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2,227,537 | 2010-02-09T07:53:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python | 2,229,792 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | I think you'll find that there isn't a good answer to your question. What's great about Python is that all of its features are fairly easy to understand. But there's enough stuff in the language and the library that you never get around to learning it all. So it really boils down to which you've had occasion to use,... | 2 | 6 | 0 | I do basic python programming and now I want to get deep into language features. I have collected/considered the following to be advanced python capabilities and learning them now.
Decorator
Iterator
Generator
Meta Class
Anything else to be added/considered to the above list? | What are features considerd as advanced python? | 0.049958 | 0 | 0 | 3,365 |
2,227,770 | 2010-02-09T08:48:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,cross-platform,pyqt,pygtk,html-rendering | 2,227,957 | 2 | true | 0 | 1 | In my experience, having developed cross-platform applications with both PyQt and PyGTK, you should consider moving to PyQt. It comes with a browser widget by default which runs fine on all platforms, and support for non-Linux platforms is outstanding compared to PyGTK. For PyGTK, you will have to be prepared building ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I'm trying to write a small gui app in pygtk which needs an html-rendering widget. I'd like to be able to use it in a windows environment.
Currently I'm using pywebkitgtk on my GNU/Linux system, and it works extremely well, but it seems it's not possible to use this on Windows at this time.
Can anyone give me any sugg... | cross-platform html widget for pygtk | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,076 |
2,228,966 | 2010-02-09T12:30:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django | 2,229,018 | 6 | false | 1 | 0 | I have python scripts which provides output and I need to have this output on the web.
What is Django for? Use either CGI script on python (probably you already have one) or WSGI application (which is a bit harder to deploy) | 3 | 4 | 0 | I'm trying to create site using Django framework. I looked on tutorial on Django project site but contains much information which I don't need. I have python scripts which provides output and I need to have this output on the web. My question is how simply manage Django to have link which start the script and provides ... | Python Django simple site | 0 | 0 | 0 | 926 |
2,228,966 | 2010-02-09T12:30:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django | 2,229,044 | 6 | false | 1 | 0 | Django is a frame work. Just use CGI scripts. | 3 | 4 | 0 | I'm trying to create site using Django framework. I looked on tutorial on Django project site but contains much information which I don't need. I have python scripts which provides output and I need to have this output on the web. My question is how simply manage Django to have link which start the script and provides ... | Python Django simple site | 0 | 0 | 0 | 926 |
2,228,966 | 2010-02-09T12:30:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django | 2,228,989 | 6 | false | 1 | 0 | That's not how Django works. Do the tutorial, you'll save a lot of time and frustration. | 3 | 4 | 0 | I'm trying to create site using Django framework. I looked on tutorial on Django project site but contains much information which I don't need. I have python scripts which provides output and I need to have this output on the web. My question is how simply manage Django to have link which start the script and provides ... | Python Django simple site | 0 | 0 | 0 | 926 |
2,228,988 | 2010-02-09T12:36:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,adobe,media,dvd,cd-rom | 2,228,998 | 3 | false | 1 | 0 | It sounds like you're not asking so much for mass-copying of CDs/DVDs (which is what I assumed from reading the title), but for a Python-based replacement for Adobe Director? I don't think anything like that presently exists.
However, Python could certainly help you out with the scripting and control of various element... | 2 | 0 | 0 | I have been using Macromedia / Adobe Director & Lingo since 1998. I am extremely familiar with using this software to create CDROMs and DVDs and also have a good knowledge of design elements and their integration such as flash videos, images & audio etc.
I am always keen to explore other technologies and understand tha... | Python CDROM Production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 214 |
2,228,988 | 2010-02-09T12:36:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,adobe,media,dvd,cd-rom | 2,229,023 | 3 | false | 1 | 0 | Python isn't the tool you are looking for... [waves hand across in front of Mindblip's face]
Stick with Director or try Flash with either MPlayer or Zinc. | 2 | 0 | 0 | I have been using Macromedia / Adobe Director & Lingo since 1998. I am extremely familiar with using this software to create CDROMs and DVDs and also have a good knowledge of design elements and their integration such as flash videos, images & audio etc.
I am always keen to explore other technologies and understand tha... | Python CDROM Production | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 214 |
2,229,039 | 2010-02-09T12:44:00.000 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,forms | 2,230,669 | 7 | false | 1 | 0 | First, you shouldn't have artist_id and artist fields. They are build from the model. If you need some artist name, add artist_name field, that is CharField.
Furthermore, you are trying to retrieve something from cleaned_data inside clean value. There might not be data you need - you should use values from self.data, w... | 1 | 65 | 0 | I have done a ModelForm adding some extra fields that are not in the model. I use these fields for some calcualtions when saving the form.
The extra fields appear on the form and they are sent in the POST request when uploading the form. The problem is they are not added to the cleaned_data dictionary when I validate t... | Django ModelForm with extra fields that are not in the model | 0.141893 | 0 | 0 | 49,864 |
2,229,086 | 2010-02-09T12:52:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,multithreading,condition-variable | 2,229,350 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | I'm not familiar with Python, but if you are able to block on a condition variable (without a timeout), you could implement the timeout yourself. Let the blocking thread store the time it began blocking and set a timer to signal it. When it wakes, check the time elapsed for a timeout. This isn't a very good way to do i... | 1 | 3 | 0 | I'm using condition variables in threads that require a timeout. I didn't notice until I saw the CPU usage when having a lot of threads running, that the condition variable provided in the threading module doesn't actually sleep, but polls when a timeout is provided as an argument.
Is there an alternative to this that ... | Is there an alternative to the threading.Condition variables in python that better support timeouts without polling? | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 2,900 |
2,229,481 | 2010-02-09T13:50:00.000 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,project-management,build-process,build-automation,buildbot | 2,323,336 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | First it gets a list of all the slaves attached to that builder. Then it picks one at random. If the slave is already running more than slave.max_builds builds, it picks another.
You can override the nextSlave method on the Builder to change the way slaves are chosen. The arguments passed to your function will be the B... | 1 | 6 | 0 | I have a buildbot with some builders and two slave machines.
Some of the builders can run on one slave, and some of them can run on both machines.
What algorithm will buildbot use to schedule the builds? Will it notice that some builders can run on just one slave and that it should assign those that can run on both sla... | What algorithm does buildbot use to assign builders to slaves? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 983 |
2,229,640 | 2010-02-09T14:13:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django | 2,229,654 | 2 | true | 1 | 0 | Create MAIN_PAGE setting inside settings.py with primary key. Then create view main_page nad retrieve the main_page object from the database using the setting.
EDIT:
You can also do it like this: add a model, which will reference a SimplePage and point to the main page. In main page view, you will retrieve the wanted S... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I'm a newbie at Django and I want to do something that I'm not sure how to do.
I have a model SimplePage, which simply stands for a webpage that is visible on the website and whose contents can be edited in the admin. (I think this is similar to FlatPage.)
So I have a bunch of SimplePages for my site, and I want one of... | Django: Setting one page as the main page | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 327 |
2,231,842 | 2010-02-09T19:25:00.000 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,numpy,python-3.x | 2,737,113 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | The current development verson of Numpy is compatible with Python 3 -- you can get it from Numpy's SVN and build it yourself. It will probably be released later this year (probably in the summer) as Numpy 2.0. | 1 | 21 | 0 | NumPy installer can't find python path in the registry.
Cannot install Python version 2.6 required, which was not found in the
registry.
