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0	How would I check if the remote host is up without having a port number? Is there any other way I could check other then using regular ping. There is a possibility that the remote host might drop ping packets	false	2,535,055	0.028564	1	1	Many firewalls are configured to drop ping packets without responding. In addition, some network adapters will respond to ICMP ping requests without input from the operating system network stack, which means the operating system might be down, but the host still responds to pings (usually you'll notice if you reboot th...	0	46,690	0	10	2010-03-28T23:40:00.000	python,network-programming,network-protocols	Check if remote host is up in Python	1	3	7	2,535,076
0	How would I check if the remote host is up without having a port number? Is there any other way I could check other then using regular ping. There is a possibility that the remote host might drop ping packets	false	2,535,055	0.057081	1	2	A protocol-level PING is best, i.e., connecting to the server and interacting with it in a way that doesn't do real work. That's because it is the only real way to be sure that the service is up. An ICMP ECHO (a.k.a. ping) would only tell you that the other end's network interface is up, and even then might be blocked;...	0	46,690	0	10	2010-03-28T23:40:00.000	python,network-programming,network-protocols	Check if remote host is up in Python	1	3	7	2,535,139
0	How would I check if the remote host is up without having a port number? Is there any other way I could check other then using regular ping. There is a possibility that the remote host might drop ping packets	false	2,535,055	0.028564	1	1	What about trying something that requires a RPC like a 'tasklist' command in conjunction with a ping?	0	46,690	0	10	2010-03-28T23:40:00.000	python,network-programming,network-protocols	Check if remote host is up in Python	1	3	7	17,115,260
0	How to Write/Read a file to/from a network folder/share using python? The application will run under Linux and network folder/share can be a Linux/Windows System. Also, how to check that network folder/share has enough space before writing a file? What things should i consider?	true	2,542,025	1.2	0	1	Mount the shares using Samba, check the free space on the share using df or os.statvfs and read/write to it like any other folder.	0	1,813	1	1	2010-03-29T19:33:00.000	python,network-shares	Read/Write a file from/to network folder/share using Python?	1	1	1	2,542,026
0	I'm using minidom to parse an xml file and it threw an error indicating that the data is not well formed. I figured out that some of the pages have characters like à¹„à¸à¹€à¸Ÿà¸¥ &, causing the parser to hiccup. Is there an easy way to clean the file before I start parsing it? Right now I'm using a regular expressing ...	false	2,545,783	0	0	0	It looks like you're dealing with data which are saved with some kind of encoding "as if" they were ASCII. XML file should normally be UTF8, and SAX (the underlying parser used by minidom) should handle that, so it looks like something's wrong in that part of the processing chain. Instead of focusing on "cleaning up" ...	1	5,927	0	1	2010-03-30T14:02:00.000	python,xml	Cleaning an XML file in Python before parsing	1	1	5	2,546,454
1	I'm trying to submit a few forms through a Python script, I'm using the mechanized library. This is so I can implement a temporary API. The problem is that before after submission a blank page is returned informing that the request is being processed, after a few seconds the page is redirected to the final page. I und...	false	2,569,089	0.099668	0	1	If it uses meta tags then you need to parse the HTML manually. Otherwise mechanize will handle the redirect automatically.	0	553	0	1	2010-04-02T20:42:00.000	python,html,http,forms,screen-scraping	How to handle redirects while parsing HTML? - Python	1	1	2	2,574,423
0	I need to upload multiple files from directory to the server via FTP and SFTP. I've solved this task for SFTP with python, paramiko and threading. But I have problem with doing it for FTP. I tried to use ftplib for python, but it seems that it doesn't support threading and I upload all files one by one, which is very s...	false	2,570,621	0	1	0	You can run the script in multiple command prompts / shells (just make sure each file is only handled once by all the different scripts). I am not sure if this quick and dirty trick will improve transfer speed though..	0	4,789	0	3	2010-04-03T08:07:00.000	php,python,ftp,curl,multithreading	Multithreaded FTP upload. Is it possible?	1	1	4	6,735,686
0	I'm building a download manager in python for fun, and sometimes the connection to the server is still on but the server doesn't send me data, so read method (of HTTPResponse) block me forever. This happens, for example, when I download from a server, which located outside of my country, that limit the bandwidth to oth...	false	2,573,044	0.049958	0	1	Setting the default timeout might abort a download early if it's large, as opposed to only aborting if it stops receiving data for the timeout value. HTTPlib2 is probably the way to go.	0	3,858	0	1	2010-04-03T23:32:00.000	python,timeout,httpresponse	set timeout to http response read method in python	1	1	4	3,602,969
0	I really like how I can easily share files on a network using the SimpleHTTPServer, but I wish there was an option like "download entire directory". Is there an easy (one liner) way to implement this? Thanks	false	2,573,670	0.158649	1	4	There is no one liner which would do it, also what do you mean by "download whole dir" as tar or zip? Anyway you can follow these steps Derive a class from SimpleHTTPRequestHandler or may be just copy its code Change list_directory method to return a link to "download whole folder" Change copyfile method so that for ...	0	11,099	0	6	2010-04-04T05:30:00.000	python,simplehttpserver	Download whole directories in Python SimpleHTTPServer	1	1	5	2,573,685
0	I recently installed twython, a really sleek and awesome twitter API wrapper for Python. I installed it and it works fine from the interpreter, but when I try to import it via Eclipse, it says that twython is an invalid import. How do I "tell" eclipse where twython is so that it will let me import and use it?	false	2,590,435	0	1	0	Daniel is right. As long as twython went into site-packages then Pydev will find it.	0	941	0	2	2010-04-07T06:29:00.000	python,eclipse,pydev,twython	Eclipse + PyDev: Eclipse telling me that this is an invalid import?	1	2	2	2,594,323
0	I recently installed twython, a really sleek and awesome twitter API wrapper for Python. I installed it and it works fine from the interpreter, but when I try to import it via Eclipse, it says that twython is an invalid import. How do I "tell" eclipse where twython is so that it will let me import and use it?	true	2,590,435	1.2	1	3	I believe I have had this problem before - try going into the menu: Window_Preferences and then select Pydev and Interpreter-Python. Then try to click Auto-config - it should update its search paths to include everything installed in Python. If that doesn't work, you should at least be able to manually add the folder b...	0	941	0	2	2010-04-07T06:29:00.000	python,eclipse,pydev,twython	Eclipse + PyDev: Eclipse telling me that this is an invalid import?	1	2	2	2,590,469
0	I'm trying to write some Python code that will establish an invisible relay between two TCP sockets. My current technique is to set up two threads, each one reading and subsequently writing 1kb of data at a time in a particular direction (i.e. 1 thread for A to B, 1 thread for B to A). This works for some applications ...	false	2,604,740	0.066568	0	1	Perhaps the application you're proxying is poorly written. For instance, if I call recv(fd, buf, 4096, 0); I'm not promised 4096 bytes. The system makes a best-effort to provide it. If 1k isn't a multiple of your application's recv or send sizes, and the application is broken, then grouping the data sent into 1k block...	0	3,528	1	4	2010-04-09T02:24:00.000	python,sockets,tcp,portforwarding	How to correctly relay TCP traffic between sockets?	1	2	3	2,609,442
