. I know Python but would have to learn Java. I'd like to know from those of you who are using Python on Android what the limitations are. Also, are there any benefits over Java? | What are the limitations of Python on Android? | 0.26052 | 0 | 0 | 20,495 |
11,600,374 | 2012-07-22T12:39:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | python,unit-testing,google-app-engine | 11,600,406 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | I have a post deploy script for the staging environment that just does curl on the urls to validate they are all there. If this script passes (among other things) I will deploy from staging to production. | 1 | 1 | 0 | I have quite a few static files used in my Google App Engine application (CSS, robots.txt, etc.) They are all defined in app.yaml.
I want to have some automated tests that check whether those definitions in app.yaml are valid and my latest changes didn't brake anything. E.g. check that specific URLs return correct resp... | How to write tests for static routes defined in app.yaml? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 120 |
11,601,703 | 2012-07-22T15:51:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,c,repr | 11,601,779 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | The most simple way would be printf()/sprintf() with the %x and %X format specifiers. | 1 | 5 | 0 | for the most part I work in Python, and as such I have developed a great appreciation for the repr() function which when passed a string of arbitrary bytes will print out it's human readable hex format. Recently I have been doing some work in C and I am starting to miss the python repr function. I have been searching o... | Python style repr for char * buffer in c? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,147 |
11,601,907 | 2012-07-22T16:15:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,pinax | 14,173,262 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | Profiles are meant to be used for public data, or data you'd share with other people and is also more descriptive in nature.
Account data are more like settings for you account that drive certain behavior (language or timezone settings) that are private to you and that control how various aspects of the site (or other ... | 1 | 2 | 0 | What's the difference between pinax.apps.accounts and the idios profiles app that were installed with the profiles base project?
As I understand it, the contrib.auth should be just for authentication purpose (i.e. username and password), and the existence of User.names and User.email in the auth model is historical an... | Difference between pinax.apps.accounts, idios profiles, and django.auth.User | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 674 |
11,602,817 | 2012-07-22T18:18:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,module,sage | 11,603,378 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | Okay, here's what's going on:
You can only import files ending with .py (ignoring .py[co]) These are standard Python files and aren't preparsed, so 1/3 == int(0), not QQ(1)/QQ(3), and you don't have the equivalent of a from sage.all import * to play with.
You can load and attach both .py and .sage files (as well as .p... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I have Sage 4.7.1 installed and have run into an odd problem. Many of my older scripts that use functions like deepcopy() and uniq() no longer recognize them as global names. I have been able to fix this by importing the python modules one by one, but this is quite tedious. But when I start the command-line Sage int... | python modules missing in sage | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 784 |
11,603,136 | 2012-07-22T18:59:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,mysql,hash,passwords | 11,603,255 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | You can use MySQL's ENCODE(), DES_ENCRYPT() or AES_ENCRYPT() functions, and store the keys used to encrypt in a secure location. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I'm making a company back-end that should include a password-safe type feature. Obviously the passwords needs to be plain text so the users can read them, or at least "reversible" to plain text somehow, so I can't use hashes.
Is there anything more secure I can do than just placing the passwords in plain-text into the ... | What security measures can I take to secure passwords that can't be hashed in a database? | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 105 |
11,604,256 | 2012-07-22T21:52:00.000 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,windows,linux,directory | 26,087,266 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | if you use os.path.join to create the directory string you will correctly writes the path depending on the environment you are in.
then you can use os.path.isdir, as suggested above. to verify if the string points to an existing directory | 1 | 3 | 0 | I have a program in python 2.7 that is writing certain files and directories base on user input. I need to make sure that the files and directories are valid for both linux and windows as the files will be exchanged through the two operating systems. The files will originally be created in linux and manual moved to w... | check to see if a directory is valid in Python | -0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 4,550 |
11,604,548 | 2012-07-22T22:38:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,blender | 12,752,197 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | It is likely that drawcar.py is trying to perform pyOpenGL commands inside Blender, and that won't work without modification. I suspect you are getting some import errors too (if you look at the command console). Blender has it's own internal python wrapper for opengl called bgl, which does include a lot of the opengl... | 1 | 40 | 0 | I installed Blender 2.6 and I'm trying to run a script called drawcar.py (Which uses PyOpenGL)
I looked around the documentation for importing a script and could only access Blender's python console.