Is there a numpy build which can be used with python 3.0? | Numpy with python 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13,243 |
2,232,362 | 2010-02-09T20:37:00.000 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,floating-point | 2,232,387 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | If your application suits arrays/matrices, you can use numpy with float32 | 2 | 39 | 0 | What's the best way to emulate single-precision floating point in python? (Or other floating point formats for that matter?) Just use ctypes? | Correct way to emulate single precision floating point in python? | 0.16514 | 0 | 0 | 34,184 |
2,232,362 | 2010-02-09T20:37:00.000 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,floating-point | 2,232,830 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | how about ctypes.c_float from standard library? | 2 | 39 | 0 | What's the best way to emulate single-precision floating point in python? (Or other floating point formats for that matter?) Just use ctypes? | Correct way to emulate single precision floating point in python? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34,184 |
2,233,631 | 2010-02-10T00:44:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,android,ase,android-scripting | 2,233,946 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | As of yet, there is no support for a gui on ASE apart from some simple input and display dialogs. Look at /sdcard/ase/extras/python to find libraries already available. You can add new libraries by copying them there. | 1 | 8 | 0 | I learned that the Android Scripting Environment (ASE) supports python code. Can I take my existing python programs and run them on android?
Apart from the GUI, what else will I need to adapt? How can I find the list of supported python libraries for ASE? | Can I port my existing python apps on ASE? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 901 |
2,233,883 | 2010-02-10T01:46:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-models,merge | 40,207,709 | 9 | false | 1 | 0 | Unfortunately, user._meta.get_fields() returns only relations accessible from user, however, you may have some related object, which uses related_name='+'. In such case, the relation would not be returned by user._meta.get_fields(). Therefore, if You need generic and robust way to merge objects, I'd suggest to use the ... | 1 | 96 | 0 | How can I get a list of all the model objects that have a ForeignKey pointing to an object? (Something like the delete confirmation page in the Django admin before DELETE CASCADE).
I'm trying to come up with a generic way of merging duplicate objects in the database. Basically I want all of the objects that have Fore... | Get all related Django model objects | 0.044415 | 0 | 0 | 54,612 |
2,234,030 | 2010-02-10T02:30:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,sqlalchemy | 2,248,806 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | Assuming I understand you question correctly, then No, you can't model that relationship as you have suggested. (It would help if you described your desired result, rather than your perceived solution)
What I think you may want is a many-to-many mapping table called ArticleCategories, consisting of 2 int columns, Arti... | 1 | 0 | 0 | Suppose that I have a table Articles, which has fields article_id, content and it contains one article with id 1.
I also have a table Categories, which has fields category_id (primary key), category_name, and it contains one category with id 10.
Now suppose that I have a table ArticleProperties, that adds properties to... | SQLAlchemy ForeignKey relation via an intermediate table | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 928 |
2,234,056 | 2010-02-10T02:38:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,glib | 2,234,282 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | How is glib exposed to Python in your application? Via SWIG, ctypes or something else?
You should basically use glib's own functions to iterate over a list. Something like g_slist_foreach. Just pass it the pointer and its other parameters to do the job. Again, this heavily depends on how you access glib in your Python... | 1 | 0 | 0 | Let's say I get a glib gpointer to a glib gslist and would like to iterate over the latter, how would I do it?
I don't even know how to get to the gslist with the gpointer for starters!
Update: I found a workaround - the python bindings in this instance wasn't complete so I had to find another solution. | how do I iterate over a "gslist" in Python? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 647 |
2,234,153 | 2010-02-10T03:06:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,ajax,html-table,pylons | 2,234,168 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | One possibility would be to actually generate the AJAX HTML server-side (instead of generating JSON), and insert it right into the DOM tree (instead of parsing the JSON and generating the HTML on the client). Then you could use the same functions on the server side to generate the AJAX rows before they are shipped off.... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I have a pylons web-page with a table. I have created python functions in the template which help with the construction of the table html. One of these functions takes an 'item' and generates an html row while also adding css zebra striping. The other def generates the header row's html.
This works perfectly for lo... | How do I prevent duplicating code with pylons html table updated via ajax? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 118 |
2,234,982 | 2010-02-10T06:56:00.000 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,logging,import | 2,235,012 | 2 | true | 0 | 0 | logging is a package. Modules in packages aren't imported until you (or something in your program) imports them. You don't need both import logging and import logging.config though: just import logging.config will make the name logging available already. | 2 | 46 | 0 | Should not it be handled by a single import? i.e. import logging.
If I do not include import logging.config in my script, it gives :
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'config' | Why both, import logging and import logging.config are needed? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 21,945 |
2,234,982 | 2010-02-10T06:56:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,logging,import | 57,473,326 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Just add an addtional explanation for Thomas's answer.
logging is a package, a directory.
enter the logging dir and list what files there is:
config.py handlers.py __init__.py __pycache__
so, There is a config.py file in logging directory, but why it can't import logging.config. That's because there is no config nam... | 2 | 46 | 0 | Should not it be handled by a single import? i.e. import logging.
If I do not include import logging.config in my script, it gives :
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'config' | Why both, import logging and import logging.config are needed? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 21,945 |
2,235,643 | 2010-02-10T09:23:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | c#,.net,python,windows-7,xml-rpc | 2,235,703 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Run a packet capture on the client machine, check the network traffic timings versus the time the function is called.
This may help you determine where the latency is in your slow process, e.g. application start-up time, name resolution, etc.
How are you addressing the server from the client? By IP? By FQDN? Is the add... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I'm considering to use XML-RPC.NET to communicate with a Linux XML-RPC server written in Python. I have tried a sample application (MathApp) from Cook Computing's XML-RPC.NET but it took 30 seconds for the app to add two numbers within the same LAN with server.
I have also tried to run a simple client written in Pytho... | Slow XML-RPC in Windows 7 with XML-RPC.NET | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1,326 |
2,236,498 | 2010-02-10T11:46:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,dns,urllib2,dnspython,urlopen | 2,237,322 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | You will need to implement your own dns lookup client (or using dnspython as you said). The name lookup procedure in glibc is pretty complex to ensure compatibility with other non-dns name systems. There's for example no way to specify a particular DNS server in the glibc library at all. | 1 | 17 | 0 | I'd like to tell urllib2.urlopen (or a custom opener) to use 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) to resolve addresses. I wouldn't change my /etc/resolv.conf, however.
One possible solution is to use a tool like dnspython to query addresses and httplib to build a custom url opener. I'd prefer telling urlopen to use a custom nameserver t... | Tell urllib2 to use custom DNS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13,644 |
2,236,864 | 2010-02-10T12:54:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | php,python,xml,apache,curl | 2,236,930 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | Run Wireshark and see how far the request goes. Could be a firewall issue, a DNS resolution problem, among other things.
Also, try bumping your curl timeout to something much higher, like 300s, and see how it goes. | 1 | 0 | 0 | We have a script which pulls some XML from a remote server. If this script is running on any server other than production, it works.
Upload it to production however, and it fails. It is using cURL for the request but it doesn't matter how we do it - fopen, file_get_contents, sockets - it just times out. This also happe... | PHP / cURL problem opening remote file | 0.197375 | 0 | 1 | 606 |
2,237,483 | 2010-02-10T14:31:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | python,serial-port,pyserial,kermit | 3,143,184 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | You should be able to do it via the subprocess module. The following assumes that you can send commands to your remote machine and parse out the results already. :-)
I don't have anything to test this on at the moment, so I'm going to be pretty general.
Roughly:
1.) use pyserial to connect to the remote system throu... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I have device connected through serial port to PC. Using c-kermit I can send commands to device and read output. I can also send files using kermit protocol.
In python we have pretty nice library - pySerial. I can use it to send/receive data from device. But is there some nice solution to send files using kermit protoc... | How to send file to serial port using kermit protocol in python | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3,905 |
2,239,655 | 2010-02-10T19:21:00.000 | -3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,tar | 66,395,488 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | If you want to add the directory name but not its contents inside a tarfile, you can do the following:
(1) create an empty directory called empty
(2) tf.add("empty", arcname=path_you_want_to_add)
That creates an empty directory with the name path_you_want_to_add. | 2 | 73 | 0 | When I invoke add() on a tarfile object with a file path, the file is added to the tarball with directory hierarchy associated. In other words, if I unzip the tarfile the directories in the original directories hierarchy are reproduced.
