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0 | 0 | I am writing a script in python, and part of it needs to connect to a remote computer using rdp. Is there a script or an api that I could use to create this function? Also, if there is not, is there a way to package a rdp application along side python and then use a python script to run it? Any help would be much appre... | false | 21,210,283 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | If you need an interactive window, use the subprocess module to start your rdesktop.exe (or whatever).
If you need to run some command automatically, you're probably better off forgetting about RDP and using ssh (with passwordless, passphraseless authentication via RSA or similar), psexec (note that some antivirus prog... | 0 | 5,376 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-18T21:45:00.000 | python,rdp | RDP script in python? | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,210,586 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I got much anonymous questions that attack my friendship.
Is there a way to get the IP-Adresss of these Questions with a Python script?
I have little more than normal Python knowledge, so you mustn't show me complete Code, just 1-5 lines or just explain something.
I hope you'll help me! | false | 21,236,742 | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 2 | If the IPs are not logged by ask.fm, there is not much you can do about it. And if it's logged, you probably don't need any script to extract it, as it should be presented somewhere along with the questions or separately in some list. | 0 | 1,205 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-20T14:40:00.000 | python,ip | Python Ask.fm IP of Anonymous Questions | 1 | 2 | 2 | 21,237,260 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I got much anonymous questions that attack my friendship.
Is there a way to get the IP-Adresss of these Questions with a Python script?
I have little more than normal Python knowledge, so you mustn't show me complete Code, just 1-5 lines or just explain something.
I hope you'll help me! | false | 21,236,742 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | In addition to @Michael's answer, even if you might be able to get the IP you won't be able to do much. Most of people also use dynamic IP addresses.
You may want to contact ask.fm to get more informations, it's very hard they will give you them though. | 0 | 1,205 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-20T14:40:00.000 | python,ip | Python Ask.fm IP of Anonymous Questions | 1 | 2 | 2 | 21,237,392 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I had read about an app called citycounds.fm, which is no longer active, where they made city-based playlists. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any way to search for tracks by city in the soundcloud api documentation.
Any one know if this is possible? | false | 21,245,341 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | You can't filter tracks by city. The city is actually stored with the user. So you would have to search for the tracks you want, then perform an additional step to check if the user for each of the tracks is from the city you want.
I wanted to do something similar, but too many users do not have their city saved in... | 0 | 934 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-20T22:19:00.000 | python,api,soundcloud | Is there any way to search for tracks by city in the SoundCloud API? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,263,821 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am working on some applets and whenever I'm trying to open the applets on IE using my python script, It stops for a manual input to enable the activex.
I tried doing it from the IE settings. but, I require a command line to do it by which I can integrate it in my python script only. | false | 21,250,136 | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 1 | I found one solution to this.
We can make the below modification to the registry and achieve running of applets automatically without pop-ups
C:\Windows\system32>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Feat
ureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN" /v iexplore.exe /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f | 0 | 923 | 0 | 1 | 2014-01-21T05:49:00.000 | java,python,internet-explorer,activex | How can I enable activex controls on IE for auto loading of applets | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,260,619 | 0 |
1 | 0 | How would I go about turning off SSL when sending data to Google cloud storage? I'm using their apiclient module.
The data that I'm putting to the cloud is already encrypted. I'm also trying to put data from AWS to GCS in 512k sized blocks. I'm seeing about 600ms+ in putting just one block. I was thinking if I don'... | false | 21,270,951 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Try to PUT in larger blocks, since latency is probably the gating factor. You can edit the DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE in apiclient/http.py as a workaround. | 0 | 1,475 | 0 | 3 | 2014-01-21T23:07:00.000 | python,google-cloud-storage | Turn off SSL to Google cloud storage | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21,271,776 | 0 |
1 | 0 | How would I go about turning off SSL when sending data to Google cloud storage? I'm using their apiclient module.
The data that I'm putting to the cloud is already encrypted. I'm also trying to put data from AWS to GCS in 512k sized blocks. I'm seeing about 600ms+ in putting just one block. I was thinking if I don'... | false | 21,270,951 | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 1 | You should keep SSL. When using OAuth2 (as GCS does), any request may include an http header (access_token) that you don't want third parties to see. Otherwise, hijacking your account would be extremely easy. | 0 | 1,475 | 0 | 3 | 2014-01-21T23:07:00.000 | python,google-cloud-storage | Turn off SSL to Google cloud storage | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21,678,526 | 0 |
1 | 0 | How would I go about turning off SSL when sending data to Google cloud storage? I'm using their apiclient module.
The data that I'm putting to the cloud is already encrypted. I'm also trying to put data from AWS to GCS in 512k sized blocks. I'm seeing about 600ms+ in putting just one block. I was thinking if I don'... | true | 21,270,951 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | apiclient uses the Google Cloud Storage JSON API, which requires HTTPS.
Can you say a bit about why you would like to disable SSL?
Thanks. | 0 | 1,475 | 0 | 3 | 2014-01-21T23:07:00.000 | python,google-cloud-storage | Turn off SSL to Google cloud storage | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21,271,640 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using Python SocketServer to implement a socket server.
How can I find out if client used example.com to connect to me, or used x.x.x.x?
Actually, I need something like virtual hosts in Apache.
Googling didn't come up with any notable result.
Thanks | true | 21,307,904 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | virtual hosts in Apache works because it is specified in the HTTP RFC to send the host header. Unless your client similarly sends the name it used to connect, there is really no way to find this out. DNS lookup happens separately and resolves a host name to an IP. The IP is then used to connect. – Kinjal Dixit | 0 | 188 | 0 | 1 | 2014-01-23T12:16:00.000 | python,sockets | Find host name used to connect to my socket server | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27,230,282 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using python 2.7 and i need secure url with ssl protocol(HTTPS).Can we do this in python 2.7
when i trying to import ssl i m getting the following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ssl.py", line 60, in
import _ssl # if we can't import it, ... | false | 21,335,434 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I got Answer
I have re-installed openssl
This is the code i used in terminal
sudo yum install openssl-devel | 0 | 2,484 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-24T14:42:00.000 | python-2.7,ssl,https | How to use ssl in python 2.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,338,087 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I'm developing a multiplayer Android game with push notifications by using Google GCM.
My web server has a REST API. Most of the requests sent to this API send a request to Google GCM server to send a notification to the opponent.
The thing is on average, a call to my API is ~140 ms long, and ~100 ms is due to the http... | false | 21,349,462 | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 1 | The problem is that your clients are waiting for your server to send the GCM push notifications. There is no logic to this behavior.
You need to change your server-side code to process your API requests, close the connection to your client, and only then send the push notifications. | 0 | 1,501 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-25T10:39:00.000 | android,python,web,google-cloud-messaging,bottle | Avoiding a 100ms http request to slow down the REST API where it's called from | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21,350,980 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I'm developing a multiplayer Android game with push notifications by using Google GCM.
My web server has a REST API. Most of the requests sent to this API send a request to Google GCM server to send a notification to the opponent.
The thing is on average, a call to my API is ~140 ms long, and ~100 ms is due to the http... | false | 21,349,462 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The best thing you can do is making all networking asynchronous, if you don't do this yet.
The issue is that there will always be users with a slow internet connection and there isn't a generic approach to bring them fast internet :/.