0	I'm trying to write some Python code that will establish an invisible relay between two TCP sockets. My current technique is to set up two threads, each one reading and subsequently writing 1kb of data at a time in a particular direction (i.e. 1 thread for A to B, 1 thread for B to A). This works for some applications ...	false	2,604,740	0.066568	0	1	I don't think that's likely to be your problem. In general, the sending application can't tell when the receiving application actually calls recv() to read the data: the sender's send() may have completed, but the TCP implementations in the source & destination OS will be doing buffering, flow control, retransmission,...	0	3,528	1	4	2010-04-09T02:24:00.000	python,sockets,tcp,portforwarding	How to correctly relay TCP traffic between sockets?	1	2	3	2,604,794
0	I'm trying to run a command to install bespinclient on my Windows laptop but every time I execute the command python bootstrap.py --no-site-packages, I get an error saying: ImportError: No module named simplejson I'm using Mozilla build tools to run these Linux commands.	false	2,604,841	0.197375	0	5	On Ubuntu/Debian, you can install it with apt-get install python-simplejson	1	111,229	0	45	2010-04-09T02:53:00.000	python,unix	ImportError: No Module named simplejson	1	1	5	5,645,465
0	I'm using networkx to work with graphs. I have pretty large graph (it's near 200 nodes in it) and I try to find all possible paths between two nodes. But, as I understand, networkx can find only shortest path. How can I get not just shortest path, but all possible paths? UPD: path can contain each node only once. UPD2:...	false	2,606,018	0	0	0	Dijkstra's algorithm will find the shortest path in a manner similar to a breadth first search (it substitutes a priority queue weighted by depth into the graph for the naive queue of a BFS). You could fairly trivially extend it to produce the 'N' shortest paths if you need some number of alternatives, although if you...	0	14,244	0	9	2010-04-09T08:39:00.000	python,networkx,igraph	Path between two nodes	1	1	3	2,606,124
1	I want to create an application that runs on the users computer, a stand-alone application, with installation and what-not, but I want the interface to be a browser, either internal and displayed as an OS window or external accessible using the browser (i.e. some http server). The reason would be because I know a littl...	false	2,611,910	0.07983	0	2	There are plenty of excellent GUI tools for the way you want to do your GUI -- HTML, CSS, and Javascript. If you don't know of any, ask in a separate question with the right tags. The Python side in such an arrangement should have no GUI of its own, but just run a subclass of the Python's standard library's HTTP serve...	0	25,678	0	27	2010-04-10T01:45:00.000	python,browser,desktop,httpserver	Python Desktop Application with the Browser as an interface?	1	1	5	2,611,928
1	How would I convert test cases made by Selenium IDE to Python without exporting every test case by hand? Is there any command line converter for that job? In the end I want to use Selenium RC and Pythons build in unittest to test my websites. Thanks a lot. Update: I started to write a converter but its too much work to...	false	2,617,684	0	0	0	No there isn't a way but in theory it shouldn't be too difficult to do as all you need to do is have something that uses the python-rc.js to convert the file.	0	2,514	0	6	2010-04-11T16:16:00.000	python,selenium,selenium-rc,selenium-ide	How to convert Selenese (html) to Python programmatically?	1	1	2	2,620,931
0	How can I protect my web server, if I run custom users code on server. If any user can submit his python source on my server and run it. Maybe some modules or linux tools for close any network and hardware activity for this script. Thank's all for help!	false	2,618,862	0	1	0	In general, python is not the best language choice if you want to allow the execution of untrusted code. The JVM and .NET have much better support for sandboxing, so Jython and IronPython would be better choices.	0	620	0	5	2010-04-11T21:59:00.000	python,system	Safest python code running	1	1	3	2,619,276
0	I have a 3rd-party protocol module (SNMP) that is built on top of asyncore. The asyncore interface is used to process response messages. What is the proper technique to design a client that generate the request-side of the protocol, while the asyncore main loop is running. I can think of two options right now: Use the...	true	2,626,512	1.2	0	1	I solved this by adding a callback function into the asyncore loop for the receiver process. The solution was somewhat specific to the module I was experiment with (pySNMP), but here is the general idea: define a function closure that returns a callable method with a stored reference to a dict and window variable. The...	0	625	0	1	2010-04-13T01:55:00.000	python,client-server,asyncore,pysnmp	Building an SNMP Request-Response service with Python Asyncore	1	1	1	2,734,657
0	Does anyone know any more details about google's web-crawler (aka GoogleBot)? I was curious about what it was written in (I've made a few crawlers myself and am about to make another) and if it parses images and such. I'm assuming it does somewhere along the line, b/c the images in images.google.com are all resized. ...	false	2,633,302	0.066568	0	1	The crawler is very likely written in C or C++, at least backrub's crawler was written in one of these. Be aware that the crawler only takes a snapshot of the page, then stores it in a temporary database for later processing. The indexing and other attached algorithms will extract the data, for example the image refere...	0	400	0	0	2010-04-13T21:20:00.000	c++,python,c	Google Bot information?	1	2	3	2,645,336
0	Does anyone know any more details about google's web-crawler (aka GoogleBot)? I was curious about what it was written in (I've made a few crawlers myself and am about to make another) and if it parses images and such. I'm assuming it does somewhere along the line, b/c the images in images.google.com are all resized. ...	true	2,633,302	1.2	0	0	Officially allowed languages at Google, I think, are Python/C++/Java. The bot likely uses all 3 for different tasks.	0	400	0	0	2010-04-13T21:20:00.000	c++,python,c	Google Bot information?	1	2	3	2,633,356
0	I'm playing around with sockets in C/Python and I wonder what is the most efficient way to send headers from a Python dictionary to the client socket. My ideas: use a send call for every header. Pros: No memory allocation needed. Cons: many send calls -- probably error prone; error management should be rather complica...	false	2,638,490	0	1	0	Unless you're sending a truly huge amount of data, you're probably better off using one buffer. If you use a geometric progression for growing your buffer size, the number of allocations becomes an amortized constant, and the time to allocate the buffer will generally follow.	0	867	0	5	2010-04-14T15:04:00.000	python,c,sockets,buffer,send	What is faster: multiple `send`s or using buffering?	1	3	3	2,638,568
0	I'm playing around with sockets in C/Python and I wonder what is the most efficient way to send headers from a Python dictionary to the client socket. My ideas: use a send call for every header. Pros: No memory allocation needed. Cons: many send calls -- probably error prone; error management should be rather complica...	false	2,638,490	0	1	0	A send() call implies a round-trip to the kernel (the part of the OS which deals with the hardware directly). It has a unit cost of about a few hundred clock cycles. This is harmless unless you are trying to call send() millions of times. Usually, buffering is about calling send() only once in a while, when "enough dat...	0	867	0	5	2010-04-14T15:04:00.000	python,c,sockets,buffer,send	What is faster: multiple `send`s or using buffering?	1	3	3	2,638,599
0	I'm playing around with sockets in C/Python and I wonder what is the most efficient way to send headers from a Python dictionary to the client socket. My ideas: use a send call for every header. Pros: No memory allocation needed. Cons: many send calls -- probably error prone; error management should be rather complica...	true	2,638,490	1.2	1	3	Because of the way TCP congestion control works, it's more efficient to send data all at once. TCP maintains a window of how much data it will allow to be "in the air" (sent but not yet acknowledged). TCP measures the acknowledgments coming back to figure out how much data it can have "in the air" without causing con...	0	867	0	5	2010-04-14T15:04:00.000	python,c,sockets,buffer,send	What is faster: multiple `send`s or using buffering?	1	3	3	2,639,059