Is there a way to simply adding a plain file without directory info that untarring ... | How can files be added to a tarfile with Python, without adding the directory hierarchy? | -0.119427 | 0 | 0 | 58,350 |
2,239,655 | 2010-02-10T19:21:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,tar | 2,993,751 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | Maybe you can use the "arcname" argument to TarFile.add(name, arcname). It takes an alternate name that the file will have inside the archive. | 2 | 73 | 0 | When I invoke add() on a tarfile object with a file path, the file is added to the tarball with directory hierarchy associated. In other words, if I unzip the tarfile the directories in the original directories hierarchy are reproduced.
Is there a way to simply adding a plain file without directory info that untarring ... | How can files be added to a tarfile with Python, without adding the directory hierarchy? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 58,350 |
2,239,731 | 2010-02-10T19:32:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,erlang,actor,stackless,python-stackless | 2,240,157 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Broadly speaking, this is unbounded queues vs bounded queues. A stackless channel can be considered a special case of a queue with 0 size.
Bounded queues have a tendency to deadlock. Two threads/processes trying to send a message to each other, both with a full queue.
Unbounded queues have more subtle failure. A lar... | 2 | 10 | 0 | I've noticed two methods to "message passing". One I've seen Erlang use and the other is from Stackless Python. From what I understand here's the difference
Erlang Style - Messages are sent and queued into the mailbox of the receiving process. From there they are removed in a FIFO basis. Once the first process sends th... | blocking channels vs async message passing | 0.379949 | 0 | 0 | 1,147 |
2,239,731 | 2010-02-10T19:32:00.000 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,erlang,actor,stackless,python-stackless | 2,240,486 | 2 | true | 0 | 0 | My experience in Erlang programming is that when you expect a high messaging rate (that is, a faster producer than consumer) then you add your own flow control. A simple scenario
The consumer will: send message, wait for ack, then repeat.
The producer will: wait for message, send ack when message received and process... | 2 | 10 | 0 | I've noticed two methods to "message passing". One I've seen Erlang use and the other is from Stackless Python. From what I understand here's the difference
Erlang Style - Messages are sent and queued into the mailbox of the receiving process. From there they are removed in a FIFO basis. Once the first process sends th... | blocking channels vs async message passing | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,147 |
2,240,562 | 2010-02-10T21:42:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,dbus | 2,389,202 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | D-Bus clients call AddMatch on the bus daemon to register their interest in messages matching a particular pattern; most bindings add a match rule either for all signals on a particular service and object path, or for signals on a particular interface on that service and object path, when you create a proxy object.
Usi... | 2 | 3 | 0 | Is there a way to declare which signals are subscribed by a Python application over DBus?
In other words, is there a way to advertise through the "Introspectable" interface which signals are subscribed to. I use "D-Feet D-Bus debugger".
E.g. Application subscribes to signal X (using the add_signal_receiver method on a... | Declare which signals are subscribed to on DBus? | 0.379949 | 0 | 0 | 580 |
2,240,562 | 2010-02-10T21:42:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,dbus | 2,364,175 | 2 | true | 0 | 0 | This is probably not possible since a signal is emitted on the bus and the application just picks out what is interesting. Subscribing is not happening inside dbus. | 2 | 3 | 0 | Is there a way to declare which signals are subscribed by a Python application over DBus?
In other words, is there a way to advertise through the "Introspectable" interface which signals are subscribed to. I use "D-Feet D-Bus debugger".
E.g. Application subscribes to signal X (using the add_signal_receiver method on a... | Declare which signals are subscribed to on DBus? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 580 |
2,242,909 | 2010-02-11T07:35:00.000 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,impersonation | 2,242,953 | 6 | false | 1 | 0 | Set up so you have two different host names to the same server. If you are doing it locally, you can connect with 127.0.0.1, or localhost, for example. Your browser will see this as three different sites, and you can be logged in with different users. The same works for your site.
So in addition to www.mysite.com you ... | 2 | 25 | 0 | I have a Django app. When logged in as an admin user, I want to be able to pass a secret parameter in the URL and have the whole site behave as if I were another user.
Let's say I have the URL /my-profile/ which shows the currently logged in user's profile. I want to be able to do something like /my-profile/?__user_id=... | Django user impersonation by admin | -0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 10,136 |
2,242,909 | 2010-02-11T07:35:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,impersonation | 2,249,857 | 6 | false | 1 | 0 | i don't see how that is a security hole any more than using su - someuser as root on a a unix machine. root or an django-admin with root/admin access to the database can fake anything if he/she wants to. the risk is only in the django-admin account being cracked at which point the cracker could hide tracks by becoming... | 2 | 25 | 0 | I have a Django app. When logged in as an admin user, I want to be able to pass a secret parameter in the URL and have the whole site behave as if I were another user.
Let's say I have the URL /my-profile/ which shows the currently logged in user's profile. I want to be able to do something like /my-profile/?__user_id=... | Django user impersonation by admin | 0.033321 | 0 | 0 | 10,136 |
2,243,895 | 2010-02-11T10:48:00.000 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,windows,configuration,configuration-files | 2,243,910 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | %APPDATA% is the right place for these (probably in a subdirectory for your library). Unfortunately a fair number of *nix apps ported to Windows don't respect that and I end up with .gem, .ssh, .VirtualBox, etc., folders cluttering up my home directory and not hidden by default as on *nix.
You can make it easy even for... | 2 | 13 | 0 | I'm writing a python library that has a per-user configuration file that can be edited by the user of the library. The library also generates logging files.
On *nix, the standard seems to be to dump them in $HOME/.library_name.
However, I am not sure what to do with Windows users. I've used windows for years before... | Location to put user configuration files in windows | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 7,044 |
2,243,895 | 2010-02-11T10:48:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,windows,configuration,configuration-files | 2,243,919 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | On windows the user is not expected to configure an application using editable config files so there is no standard.
The standard for configuration which is editable using a GUI is the registry.
If you're using QT (or PyQT?) then you can use QSettings which provide an abstraction layer. On Linux it uses a config file a... | 2 | 13 | 0 | I'm writing a python library that has a per-user configuration file that can be edited by the user of the library. The library also generates logging files.
On *nix, the standard seems to be to dump them in $HOME/.library_name.
However, I am not sure what to do with Windows users. I've used windows for years before... | Location to put user configuration files in windows | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 7,044 |
2,244,244 | 2010-02-11T12:03:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,apache,authentication,mod-wsgi | 2,244,295 | 5 | false | 1 | 0 | This probably isn't what you're expecting, but you could use the username in your URL scheme. That way the user will be in the path section of your apache logs.
You'd need to modify your authentication so that auth-required responses are obvious in the apache logs, otherwise when viewing the logs you may attribute unau... | 2 | 9 | 0 | My Django app, deployed in mod_wsgi under Apache using Django's standard WSGIHandler, authenticates users via form login on the Django side. So to Apache, the user is anonymous. This makes the Apache access log less useful.
Is there a way to pass the username back through the WSGI wrapper to Apache after handling the r... | WSGI/Django: pass username back to Apache for access log | 0.039979 | 1 | 0 | 2,209 |
2,244,244 | 2010-02-11T12:03:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,apache,authentication,mod-wsgi | 10,406,967 | 5 | false | 1 | 0 | Correct me if I'm wrong, but what's stopping you from creating some custom middleware that sets a cookie equal to the display name of the current user logged in. This middleware will run on every view, so even though technically the user could spoof his username to display whatever he wants it to display, it'll just be... | 2 | 9 | 0 | My Django app, deployed in mod_wsgi under Apache using Django's standard WSGIHandler, authenticates users via form login on the Django side. So to Apache, the user is anonymous. This makes the Apache access log less useful.