Other than that, ideas are to
send only few small packets or one huge in favor of m... | 0 | 1,501 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-25T10:39:00.000 | android,python,web,google-cloud-messaging,bottle | Avoiding a 100ms http request to slow down the REST API where it's called from | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21,349,485 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm looking for a good package that can be used to implement a OpenId Connect Provider. I've found one called pyoidc but the documentation around it is not great at all. Can anyone suggest a different package or does any one have an example implementation of pyoidc? | false | 21,376,619 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 2 | There are examples in the distribution. Just added another RP example (rp3) which I think should be easier to understand. Also started to add documentation. | 0 | 3,016 | 0 | 4 | 2014-01-27T09:00:00.000 | python,python-3.x,oauth-2.0,openid,openid-connect | OpenId Connect Provider Python 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 23,262,902 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have not found a satisfactory answer/tutorial for this, but I'm sure it must be out there. My goal is to access Google Drive programmatically using my credentials. A secondary and lower-priority goal is to do this properly and that means using OAuth rather than ClientLogin.
Thus: How do you authenticate with the Goog... | true | 21,390,913 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | "How do you authenticate with the Google Drive API using your own credentials for your own Google Drive (without creating an application on the Google Developers Console)?"
You can't. The premise of OAuth is that the user is granting access to the application, and so the application must be registered. In Google's case... | 0 | 359 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-27T20:24:00.000 | python,google-drive-api,google-oauth | How to authenticate as myself for Google Drive API? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,409,448 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm just starting exploring IAM Roles. So far I launched an instance, created an IAM Role. Everything seems to work as expected. Currently I'm using boto (Python sdk).
What I don't understand :
Does the boto takes care of credential rotation? (For example, imagine I have an instance that should be up for a long time,... | true | 21,408,290 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | The boto library does handle credential rotation. Or, rather, AWS rotates the credentials and boto automatically picks up the new credentials. Currently, boto does this by checking the expiration timestamp of the temporary credentials. If the expiration is within 5 minutes of the current time, it will query the meta... | 0 | 265 | 0 | 3 | 2014-01-28T14:27:00.000 | python,amazon-web-services,amazon-s3,boto,amazon-iam | How to manually change IAM Roles credentials? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,409,299 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am looking to set up an HTTP server which takes in some input and then the application needs to send multiple HTTP requests at the same time (to another server). What is the best approach for this?
If I use the Twisted framework, do I still need to use threading? | false | 21,423,798 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Either Threading or Twisted can do this.
ie. If you use twisted, you won't need to use Threading.
Keep in mind that some servers have a limit on the number of connections they will allow from a single IP address. | 1 | 2,932 | 0 | 2 | 2014-01-29T06:36:00.000 | python,multithreading,thread-safety,twisted | Python: Multiple HTTP requests at the same time | 1 | 1 | 3 | 21,423,872 | 0 |
1 | 0 | There are multiple mobile apps.
I want people using one app to login with their same login credentials into all other apps.
What is the best approach to implement this?
I'm thinking to create a separate authorization server that will issue tokens/secrets on registering and logins. It will have a validation API that wil... | false | 21,426,024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The authentification method in every application connects to the same webservice for autentification. | 0 | 386 | 0 | 1 | 2014-01-29T08:44:00.000 | python,django,authorization,server-side | One login for multiple products | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21,426,172 | 0 |
1 | 0 | There are multiple mobile apps.
I want people using one app to login with their same login credentials into all other apps.
What is the best approach to implement this?
I'm thinking to create a separate authorization server that will issue tokens/secrets on registering and logins. It will have a validation API that wil... | true | 21,426,024 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | First check if OAuth could be adapted to using this, that would save you a lot of work. Of course all the services and apps would have to talk to some backend network server to sync tokens issued to apps.
Half-secure/maybe-abusable solution: have symmetric cipher encrypted cookie that webpages (and apps?) hold and use ... | 0 | 386 | 0 | 1 | 2014-01-29T08:44:00.000 | python,django,authorization,server-side | One login for multiple products | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21,427,549 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am planning on doing a bit of home automation. I decided on going with the RPi, because it is cheap, and can connect to the internet wirelessly via a USB dongle. I was planning on controlling the system through a PHP webpage hosted on my webserver. I was wondering if I could make it so that when I click a button on t... | false | 21,442,470 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Use a websocket (e.g., on Node.js) to open a channel of communication between the Raspberry Pi and the Web page. Run a socket server on the Web server and run clients on your Rasberry Pis. Then create a simple messaging protocol for commands that the Web server will send over the websocket and that the Raspberry Pis wi... | 0 | 525 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-29T20:57:00.000 | php,python,raspberry-pi,home-automation | Python, PHP: Controlling RPi GPIO from website on a separate server | 1 | 2 | 2 | 31,495,240 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am planning on doing a bit of home automation. I decided on going with the RPi, because it is cheap, and can connect to the internet wirelessly via a USB dongle. I was planning on controlling the system through a PHP webpage hosted on my webserver. I was wondering if I could make it so that when I click a button on t... | false | 21,442,470 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | I don't think it would be as easy as 'sending a signal' to your Pi. What you could do, however, is set up a MySQL database on the server with your control signals input to the database and have the Pi poll it every so often to check the values.
For actually controlling, you would simply use UPDATE statements to set the... | 0 | 525 | 0 | 0 | 2014-01-29T20:57:00.000 | php,python,raspberry-pi,home-automation | Python, PHP: Controlling RPi GPIO from website on a separate server | 1 | 2 | 2 | 21,864,500 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I need to access my python programs through IP address for making it to do something in server. Creating Apache Server for only one python script is not good solution.
In server it works like: python script.py --arg
Now I need something like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx/script.py --arg or something else. Main idea is to... | false | 21,509,104 | 0.099668 | 1 | 0 | 1 | With Flask you can do that in about ten lines of code. | 0 | 205 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-02T09:43:00.000 | python,webserver | Best way to create simple web server for python files | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,509,226 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am learning endpoints and saw that other Google APIs have this "fields" query attribute.
Also it appears in the api explorer.
I would like to get a partial response for my api also, but when using the fields selector from the api explorer it is simply ignored by the server.
Do I need to implement something in the s... | true | 21,516,287 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | From what I gather, Google has enabled partial response for their APIs, but has not yet explained how to enable it for custom APIs.
I'm assuming if they do let us know, it might entail annotations, and possibly overriding a method or two.
I've been looking also, to no avail.
I've been looking into this just due to a re... | 0 | 418 | 1 | 0 | 2014-02-02T21:10:00.000 | google-app-engine,python-2.7,google-cloud-endpoints | How do you return a Partial response in app engine python endpoints? | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23,165,174 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using buildbot version 0.8.5 and need to send an HTTP post request from it as a step. After searching for it on internet, I found that the latest version 0.8.8 has a step called HTTPStep for doing so. Is there any similar step in the older version?
I know it can be done using batch file or python program using url... | false | 21,520,459 | -0.099668 | 1 | 0 | -1 | Just my thoughts..As far as I know it is better to use a python script from a build step. Simple and easy to control. The logic being:
the entire buildbot is inside one http connection/session and sending another http request somewhere might have issues with the connection/session.
from the buildbot httpstep descripti... | 0 | 268 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-03T05:39:00.000 | python,httprequest,buildbot | Sending http post request in buildbot | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,557,265 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am working to automate retrieving the Order data from the Google Wallet Merchant Center. This data is on the Orders screen and the export is through a button right above the data.
Google has said this data is not available to export to a Google Cloud bucket like payments are and this data is not available through a ... | false | 21,611,503 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | analyticsPierce,
I've asked the same question and have not received any answers.
Here was my question, maybe we can work out a solution somehow. I've just about given up.
"HttpWebRequest with Username/Password" on StackOverflow.
Trey | 0 | 433 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-06T18:53:00.000 | python,ruby,android-pay | How to automate Google Wallet order export data? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,741,357 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am successful to record all the links of the website but missed some of the links which can only be visible with the form posting (for example login).