0	I am little stumped: I have a simple messenger client program (pure python, sockets), and I wanted to add proxy support (http/s, socks), however I am a little confused on how to go about it. I am assuming that the connection on the socket level will be done to the proxy server, at which point the headers should contain...	false	2,646,983	0.132549	0	2	It is pretty simple - after you send the HTTP request: CONNECT example.com:1234 HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.com:1234\r\n<additional headers incl. authentication>\r\n\r\n, the server responds with HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established\r\n\r\n and then (after the double line ends) you can communicate just as you would commun...	0	2,236	0	3	2010-04-15T16:07:00.000	python,proxy,tcp,sockets,socks	Python, implementing proxy support for a socket based application (not urllib2)	1	1	3	2,714,593
1	I'm using urllib2 to open a url. Now I need the html file as a string. How do I do this?	false	2,647,723	1	0	16	In python3, it should be changed to urllib.request.openurl('http://www.example.com/').read().decode('utf-8').	0	17,378	0	7	2010-04-15T17:48:00.000	python,string,urllib2	urllib2 to string	1	1	4	35,367,453
0	what is the advantage of using a python virtualbox API instead of using XPCOM?	false	2,652,146	0.321513	1	5	I would generally recommend against either one. If you need to use virtualization programmatically, take a look at libvirt, which gives you cross platform and cross hypervisor support; which lets you do kvm/xen/vz/vmware later on. That said, the SOAP api is using two extra abstraction layers (the client and server side...	0	14,030	0	9	2010-04-16T10:26:00.000	python,virtualbox,xpcom	What is the advantage of using Python Virtualbox API?	1	1	3	2,655,522
0	PdfFileReader reads the content from a pdf file to create an object. I am querying the pdf from a cdn via urllib.urlopen(), this provides me a file like object, which has no seek. PdfFileReader, however uses seek. What is the simple way to create a PdfFileReader object from a pdf downloaded via url. Now, what can I do ...	false	2,653,079	0.066568	0	1	I suspect you may be optimising prematurely here. Most modern systems will cache files in memory for a significant period of time before they flush them to disk, so if you write the data to a temporary file, read it back in, then close and delete the file you may find that there's no significant disc traffic (unless it...	0	275	0	2	2010-04-16T12:59:00.000	python,file,urllib,file-type	Inexpensive ways to add seek to a filetype object	1	1	3	2,653,447
0	I have around 5 GB of html data which I want to process to find links to a set of websites and perform some additional filtering. Right now I use simple regexp for each site and iterate over them, searching for matches. In my case links can be outside of "a" tags and be not well formed in many ways(like "\n" in the mid...	true	2,662,595	1.2	0	1	Ways out. Parallelise Profile your code to see where the bottleneck is. The result are often surprising. Use a single regexp (concatenate using \|) rather than multiple ones.	1	156	0	2	2010-04-18T14:46:00.000	python,html,screen-scraping,hyperlink	Extract anything that looks like links from large amount of data in python	1	1	1	2,663,277
1	I currently have built a system that checks user IP, browser, and a random-string cookie to determine if he is an admin. In the worst case, someone steals my cookie, uses the same browser I do, and masks his IP to appear as mine. Is there another layer of security I should add onto my script to make it more secure? EDI...	false	2,670,346	0.049958	0	1	Https is a must, but you also have to come to terms with the fact that no site can be 100% secure. The only other way for you to get a significant improvement in security is to have very short session timeouts and provide you users with hardware tokens, but even tokens can be stolen.	0	263	0	3	2010-04-19T19:49:00.000	python,security	Web Security: Worst-Case Situation	1	2	4	2,670,489
1	I currently have built a system that checks user IP, browser, and a random-string cookie to determine if he is an admin. In the worst case, someone steals my cookie, uses the same browser I do, and masks his IP to appear as mine. Is there another layer of security I should add onto my script to make it more secure? EDI...	false	2,670,346	0.049958	0	1	THe one thing I miss besides everything that is mentioned is fixing "all other security problems". If you have a SQL injection, you're effort on the cookies is a waste of time. If you have a XSRF vuln, you're effort on the cookies is a waste of time. If you have XSS, .... If you have HPP, ... If you have ...., .... ...	0	263	0	3	2010-04-19T19:49:00.000	python,security	Web Security: Worst-Case Situation	1	2	4	2,670,747
1	How to create simple web site with Python? I mean really simple, f.ex, you see text "Hello World", and there are button "submit", which onClick will show AJAX box "submit successful". I want to start develop some stuff with Python, and I don't know where to start.	true	2,681,754	1.2	0	3	Why don't you try out the Google AppEngine stuff? They give you a local environment (that runs on your local system) for developing the application. They have nice, easy intro material for getting the site up and running - your "hello, world" example will be trivial to implement. From there on, you can either go with s...	0	60,467	0	22	2010-04-21T09:40:00.000	python,html,web-applications	How to create simple web site with Python?	1	1	6	2,684,119
0	I wish to get a list of connections to a manager. I can get last_accepted from the servers' listener, but I want all connections. There HAS to be a method I am missing somewhere to return all connections to a server or manager Please help!!	false	2,686,893	0	0	0	Looking at multiprocessing/connection.py, the listener just doesn't seem to track all connections -- you could, however, subclass it and override accept to append accepted connections to a list.	0	712	0	0	2010-04-21T22:07:00.000	python,multiprocessing	python multiprocessing server connections	1	1	1	2,687,986
0	I know Twisted can do this well but what about just plain socket? How'd you tell if you randomly lost your connection in socket? Like, If my internet was to go out of a second and come back on.	false	2,697,989	0	0	0	If the internet comes and goes momentarily, you might not actually lose the TCP session. If you do, the socket API will throw some kind of exception, usually socket.timeout.	0	1,516	0	2	2010-04-23T11:06:00.000	python,sockets	Socket Lose Connection	1	2	2	2,698,024
0	I know Twisted can do this well but what about just plain socket? How'd you tell if you randomly lost your connection in socket? Like, If my internet was to go out of a second and come back on.	false	2,697,989	0.099668	0	1	I'm assuming you're talking about TCP. If your internet connection is out for a second, you might not lose the TCP connection at all, it'll just retransmit and resume operation. There's ofcourse 100's of other reasons you could lose the connection(e.g. a NAT gateway inbetween decided to throw out the connection silentl...	0	1,516	0	2	2010-04-23T11:06:00.000	python,sockets	Socket Lose Connection	1	2	2	2,698,055
0	I am writing a python script that downloads a file given by a URL. Unfortuneatly the URL is in the form of a PHP script i.e. www.website.com/generatefilename.php?file=5233 If you visit the link in a browser, you are prompted to download the actual file and extension. I need to send this link to the downloader, but I ca...	false	2,705,856	0.197375	1	2	What you need to do is examine the Content-Disposition header sent by the PHP script. it will look something like: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=theFilenameYouWant As to how you actually examine that header it depends on the python code you're currently using to fetch the URL. If you post some code I'll be ...	0	171	0	0	2010-04-24T19:36:00.000	php,python,url,scripting	I want the actual file name that is returned by a PHP script	1	1	2	2,705,877
0	What are the best practices for extending an existing Python module – in this case, I want to extend the python-twitter package by adding new methods to the base API class. I've looked at tweepy, and I like that as well; I just find python-twitter easier to understand and extend with the functionality I want. I have th...	false	2,705,964	1	1	6	Don't add them to the module. Subclass the classes you want to extend and use your subclasses in your own module, not changing the original stuff at all.	1	33,640	0	29	2010-04-24T20:12:00.000	python,module,tweepy,python-module,python-twitter	How do I extend a python module? Adding new functionality to the `python-twitter` package	1	1	6	2,705,976