How do I run drawcar.py from the Linux terminal with Blender? | Running python script in Blender | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87,536 |
11,604,888 | 2012-07-22T23:39:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,unit-testing,sockets,fixtures | 11,604,901 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | I would do it like this:
Make all of your tests derive from your own TestCase class, let's call it SynapticTestCase.
In SynapticTestCase.setUp(), examine an environment variable to determine whether to set the socket timeout or not.
Run your entire test suite twice, once with the environment variable set one way, then... | 1 | 13 | 0 | I'm working on a module using sockets with hundreds of test cases. Which is nice. Except now I need to test all of the cases with and without socket.setdefaulttimeout( 60 )... Please don't tell me cut and paste all the tests and set/remove a default timeout in setup/teardown.
Honestly, I get that having each test case ... | python unittests with multiple setups? | 0.158649 | 0 | 0 | 5,608 |
11,606,873 | 2012-07-23T05:24:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | java,c++,python,user-interface | 11,606,887 | 2 | false | 0 | 1 | Take a look at MonoDevelop. Allows you to develop in C# and deploy to both Linux and Windows. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I need to develop a GUI that works on both Windows and Linux, for a back-end that's written in C++ and runs on Linux only.
I'm aware that I would need to use a wrapper (like Swig) if I opt for Java or Python but then again they're known to produce better GUIs than C++.
What would you suggest as the better option (for a... | Better language for developing GUI? | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 259 |
11,607,387 | 2012-07-23T06:24:00.000 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,c,api,pandas | 11,610,785 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | All the pandas classes (TimeSeries, DataFrame, DatetimeIndex etc.) have pure-Python definitions so there isn't a C API. You might be best off passing numpy ndarrays from C to your Python code and letting your Python code construct pandas objects from them.
If necessary you could use PyObject_CallFunction etc. to call ... | 1 | 20 | 1 | I'm extracting mass data from a legacy backend system using C/C++ and move it to Python using distutils. After obtaining the data in Python, I put it into a pandas DataFrame object for data analysis. Now I want to go faster and would like to avoid the second step.
Is there a C/C++ API for pandas to create a DataFrame ... | Is there a C/C++ API for python pandas? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 28,186 |
11,607,571 | 2012-07-23T06:42:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | linux,wxpython,fedora,gnome-3,gdi | 11,617,941 | 1 | false | 0 | 1 | I think the recommended way to paint is with the newer wx.GCDC with a fallback to the wx.PaintDC. If you need advanced drawing, see FloatCanvas, cairo or the glcanvas. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am writing an app which draws text and shapes in a ClientDC of a Frame. When I run the app under my Fedora 16(Gnome 3) nothing is drawn in the Frame, but if I run it under Windows all drawings display normally.
I've tried using WindowDC to do the drawing on, but it is not different to ClientDC under Fedora. I can onl... | ClientDC and WindowDC do not draw under Fedora 16 Gnome 3, only PaintDC | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 76 |
11,609,027 | 2012-07-23T08:38:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python | 11,609,213 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | This is certainly subjective, but I would try to observe the principle of least surprise.
If the values you return describe the characteristics of an object (like point.x and point.y in your example), then I would use a class.
If they are not part of the same object, (let's say return min, max) then they should be a t... | 1 | 5 | 0 | I like to do some silly stuff with python like solving programming puzzles, writing small scripts etc. Each time at a certain point I'm facing a dilemma whether I should create a new class to represent my data or just use quick and dirty and go with all values packed in a list or tuple. Due to extreme laziness and pers... | How to decide when to introduce a new type instead of using list or tuple? | 0.132549 | 0 | 0 | 119 |
11,609,339 | 2012-07-23T08:59:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,virtualenv | 11,609,403 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | I'd recommend always using virtualenv, because it makes your environment more reproducible -- you can version your dependencies alongside your application, you're not tied to the versions of the python packages in your system repository, and if you need to replicate your environment elsewhere, you can do that even if y... | 1 | 1 | 0 | If we just want to host single django application on a VPS or some cloud instance, is it still benefitial to use virtualenv ?
Or will it be an overkill , and better to use global python setup instead, as only one django application say Project X , will be hosted on that server ?
Does virtualenv provide any major benefi... | Is virtualenv recommended even for single django based application on a server? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 91 |
11,609,943 | 2012-07-23T09:37:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,forms,model | 11,610,267 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | Generally models represent business entities which may be stored in some persistent storage (usually relational DB). Forms are used to render HTML forms which may retreive data from users.