Is there a way to pass the username back through the WSGI wrapper to Apache after handling the r... | WSGI/Django: pass username back to Apache for access log | 0.039979 | 1 | 0 | 2,209 |
2,244,836 | 2010-02-11T13:57:00.000 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,rss,feedparser | 2,245,462 | 8 | false | 0 | 0 | I Strongly recommend feedparser. | 2 | 41 | 0 | I am looking for a good library in python that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback? | RSS feed parser library in Python | -0.024995 | 0 | 1 | 23,570 |
2,244,836 | 2010-02-11T13:57:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,rss,feedparser | 2,245,280 | 8 | false | 0 | 0 | If you want an alternative, try xml.dom.minidom.
Like "Django is Python", "RSS is XML". | 2 | 41 | 0 | I am looking for a good library in python that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback? | RSS feed parser library in Python | 0.049958 | 0 | 1 | 23,570 |
2,246,256 | 2010-02-11T17:26:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,automation,fabric | 2,246,509 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | Those both methods are valid and works.
I choose the first one, because I didn't want to have any interaction with my deployment system.
So here is the solution I used:
% yes | ./manage.py rebuild_index
WARNING: This will irreparably remove EVERYTHING from your search index.
Your choices after this are to restore fro... | 1 | 24 | 0 | I would like to automate the response for some question prompted by some programs, like mysql prompting for a password, or apt asking for a 'yes' or ... when I want to rebuild my haystack index with a ./manage.py rebuild_index.
For MySQL, I can use the --password= switch, and I'm sure that apt has a 'quiet' like optio... | Python Fabric: How to answer to keyboard input? | 0.033321 | 0 | 0 | 13,991 |
2,247,197 | 2010-02-11T19:39:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,data-structures,matrix,d,associative-array | 2,247,284 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | Why not just use a standard matrix, but then have two dictionaries - one that converts the row keys to row indices and one that converts the columns keys to columns indices. You could make your own structure that would work this way fairly easily I think. You just make a class that contains the matrix and the two dicti... | 1 | 6 | 1 | I'm working on a project where I need to store a matrix of numbers indexed by two string keys. The matrix is not jagged, i.e. if a column key exists for any row then it should exist for all rows. Similarly, if a row key exists for any column then it should exist for all columns.
The obvious way to express this is wit... | Associative Matrices? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 566 |
2,247,228 | 2010-02-11T19:45:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python | 2,247,237 | 1 | true | 0 | 0 | The broadcast is defined by the destination address.
For example if your own ip is 192.168.1.2, the broadcast address would be 192.168.1.255 (in most cases)
It is not related directly to python and will probably not be in its documentation. You are searching for network "general" knowledge, to a level much higher than ... | 1 | 6 | 0 | I browsed the python socket docs and google for two days but I did not find any answer. Yeah I am a network programming newbie :)
I would like to implement some LAN chatting system with specific function for our needs. I am at the very beginning. I was able to implement a client-server model where the client connects t... | stream socket send/receive broadcast messages? | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 3,935 |
2,248,341 | 2010-02-11T22:41:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,google-app-engine,geolocation,geospatial | 7,342,144 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | There's no practical way to do this, because a call to geoquery devolves into multiple datastore queries, which it merges together into a single result set. If you were able to specify an offset, geoquery would still have to fetch and discard all the first n results before returning the ones you requested.
A better opt... | 1 | 5 | 0 | I'm trying to use GeoModel python module to quickly access geospatial data for my Google App Engine app.
I just have a few general questions for issues I'm running into.
There's two main methods, proximity_fetch and bounding_box_fetch, that you can use to return queries. They actually return a result set, not a filter... | GeoModel with Google App Engine - queries | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 941 |
2,249,126 | 2010-02-12T01:43:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,multithreading,concurrency,parallel-processing,python-stackless | 2,249,465 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Tornado is a web server, so it wouldn't help you much in writing a spider. Twisted is much more general (and, inevitably, complex), good for all kinds of networking tasks (and with good integration with the event loop of several GUI frameworks). Indeed, there used to be a twisted.web.spider (but it was removed years ... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I'm writing a simple site spider and I've decided to take this opportunity to learn something new in concurrent programming in Python. Instead of using threads and a queue, I decided to try something else, but I don't know what would suit me.
I have heard about Stackless, Celery, Twisted, Tornado, and other things. I d... | What are my options for doing multithreaded/concurrent programming in Python? | 0.26052 | 0 | 0 | 1,025 |
2,249,285 | 2010-02-12T02:23:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-templates,django-views,master-detail | 2,250,366 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | 2 common solution I use for this problem:
Partial Templates:
Create a template for rendering "social" and "financial" that does not need stuff from the view, other than the object it is working on (and uses the objects functions or template tags to render it).
then you can easily {% include %} it (and set the needed ... | 1 | 2 | 0 | Let's say I have 3 django apps, app Country, app Social and app Financial.
Country is a 'master navigation' app. It lists all the countries in a 'index' view and shows details for each country on its 'details' view.
Each country's details include their Social details (from the social app) and their Financial details (... | Django Master-Detail View Plugins | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2,025 |
2,249,530 | 2010-02-12T03:40:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,google-app-engine,logging | 2,249,540 | 1 | true | 1 | 0 | You can increase the per-request batch size of logs. In the latest SDK (1.3.1), check out google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py around like 861 (RequestLogLines method of LogsRequester class). You can modify the "limit" parameter.
I am using 1000 and it works pretty well. | 1 | 1 | 0 | Downloading logs from App Engine is nontrivial. Requests are batched; appcfg.py does not use normal file IO but rather a temporary file (in reverse chronological order) which it ultimately appends to the local log file; when appending, the need to find the "sentinel" makes log rotation difficult since one must leave en... | How to improve the throughput of request_logs on Google App Engine | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 499 |
2,251,296 | 2010-02-12T11:05:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | c#,silverlight,ironpython | 2,253,386 | 1 | true | 0 | 1 | You will not be able to use the class library unless its code is compatible with Silverlight libraries and is re-compiled targeting the Silverlight ones. | 1 | 1 | 0 | I'm having a class library. I'm able to access that assembly from iron python console as normal.
My goal is to create a Silverlight class library which uses a python script to access that WPF class library what I'm having. Is it possible? Is there any other way to achieve this or any work around.
I can provide a sampl... | How to access WPF class library from Silverlight using iron python. Is it possible? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 433 |
2,251,796 | 2010-02-12T12:39:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,gsm,at-command | 2,251,902 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Depending on what type of connection, circuit switched (CS) or packet switched (PS), the monitoring will be a little bit different. To detect a disconnect you can enable UR (unsolicited result) code AT+CPSB=1 to monitor PDP context activity (aka packet switched connections). For circuit switched calls you can monitor w... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I have a GSM modem that disconnect after a while, maybe because of low signal. I am just wondering is there an AT command that can detect the disconnection and re-establish a reconnection.
Is there a way in code (preferably python) I can detect the disconnection and re-establish a reconnection?
Gath | What are the functions / AT commands to reconnect a disconnected GSM modem? | 0.26052 | 0 | 0 | 4,663 |
2,252,672 | 2010-02-12T15:03:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,google-app-engine | 2,253,428 | 4 | true | 1 | 0 | I use appengine python with the django helper. As far as I know you cannot hook anything on the deploy, but you could put a call to check if you need to do your setup in the main function of main.py. This is how the helper initializes itself on the first request. I haven't looked at webapp in a while, but I assume m... | 3 | 5 | 0 | Is it possible to run a script each time the dev server starts? Also at each deploy to google?
I want the application to fill the database based on what some methods returns.
Is there any way to do this?