What i did is recorded all the links without login. And took the form values. Then i posted the data and recorded the new links, but here i missed the other forms and... | false | 21,612,246 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The links in a set of web pages can be seen as a tree graph and hence you could use various tree traversal algorithms like depth first and breadth first search to find all links. The links and related form data can be saved in a queue or stack depending on what traversal algorithm you are using. | 0 | 77 | 0 | 2 | 2014-02-06T19:32:00.000 | python,algorithm,web,hyperlink,traversal | Algorithm for traversing website including forms | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31,978,451 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have a HTML/Javascript file with google's web speech api and I'm doing testing using selenium, however everytime I enter the site the browser requests permission to use my microphone and I have to click on 'ALLOW'.
How do I make selenium click on ALLOW automatically ? | true | 21,628,904 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | @ExperimentsWithCode
Thank you for your answer again, I have spent almost the whole day today trying to figure out how to do this and I've also tried your suggestion where you add that flag --disable-user-media-security to chrome, unfortunately it didn't work for me.
However I thought of a really simple solution:
To ... | 0 | 21,421 | 0 | 9 | 2014-02-07T13:23:00.000 | google-chrome,python-2.7,selenium-webdriver | Accept permission request in chrome using selenium | 1 | 1 | 8 | 21,686,531 | 0 |
0 | 0 | Im working on a little project that running rabbitmq with python, I need a way to access the management api and pull stats, jobs, etc. I have tried using pyRabbit, but doen't appear to be working unsure why, hoping better programmers might know? Below I was just following the basic tutorial and readme to perform the ... | false | 21,639,733 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | I was never able to solve this. But, this forced me to learn what json is, I used simplejson along with httplib2 and it worked like a charm... | 0 | 781 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-07T23:38:00.000 | python,django,rabbitmq | Unable to get pyrabbit to run | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,939,627 | 0 |
1 | 0 | Hi everyone i'm working on a social network project . I'm using Pythons Common Gateway Interface to write everything ,handle database , ajax . So i have a question , i heard that Web Server Gateway Interface is better than Common Gateway Interface and can handle more users and higher traffic but now i have already fini... | false | 21,656,058 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Go ahead with your work.. It will be fine if you are using Common Gateway Interface but you should have a look at network traffic. | 0 | 227 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-09T06:17:00.000 | python,python-3.x,cgi,mod-wsgi,wsgi | Python cgi or wsgi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,656,118 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have a bunch of websites, I want to find all the IP addresses that they communicate with while we browse them. For example once we browse Yahoo.com, it contacts several destinations until it is getting loaded.
Is there any library in the C++ or Python that can help me?
One way that I'm thinking about is to get the HT... | false | 21,689,654 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | You can do that with http, urllib or urllib2.
You have to look for "src=" (images, flash etc.) and for "href=" (hyperlinks).
Why do you think it's not correct? | 0 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-10T22:56:00.000 | python,c++,ip,web-crawler,fetch | How to get all IP addresses fetched | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,689,802 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am trying to make a HTTP Request to a JSON API like https://api.github.com using tornado.httpclient and I found that it always responses with FORBIDDEN 403.
Simplifying, I make a request using the CLI with:
$ python -m tornado.httpclient https://api.github.com
getting a tornado.httpclient.HTTPError: HTTP 403: Forb... | false | 21,703,829 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I faced similar issue & problem was with configurable-http-proxy so I killed its process & restarted jupyterhub
ps aux | grep configurable-http-proxy
if there are any pid's from above command, kill them with
kill -9 <PID>
and restart `` | 0 | 756 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-11T13:55:00.000 | python,http,tornado | Simple not-authorized request to a Github API using Tornado httpclient returns Forbidden | 1 | 1 | 3 | 47,112,953 | 0 |
1 | 0 | Currently I have written a python script that extracts data from flickr site, and dump as a python class object and YAML file.
I was planning to turn this into a website:
and a simple html front page that can send a request to the backend, triggers the python scripts running on the backend
the response will be pars... | false | 21,704,977 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | you should use Django framework for your app. You can integrate your scripts into Django views. And you can also use the loaddata system in order to insert your yaml data into the database | 0 | 1,253 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-11T14:44:00.000 | python,ajax | Python backend and html/ajax front end, need suggestions for my application | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,705,056 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm looking to implement (or use a library if one already exists) the Max Flow algorithm on a graph with directed and undirected edges, and visualize it. I am leaning toward JavaScript. I am aware that d3.js and arbor.js allow interactive graph visualization, but is there a recommended way to visualize the actual flow ... | false | 21,717,013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | d3 may be the solution to what you're trying to do, but it's good to keep in mind what it is and what it is not.
What it is: a very effective tool at creating data-based graphics. What it is not: a graphing library. That being said, you CAN use it for graphs. Most of the graphs that I do in javascript are built on d3, ... | 0 | 733 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-12T01:48:00.000 | javascript,python,graph,visualization,network-flow | Max flow visualization with JavaScript api - use d3.js, or something similar? | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,729,708 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm running a set of tornado instances that handles many requests from a small set of keep-alive connections. When I take down the server for maintenance I want to gracefully close the keep-alive requests so I can take the server down. Is there a way to tell clients "Hey this socket is closing" with Tornado? I looked... | false | 21,720,346 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | finish() doesn't apply here because a connection in the "keep-alive" state is not associated with a RequestHandler. In general there's nothing you can (or need to) do with a keep-alive connection except close it, since the browser isn't listening for a response.
Websockets are another story - in that case you may wa... | 0 | 1,783 | 1 | 1 | 2014-02-12T06:29:00.000 | python,sockets,tornado | Close all (keep-alive) socket connections in tornado? | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,735,934 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have a dilemma.
I need to read very large XML files from all kinds of sources, so the files are often invalid XML or malformed XML. I still must be able to read the files and extract some info from them. I do need to get tag information, so I need XML parser.
Is it possible to use Beautiful Soup to read the data as a... | true | 21,740,376 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Beautiful Soup has no streaming API that I know of. You have, however, alternatives.
The classic approach for parsing large XML streams is using an event-oriented parser, namely SAX. In python, xml.sax.xmlreader. It will not choke with malformed XML. You can avoid erroneous portions of the file and extract information ... | 0 | 1,799 | 0 | 3 | 2014-02-12T21:44:00.000 | python,xml | Need to read XML files as a stream using BeautifulSoup in Python | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,740,512 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am trying to target specific CSS elements on a page, but the problem is that they have varying selector names. For instance, input#dp156435476435.textinput.wihtinnextyear.datepicker.hasDatepicker.error. I need to target the CSS because i am specifcally looking for the .error at the end of the element, and that is o... | false | 21,765,396 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | css=span.error -- Error
css=span.warning -- Warning
css=span.critical -- Critical Error
Simple above are the CSS Selectors we can use. | 0 | 2,815 | 0 | 2 | 2014-02-13T21:00:00.000 | python,selenium-webdriver | Selenium webdriver, Python - target partial CSS selector? | 1 | 1 | 3 | 22,903,875 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I wish to scrape news articles of the local newspaper. The archive is behind a paywall and I have a paid account, how would I go about automating the input of my credentials? | false | 21,807,914 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | You can't access page behind paywall directly because that page may require some authentication data like session or cookies. So you have to first create these data and store it so that when you pass request to secure pages you pass require data as part of request and also have authentication session data.
To get auth... | 0 | 6,129 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-16T06:02:00.000 | python,web-scraping | How to scrape a website behind a paywall | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21,807,979 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am trying to run IPython notebook but its not execute any output,it gives error like that,Error:A WebSocket connection to could not be established. You will NOT be able to run code. Check your network connection or notebook server configuration,so what can i do for that? | false | 21,823,306 | -0.379949 | 0 | 0 | -2 | This error means that your ipython notebook server is not running. If you are running Ubuntu or OSX, you need to go to the command-line, cd into the directory where your notebook file is, and run ipython notebook. This will start the local notebook webserver and you can then run code inside your notebooks. The error yo... | 1 | 521 | 0 | 3 | 2014-02-17T07:39:00.000 | python-3.x,ipython-notebook | How to execute the ipython notebook | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,826,880 | 0 |
0 | 0 | We have a REST API as part of which we provide the client with several APIs to draw analytic reports. Some very large queries can take 5 to 10 minutes to complete and can return responses in the 50mb to 150mb range.