Django supports creating forms on the basis of models (using ModelForm class). Forms may be used to fetch data which should be save... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I'm currently working on a model that has been already built and i need to add some validation managment. (accessing to two fields and checking data, nothing too dramatic)
I was wondering about the exact difference between models and forms at a validation point of view and if i would be able to just make a clean method... | Difference between Model and Form validation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,664 |
11,611,002 | 2012-07-23T10:45:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,bash | 11,611,070 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | In a Bash-script, you could redirect the output to a file, and if the length of the file is zero then there was no output. | 1 | 0 | 0 | There is an external program A.
I want to write a script that does some action if the called external program A does not bring up any output(stout).
How is this possible in bash or python? | python or bash script that does something when there is no response(output) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 |
11,611,351 | 2012-07-23T11:10:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,module,daemon | 11,614,012 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | You could perhaps consider to create a pool of python daemon processes?
Their purpose would be to serve one request and to die afterwards.
You would have to write a pool-manager that ensures that there are always X daemon processes waiting for an incoming request. (X being the number of waiting daemon processes: depend... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am working on a web service that requires user input python code to be executed on my server (we have checks for code injection). I have to import a rather large module so I would like to make sure that I am not starting up python and importing the module from scratch each time something runs (it takes about 4-6s). ... | User Input Python Script Executing Daemon | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 477 |
11,612,663 | 2012-07-23T12:35:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,dll,ctypes,foxpro,visual-foxpro | 11,613,687 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Try removing the parentheses from the call to the function. Change print link.get_input_out("someinput") to print link.get_input_out "someinput". | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am trying to use the python ctypes library to access various functions in a COM DLL created in Visual Fox Pro (from a .prg file).
Here is an example in fox pro (simplified from the actual code)
DEFINE CLASS Testing AS CUSTOM OLEPUBLIC
PROCEDURE INIT
ON ERROR
SET CONSOLE OFF
SET NOTIFY OF... | Using Python ctypes to access a Visual Foxpro COM DLL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 740 |
11,615,449 | 2012-07-23T15:17:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,linux,multithreading,load | 11,617,105 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | If you find this irritating, set your preferences (specifically, the preferences of your System Monitor or equivalent tool) to enable "Solaris Mode," which calculates CPU% as a proportion of total processing power, not the proportion of a single core's processing power. | 3 | 3 | 0 | I am currently doing some I/O intensive load-testing using python. All my program does is to send HTTP requests as fast as possible to my target server.
To manage this, I use up to 20 threads as I'm essentially bound to I/O and remote server limitations.
According to 'top', CPython uses a peak of 130% CPU on my dual co... | Python interpreters uses up to 130% of my CPU. How is that possible? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,861 |
11,615,449 | 2012-07-23T15:17:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,linux,multithreading,load | 11,615,563 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | That is possible in situations when used C-extension library call releases GIL and does some further processing in the background. | 3 | 3 | 0 | I am currently doing some I/O intensive load-testing using python. All my program does is to send HTTP requests as fast as possible to my target server.
To manage this, I use up to 20 threads as I'm essentially bound to I/O and remote server limitations.
According to 'top', CPython uses a peak of 130% CPU on my dual co... | Python interpreters uses up to 130% of my CPU. How is that possible? | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 1,861 |
11,615,449 | 2012-07-23T15:17:00.000 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,linux,multithreading,load | 11,615,490 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | 100 percent in top refer to a single core. On a dual-core machine, you have up to 200 per cent available.
A single single-threaded process can only make use of a single core, so it is limited to 100 percent. Since your process has several threads, nothing is stopping it from making use of both cores.
The GIL only pre... | 3 | 3 | 0 | I am currently doing some I/O intensive load-testing using python. All my program does is to send HTTP requests as fast as possible to my target server.
To manage this, I use up to 20 threads as I'm essentially bound to I/O and remote server limitations.
According to 'top', CPython uses a peak of 130% CPU on my dual co... | Python interpreters uses up to 130% of my CPU. How is that possible? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,861 |
11,616,994 | 2012-07-23T16:56:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,sorl-thumbnail | 11,617,059 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | That must have been a very old version of sorl-thumbnail you were using. I'm not sure what that field actually did for you, but now all you have is ImageField. It serves to automatically update the thumbnail registry if you change or delete it and adds a thumbnail of the assigned image next to the form field in the adm... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I'm struggling with ImageWithThumbnailsField which seems deprecated. What should I use instead? I don't want to rewrite large parts of my project as I'm doing only slight bugfixing and updating...