..fredrik | Running script on server start in google app engine, in Python | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2,804 |
2,252,672 | 2010-02-12T15:03:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,google-app-engine | 2,252,697 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | You can do this by writing a script in your favorite scripting language that performs the actions that you desire and then runs the dev server or runs appcfg.py update. | 3 | 5 | 0 | Is it possible to run a script each time the dev server starts? Also at each deploy to google?
I want the application to fill the database based on what some methods returns.
Is there any way to do this?
..fredrik | Running script on server start in google app engine, in Python | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 2,804 |
2,252,672 | 2010-02-12T15:03:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,google-app-engine | 2,259,561 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | Try to make wrapper around the server runner and script that run deployment. So you will be able to run custom code when you need. | 3 | 5 | 0 | Is it possible to run a script each time the dev server starts? Also at each deploy to google?
I want the application to fill the database based on what some methods returns.
Is there any way to do this?
..fredrik | Running script on server start in google app engine, in Python | 0.049958 | 0 | 0 | 2,804 |
2,252,726 | 2010-02-12T15:12:00.000 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,pdf | 2,253,409 | 14 | false | 0 | 0 | I have done this quite a bit in PyQt and it works very well. Qt has extensive support for images, fonts, styles, etc and all of those can be written out to pdf documents. | 4 | 156 | 0 | I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.
Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file? | How to create PDF files in Python | 1 | 0 | 0 | 426,243 |
2,252,726 | 2010-02-12T15:12:00.000 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,pdf | 34,220,390 | 14 | false | 0 | 0 | fpdf is python (too). And often used. See PyPI / pip search. But maybe it was renamed from pyfpdf to fpdf. From features:
PNG, GIF and JPG support (including transparency and alpha channel) | 4 | 156 | 0 | I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.
Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file? | How to create PDF files in Python | 1 | 0 | 0 | 426,243 |
2,252,726 | 2010-02-12T15:12:00.000 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,pdf | 22,286,441 | 14 | false | 0 | 0 | fpdf works well for me. Much simpler than ReportLab and really free. Works with UTF-8. | 4 | 156 | 0 | I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.
Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file? | How to create PDF files in Python | 1 | 0 | 0 | 426,243 |
2,252,726 | 2010-02-12T15:12:00.000 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,pdf | 15,747,362 | 14 | false | 0 | 0 | I believe that matplotlib has the ability to serialize graphics, text and other objects to a pdf document. | 4 | 156 | 0 | I'm working on a project which takes some images from user and then creates a PDF file which contains all of these images.
Is there any way or any tool to do this in Python? E.g. to create a PDF file (or eps, ps) from image1 + image 2 + image 3 -> PDF file? | How to create PDF files in Python | 1 | 0 | 0 | 426,243 |
2,253,234 | 2010-02-12T16:18:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,list,string | 2,253,291 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | In general, modifying lists is more efficient than modifying strings, because strings are immutable. | 1 | 1 | 0 | Regardless of ease of use, which is more computationally efficient? Constantly slicing lists and appending to them? Or taking substrings and doing the same?
As an example, let's say I have two binary strings "11011" and "01001". If I represent these as lists, I'll be choosing a random "slice" point. Let's say I get... | In python, what is more efficient? Modifying lists or strings? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 580 |
2,253,712 | 2010-02-12T17:22:00.000 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,virtualenv | 2,254,286 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | If it's only on one server, then flexibility is irrelevant. Modify the shebang. If you're worried about that, make a packaged, installed copy on the dev server that doesn't use the virtualenv. Once it's out of develepment, whether that's for local users or users in guatemala, virtualenv is no longer the right tool. | 2 | 40 | 0 | I have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed on a shared Linux server with default settings (virtualenvs are in ~/.virtualenvs). I have several Python scripts that can only be run when the correct virtualenv is activated.
Now I want to share those scripts with other users on the server, but without requiring them... | Sharing scripts that require a virtualenv to be activated | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 12,524 |
2,253,712 | 2010-02-12T17:22:00.000 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | python,virtualenv | 2,253,847 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | I would vote for adding a shebang line in scriptname pointing to the correct virtualenv python. You just tell your users the full path to scriptname (or put it in their PATH), and they don't even need to know it is a Python script.
If your users are programmers, then I don't see why you wouldn't want them to know/learn... | 2 | 40 | 0 | I have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed on a shared Linux server with default settings (virtualenvs are in ~/.virtualenvs). I have several Python scripts that can only be run when the correct virtualenv is activated.
Now I want to share those scripts with other users on the server, but without requiring them... | Sharing scripts that require a virtualenv to be activated | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12,524 |
2,253,714 | 2010-02-12T17:23:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,django,cron | 3,487,091 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | I'd advice to avoid launching threads inside the django application. Most of the times you can run the thread as a separate application.
If you deploy the app in a Apache server and you don't control it properly each Apache process will assume that a request is the first one and you could end up with more than one inst... | 1 | 0 | 0 | Via django iam launching a thread (via middle ware the moment the first request comes) which continously fetches the twitter public steam and puts it down into the database.Assume the thread name is twitterthread.
I also have have several cron jobs which periodically interacts with other third party api services.
Obser... | cron job and Long process problem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 253 |
2,254,017 | 2010-02-12T18:09:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,tarfile | 2,254,074 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Tar doesn't compress, it concatenates (which is why TarFile won't tell you what compression method is used, because there isn't one).
Are you trying to find out if it's a tar.gz, tar.bz2, or tar.Z ? | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am on working on a Python script which is supposed to process a tarball and output new one, trying to keep the format of the original. Thus, I am looking for a way to lookup the compression method used in an open tarball to open the new one with same compression.
AFAICS TarFile class doesn't provide any public interf... | tarfile: determine compression of an open tarball | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 267 |
2,254,398 | 2010-02-12T19:06:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | javascript,python,django,django-admin,tinymce | 2,254,470 | 1 | false | 1 | 0 | What are your webserver and web browser. Perhaps it is trying to set the gzip/bzip header and the server isn't processing it... so it goes out plaintext but the client expects compressed? | 1 | 1 | 0 | I'm trying to use django-tinymce to make fields that are editable through Django's admin with a TinyMCE field. I am using tinymce.models.HTMLField as the field for this.
The problem is it's not working. I get a normal textarea. I check the HTML source, and it seems like all the code needed for TinyMCE is there. I also ... | Django-tinymce not working; Getting a normal textarea instead | 0 | 0 | 0 | 919 |
2,255,444 | 2010-02-12T22:08:00.000 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,linux | 18,992,161 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | the procname library didn't work for me on ubuntu. I went with setproctitle instead (pip install setproctitle). This is what gunicorn uses and it worked for me. | 1 | 26 | 0 | Is there a way to change the name of a process running a python script on Linux?
When I do a ps, all I get are "python" process names. | changing the process name of a python script | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26,676 |
2,255,942 | 2010-02-13T00:12:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | python,matlab,ctypes | 2,257,221 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | Regarding OS compatibility, if you use the matlab version for Linux, the scripts written in windows should work without any changes.
If possible, you may also consider the possibility of doing everything with python. Scipy/numpy with Matplotlib provide a complete Matlab replacement. | 1 | 24 | 0 | A friend asked me about creating a small web interface that accepts some inputs, sends them to MATLAB for number crunching and outputs the results. I'm a Python/Django developer by trade, so I can handle the web interface, but I am clueless when it comes to MATLAB. Specifically:
I'd really like to avoid hosting this o... | How do I interact with MATLAB from Python? | 0.049958 | 0 | 0 | 23,758 |
2,256,794 | 2010-02-13T07:09:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,gtk,pygtk,gtktreeview | 3,100,214 | 2 | false | 0 | 1 | The cursor-changed signal is emitted even when single clicking on the same (selected) row. Still, the row-activated signal is emitted when you double click on a row, whether it was selected before the double click or not. Thus you don't need 3 clicks to trigger a row-activated.