At the moment, the client is just expected to wait for the response. We are not sure if this is really ... | false | 21,824,677 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | If you need to process a long running task, from client point of view it is always better to process it asynchronously as follows.
A client sends a POST request, the server creates a new resource (or can start immediate background processing) and returns HTTP 202 Accepted with a representation of the task (e.g. status... | 0 | 277 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-17T09:01:00.000 | python,rest,bigdata | API Responses with large result sets | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,829,930 | 0 |
0 | 1 | In igraph, what's the least cpu-expensive way to find:
the two most remote vertices (in term of shortest distances form one another) of a graph. Unlike the farthest.points() function, which chooses the first found pair of vertices with the longest shortest distance if more than one pair exists, I'd like to randomly se... | false | 21,836,929 | 0.379949 | 0 | 0 | 2 | For the first question, you can find all shortest paths, and then choose between the pairs making up the longest distances.
I don't really understand the second question. If you are searching for unweighted paths, then every pair of vertices at both ends of an edge have the minimum distance (1). That is, if you don't c... | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-17T18:47:00.000 | python,igraph,shortest-path | least cpu-expensive way to find the two most (and least) remote vertices of a graph [igraph] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,840,597 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am using robot framework to test a GUI application , I need to select a span element which is a list box , but I have multiple span elements with same class ID in the same page , So how can I select each span element(list box) ???
Thanks in advance | false | 21,846,978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Could you please provide a part of your code you use to get the span element and a part of your GUI application where you are trying to get the element from (HTML, or smth.)? | 0 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-18T07:32:00.000 | python,selenium,automated-tests,robotframework | How to select a span element which is a list box ,when multiple span elements with same class ID are present in the same page? | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,005,969 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am using robot framework to test a GUI application , I need to select a span element which is a list box , but I have multiple span elements with same class ID in the same page , So how can I select each span element(list box) ???
Thanks in advance | false | 21,846,978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Selenium provides various ways to locate elements in the page. If you can't use id, consider using CSS or Xpath. | 0 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-18T07:32:00.000 | python,selenium,automated-tests,robotframework | How to select a span element which is a list box ,when multiple span elements with same class ID are present in the same page? | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,013,855 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have an HTTP API using Flask and in one particular operation clients use it to retrieve information obtained from a 3rd party API. The retrieval is done with a celery task. Usually, my approach would be to accept the client request for that information and return a 303 See Other response with an URI that can be polle... | false | 21,868,709 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Tornado would do the trick.
Flask is not designed for asynchronization. A Flask instance processes one request at a time in one thread. Therefore, when you hold the connection, it will not proceed to next request. | 0 | 2,430 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T00:47:00.000 | python,api,flask | Flask request waiting for asynchronous background job | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25,578,832 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I'm trying to figure out how to parse a website that doesn't have documentation available to explain the query string. I am wondering if there is a way to get all possible valid values for different fields in a query string using Python.
For example, let's say I have the current URL that I wish to parse:
http://www.web... | false | 21,871,636 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It depends on the website itself. If it has other values of field1 or field2, you can only know that by looking into the code or documentation(if available). That's the only accurate way of knowing it. Otherwise, you can try brute forcing (trying all possible alphanumeric values Ever), but that doesn't guaranty anythin... | 1 | 299 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T05:13:00.000 | python,parsing,query-string | Find all possible query string values with python | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,872,039 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I want to write a simple python C/S exec code model, which will send all codes written in client to execute in server.
Simply, you can think that I'm using exec(code, globals()) to run remote code.
And I meet a problem about namespace :
If I import something in a connection, another connection can also use this module... | true | 21,871,784 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Currently, I'm using a stupid and violent solution.
I create dict for each connection, and exec code in dict accordingly.
exec code in connection_dict[connection].
Any smart solution ? Such as python CAPI ? Thanks again! | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T05:24:00.000 | python,namespaces | How to set local namespace for specified connection? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,871,871 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I searched the net but couldn't get anything that works.
I am trying to write a python script which will trigger a timer if a particular url is opened in the current browser.
How do i obtain the url from the browser. | true | 21,872,515 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | You cannot do it platform independent way.
You need to use pywin32 for Windows platform (or any other suitable module which provides access to platform API, for example pywm) to access window (you can get it by window name). After that you should analyse all child to get to window which represents URL string. Finally y... | 0 | 477 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T06:12:00.000 | python,url | Python: Getting current URL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,872,656 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm not sure if the language I'm using makes a difference or not, but for the record it's python (2.7.3).
I recently tried to add functionality to a project I forked on GitHub. Specifically, I changed the underlying http request library from httplib2 to requests, so that I could easily add proxies to requests. The resu... | true | 21,878,696 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | The purpose of a unit test is to verify the implementation of a requirement. As any other piece of software, you have to distinguish what the unit test does, how it tests the requirement (roughly speaking its design), and how it is implemented. Unless the requirement itself is changed, the design of the unit test shoul... | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T11:07:00.000 | python,unit-testing | Changing unit tests based on added functionality | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,879,161 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have 200,000 URLs that I need to scrape from a website. This website has a very strict scraping policy and you will get blocked if the scraping frequency is 10+ /min. So I need to control my pace. And I am thinking about start a few AWS instances (say 3) to run in parallel.
In this way, the estimated time to collect... | false | 21,892,302 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Question: (1) How to use boto to pass the variable/argument to another
AWS instance and start a script to work on those variable
Use shared datasource, such as DynamoDB or messaging framework such as SQS
and .. use boto to retrieve the result back to the master box.
Again, shared datasource, or messaging.
(2) W... | 0 | 262 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-19T20:58:00.000 | python,amazon-web-services,cron,queue,boto | BOTO distribute scraping tasks among AWS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,899,718 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have flask running on my Macbook (10.9.1 if it makes a difference). I have no problem accessing what I have hosted there over my local network, but I'm trying to see if I can access it publicly. For example load a webpage on my iPhone over it's 3G connection. It doesn't appear to be as simple as /index.
With my limit... | true | 21,905,560 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | You need to set your router to forward the relevant port to your laptop. | 0 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-20T10:54:00.000 | python,flask | Connect to flask over public connection | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21,905,637 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm learning to use sockets in python and something weird is happening.
I call socket.connect in a try block, and typically it either completes and I have a new socket connection, or it raises the exception. Sometimes, however, it just hangs.
I don't understand why sometimes it returns (even without connecting!) and ... | false | 21,921,509 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Firewall may be the explanation behind this unexpected response. Rather than supposing the remote firewall accepts connection, using timeout is the best option. Since, making a connection is a swift process and within a network, it won't take longer time. So, give a proper timeout so that you can tell that the host is ... | 0 | 2,733 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-20T22:56:00.000 | python,sockets,network-programming | Python socket.connect hangs sometimes | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,111,178 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm learning to use sockets in python and something weird is happening.
I call socket.connect in a try block, and typically it either completes and I have a new socket connection, or it raises the exception. Sometimes, however, it just hangs.