0	How can I get information about a user's PC connected to my socket	false	2,707,599	0.197375	0	3	a socket is a "virtual" channel established between to electronic devices through a network (a bunch of wires). the only informations available about a remote host are those published on the network. the basic informations are those provided in the TCP/IP headers, namely the remote IP address, the size of the receive b...	0	486	0	0	2010-04-25T08:17:00.000	python,sockets	Socket: Get user information	1	1	3	2,707,933
0	I need to set timeout on python's socket recv method. How to do it?	false	2,719,017	0.090659	0	5	You can use socket.settimeout() which accepts a integer argument representing number of seconds. For example, socket.settimeout(1) will set the timeout to 1 second	0	301,595	0	159	2010-04-27T05:51:00.000	python,sockets,timeout	How to set timeout on python's socket recv method?	1	1	11	53,769,737
0	I want to use the htmllib module but it's been removed from Python 3.0. Does anyone know what's the replacement for this module?	false	2,730,752	0.049958	0	1	I believe lxml has been ported to Python 3	0	5,120	0	11	2010-04-28T15:14:00.000	python,python-3.x	Replacement for htmllib module in Python 3.0	1	2	4	2,734,917
0	I want to use the htmllib module but it's been removed from Python 3.0. Does anyone know what's the replacement for this module?	false	2,730,752	0.049958	0	1	I heard Beautiful soup is getting a port to 3.0.	0	5,120	0	11	2010-04-28T15:14:00.000	python,python-3.x	Replacement for htmllib module in Python 3.0	1	2	4	2,732,223
1	I'm almost afraid to post this question, there has to be an obvious answer I've overlooked, but here I go: Context: I am creating a blog for educational purposes (want to learn python and web.py). I've decided that my blog have posts, so I've created a Post class. I've also decided that posts can be created, read, upda...	false	2,750,341	0.099668	1	2	Instead of calling it /post/52/edit, what if you called it /post/52/editor? Now it is a resource. Dilemma averted.	0	267	0	4	2010-05-01T14:43:00.000	python,rest,web.py	Is www.example.com/post/21/edit a RESTful URI? I think I know the answer, but have another question	1	2	4	2,750,368
1	I'm almost afraid to post this question, there has to be an obvious answer I've overlooked, but here I go: Context: I am creating a blog for educational purposes (want to learn python and web.py). I've decided that my blog have posts, so I've created a Post class. I've also decided that posts can be created, read, upda...	false	2,750,341	0.197375	1	4	Another RESTful approach is to use the query string for modifiers: /post/52?edit=1 Also, don't get too hung up on the purity of the REST model. If your app doesn't fit neatly into the model, break the rules.	0	267	0	4	2010-05-01T14:43:00.000	python,rest,web.py	Is www.example.com/post/21/edit a RESTful URI? I think I know the answer, but have another question	1	2	4	2,750,379
1	I am trying to migrate a legacy mailing list to a new web forum software and was wondering if mailman has an export option or an API to get all lists, owners, members and membership types.	false	2,756,311	0.26052	1	4	probably too late, but the list_members LISTNAME command (executed from a shell) will give you all the members of a list. list_admins LISTNAME will give you the owners What do you mean by membership type? list_members does have an option to filter on digest vs non-digest members. I don't think there's a way to get the ...	0	2,988	0	2	2010-05-03T05:41:00.000	python,api,mailman	Does Mailman have an API or an export lists, users and owners option?	1	1	3	3,154,975
0	I've written a Python application that makes web requests using the urllib2 library after which it scrapes the data. I could deploy this as a web application which means all urllib2 requests go through my web-server. This leads to the danger of the server's IP being banned due to the high number of web requests for man...	false	2,763,274	0.066568	0	1	You probably can use AJAX requests made from JavaScript that is a part of client-side. Use server → client communication to give commands and necessary data to make a request …and use AJAX communication from client to 3rd party server then.	0	1,085	0	1	2010-05-04T06:33:00.000	python,urllib2,urllib	making urllib request in Python from the client side	1	1	3	2,763,308
0	I'd like to extract the info string from an internet radio streamed over HTTP. By info string I mean the short note about the currently played song, band name etc. Preferably I'd like to do it in python. So far I've tried opening a socket but from there I got a bunch of binary data that I could not parse... thanks for ...	true	2,766,787	1.2	0	1	Sounds like you might need some stepping stone projects before you're ready for this. There's no reason to use a low-level socket library for HTTP. There are great tools both command line utilities and python standard library modules like urlopen2 that can handle the low level TCP and HTTP specifics for you. Do you k...	0	2,040	0	0	2010-05-04T15:44:00.000	python,http,streaming,metadata	Parse metadata from http live stream	1	1	1	2,792,800
0	I'm looking into using Lua in a web project. I can't seem to find any way of directly parsing in pure python and running Lua code in Python. Does anyone know how to do this? Joe	false	2,767,854	0.132549	0	2	From your comments, it appears you a interested in a secure way of executing untrusted code. Redifining python builtins, as you suggested in a comment, is a horrible way to secure code. What you want is sandboxing, there are solutions for python, but I wouldn't recommend them. You would be much better of using Jython ...	1	3,999	0	2	2010-05-04T18:14:00.000	python,lua,eval	Lua parser in python	1	2	3	2,768,130
0	I'm looking into using Lua in a web project. I can't seem to find any way of directly parsing in pure python and running Lua code in Python. Does anyone know how to do this? Joe	false	2,767,854	0.066568	0	1	@the_drow From Lua's web site: Lua is a fast language engine with small footprint that you can embed easily into your application. Lua has a simple and well documented API that allows strong integration with code written in other languages. It is easy to extend Lua with libraries written in other languages. It ...	1	3,999	0	2	2010-05-04T18:14:00.000	python,lua,eval	Lua parser in python	1	2	3	18,090,375
0	I need to be able to block the urls that are stored in a text file on the hard disk using Python. If the url the user tries to visit is in the file, it redirects them to another page instead. How is this done?	false	2,774,006	0.099668	0	1	Doing this at the machine level is a weak solution, it would be pretty easy for a technically inclined user to bypass. Even with a server side proxy it will be very easy to bypass unless you firewall normal http traffic, at a bare minimum block ports 80, 443. You could program a proxy in python as Alex suggested, but t...	0	957	0	1	2010-05-05T14:19:00.000	python,windows,internet-explorer,url	Internet Explorer URL blocking with Python?	1	1	2	2,774,159
0	Getting attributes using minidom in Python, one uses the "attributes" property. e.g. node.attributes["id"].value So if I have <a id="foo"></a>, that should give me "foo". node.attributes["id"] does not return the value of the named attribute, but an xml.dom.minidom.Attr instance. But looking at the help for Attr, by ...	false	2,785,703	0	0	0	Geez, never noticed that before. You're not kidding, node.value isn't mentioned anywhere. It is definitely being set in the code though under def __setitem__ in xml.dom.minidom. Not sure what to say other than, it looks like you'll have to use that.	0	10,689	0	3	2010-05-07T01:52:00.000	python,xml,minidom	python xml.dom.minidom.Attr question	1	1	2	2,785,722