As Jon mentioned, you want to connect to ... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I have a treeview and I am watching for the cursor-changed and row-activated signals. The problem is that in order to trigger the row-activate I first have to click on the row (triggering cursor-changed) and then do the double click, requiring 3 clicks.
Is there a way to respond to both signals with 2 clicks? | GtkTreeView's row-activated and cursor-changed signals | 0.291313 | 0 | 0 | 3,862 |
2,256,987 | 2010-02-13T08:47:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,linux,django,deployment,webserver | 2,257,323 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | Update your question to remove the choices that don't work. If it has Python 2.4, and an installation is a headache, just take it off the list, and update the question to list the real candidates. Only list the ones that actually fit your requirements. (You don't say what your requirements are, but minimal upgrades ... | 3 | 9 | 0 | Short version: How do you deploy your Django servers? What application server, front-end (if any, and by front-end I mean reverse proxy), and OS do you run it on? Any input would be greatly appreciated, I'm quite a novice when it comes to Python and even more as a server administrator.
Long version:
I'm migrating betwe... | Recommended Django Deployment | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 3,882 |
2,256,987 | 2010-02-13T08:47:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,linux,django,deployment,webserver | 2,257,450 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | At the place I rent server, they have shaved down the Ubuntu images to bare minimum. Presumably because they had to make a special image anyway with just the right drivers and such in it, but I don't know exactly.
They have even removed wget and nano. So you get all the apt-get goodness and not a whole lot of "cookie-c... | 3 | 9 | 0 | Short version: How do you deploy your Django servers? What application server, front-end (if any, and by front-end I mean reverse proxy), and OS do you run it on? Any input would be greatly appreciated, I'm quite a novice when it comes to Python and even more as a server administrator.
Long version:
I'm migrating betwe... | Recommended Django Deployment | 0.148885 | 0 | 0 | 3,882 |
2,256,987 | 2010-02-13T08:47:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,linux,django,deployment,webserver | 2,259,882 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | Personally I find one of the BSD systems far superior to Linux distros for server related tasks. Give OpenBSD or perhaps FreeBSD a chance. Once you do you´ll never go back. | 3 | 9 | 0 | Short version: How do you deploy your Django servers? What application server, front-end (if any, and by front-end I mean reverse proxy), and OS do you run it on? Any input would be greatly appreciated, I'm quite a novice when it comes to Python and even more as a server administrator.
Long version:
I'm migrating betwe... | Recommended Django Deployment | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,882 |
2,257,415 | 2010-02-13T12:09:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | c++,python | 2,257,431 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | You cannot easily retrieve the Python interpreter's PID from your C++ program.
Either assign the named pipe a constant name, or if you really need multiple pipes of the same Python program, create a temporary file to which the Python programs write their PIDs (use file locking!) - then you can read the PIDs from the C+... | 4 | 0 | 0 | newb here. I am trying to make a c++ program that will read from a named pipe created by python. My problem is, the named pipe created by python uses os.getpid() as part of the pipe name. when i try calling the pipe from c++, i use getpid(). i am not getting the same value from c++. is there a method equivalent in c++ ... | How do I do os.getpid() in C++? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 862 |
2,257,415 | 2010-02-13T12:09:00.000 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | c++,python | 2,257,426 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | You won't get the same value if you're running as a separate process as each process has their own process ID. Find some other way to identify the pipe. | 4 | 0 | 0 | newb here. I am trying to make a c++ program that will read from a named pipe created by python. My problem is, the named pipe created by python uses os.getpid() as part of the pipe name. when i try calling the pipe from c++, i use getpid(). i am not getting the same value from c++. is there a method equivalent in c++ ... | How do I do os.getpid() in C++? | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 862 |
2,257,415 | 2010-02-13T12:09:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | c++,python | 2,257,422 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | You don't get same proccess IDs because your python program and c++ programs are run in different proccesses thus having different process IDs. So generally use a different logic to name your fifo files. | 4 | 0 | 0 | newb here. I am trying to make a c++ program that will read from a named pipe created by python. My problem is, the named pipe created by python uses os.getpid() as part of the pipe name. when i try calling the pipe from c++, i use getpid(). i am not getting the same value from c++. is there a method equivalent in c++ ... | How do I do os.getpid() in C++? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 862 |
2,257,415 | 2010-02-13T12:09:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | c++,python | 2,257,420 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | The standard library does not give you anything other than files. You will need to use some other OS specific API. | 4 | 0 | 0 | newb here. I am trying to make a c++ program that will read from a named pipe created by python. My problem is, the named pipe created by python uses os.getpid() as part of the pipe name. when i try calling the pipe from c++, i use getpid(). i am not getting the same value from c++. is there a method equivalent in c++ ... | How do I do os.getpid() in C++? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 862 |
2,257,799 | 2010-02-13T14:09:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,transliteration | 2,258,329 | 5 | false | 0 | 0 | If you use the translate method of Unicode objects, as I recommended in answer to another question of yours, everything's done automatically for you exactly as you desire: each Unicode character c whose codepoints (ord(c)) is not in the transliteration dictionary is simply passed unchanged from input to output, just as... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I am going about transliteration from one source language(input file) to a target language(target file) so I am checking for equivalent mappings in a dictionary in my source code, certain characters in the source code don't have an equivalent mapping like comma(,) and all other such special symbols. How do I check if t... | Python - to check if a char is in dictionary and if not to deal with it | 0.119427 | 0 | 0 | 1,990 |
2,259,386 | 2010-02-13T22:41:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,gtk,pygtk,pango | 2,259,437 | 2 | false | 0 | 1 | Updating a label should work perfectly reliably, so I suspect you're doing something else wrong. Are you using threads? What does your code look like? How small can you condense your program (by removing functionality, not by obfuscating the code), without making the problem go away? | 1 | 1 | 0 | I am writing a timer program in Python using PyGTK. It is precise to the hundredths place. Right now, I am using a constantly updated label. This is a problem, because if I resize the window while the timer is running, Pango more often than not throws some crazy error and my program terminates. It's not always the same... | How should I display a constantly updating timer using PyGTK? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1,048 |
2,261,928 | 2010-02-14T17:07:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,bmp,avi | 2,261,964 | 1 | false | 0 | 0 | I'd begin by using the GStreamer Python bindings; at a minimum, that'll take the AVI encoding (or a great many other codecs, if you prefer) off your plate.
It won't help with BMP input, though; either you can convert them to PNG or another natively-supported input format or use a different library such as PIL to decode... | 1 | 0 | 0 | I am looking for a python code that takes series of BMP file and merges them into Avi file (and get the parameter frames per second from the user)
does anyone has an idea where to begin?
Ariel | BMP2avi in python | 0 | 0 | 0 | 288 |
2,261,997 | 2010-02-14T17:30:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python | 2,262,290 | 4 | false | 0 | 0 | You could use a D-Bus service. Your script would start a new service if none is found running in the current session, and otherwise send a D-Bus message to the running instace (that can send "anything", including strings, lists, dicts).
The GTK-based library libunique (missing Python bindings?) uses this approach in it... | 1 | 2 | 0 | I have a script. It uses GTK. And I need to know if another copy of scrip starts. If it starts window will extend.
Please, tell me the way I can detect it. | How can I detect what other copy of Python script is already running | 0.148885 | 0 | 0 | 648 |
2,262,039 | 2010-02-14T17:39:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,asynchronous,tornado | 2,795,094 | 2 | false | 0 | 0 | Tornado has a "chat" example which uses long polling. It contains everything you need (or actually, probably more than you need since it includes a 3rd-party login) | 1 | 0 | 0 | We're implementing a Chat server using Tornado.