I don't understand why sometimes it returns (even without connecting!) and ... | true | 21,921,509 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | When connect() hangs it is usually because you connect to an address that is behind a firewall and the firewall just drops your packets with no response. It keeps trying to connect for around 2 minutes on Linux and then times out and return an error. | 0 | 2,733 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-20T22:56:00.000 | python,sockets,network-programming | Python socket.connect hangs sometimes | 1 | 2 | 2 | 21,921,616 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I went through the instructions on for the Google Glass Python Quick Start. I deployed the app and the app supposedly finished deploying successfully. I then went to the main URL for the app and attempted to open the page. The page asked me which Google Account I wanted to use to access the app, and I chose one. It wen... | false | 21,988,618 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A couple of things that are standard debugging practices, and you may want to update the original question to clarify:
Did OAuth actually fail? What information do you have that it failed? Can you verify from web server logs that the callback URL was hit and that it contained non-error return values?
Can you check you... | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-24T13:02:00.000 | python,google-glass | OAuth fails after deploying google glass application | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,016,838 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I just decided to start working on a mobile application for fun, but it will require a back-end. So I created an EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services, with an Amazon Linux AMI installed.
I also have set up an database instance as well, and inserted some dummy data in there.
Now, the next step I want to take is to wri... | false | 22,000,918 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | A bit broad really especially the Python part.
Yes this can be considered a API. Think of SOAP and REST services as
an API available via the network.
This question is opinion based and not suited for discussion here. A
guideline is that if it works for you it is good.
Yes you should use the REST services for the webs... | 0 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-24T22:55:00.000 | python,web-services,api,rest,amazon-web-services | A Few questions on writing a RESTful web service | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,004,122 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have a javascript placed on third party site and this js makes API calls to my server. JS is publicly available and third party cannot save credentials in JS.
I want to authenticate API calls before sharing JSON and also want to rate limit. Any one has ideas on how can i authenticate API? | false | 22,013,532 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It all depends on what you're authenticating.
If you're authenticating each user that uses your API, you have to do something like the following:
Your site has to somehow drop a cookie in that user's browser,
Your API needs to support CORS (we use easyXDM.js),
somehow upon logging in to their site, their site needs t... | 0 | 117 | 0 | 1 | 2014-02-25T11:59:00.000 | javascript,jquery,python,api | how to do authentication of rest api from javascript, if javascript is on third party site? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25,426,295 | 0 |
0 | 0 | Why does TCP socket.recvfrom() not return the sender address as it does with UDP?
When does TCP socket.recv() an empty string?
Thanks! | false | 22,017,835 | 0.379949 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Why does TCP socket.recvfrom() not return the sender address as it does with UDP?
Because once a TCP connection is established that address does not change. That is the address that was passed to connect or received from accept calls. You can also find out the peer's address (if you lost it somehow) with getpeername.
... | 0 | 2,605 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-25T14:55:00.000 | python,tcp,udp,recv,recvfrom | recv() and recvfrom() methods for TCP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,018,452 | 0 |
0 | 0 | When you click on some of the links on this particular page the GET request gets initiated by javascript. In this case it's a file so when you click it webdriver.Firefox makes a dialog window appear that asks you whether you want to download the file or not.
Is it possible to capture the GET request directly and save ... | false | 22,022,938 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | If it's an OS dialog, no, you can't manipulate it with Selenium, you'd need a library that provides you hooks directly in to the OS. To capture the request, you would either need to use a proxy to capture the traffic and again another interface to interact with the proxy to inspect the request, or you might be able to... | 0 | 583 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-25T18:25:00.000 | python,selenium | How to capture GET requests in Selenium initiated via JavaScript? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,023,178 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm writing a program which gathers basic CNAME information for given domains.
I'm currently using Google's DNS server as the one I'm questioning, but afraid that if I'll send couple of millions DNS lookups this will get me blocked (Don't worry, it's by no means any type of DDOS or anything in that area).
I'm wondering... | false | 22,074,156 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | If Google blocked that number of requests from a given IP address, one has to assume that sending such a number of requests is against their usage policy (and no doubt a form of 'unfair usage'). So hiding your source IP behind proxies is hardly ethical.
You could adopt a more ethical approach by:
Distributing your req... | 0 | 1,227 | 1 | 0 | 2014-02-27T16:15:00.000 | python,proxy,dns,dnspython | Is it possible to use dnspython through proxy? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,074,588 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using the NetworkX library for Python in my application that does some graph processing. One task is to call the all_simple_paths() function of NetworkX to give me all non-looping paths in the graph (up to a certain max. length of paths). This is working well.
Using this list of all simple paths in the graph the t... | true | 22,096,525 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It depends a lot on your particular needs. There are a few options. Two built-in, and one that requires a bit more work, but might be faster.
If what you really want is to find two non-intersecting paths, then you can use a filtered graph - after finding one path, induce a subgraph with the intermediate nodes removed, ... | 0 | 905 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-28T13:28:00.000 | python,algorithm,graph | How to find n most different paths in a graph? | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,098,160 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using the NetworkX library for Python in my application that does some graph processing. One task is to call the all_simple_paths() function of NetworkX to give me all non-looping paths in the graph (up to a certain max. length of paths). This is working well.
Using this list of all simple paths in the graph the t... | false | 22,096,525 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | You could create a similarity or distance between two paths based on the number of edges that they share. Then apply a clustering algorithm to find n clusters, and pick one representative from each cluster, perhaps in a greedily fashion to minimise (in the case of similarities) edge weights between representatives. | 0 | 905 | 0 | 0 | 2014-02-28T13:28:00.000 | python,algorithm,graph | How to find n most different paths in a graph? | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,098,044 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I was trying to log into a website that is loaded fuly dinamically using dojo.js scripts. On my tests I am using:
Selenium 2.40
Phantomjs 1.9.7 (downloaded via npm)
Ubuntu 12.04
When I try my script with: driver = webdriver.Firefox()
Everything works fine, Firefox logins through login page /login.do, gets through aut... | true | 22,102,352 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I just discovered that my problem was with a elem.send_keys(Keys.ENTER) line. Phantomjs seems to be very fast so I had to put a time.sleep of 2 seconds before that line, and now the script works fine. What happened is that Enter button for login wasn't clicked properly. Of course time.sleep(2) isn't the best way to sol... | 0 | 633 | 0 | 2 | 2014-02-28T17:51:00.000 | python,selenium,phantomjs | Selenium phantomjs (python) not redirecting to welcome page after login, page is load dynamically using dojo | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,103,574 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am trying to set the ethernet port pins directly to send High / Low signals to light up four LEDs. Is there any way I can simply connect LEDs to the ethernet cable?
What would be the best approach, if using ethernet is not a good option, to light up four LED lights and switch them on/off using a PC.
I am planning to ... | true | 22,111,408 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | No, it is not possible. There is no sane way to affect the PHY in PC software. | 0 | 250 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-01T07:18:00.000 | python,usb,ethernet,libusb | Toggle pins of ethernet port to high / low state? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,111,428 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I was trying to download some files from a sever but it came back with an error page saying only links from internal server is allowed. I was able to download the file with any browser by clicking the link and I have verified the link I captured in Python was correct.
Is there any way this can be done by using python? ... | false | 22,121,165 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | When you use your browser, it sends a header known as a User-Agent that identifies it. You need to 'spoof' the user agent from your python script to make it think a human is browsing the website. Set the User-Agent header to that of a common browser, this makes it difficult for the server to detect that you are using a... | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-01T22:21:00.000 | python | Download files that only allow access from internal server with Python | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,121,194 | 0 |
0 | 0 | i have read other Stackoverflow threads on this. Those are older posts, i would like to get the latest update.
Is it possible to send multiple commands over single channel in Paramiko ? or is it still not possible ?
If so, is there any other library which can do the same.
Example scenario, automating the Cisco router ... | false | 22,141,637 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | if you are planning to use the exec_command() method provided within the paramiko API , you would be limited to send only a single command at a time , as soon as the command has been executed the channel is closed.