1	I'm writing a (tabbed) application for Facebook that requires a background process to run on a server and, periodically, upload images to an album on this application's page. What I'm trying to do is create a script that will: a) authenticate me with the app b) upload an image to a specific album All of this entirely ...	false	2,791,683	0.099668	0	1	If you only need to authenticate as one user, you can get an access token with the offline_access permission that will last forever and just bake that into the script.	0	1,483	0	4	2010-05-07T21:04:00.000	python,facebook,oauth	Can you authenticate Facebook Graph entirely from command line with Python?	1	1	2	7,356,440
0	Does httplib.HTTPException have error codes? If so how do I get at them from the exception instance? Any help is appreciated.	true	2,791,946	1.2	0	5	The httplib module doesn't use exceptions to convey HTTP responses, just genuine errors (invalid HTTP responses, broken headers, invalid status codes, prematurely broken connections, etc.) Most of the httplib.HTTPException subclasses just have an associated message string (stored in the args attribute), if even that. h...	0	3,303	0	2	2010-05-07T22:05:00.000	python,http,exception,tcp	python httplib httpexception error codes	1	1	1	2,792,030
0	I'm using threads and xmlrpclib in python at the same time. Periodically, I create a bunch of thread to complete a service on a remote server via xmlrpclib. The problem is that, there are times that the remote server doesn't answer. This causes the thread to wait forever for a response which it never gets. Over time, n...	false	2,806,397	0.099668	0	1	You are doing what I usually call (originally in Spanish xD) "happy road programming". You should implement your programs to handle undesired cases, not only the ones you want to happen. The threads here are only showing an underlying mistake: your server can't handle a timeout, and the implementation is rigid in a way...	0	110	0	0	2010-05-10T20:54:00.000	python,multithreading,xml-rpc	too many threads due to synch communication	1	2	2	4,199,610
0	I'm using threads and xmlrpclib in python at the same time. Periodically, I create a bunch of thread to complete a service on a remote server via xmlrpclib. The problem is that, there are times that the remote server doesn't answer. This causes the thread to wait forever for a response which it never gets. Over time, n...	false	2,806,397	0	0	0	It seems like your real problem is that the server hangs on certain requests, and dies if the client closes the socket - the threads are just a side effect of the implementation. If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, then the only way to fix this would be to fix the server to respond to all requests, or to...	0	110	0	0	2010-05-10T20:54:00.000	python,multithreading,xml-rpc	too many threads due to synch communication	1	2	2	2,806,488
0	I have been creating an application using UDP for transmitting and receiving information. The problem I am running into is security. Right now I am using the IP/socketid in determining what data belongs to whom. However, I have been reading about how people could simply spoof their IP, then just send data as a specific...	false	2,808,092	0	0	0	If you absolutely need to verify that a particular user is a particular user then you need to use some form of encryption where the user signs their messages. This can be done pretty quickly because the user only needs to generate a hash of their message and then sign (encrypt) the hash. For your game application you p...	0	4,369	0	8	2010-05-11T04:33:00.000	python,security,encryption,cryptography,udp	UDP security and identifying incoming data	1	3	6	2,808,130
0	I have been creating an application using UDP for transmitting and receiving information. The problem I am running into is security. Right now I am using the IP/socketid in determining what data belongs to whom. However, I have been reading about how people could simply spoof their IP, then just send data as a specific...	false	2,808,092	0	0	0	I would look into the Garage Games networking library. It is written in C++ and uses UDP. It is designed for low latency and is considered one of the best for games. If I remember correctly they would actually calculate the likely position of the player both on the client side and the server side. It would do this...	0	4,369	0	8	2010-05-11T04:33:00.000	python,security,encryption,cryptography,udp	UDP security and identifying incoming data	1	3	6	7,210,998
0	I have been creating an application using UDP for transmitting and receiving information. The problem I am running into is security. Right now I am using the IP/socketid in determining what data belongs to whom. However, I have been reading about how people could simply spoof their IP, then just send data as a specific...	false	2,808,092	0	0	0	I'm breaking this down into four levels of security. Extremely Insecure - Anyone on the network can spoof a valid request/response with generally available prior knowledge. (ie syslog) Very Insecure - Anyone on the network can spoof a valid request/response only if they have at least read access to the wire. (Passive ...	0	4,369	0	8	2010-05-11T04:33:00.000	python,security,encryption,cryptography,udp	UDP security and identifying incoming data	1	3	6	2,815,170
0	How can I distinguish between a broadcasted message and a direct message for my ip? I'm doing this in python.	false	2,830,326	0	1	0	Basically what you need to do is create a raw socket, receive a datagram, and examine the destination address in the header. If that address is a broadcast address for the network adapter the socket is bound to, then you're golden. I don't know how to do this in Python, so I suggest looking for examples of raw sockets ...	0	83	0	0	2010-05-13T21:09:00.000	python	Distinguishing between broadcasted messages and direct messages	1	1	1	2,830,485
0	Was looking to write a little web crawler in python. I was starting to investigate writing it as a multithreaded script, one pool of threads downloading and one pool processing results. Due to the GIL would it actually do simultaneous downloading? How does the GIL affect a web crawler? Would each thread pick some data ...	false	2,830,880	1	0	8	The GIL is not held by the Python interpreter when doing network operations. If you are doing work that is network-bound (like a crawler), you can safely ignore the effects of the GIL. On the other hand, you may want to measure your performance if you create lots of threads doing processing (after downloading). Limitin...	1	5,361	0	10	2010-05-13T23:02:00.000	python,multithreading,gil	Does a multithreaded crawler in Python really speed things up?	1	2	5	2,830,905
0	Was looking to write a little web crawler in python. I was starting to investigate writing it as a multithreaded script, one pool of threads downloading and one pool processing results. Due to the GIL would it actually do simultaneous downloading? How does the GIL affect a web crawler? Would each thread pick some data ...	false	2,830,880	0.039979	0	1	Another consideration: if you're scraping a single website and the server places limits on the frequency of requests your can send from your IP address, adding multiple threads may make no difference.	1	5,361	0	10	2010-05-13T23:02:00.000	python,multithreading,gil	Does a multithreaded crawler in Python really speed things up?	1	2	5	2,830,933
1	Recently I needed to generate a huge HTML page containing a report with several thousand row table. And, obviously, I did not want to build the whole HTML (or the underlying tree) in memory. As result, I built the page with the old good string interpolation, but I do not like the solution. Thus, I wonder whether there ...	false	2,832,915	0.039979	0	1	You don't need a streaming templating engine - I do this all the time, and long before you run into anything vaguely heavy server-side, the browser will start to choke. Rendering a 10000 row table will peg the CPU for several seconds in pretty much any browser; scrolling it will be bothersomely choppy in chrome, and t...	0	1,055	0	4	2010-05-14T09:02:00.000	python,templates	Python templates for huge HTML/XML	1	2	5	2,897,474
1	Recently I needed to generate a huge HTML page containing a report with several thousand row table. And, obviously, I did not want to build the whole HTML (or the underlying tree) in memory. As result, I built the page with the old good string interpolation, but I do not like the solution. Thus, I wonder whether there ...	false	2,832,915	0.07983	0	2	It'd be more user-friendly (assuming they have javascript enabled) to build the table via javascript by using e.g. a jQuery plugin which allows automatical loading of contents as soon as you scroll down. Then only few rows are loaded initially and when the user scrolls down more rows are loaded on demand. If that's not...	0	1,055	0	4	2010-05-14T09:02:00.000	python,templates	Python templates for huge HTML/XML	1	2	5	2,832,958