The premise is simple, a user makes open an HTTP ajax connection to the Tornado server, and the Tornado server answers only when a new message appears in the chat-room. Whenever the connection closes, regardless if a new message came in or an error/timeout occurred, the c... | What mutex/locking/waiting mechanism to use when writing a Chat application with Tornado Web Framework | 0 | 0 | 0 | 791 |
2,262,777 | 2010-02-14T21:07:00.000 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,eclipse,code-coverage,pydev | 5,648,086 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | Note that in pydev 2.0, the coverage support changed, now, you should first open the coverage view and select the 'enable code coverage for new launches'... after that, any launch you do (regular or unit-test) will have coverage information being gathered (and the results inspection also became a bit more intuitive). | 2 | 13 | 0 | I know Eclipse + PyDev has an option Run As => 3 Python Coverage. But all it reports is:
Ran 6 tests in 0.001s
OK
And it says nothing about code coverage. How to get a code coverage report in Pydev? | How to get unit test coverage results in Eclipse + Pydev? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12,234 |
2,262,777 | 2010-02-14T21:07:00.000 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,eclipse,code-coverage,pydev | 2,262,839 | 3 | true | 0 | 0 | Run a file with "Python Coverage"
Window > Show View > Code Coverage Results View
Select the directory in which the executed file is
Double-click on the executed file in the file list
Statistics are now at the right, not executed lines are marked red in the code view
Actually this is a really nice feature, didn't know... | 2 | 13 | 0 | I know Eclipse + PyDev has an option Run As => 3 Python Coverage. But all it reports is:
Ran 6 tests in 0.001s
OK
And it says nothing about code coverage. How to get a code coverage report in Pydev? | How to get unit test coverage results in Eclipse + Pydev? | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 12,234 |
2,263,132 | 2010-02-14T22:40:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,arrays,postgresql,database-connection | 2,277,362 | 3 | false | 0 | 0 | I am thinking either listen/notify or something with a cache such as memcache. You would send the key to memcache and have the second python app retrieve it from there. You could even do it with listen/notify... e.g; send the key and notify your second app that the key is in memcache waiting to be retrieved. | 1 | 3 | 0 | I am using PostgreSQL 8.4. I really like the new unnest() and array_agg() features; it is about time they realize the dynamic processing potential of their Arrays!
Anyway, I am working on web server back ends that uses long Arrays a lot. Their will be two successive processes which will each occur on a different physic... | Inter-database communications in PostgreSQL | 0 | 1 | 0 | 785 |
2,263,263 | 2010-02-14T23:19:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,pdf,merge,reportlab,pypdf | 2,263,276 | 3 | false | 1 | 0 | You could generate a document through, for example, TeX, or OpenOffice, or whatever gives you the most comfortable bindings and then print the document with a pdf printer.
This allows you not to have to figure out where to put fields precisely or figure out what to do if your content overflows the space allocated for i... | 1 | 4 | 0 | I want to automatically generate booking confirmation PDF files in Python. Most of the content will be static (i.e. logos, booking terms, phone numbers), with a few dynamic bits (dates, costs, etc).
From the user side, the simplest way to do this would be to start with a PDF file with the static content, and then usin... | Generating & Merging PDF Files in Python | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 6,428 |
2,263,782 | 2010-02-15T02:37:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,networking,scripting,ftp | 2,263,804 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | umm, maybe by pressing F5 in mc for linux or total commander for windows? | 2 | 0 | 0 | I have edited about 100 html files locally, and now I want to push them to my live server, which I can only access via ftp.
The HTML files are in many different directories, but hte directory structure on the remote machine is the same as on the local machine.
How can I recursively descend from my top-level directory f... | How to upload all .html files to a remote server using FTP and preserving file structure? | 0 | 0 | 1 | 409 |
2,263,782 | 2010-02-15T02:37:00.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | python,networking,scripting,ftp | 2,299,546 | 4 | false | 1 | 0 | if you have a mac, you can try cyberduck. It's good for syncing remote directory structures via ftp. | 2 | 0 | 0 | I have edited about 100 html files locally, and now I want to push them to my live server, which I can only access via ftp.
The HTML files are in many different directories, but hte directory structure on the remote machine is the same as on the local machine.
How can I recursively descend from my top-level directory f... | How to upload all .html files to a remote server using FTP and preserving file structure? | 0 | 0 | 1 | 409 |
2,264,371 | 2010-02-15T06:41:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,user-interface,calculator | 2,264,618 | 1 | true | 0 | 1 | What you need here is a concept of state. Each time a key is pressed, you check the state and determine what action to take.
In the initial state, you take input of numbers.
When an operand button is pressed, you store the operand, and change the state.
When another number is pressed, you store the number, clear the nu... | 1 | 1 | 0 | I need to write a code that runs similar to normal calculators in such a way that it displays the first number I type in, when i press the operand, the entry widget still displays the first number, but when i press the numbers for my second number, the first one gets replaced. I'm not to the point in writing the whole ... | Creating a GUI Calculator in python similar to MS Calculator | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1,214 |
2,264,482 | 2010-02-15T07:26:00.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,qt,qt4,pyqt,pyqt4 | 2,265,975 | 2 | false | 0 | 1 | Try calling QWidget::hide() on the button before removing from the layout if you don't want to delete your button. | 1 | 3 | 0 | I'm working on a PyQt application. Currently, there's a status panel (defined as a QWidget) which contains a QHBoxLayout. This layout is frequently updated with QPushButtons created by another portion of the application.
Whenever the buttons which appear need to change (which is rather frequently) an update effect g... | How do I prevent Qt buttons from appearing in a separate frame? | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 304 |
2,264,889 | 2010-02-15T09:17:00.000 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,programming-languages | 2,269,524 | 12 | false | 0 | 0 | The Go programming language. I've seen some similar paradigm. | 3 | 49 | 0 | Python is the nicest language I currently know of, but static typing is a big advantage due to auto-completion (although there is limited support for dynamic languages, it is nothing compared to that supported in static). I'm curious if there are any languages which try to add the benefits of Python to a statically typ... | What statically typed languages are similar to Python? | 0.083141 | 0 | 0 | 12,408 |
2,264,889 | 2010-02-15T09:17:00.000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,programming-languages | 2,265,030 | 12 | false | 0 | 0 | Autocompletion is still possible in a dynamically typed language; nothing prevents the IDE from doing type inference or inspection, even if the language implementation doesn't. | 3 | 49 | 0 | Python is the nicest language I currently know of, but static typing is a big advantage due to auto-completion (although there is limited support for dynamic languages, it is nothing compared to that supported in static). I'm curious if there are any languages which try to add the benefits of Python to a statically typ... | What statically typed languages are similar to Python? | 0.016665 | 0 | 0 | 12,408 |
2,264,889 | 2010-02-15T09:17:00.000 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | python,programming-languages | 13,959,384 | 12 | false | 0 | 0 | Rpython is a subset of Python that is statically typed. | 3 | 49 | 0 | Python is the nicest language I currently know of, but static typing is a big advantage due to auto-completion (although there is limited support for dynamic languages, it is nothing compared to that supported in static). I'm curious if there are any languages which try to add the benefits of Python to a statically typ... | What statically typed languages are similar to Python? | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 12,408 |
2,264,991 | 2010-02-15T09:42:00.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | python,pipe,stdin,command-line-interface | 2,265,010 | 6 | false | 0 | 0 | There is no reliable way to detect if sys.stdin is connected to anything, nor is it appropriate do so (e.g., the user wants to paste the data in). Detect the presence of a filename as an argument, and use stdin if none is found. | 1 | 20 | 0 | I have a CLI script and want it to read data from a file. It should be able to read it in two ways :
cat data.txt | ./my_script.py
./my_script.py data.txt
—a bit like grep, for example.