The below excerpt from Paramiko API docs .
exec_command(self, command) source code Execute a command on... | 0 | 4,222 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-03T08:11:00.000 | python,paramiko | Paramiko - python SSH - multiple command under a single channel | 1 | 1 | 3 | 22,160,534 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I created a Python script to use Rackspace's API (Pyrax) to handle some image processing. It works perfect locally, but when I upload it to Iron.io worker, it builds but does not import.
I am using a Windows 8 pc, but my boss runs OS X and uploading the exact worker package, it works fine. So I'm thinking it's somethi... | false | 22,148,917 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It's difficult to know for sure what's happening without being able to see a traceback. Do you get anything like that which could be used to help figure out what's going on? | 0 | 116 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-03T14:10:00.000 | python,pip,rackspace,iron.io,pyrax | pip "pyrax" dependency with iron worker | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,153,710 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I created a Python script to use Rackspace's API (Pyrax) to handle some image processing. It works perfect locally, but when I upload it to Iron.io worker, it builds but does not import.
I am using a Windows 8 pc, but my boss runs OS X and uploading the exact worker package, it works fine. So I'm thinking it's somethi... | false | 22,148,917 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 2 | I figured out that it was a bad Ruby install. No idea why, but reinstalling it worked. | 0 | 116 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-03T14:10:00.000 | python,pip,rackspace,iron.io,pyrax | pip "pyrax" dependency with iron worker | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,153,804 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm looking into the new paypal REST api.
I want the ability to be able to pay another paypal account, transfer money from my acount to their acount. All the documentation I have seen so far is about charging users.
Is paying someone with the REST api possible? Similar to the function of the mass pay api or adaptive pa... | true | 22,159,824 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | At this moment, paying another user via API is not possible via REST APIs, so mass pay/Adaptive payments would be the current existing solution. It is likely that this ability will be part of REST in a future release. | 0 | 105 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-03T23:32:00.000 | python,paypal | Paypal REST Api for Paying another paypal account | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,611,605 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am working on creating a web spider in python. Do i have to worry about permissions from any sites for scanning there content? If so, how do i get those? Thanks in advance | true | 22,165,086 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | robots.txt file does have limits.
Its better to inform the owner of the site if you are crawling too often and read reserved rights at the bottom of the site. It is a good idea to provide a link, to the source of your content. | 0 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-04T07:01:00.000 | python,web-scraping | Permission to get the source code using spider | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,165,257 | 0 |
1 | 0 | How can we traverse back to parent in xpath?
I am crawling IMDB, to obtain genre of films, I am using
elem = hxs.xpath('//*[@id="titleStoryLine"]/div/h4[text()="Genres:"]')
Now,the genres are listed as anchor links, which are siblings to this tag. how can this be achieved? | true | 22,177,872 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | This will select the parent element of the XPath expression you gave:
//*[@id="titleStoryLine"]/div/h4[text()="Genres:"]/.. | 0 | 405 | 0 | 2 | 2014-03-04T16:45:00.000 | python,lxml,lxml.html | Traversing back to parent with lxml.html.xpath | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,177,986 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am writing an application that would asynchronously trigger some events. The test looks like this: set everything up, sleep for sometime, check that event has triggered.
However because of that waiting the test takes quite a time to run - I'm waiting for about 10 seconds on every test. I feel that my tests are slow -... | false | 22,180,528 | 0.099668 | 1 | 0 | 1 | I you want to mock sleep then you must not use it directly in your application's code. I would create a class method like System.sleep() and use this in your application. System.sleep() can be mocked then. | 0 | 481 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-04T18:57:00.000 | python,tdd,tornado | Mocking "sleep" | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,180,586 | 0 |
1 | 0 | iPython was working fine until a few hours ago when I had to do a hard shutdown because I was not able to interrupt my kernel. Now opening any notebook gives me the following error:
"WebSocket connection to could not be established. You will NOT be able to run code. Check your network connection or notebook server con... | false | 22,186,057 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Try reinstalling your iPython server or creating a new profile for the server | 0 | 832 | 0 | 6 | 2014-03-05T00:24:00.000 | websocket,ipython,ipython-notebook | iPython notebook Websocket connection cannot be established | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26,615,734 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have a task to monitor disk usage and notify a few users when it runs out of space. I wrote python script that checks disk usage. Unfortunately I can't use email notification from the script because company policy does not allow it.
My question: Are there any other options that would allow me to notify selected users... | true | 22,239,230 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Well ... I figured out that in my organization Microsoft Exchange will not allow email started from script except those originated from server.
I handled to start email from server and now I'm all set.
Thanks for suggestions.
Ticket could be closed. | 0 | 129 | 1 | 0 | 2014-03-07T00:41:00.000 | python,notify | How to notify users in network | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27,495,023 | 0 |
0 | 0 | In my recent project, I need to use the UDP protocol to transmit data.
If I send data by using size = s.sendto(data, (<addr>, <port>)), will the UDP protocol ensure that the data is packed into one UDP packet?
If so, will size == len(data) always be True?
Is there anything that I misunderstood?
More precisely, will 'se... | false | 22,292,615 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | The length of UDP packet is limited. If your data is too large, the return value can't equal the length.There are also some situations, such as not enough send buffer, network fault. The size only means the bytes that have been sent to send buffer. | 1 | 2,494 | 0 | 3 | 2014-03-10T05:23:00.000 | python,udp,sendto | Python - Is sendto()'s return value useless? | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,292,817 | 0 |
0 | 0 | This is the second time today this has happened..
I tried to import requests earlier and I got an Import Error: no module named requests
Same thing for serial
I googled the crap out of this and nothing I've found works. Any ideas as to what's going on? I'm trying to use pyserial to take input from an arduino | false | 22,295,895 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | are you looking for urllib.requests? if you are using python 2.7 when you ask for requests you import urllib and you don't actually use request, but its methods are available to the urllib handle, so for instance:
urllib.urlopen("http://google.com")
will work in python 2.7.x, where
urllib.request.urlopen("http://googl... | 0 | 2,633 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-10T09:05:00.000 | python,serial-port,pyserial | Python no module named serial / no module named requests | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24,922,412 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I want to write a client for a protocol where the server sends length-prefixed data. The data requires nontrivial decoding and processing, and at any moment the client only needs the latest available data: if there is more data available, it's desirable to flush the old entries and use only the newest one. This is to a... | true | 22,331,935 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | There aren't any peek-ahead APIs in Twisted that will let you know if there is data waiting in a buffer somewhere that's about to be delivered.
I think your second idea is just fine - as long as you notice that you can pick an arbitrarily small constant delay. For example, you could pick 0 seconds. In practice this i... | 0 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 2014-03-11T17:17:00.000 | python,twisted | Skipping stale data in a Twisted protocol handler | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,333,848 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I am new to JavaScript.
The problem goes as follows: I have 10 div in my html file. I am using links to go from one to another. Now, I want to test a condition which if satisfied (I am using python for this), should redirect me to another div within the same html. But I want that to be automatic. For eg, I am in <div... | false | 22,348,501 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I am not going to search the code for you. But most sites tell you you need an onclick event because that is needed to open a link. And example.com#idOfDiv, is the kind of link you would open. Howerver, there is another possibility.
Find some javascript code to decide the position of an element in x and y coordinats. A... | 0 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-12T10:25:00.000 | javascript,python,html | Get redirected to a div automatically without user's intervention | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,348,762 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have a protobuf string representation for some object (__str___() def). Is it possible easily create that object from that string? Or the only possible way is the self written parser?
Default serialization\deserialization is not applicable since the object state modification should be performed outside of the program... | false | 22,355,594 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It will depend on how you represent the object as str(). If the object is machine parseable, you will have the best luck. If you use json, yaml or xml, you can use built in serialization libraries, otherwise you'll need to roll your own. | 0 | 717 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-12T15:04:00.000 | python,protocol-buffers | Is it possible to create an object from the protobuf str representation in Python | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,355,757 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I want to be able to scan a network of servers and match IP addresses to hostnames.