Error I'm getting:
File "/var/www/project/images/models.py", line 6, in
from sorl.thumbnail.fields import ImageWit... | What should I use instead of deprecated ImageWithThumbnailsField of django-sorl? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 579 |
11,621,991 | 2012-07-23T23:26:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,console | 16,800,484 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Perhaps you should look into the multiprocessing or multi-threading modules. These help you spawn off child processes from your original (parent) program. | 1 | 1 | 0 | Is there a way to open a second python console and let the new console run while the original console keeps going and when the new console finishes it sends back its data, in the form of a variable back to the original console? | Open second Python console | 0.07983 | 0 | 0 | 2,034 |
11,622,652 | 2012-07-24T00:50:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,pandas,sas | 42,165,467 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | You can use Pytable rather than pandas df.
It is designed for large data sets and the file format is in hdf5.
So the processing time is relatively fast. | 1 | 96 | 1 | I am exploring switching to python and pandas as a long-time SAS user.
However, when running some tests today, I was surprised that python ran out of memory when trying to pandas.read_csv() a 128mb csv file. It had about 200,000 rows and 200 columns of mostly numeric data.
With SAS, I can import a csv file into a SA... | Large, persistent DataFrame in pandas | 0.033321 | 0 | 0 | 76,790 |
11,625,450 | 2012-07-24T06:41:00.000 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | c++,python,math | 11,625,468 | 7 | true | 0 | 0 | I guess it is safe to say that C++ is faster. Simply because it is a compiled language which means that only your code is running, not an interpreter as with python.
It is possible to write very fast code with python and very slow code with C++ though. So you have to program wisely in any language!
Another advantage i... | 4 | 2 | 0 | I'm debating whether to use C++ or Python for a largely math-based program.
Both have great math libraries, but which language is generally faster for complex math? | C++ or Python for an Extensive Math Program? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3,134 |
11,625,450 | 2012-07-24T06:41:00.000 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | c++,python,math | 11,625,521 | 7 | false | 0 | 0 | You could also consider a hybrid approach. Python is generally easier and faster to develop in, specially for things like user interface, input/output etc.
C++ should certainly be faster for some math operations (although if your problem can be formulated in terms of vector operations or linear algebra than numpy prov... | 4 | 2 | 0 | I'm debating whether to use C++ or Python for a largely math-based program.
Both have great math libraries, but which language is generally faster for complex math? | C++ or Python for an Extensive Math Program? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3,134 |
11,625,450 | 2012-07-24T06:41:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | c++,python,math | 11,625,696 | 7 | false | 0 | 0 | It all depends if faster is "faster to execute" or "faster to develop". Overall, python will be quicker for development, c++ faster for execution. For working with integers (arithmetic), it has full precision integers, it has a lot of external tools (numpy, pylab...) My advice would be go python first, if you have per... | 4 | 2 | 0 | I'm debating whether to use C++ or Python for a largely math-based program.
Both have great math libraries, but which language is generally faster for complex math? | C++ or Python for an Extensive Math Program? | 0.113791 | 0 | 0 | 3,134 |
11,625,450 | 2012-07-24T06:41:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | c++,python,math | 11,630,046 | 7 | false | 0 | 0 | I sincerely doubt that Google and Stanford don't know C++.
"Generally faster" is more than just language. Algorithms can make or break a solution, regardless of what language it's written in. A poor choice written in C++ and be beaten by Java or Python if either makes a better algorithm choice.
For example, an in-m... | 4 | 2 | 0 | I'm debating whether to use C++ or Python for a largely math-based program.
Both have great math libraries, but which language is generally faster for complex math? | C++ or Python for an Extensive Math Program? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,134 |
11,627,846 | 2012-07-24T09:23:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,registry,cmd | 11,628,345 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Either right-click your script and remove Program->Close on exit checkbox in its properties, or use cmd /k as part of its calling line.
Think twice before introducing artificial delays or need to press key - this will make your script mostly unusable in any unattended/pipe calls. | 2 | 6 | 0 | I have a python script which I have made dropable using a registry-key, but it does not seem to work. The cmd.exe window just flashes by, can I somehow make the window stay up, or save the output?