What I know:
sys.argv and optparse let me read any args and options easily.
sys.stdin let me read data piped in
fileinput make the ... | How to read from stdin or from a file if no data is piped in Python? | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 10,274 |
2,265,928 | 2010-02-15T12:40:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | asp.net,ironpython | 2,265,947 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | You have to put it into the Session object, which is automatically managed for you. | 1 | 0 | 0 | I have to do the following, when a class is instantiated I need to store that instance by user . Since I'm working in asp.net, I was wondering if I should use some of the ways asp.net provides to persist data between user requests. (Cache cant be because the data needs to be persistent and application state cant be be... | when a class is instantiated, storing that instance by user | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 888 |
2,266,554 | 2010-02-15T14:31:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-forms,pagination | 2,266,571 | 8 | false | 1 | 0 | You can ask request object if it's ajax, simply request.is_ajax. This way you can detect, whether it's first post request or further questions about the next pages. | 2 | 20 | 0 | I'm using Django Forms to do a filtered/faceted search via POST, and I would like to Django's paginator class to organize the results. How do I preserve the original request when passing the client between the various pages? In other words, it seems that I lose the POST data as soon as I pass the GET request for anot... | Paginating the results of a Django forms POST request | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,612 |
2,266,554 | 2010-02-15T14:31:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,django-forms,pagination | 3,170,694 | 8 | false | 1 | 0 | Have the search form and the results display on one single django template. Initially, use css to hide the results display area. On POSTing the form, you could check to see if the search returned any results and hide the search form with css if results exist. If results do not exist, use css to hide the results display... | 2 | 20 | 0 | I'm using Django Forms to do a filtered/faceted search via POST, and I would like to Django's paginator class to organize the results. How do I preserve the original request when passing the client between the various pages? In other words, it seems that I lose the POST data as soon as I pass the GET request for anot... | Paginating the results of a Django forms POST request | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,612 |
2,268,315 | 2010-02-15T19:11:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,animation,wxpython,mouseevent | 44,916,099 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | I think you could easily just make a window that is the same size as the desktop then do some while looping for an inactivity variable based on mouse position, then thread off a timer for loop for the 4 inactivity variables. I'd personally design it so that when they reach 0 from 15, they change size and position to be... | 2 | 1 | 0 | I would like to create an application that has 3-4 frames (or windows) where each frame is attached/positioned to a side of the screen (like a task bar). When a frame is inactive I would like it to auto hide (just like the Windows task bar does; or the dock in OSX). When I move my mouse pointer to the position on the e... | Can you auto hide frames/dialogs using wxPython? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 877 |
2,268,315 | 2010-02-15T19:11:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,animation,wxpython,mouseevent | 9,066,380 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | Personally, I would combine the EVT_ENTER_WINDOW and EVT_LEAVE_WINDOW that FogleBird mentioned with a wx.Timer. Then whenever it the frame or dialog is inactive for x seconds, you would just call its Hide() method. | 2 | 1 | 0 | I would like to create an application that has 3-4 frames (or windows) where each frame is attached/positioned to a side of the screen (like a task bar). When a frame is inactive I would like it to auto hide (just like the Windows task bar does; or the dock in OSX). When I move my mouse pointer to the position on the e... | Can you auto hide frames/dialogs using wxPython? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 877 |
2,268,853 | 2010-02-15T20:58:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,user-interface,pyqt | 2,271,799 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | If I understood your question correctly, updating the GUI has a little to do with the way you programmed it.
From my experience, it's easier to design a main window (or whatever your top level object is) in Designer, and add some dynamically updated content in a widget(s) created in your code. In most cases, it saves y... | 3 | 2 | 0 | When starting up a new project, as a beginner, which would you use?
For example, in my situation. I'm going to have a program running on an infinite loop, constantly updating values. I need these values to be represented as a bar graph as they're updating. At the same time, the GUI has to be responsive to user fee... | QtDesigner or doing all of the Qt boilerplate by hand? | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 445 |
2,268,853 | 2010-02-15T20:58:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,user-interface,pyqt | 2,269,180 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | Your right threading is your answer. Use the QT threads they work very well.
Where I work when people start out using QT a lot of them start with designer but eventually end up hand coding it. I think you will end up hand coding it but if you are someone who really likes GUIs you may want to start with Designer. I... | 3 | 2 | 0 | When starting up a new project, as a beginner, which would you use?
For example, in my situation. I'm going to have a program running on an infinite loop, constantly updating values. I need these values to be represented as a bar graph as they're updating. At the same time, the GUI has to be responsive to user fee... | QtDesigner or doing all of the Qt boilerplate by hand? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 445 |
2,268,853 | 2010-02-15T20:58:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,user-interface,pyqt | 2,269,317 | 3 | false | 0 | 1 | First of all, the requirements that you've mentioned don't (or shouldn't) have much affect on this decision.
Either way, you're going to have to learn something. You might as well investigate both options, and make the decision yourself. Write a couple of "Hello, World!" apps, then start adding some extra widgets/beh... | 3 | 2 | 0 | When starting up a new project, as a beginner, which would you use?
For example, in my situation. I'm going to have a program running on an infinite loop, constantly updating values. I need these values to be represented as a bar graph as they're updating. At the same time, the GUI has to be responsive to user fee... | QtDesigner or doing all of the Qt boilerplate by hand? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 445 |
2,269,827 | 2010-02-16T00:07:00.000 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | python,string,hex,int | 59,218,613 | 14 | false | 0 | 0 | Also you can convert any number in any base to hex. Use this one line code here it's easy and simple to use:
hex(int(n,x)).replace("0x","")
You have a string n that is your number and x the base of that number. First, change it to integer and then to hex but hex has 0x at the first of it so with replace we remove it. | 1 | 272 | 0 | I want to take an integer (that will be <= 255), to a hex string representation
e.g.: I want to pass in 65 and get out '\x41', or 255 and get '\xff'.
I've tried doing this with the struct.pack('c',65), but that chokes on anything above 9 since it wants to take in a single character string. | How to convert an int to a hex string? | 0.057081 | 0 | 0 | 735,735 |
2,270,556 | 2010-02-16T04:06:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,sms,payment-gateway | 2,277,634 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | I'd like to comment on the SMS alert part.
First, I have to admit that I'm not familiar with Django, but I assume it to be just like most other web frameworks: request based. This might be your first problem, as the alert service needs to run independently of requests. You could of course hack together something to e... | 1 | 3 | 0 | Firstly pardon me if i've yet again failed to title my question correctly.
I am required to build an app to manage magazine subscriptions. The client wants to enter subscriber data and then receive alerts at pre-set intervals such as when the subscription of a subscriber is about to expire and also the option to view a... | Subscription web/desktop app [PYTHON] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 795 |
2,271,190 | 2010-02-16T07:17:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,calendar | 2,271,544 | 2 | false | 1 | 0 | One caveat here is the different timezones of different users, and bring Daylight saving time into the mix things become very complicated.
You might want to take a look at pytz module for taking care of the timezone issue. | 1 | 12 | 0 | I am trying to implement a calendar system with the ability to schedule other people for appointments. The system has to be able to prevent scheduling a person during another appointment or during their unavailable time.
I have looked at all the existing django calendar projects I have found on the internet and none of... | django calendar free/busy/availabilitty | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,899 |
2,273,258 | 2010-02-16T13:44:00.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | python,django,orm,singleton | 2,274,434 | 5 | false | 1 | 0 | rewrite your save method so that every time a Ticker object gets saved it overwrites the existing one (if one exists). | 1 | 20 | 0 | I'm making a very simple website in Django. On one of the pages there is a vertical ticker box. I need to give the client a way to edit the contents of the ticker box as an HTMLField.
The first way that came to mind was to make a model Ticker which will have only one instance. Then I thought, instead of making sure man... | How about having a SingletonModel in Django? | 0.039979 | 0 | 0 | 10,738 |
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