I saw a lot of questions about this (with a lot of down votes), but none are exactly what I'm looking for.
So I've tried python's socket library socket.gethostbyaddr(ip). But this only returns results if I have a DNS setup or the IP-to... | false | 22,358,516 | 0.53705 | 0 | 0 | 3 | You can remotely execute the command hostname command on these machines to acquire the Hostname | 0 | 218 | 1 | 1 | 2014-03-12T16:54:00.000 | python,linux,bash | Query machine for hostname | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,358,568 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'd like to make my own crypto currency. I don't want to just recompile the Bitcoin source code and the rename it. I'd like to do it from scratch just to learn more about it. I'm thinking of using Python as the language for the implementation but I heard that in terms of performance Python isn't the best. My question i... | true | 22,360,093 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Depends which part is in Python. The network is, by definition, I/O bound. It's unlikely that using Python rather than C/C++/etc. will cause a noticeable performance drop for the client itself. Your choice of cryptographic algorithm will also have a large impact on performance (how quick it is to verify transactions, e... | 0 | 744 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-12T18:02:00.000 | python,networking,p2p,bitcoin,peer | Python Peer to Peer Network | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,360,849 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'd like to make my own crypto currency. I don't want to just recompile the Bitcoin source code and the rename it. I'd like to do it from scratch just to learn more about it. I'm thinking of using Python as the language for the implementation but I heard that in terms of performance Python isn't the best. My question i... | false | 22,360,093 | 0.197375 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Nothing beats good ol' C for performance. However, if you plan on parallelising everything for multi-CPU support I would give Haskell a try. It is inherently parallel, so you won't have to put in extra effort for optimizations.
You can also do something similar in C with OpenMP and Cilk using pragmas.
Good Luck! | 0 | 744 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-12T18:02:00.000 | python,networking,p2p,bitcoin,peer | Python Peer to Peer Network | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,360,906 | 0 |
0 | 0 | So for sake of understanding, we're going to assume both machines are on ipv4 and behind NAT networks. I'd like to be able to open a socket on both machines and have the machines connect through those sockets (or a similar system). I know nat punchthrough is required for this, but I'm not sure how nat punchtrough appli... | false | 22,396,635 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | It sounds like you need to set up port forwarding -- essentially tell your router to forward calls it receives on a specific port to a service that sits behind it.
That's usually done through your router's admin interface. | 0 | 3,618 | 0 | 3 | 2014-03-14T05:10:00.000 | python,sockets,networking | Python P2P Networking (NAT Punchtrough) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 22,396,729 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I'm going to have to code a program in python that retrieves results after filling a web form (which in turn calls different javascript functions), and those results appear in a different frame of the website. I considered using the Selenium web engine, but I was wondering if anyone has any better idea?
Thank you
Danie... | true | 22,407,628 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yea. Reverse engineer the javascript using the chrome/firefox console, see what request it makes and mimic them in python using urllib2 or the requests library. | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-14T14:20:00.000 | javascript,python,forms,web | How do I fill a form in a web site that calls javascript code and retrieve the results from a different frame using python? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,408,435 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I've generated an HTML file that sits on my local disk, and which I can access through my browser. The HTML file is basically a list of links to external websites. The HTML file is generated from a local text file, which is itself a list of links to the remote sites.
When I click on one of the links in the HTML documen... | false | 22,413,513 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | There is many ways to do this
Here is the easiest 3
Use JavaScript
2 install wampserver or similar and use php o modify the file
3 don't use te browser to delete and instead use a bat file to open the browser and remove the link from the text file | 0 | 994 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-14T18:57:00.000 | javascript,python,html,flask | How to manipulate a local text file from an HTML page | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,413,574 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I'm currently running an html and jsp file locally and hosting it by running this command through the terminal: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &.
This has been going smoothly, but I recently ran into an issue where I have to include library files (d3, jQuery, ajax, etc.)
I've included the following command in my html ... | false | 22,426,005 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | The SimpleHTTPServer module will only serve things that are within the directory you're telling it to serve and folders beneath that directory, for security reasons. (Otherwise a visitor could ask it for e.g. ../../../../etc/passwd or similar.)
If you want to serve scripts and other assets, you'll need to put them in a... | 0 | 197 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-15T15:48:00.000 | python,d3.js,local | How to include libraries through the python local server | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,430,282 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using scapy to send data over ICMP. I need to send image and other files over ICMP using scapy. I am able to send simple strings in ICMP. How could I send image and other files ? | false | 22,436,119 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I think you've discovered why the inventors of the Internet developed TCP. There's a limit on the payload size in an ICMP packet. Most networks have a 1500-byte total limit on the size of Ethernet packets, so with a 20-byte IP header and an 8-byte ICMP header, your maximum payload size in a single packet will be 1472 o... | 0 | 2,190 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-16T11:17:00.000 | python,scapy,icmp,tunneling | How to send an image in ICMP data field using ICMP | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,436,235 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm working on something that sends data from one program over UDP to another program at a known IP and port. The program at the known IP and port receives the message from the originating IP but thanks to the NAT the port is obscured (to something like 30129). The program at the known IP and port wants to send an ac... | false | 22,487,388 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The simple answer is you don't care what the "real" (ie: pre-natted) port is. Just reply to the nat query and allow the nat to handling delivering the result. If you ABSOLUTELY have to know the source UDP port, include the information in your UDP packet -- but I strongly recommend against this. | 0 | 369 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-18T18:00:00.000 | python,sockets,udp,port,nat | How to determine outgoing port in Python through NAT | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,487,519 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I'm working on something that sends data from one program over UDP to another program at a known IP and port. The program at the known IP and port receives the message from the originating IP but thanks to the NAT the port is obscured (to something like 30129). The program at the known IP and port wants to send an ac... | false | 22,487,388 | 0.099668 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Okay, I figured it out - the trick is to use the same sock object to receive that you used to send. At least in initial experiments, that seems to do the trick. Thanks for your help. | 0 | 369 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-18T18:00:00.000 | python,sockets,udp,port,nat | How to determine outgoing port in Python through NAT | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22,488,054 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am looking for a script which will upload files from a unix server to an HTTP location.
I want to use only these modules - cookielib, urllib2, urllib, mimetypes, mimetools, traceback | false | 22,490,452 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I would like to make question more clear
here http location mentioned is a common share folder link which can use by number of people by accessing through username/passwd.
for ex: my target location has:
I have http:/commonfolder.mydomain.com/somelocation/345333 location
I have username = someuid ,password = xxxxx
my... | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-18T20:35:00.000 | python,http | How to upload files to an HTTP location using a python script | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,567,478 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am writing python two scripts using scapy one executed on server side and the other on client side. On client side, the script sends UDP packets to a closed port on server. The aim of my scripts, is to test if client will accept invalid ICMP packets received from server. On server side, I am going to sniff for incomi... | true | 22,502,741 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Well, at least for the ID and sequence fields, these can be any 16-bit numbered combination and the kernel will accept the packet and forward it to all registered ICMP socket handlers.
But if the checksum field is incorrect, the receiving kernel will not pass the header up to the handlers (it will however to link laye... | 0 | 609 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-19T10:22:00.000 | python,udp,scapy,icmp | Invalid field Raw in an ICMP destination unreachable (port unreachable) packet | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,513,923 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am using pexpect in python to receive continuous audio data from an audio input for my home automation project. Is there a way to pause the pexpect from using my audio device? Or can I use the audio device in two separate programs/scripts?