1	I'm trying to develop an app using Django 1.1 on Webfaction. I'd like to get the IP address of the incoming request, but when I use request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] it returns 127.0.0.1. There seems to be a number of different ways of getting the address, such as using HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or plugging in some middleware ca...	true	2,840,329	1.2	0	1	I use the middleware because this way I don't have to change the app's code. If I want to migrate my app to other hosting servers, I only need to modify the middleware without affecting other parts. Security is not an issue because on WebFaction you can trust what comes in from the front end server.	0	748	0	0	2010-05-15T13:46:00.000	python,django	Django: What's the correct way to get the requesting IP address?	1	1	2	2,840,883
0	Sometimes I have to send a message to a specific IP and sometimes I have to broadcast the message to all the IP's in my network. At the other end I have to distinguish between a broadcast and a normal one, but recvfrom() just returns the address the message came from; there is no difference between them. Can anyone hel...	false	2,848,098	0.761594	0	5	I don't think it's possible with Python's socket module. UDP is a very minimalistic protocol, and the only way to distinguish between a broadcast and a non-broadcast UDP packet is by looking at the destination address. However, you cannot inspect that part of the packet with the BSD socket API (if I remember it correct...	0	116	0	2	2010-05-17T10:00:00.000	python	How to identify a broadcasted message?	1	1	1	2,848,539
1	I have a long document in XML from which I need to produce static HTML pages (for distribution via CD). I know (to varying degrees) JavaScript, PHP and Python. The current options I've considered are listed here: I'm not ruling out JavaScript, so one option would be to use ajax to dynamically load the XML content into...	false	2,850,534	0.049958	0	1	I would go with the PHP option. The reason being is that when the XML changes your site content "should" automatically change without you having to touch your PHP code. Creating a Python script to generate lots of static pages just seems like a bad idea to me and with javascript you will have your cross-browser headac...	0	1,365	0	3	2010-05-17T15:47:00.000	python,html,xml,ajax,xslt	Producing a static HTML site from XML content	1	3	4	2,850,582
1	I have a long document in XML from which I need to produce static HTML pages (for distribution via CD). I know (to varying degrees) JavaScript, PHP and Python. The current options I've considered are listed here: I'm not ruling out JavaScript, so one option would be to use ajax to dynamically load the XML content into...	false	2,850,534	0.099668	0	2	I would go with the XSLT option, controlled via parameters to generate different pages from the same XML source if needed. It's really the tool made for XML transformations.	0	1,365	0	3	2010-05-17T15:47:00.000	python,html,xml,ajax,xslt	Producing a static HTML site from XML content	1	3	4	2,850,603
1	I have a long document in XML from which I need to produce static HTML pages (for distribution via CD). I know (to varying degrees) JavaScript, PHP and Python. The current options I've considered are listed here: I'm not ruling out JavaScript, so one option would be to use ajax to dynamically load the XML content into...	false	2,850,534	0	0	0	Go with what you are most comfortable with. If it's straightforward you could use (for example) php to generate a page and then use a command line script (in python or php) to create cached files for you.	0	1,365	0	3	2010-05-17T15:47:00.000	python,html,xml,ajax,xslt	Producing a static HTML site from XML content	1	3	4	2,850,635
0	I recently downloaded and installed feedparser with python, I tried to run it but Netbeans shouts on import: ImportError: No module named feedparser restarted the Netbeans, still no go.	true	2,852,301	1.2	0	1	Netbeans by default uses Jython, if you go to Tools>Python Platforms and see that Jython is the default. Switch it to Python and so the installed libraries would work. If you already have a project, you should right click on it, choose Python and on the platform choose Python instead of Jython.	1	1,032	0	0	2010-05-17T19:59:00.000	python,netbeans,feedparser	adding the feedparser module to python	1	1	2	2,856,391
0	I am programming web interface which communicates with cisco switches via telnet. I want to make such system which will be storing one telnet connection per switch and every script (web interface, cron jobs, etc.) will have access to it. This is needed to make a single query queue for each device and prevent huge cisco...	true	2,856,356	1.2	0	1	The usual way would be to have a process running in the background that keeps hold of the persistent telnet connections and commands queued to go down them. Then have the front-end scripts connect to it (eg. via a unix socket) to queue commands and get the results asynchronously. But this might be overkill. How many pe...	0	1,334	0	0	2010-05-18T10:30:00.000	python,django,telnet,telnetlib	Python (Django). Store telnet connection	1	1	1	2,856,596
1	Is there a function or method I could call in Python That would tell me if the data is RSS or HTML?	true	2,882,549	1.2	0	0	Filetypes should generally be determined out-of-band. eg. if you are fetching the file from a web server, the place to look would be the Content-Type header of the HTTP response. If you're fetching a local file, the filesystem would have a way of determining filetype—on Windows that'd be looking at the file extension. ...	0	81	0	1	2010-05-21T13:44:00.000	python,html,rss	Identifying if a data is RSS or HTML on python	1	2	2	2,883,114
1	Is there a function or method I could call in Python That would tell me if the data is RSS or HTML?	false	2,882,549	0.197375	0	2	You could always analyze it yourself to search for an xml tag (for RSS) or html tag (for HTML).	0	81	0	1	2010-05-21T13:44:00.000	python,html,rss	Identifying if a data is RSS or HTML on python	1	2	2	2,882,574
0	I am going to handle XML files for a project. I had earlier decided to use lxml but after reading the requirements, I think ElemenTree would be better for my purpose. The XML files that have to be processed are: Small in size. Typically < 10 KB. No namespaces. Simple XML structure. Given the small XML size, memory...	false	2,908,440	0	0	0	lxml is basically a superset of ElementTree so you could start with ElementTree and then if you have performance or functionality issues then you could change to lxml. Performance issues can only be studied by you using your own data,	0	372	0	4	2010-05-25T20:52:00.000	python,lxml,celementtree	Which Python XML library should I use?	1	1	3	2,908,479
0	I'm trying to manually create the file descriptor associated with a socket in python and then loaded directly into memory with mmap. Create a file into memory with mmap is simple, but I can not find a way to associate the file with a socket. Thanks for your responses. The problem I have is I can not make more of a num...	false	2,922,548	0.099668	0	1	Why do you want to load this into memory using mmap? If you are on a unix variant, you can create a unix socket which is a file descriptor which can be used just like any other socket. A socket and a memory-mapped file are two distinct entities - it is probably not a good idea to try and mix them. Perhaps it would be h...	1	2,393	0	0	2010-05-27T15:38:00.000	python,sockets,file-descriptor	change file descriptor for socket in python	1	1	2	2,922,605
0	I have domain on a shared hosting provider. How do I find the direct IP address of my domain using Python? Is it possible to post to a script on my domain using the IP address and not the website itself? Thanks.	false	2,924,736	0	0	0	I guess the IP should be static so do you really need to look it up more than once? You need to specify the domain name so that the webserver knows which host configuration to use if you don't have a dedicated IP or your host is the default for that webserver	0	725	0	0	2010-05-27T20:40:00.000	python,cgi	IP address of domain on shared host	1	1	3	2,924,798