EDIT: the problem was that it gave the whole path not only the filename. | Keep cmd.exe open | 0.039979 | 0 | 0 | 5,043 |
11,627,846 | 2012-07-24T09:23:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,registry,cmd | 11,628,145 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Another possible option is to create a basic TKinter GUI with a textarea and a close button. Then run that with subprocess or equiv. and have that take the stdout from your python script executed with pythonw.exe so that no CMD prompt appears to start with.
This keeps it purely using Python stdlib's and also means you ... | 2 | 6 | 0 | I have a python script which I have made dropable using a registry-key, but it does not seem to work. The cmd.exe window just flashes by, can I somehow make the window stay up, or save the output?
EDIT: the problem was that it gave the whole path not only the filename. | Keep cmd.exe open | 0.039979 | 0 | 0 | 5,043 |
11,628,424 | 2012-07-24T09:58:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,json,pickle | 11,628,580 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | Well i'm sure you've read the documentation of the above commands in python, but i think you're in a mistake of it's use. For file openning as you ask the open is quite good enough within a while statement.
json -> to treat strings,lists with it's method's dumps and loads in a
json format of them. pickle -> to seria... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I know Python has many ways of storing and reading data from files, so I would like to know what the best practices are for the above 4, and when each is most applicable.
Also, please let me know if there are any other modules/functions I should be aware of. | When to use tempfile, pickle, json or open() | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,137 |
11,628,835 | 2012-07-24T10:24:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | wxpython | 64,290,241 | 2 | false | 0 | 1 | wx.FreezeTo(row,col)
0 to unfreeze, otherwise any other number will freeze the first rows or columns | 1 | 2 | 0 | I have a window that is split to have a custom tree ctrl on left panel and a grid table on the right. Now I want the grid table to display the information in such a way that first few columns freeze (not scroll) while the remaining data has an option to scroll horizontally.
I have no clue how to proceed, please help.
I... | Freeze few column in wxgrid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 751 |
11,629,077 | 2012-07-24T10:38:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | php,python,search,web-scraping | 11,629,117 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | You can check the http referrer and see what values have been put in the GET variable, but this is restricted to GET variables ONLY! | 1 | 2 | 0 | Is there a way to capture search data from other websites? For example, if a user visits any website with a search field, I am interested in what that user types into that search field to get to the desired blogpost/webpage/product. I want to know if this is possible by scraping the site, or by any other means. Also, i... | Capturing search data from other websites | 0 | 0 | 1 | 220 |
11,629,204 | 2012-07-24T10:46:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,plone,ploneformgen | 11,633,491 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | To be able to do this, you need to create 2 content rules--each with different conditions and destination folders to move the content to(using the "move to folder" action).
In the content rules, add a TALES expression condition. Then do something like:
python: request.form.get('value-to-check', False) == 'foobar'
Obv... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I create a form using PloneFormGen.eg.
Product code: Gear-12
Value : 2000
Based on the input value i.e if Value is >5000 , move the saved data content entry to folder 1 else move the entry to folder 2.
How can the TALES expression be used to trigger this kind of content rule?
I am using Plone ver 4.1 | Add content rule based on the form field value input data in Plone? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 340 |
11,629,734 | 2012-07-24T11:18:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,vim,vi | 11,629,781 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Try hitting V for visual line mode, select the area you want to indent, and hit >. Other motions besides V are good, too. | 2 | 5 | 0 | I need to enclose a block of code with a for loop. As this is Python I need to take care of indenting and increment the number of tabs by one. Any easy way to do this in Vim? | Reindenting Python code in Vim | 0.119427 | 0 | 0 | 441 |
11,629,734 | 2012-07-24T11:18:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,vim,vi | 11,654,765 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | The fastest way you can try is v i p > from inside the block of code you want to indent. That wraps Visual mode Inside Paragraph, and > indents the selected code. | 2 | 5 | 0 | I need to enclose a block of code with a for loop. As this is Python I need to take care of indenting and increment the number of tabs by one. Any easy way to do this in Vim? | Reindenting Python code in Vim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 441 |
11,634,626 | 2012-07-24T15:50:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,shell,terminal,blender | 11,698,801 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | It seems that you should run it on new control terminal, allocated with "forkpty".
To suppress the warning "no job control ...", you need to call "setsid". | 1 | 4 | 0 | I've been trying to write a basic terminal emulation script, because for some reason i've got no terminal access on my mac. But to write game engine scripts in blender the console, which usually opens in the terminal you started blender with, is crucial.
For just doing simple things like deleting, renaming etc. I used ... | Basic Terminal emulation in python | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 6,899 |
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