What I want to do is: Use speech recognition (julius) to listen for keywords. ... | false | 22,516,007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A workaround for my problem was the following:
using dsnoop for ALSA audio settings in .asoundrc. | 0 | 248 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-19T19:16:00.000 | python,linux,audio,pexpect,julius-speech | python pause pexpect.spawn and its used devices | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,633,327 | 0 |
1 | 0 | I have this web application with LDAP backend, to read and modify some LDAP attributes.
Web application use the SSO (Single Sign-on) to authenticate user.
How can I bind to LDAP, if I only get a user name as an attribute from SSO, withouth asking for password again, because it will make SSO useless?
I use SimpleSAMLphp... | false | 22,517,604 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Rather than using the user's credentials to bind to LDAP, get an application account at LDAP that has read permissions for the attributes you need on the users within the directory. Then, when you get the username via SSO, you just query LDAP using your application's ID.
Make sure you make your application ID's passwor... | 0 | 153 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-19T20:39:00.000 | php,python,ldap,single-sign-on,saml | Bind to LDAP after SSO? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,533,335 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am working on an appliance using an old version of python (2.5.2).
I'm working on a script which needs to read a webpage, but I can't access the normal libraries
- urllib, urllib2 and requests are not available.
How did people collect this in the olden days?
I could do a wget/curl from the shell, but I'd prefer to ... | true | 22,535,539 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | If you really want to do it old-school entirely within Python but without urllib, then you'll have to use socket and implement a tiny subset of HTTP 1.0 to fetch the page. Jumping through the hoops to get through a proxy will be really painful though.
Use wget or curl and save yourself a few days of debugging. | 0 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-20T14:09:00.000 | python,web-scraping,python-2.5 | collect web page source with python 2.5.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,536,352 | 0 |
1 | 0 | The scenario is
I have multiple local computers running a python application. These are on separate networks waiting for data to be sent to them from a web server. These computers are on networks without a static IP and generally behind firewall and proxy.
On the other hand I have web server which gets updates from the... | false | 22,602,390 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sounds like you need a message queue.
You would run a separate broker server which is sent tasks by your web app. This could be on the same machine. On your two local machines you would run queue workers which connect to the broker to receive tasks (so no inbound connection required), then notify the broker in real tim... | 0 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-24T06:24:00.000 | python,django,data-binding,architecture | Sync data with Local Computer Architecture | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22,629,711 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have followed the wiki and set up everything necessary, but all the images are broken right now. I used the aptitude package manager to install.
Here are my configuration files:
/etc/default/thumbor
# set this to 0 to disable thumbor, remove or set anything else to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with... | false | 22,609,742 | 0.197375 | 0 | 0 | 1 | You are missing a closing bracket in the filters option in your thumbor.conf.
Did you miss it posting here or actually in the thumbor.conf file? | 0 | 3,567 | 1 | 0 | 2014-03-24T12:43:00.000 | python,ubuntu-12.04,thumbnails,thumbor | Thumbor installation not working | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23,401,532 | 0 |
0 | 0 | Is it possible to switch between interfaces in Python program?
I will have eth0 and wlan0 connection, both are different routers.
I'm using boto to upload images to AWS server. And I need to upload using router with fast upload speed and for other downloads I need to use another interface which is connected to a router... | true | 22,636,894 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Its possible by using route add command in linux | 0 | 409 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-25T14:01:00.000 | python,router | Use different interfaces (eth0 and wlan0) for sending and receiving in Python program | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,789,614 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have an ftp server that contains all of my tar files, those tar files are as big as 500MB+, and they are too many and all I needed to do is to get a single file from a TAR that contains multiple files which becomes 500MB+.
My initial idea is to download each tar files and get the single file I needed, but that seems ... | true | 22,650,764 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | This answer is not specific to python, because the problem is not specific to python: In theory you could read the part of the Tar-file where your data are. With FTP (and also with pythons ftplib) this is possible by doing first a REST command to specify the start position in the file, then RETR to start the download o... | 0 | 981 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-26T03:10:00.000 | python,ftp,tar,tarfile | Python: Get single file in a TAR from FTP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,652,307 | 0 |
0 | 0 | Is it possible to telnet to a server and from there telnet to another server in python?
Since there is a controller which I telnet into using a username and password, and from the controller command line I need to login as root to run linux command. How would I do that using python?
I use the telentlib to login into r... | false | 22,668,907 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Have you looked into using expect (there should be a python binding); basically, what I think you want to do is:
From your python script, use telnetlib to connect to server A (pass in username/password).
Within this "socket", send the remaining commands, e.g. "telnet serverB" and use expect (or some other mechanism) t... | 0 | 1,456 | 0 | 2 | 2014-03-26T17:37:00.000 | python,telnet | Telnet from telnet session in python | 1 | 2 | 3 | 22,669,160 | 0 |
0 | 0 | Is it possible to telnet to a server and from there telnet to another server in python?
Since there is a controller which I telnet into using a username and password, and from the controller command line I need to login as root to run linux command. How would I do that using python?
I use the telentlib to login into r... | false | 22,668,907 | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Just checked it with the hardware I have in hand & telnetlib. Saw no problem.
When you are connected to the first device just send all the necessary commands using telnet.write('cmd'). It may be sudo su\n, telnet 192.168.0.2\n or whatever else. Telnetlib keeps in mind only its own telnet connection, all secondary conne... | 0 | 1,456 | 0 | 2 | 2014-03-26T17:37:00.000 | python,telnet | Telnet from telnet session in python | 1 | 2 | 3 | 22,669,249 | 0 |
0 | 0 | we have a problem with sending in most efficient way about 1000 (or even more) 2MB's chunks via network. We want to avoid pure sockets (if it won't be possible we will use them). For now we've tested:
List item rabbitmq client -> server: about 39sec/GB on localhost (very slow)
requests client -> flask server : still a... | false | 22,697,210 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | If all the files are available at the start. I would zip them first to a single file. It is not about the compression but the number of files.
There are certain IO operations (open/close and network start/end) that will happen 100 times for each file which you can easily avoid. Compression will help too.
Now sockets or... | 0 | 965 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-27T19:21:00.000 | python,upload,flask,rabbitmq,tornado | What's the fastest way to send 1000 2MB's files using Python? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 43,458,666 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I have the following line of code: xml = BytesIO("<A><B>some text</B></A>") for the file named test.xml.
But I would like to have something like xml = "/home/user1/test.xml"
How can I use the file location instread of having to put the file content? | false | 22,703,236 | 0.066568 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Exactly like you have. lxml.etree.parse() accepts a string filename and will read the file for you. | 0 | 265 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-28T02:43:00.000 | python,lxml | XML file as input | 1 | 1 | 3 | 22,703,299 | 0 |
0 | 1 | I am using the community module to extract communities from a networkx graph. For the community module, the order in which the nodes are processed makes a difference. I tried to set the seed of random to get consistent results but that is not working. Any idea on how to do this?
thanks | false | 22,719,863 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I had to change the seed inside every class I used. | 0 | 165 | 0 | 1 | 2014-03-28T17:48:00.000 | python,networkx | Fix the seed for the community module in Python that uses networkx module | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24,051,792 | 0 |
0 | 0 | I am building a web crawler in Python using MongoDB to store a queue with all URLs to crawl. I will have several independent workers that will crawl URLs. Whenever a worker completes crawling a URL, it will make a request in the MongoDB collection "queue" to get a new URL to crawl.
My issue is that since there will be... | true | 22,737,982 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Since reads in MongoDB are concurrent I completely understand what your saying. Yes, it is possible for two workers to pick the same row, amend it and then re-save it overwriting each other (not to mention wasted resources on crawling).
I believe you must accept that one way or another you will lose performance, that i... | 0 | 510 | 0 | 0 | 2014-03-29T22:55:00.000 | python,mongodb,queue,mongodb-query,worker | Multiple workers getting information from a single MongoDB queue | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22,738,408 | 0 |
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