0	I am trying to create a directory with news articles collected from an rss feed, meaning that whenever there is a link to an article within the rss feed, I would like for it to be downloaded in a directory with the title of the specific article as the filename as as a text file. Is that something Python can help me do ...	false	2,927,543	0.099668	1	1	Of course. BeautifulSoup, lxml, urllib2, urlgrabber.	0	442	0	0	2010-05-28T08:22:00.000	python,rss	Downloading from links in an rss feed	1	1	2	2,927,551
1	i would like to know, what is the best way to send files between python and C# and vice versa. I have my own protocol which work on socket level, and i can send string and numbers in both ways. Loops works too. With this i can send pretty much anything, like package of users id, if it is simple data. But soon i will st...	true	2,930,211	1.2	0	0	The easier way on my use case was send files using HTTP because with python i have additionaly running django.	0	347	0	1	2010-05-28T15:17:00.000	c#,python,sockets	Send files between python+django and C#	1	1	2	2,965,960
1	We're writing a web-based tool to configure our services provided by multiple servers. This includes interfaces configuration, dhcp configs etc. etc. Having configs in database and views that generate proper output, how to send it/make it available for servers? I'm thinking about sending it through scp and invoking rel...	false	2,932,007	0	0	0	It really depends what you're intending to do, as the question is a little vague. The other answers cover the tools available; choosing one over the other comes down to purpose. Are you intending to manage servers, and services on those servers? If so, try Puppet, CFEngine, or some other tool for managing server conf...	0	226	0	0	2010-05-28T19:46:00.000	python,linux,administration,func	Methods of sending web-generated config files to servers and restarting services	1	1	4	3,130,135
0	when using Python's stock XML tools such as xml.dom.minidom for XML writing, a file would always start off like <?xml version="1.0"?> [...] While this is perfectly legal XML code, and it's even recommended to use the header, I'd like to get rid of it as one of the programs I'm working with has problems here. I can't se...	false	2,933,262	0	0	0	If you're set on using minidom, just scan back in the file and remove the first line after writing all the XML you need.	0	9,270	0	12	2010-05-29T00:28:00.000	python,xml	How to write an XML file without header in Python?	1	2	8	2,933,332
0	when using Python's stock XML tools such as xml.dom.minidom for XML writing, a file would always start off like <?xml version="1.0"?> [...] While this is perfectly legal XML code, and it's even recommended to use the header, I'd like to get rid of it as one of the programs I'm working with has problems here. I can't se...	false	2,933,262	0	0	0	Purists may not like to hear this, but I have found using an XML parser to generate XML to be overkill. Just generate it directly as strings. This also lets you generate files larger than you can keep in memory, which you can't do with DOM. Reading XML is another story.	0	9,270	0	12	2010-05-29T00:28:00.000	python,xml	How to write an XML file without header in Python?	1	2	8	2,933,289
1	Is it possible for my python web app to provide an option the for user to automatically send jobs to the locally connected printer? Or will the user always have to use the browser to manually print out everything.	false	2,936,384	0	0	0	If your Python webapp is running inside a browser on the client machine, I don't see any other way than manually for the user. Some workarounds you might want to investigate: if you web app is installed on the client machine, you will be able to connect directly to the printer, as you have access to the underlying OS ...	0	1,545	0	0	2010-05-29T19:48:00.000	python,web-applications,printing	python web script send job to printer	1	1	2	2,936,475
0	is there any library or way exist from which I can convert my xml records to yaml format ?	false	2,943,862	0.148885	0	3	The difference between XML and YAML is significant enough to warrant a redesign of the schema you are using to store your data. You should write a script to parse your XML records and output YAML formatted data. There are some methods out there to convert any generic XML into YAML, but the results are far less usable t...	0	6,025	0	10	2010-05-31T13:37:00.000	python,xml,tags,yaml	is there anything exist to convert xml -> yaml directly?	1	1	4	2,955,385
0	lets say you run third party program on your computer whitch create a process named example.exe how do i determinate if this process is running and how many windows does he open? How do i intercept network communication between this windows and server? my goal is to create an app whitch will be monitoring network trafi...	false	2,945,074	0	0	0	You could use wireshark from wireshark.org to sniff the network traffic (or any other packet sniffer).	0	620	0	2	2010-05-31T17:30:00.000	python,networking,communication	python intercepting communication	1	1	2	2,945,291
0	I wonder if it is better add an element by opening file, search 'good place' and add string which contains xml code. Or use some library... i have no idea. I know how can i get nodes and properties from xml through for example lxml but what's the simpliest and the best way to add?	false	2,977,779	0.099668	0	1	The safest way to add nodes to an XML document is to load it into a DOM, add the nodes programmatically and write it out again. There are several Python XML libraries. I have used minidom, but I have no reason to recommend it specifically over the others.	0	4,733	0	4	2010-06-04T21:01:00.000	python,xml	add xml node to xml file with python	1	1	2	2,977,799
1	I'm building my startup and I'm thinking ahead for shared use of services. So far I want to allow people who have a user account on one app to be able to use the same user account on another app. This means I will have to build an authentication server. I would like some opinions on how to allow an app to talk to the a...	false	2,986,317	0.066568	0	1	Assuming you plan to write your own auth client code, it isn't event-driven, and you don't need to validate an https certificate, I would suggest using python's built-in urllib2 to call the auth server. This will minimize dependencies, which ought to make deployment and upgrades easier. That being said, there are more...	0	308	0	0	2010-06-06T23:14:00.000	python,authentication,rest	Talking to an Authentication Server	1	2	3	2,986,411
1	I'm building my startup and I'm thinking ahead for shared use of services. So far I want to allow people who have a user account on one app to be able to use the same user account on another app. This means I will have to build an authentication server. I would like some opinions on how to allow an app to talk to the a...	false	2,986,317	0	0	0	Your question isn't really a programming problem so much as it is an architecture problem. What I would recommend for your specific situation is to setup an LDAP server for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). Then have your applications use that (every language has modules and libraries for LDAP). I...	0	308	0	0	2010-06-06T23:14:00.000	python,authentication,rest	Talking to an Authentication Server	1	2	3	2,986,610
0	I am trying to write some unit tests for a small web service written with Cherrypy and I am wondering what's the best way to figure out that the server has started, so i don't get connection refused if I try to connect too early to the service ?	true	2,988,636	1.2	0	4	I got it figured out: cherrypy.engine.start(); cherrypy.server.wait() it's the way to go. Otherwise, I think you can get away with some tricks with cherrypy.server.bus.states	0	250	0	4	2010-06-07T10:20:00.000	python,cherrypy	cherrypy when to know that the server has started	1	1	1	2,989,432
0	I'm writing an application that sends files over network, I want to develop a custom protocol to not limit myself in term on feature richness (http wouldn't be appropriate, the nearest thing is the bittorrent protocol maybe). I've tried with twisted, I've built a good app but there's a bug in twisted that makes my GUI...	true	2,991,852	1.2	0	1	Disclaimer: I have little experience with network applications. That being said, the raw sockets isn't terribly difficult to wrap your head around/use, especially if you're not too worried about optimization. That takes more thought, of course. But using GTK and raw sockets should be fairly straightforward. Especially ...	0	1,158	0	1	2010-06-07T17:47:00.000	python,networking	networking application and GUI in python	1	2	4	2,991,942
0	I'm writing an application that sends files over network, I want to develop a custom protocol to not limit myself in term on feature richness (http wouldn't be appropriate, the nearest thing is the bittorrent protocol maybe). I've tried with twisted, I've built a good app but there's a bug in twisted that makes my GUI...	false	2,991,852	0.049958	0	1	Two threads: one for the GUI, one for sending/receiving data. Tkinter would be a perfectly fine toolkit for this. You don't need twisted or any other external libraries or toolkits -- what comes out of the box is sufficient to get the job done.	0	1,158	0	1	2010-06-07T17:47:00.000	python,networking	networking application and GUI in python	1	2	4	2,991,935
1	I'm at the moment working on a web page where the users who visit it should have the possibility to create an event in my web page's name. There is a Page on Facebook for the web page which should be the owner of the user created event. Is this possible? All users are authenticated using Facebook Connect, but since the...	false	3,005,640	0	0	0	This is possible, using the access token provided for your page you can publish to this as you would with a user. If you want to post FROM the USER than you need to use the current user's access token, if you want to post FROM the PAGE then using the access token from the page you can publish to that	0	700	0	1	2010-06-09T12:12:00.000	python,django,facebook	Create event for another owner using Facebook Graph API	1	1	1	6,583,766
0	I am looking for a way of programmatically testing a script written with the asyncore Python module. My test consists of launching the script in question -- if a TCP listen socket is opened, the test passes. Otherwise, if the script dies before getting to that point, the test fails. The purpose of this is knowing if a ...	false	3,014,686	0	1	0	Another option is to mock the socket module before importing the asyncore module. Of course, then you have to make sure that the mock works properly first.	0	838	1	0	2010-06-10T13:19:00.000	python,testing,sockets,wrapper	How can I build a wrapper to wait for listening on a port?	1	1	2	3,019,494
0	how can i send an xml file on my system to an http server using python standard library??	false	3,020,979	0.099668	0	1	You can achieve that through a standard http post request.	0	5,264	0	7	2010-06-11T07:35:00.000	python,xml,http	send xml file to http using python	1	1	2	3,021,000
0	I need a simple graphics library that supports the following functionality: Ability to draw polygons (not just rectangles!) with RGBA colors (i.e., partially transparent), Ability to load bitmap images, Ability to read current color of pixel in a given coordinate. Ideally using JavaScript or Python. Seems like HTML 5...	false	3,021,514	0.119427	0	3	PyGame can do all of those things. OTOH, I don't think it embeds into a GUI too well.	0	1,047	0	2	2010-06-11T09:00:00.000	javascript,python,graphics,canvas,svg	Simple graphics API with transparency, polygons, reading image pixels?	1	3	5	3,022,580
0	I need a simple graphics library that supports the following functionality: Ability to draw polygons (not just rectangles!) with RGBA colors (i.e., partially transparent), Ability to load bitmap images, Ability to read current color of pixel in a given coordinate. Ideally using JavaScript or Python. Seems like HTML 5...	false	3,021,514	0	0	0	I voted for PyGame, but I would also like to point out that the new QT graphics library seems quite capable. I have not used PyQT with QT4 yet, but I really like PyQT development with QT3.	0	1,047	0	2	2010-06-11T09:00:00.000	javascript,python,graphics,canvas,svg	Simple graphics API with transparency, polygons, reading image pixels?	1	3	5	3,023,182
0	I need a simple graphics library that supports the following functionality: Ability to draw polygons (not just rectangles!) with RGBA colors (i.e., partially transparent), Ability to load bitmap images, Ability to read current color of pixel in a given coordinate. Ideally using JavaScript or Python. Seems like HTML 5...	false	3,021,514	0.07983	0	2	I ended up going with Canvas. The "secret" of polygons is using paths. Thanks, "tur1ng"!	0	1,047	0	2	2010-06-11T09:00:00.000	javascript,python,graphics,canvas,svg	Simple graphics API with transparency, polygons, reading image pixels?	1	3	5	3,027,643
0	I'm working a script that will upload videos to YouTube with different accounts. Is there a way to use HTTPS or SOCKS proxies to filter all the requests. My client doesn't want to leave any footprints for Google. The only way I found was to set the proxy environment variable beforehand but this seems cumbersome. Is the...	false	3,026,881	0	0	0	Setting an environment variable (e.g. import os; os.environ['BLAH']='BLUH' once at the start of your program "seems cumbersome"?! What does count as "non-cumbersome" for you, pray?	0	1,129	0	0	2010-06-11T23:34:00.000	python,api,youtube,gdata	How to use a Proxy with Youtube API? (Python)	1	1	1	3,027,001
0	Is there a way I can programmatically determine the status of a download in Chrome or Mozilla Firefox? I would like to know if the download was aborted or completed successfully. For writing the code I'd be using either Perl, PHP or Python. Please help. Thank You.	false	3,029,824	-0.197375	1	-2	There are scripts out there that output the file in chunks, recording how many bytes they've echoed out, but those are completely unreliable and you can't accurately ascertain whether or not the user successfully received the complete file. The short answer is no, really, unless you write your own download manager (in ...	0	676	0	0	2010-06-12T19:18:00.000	php,python,perl,download	Programmatically determining the status of a file download	1	1	2	3,029,877
0	I have to send F2 key to telnet host. How do I send it using python...using getch() I found that the character < used for the F2 key but when sending >, its not working. I think there is a way to send special function keys but I am not able to find it. If somebody knows please help me. Thanks in advance	true	3,035,390	1.2	1	4	Extended keys (non-alphanumeric or symbol) are composed of a sequence of single characters, with the sequence depending on the terminal you have told the telnet server you are using. You will need to send all characters in the sequence in order to make it work. Here, using od -c <<< 'CtrlVF2' I was able to see a sequen...	0	2,908	0	4	2010-06-14T06:40:00.000	python,telnet	how to send F2 key to remote host using python	1	1	2	3,035,415
0	I'm looking to find a way to in real-time find the shortest path between nodes in a huge graph. It has hundreds of thousands of vertices and millions of edges. I know this question has been asked before and I guess the answer is to use a breadth-first search, but I'm more interested in to know what software you can use...	false	3,038,661	0	0	0	Depending on what kind of additional information you have, A* may be extremely efficient. In particular, if given a node you can compute an estimate of the cost from that node to the goal, A* is optimally efficient.	0	24,381	0	16	2010-06-14T15:50:00.000	python,graph,shortest-path,dijkstra,breadth-first-search	Efficiently finding the shortest path in large graphs	1	1	7	3,042,109
0	I have a python script that accepts a file from the user and saves it. Is it possible to not upload the file immediately but to que it up and when the server has less load to upload it then. Can this be done by transferring the file to the browsers storage area or taking the file from the Harddrive and transferring to ...	false	3,040,290	0.53705	0	3	There is no reliable way to do what you're asking, because fundamentally, your server has no control over the user's browser, computer, or internet connection. If you don't care about reliability, you might try writing a bunch of javascript to trigger the upload at a scheduled time, but it just wouldn't work if the us...	0	100	0	0	2010-06-14T19:32:00.000	python,file,architecture,file-upload	Python timed file upload	1	1	1	3,040,346
0	Does anyone know of a memory efficient way to generate very large xml files (e.g. 100-500 MiB) in Python? I've been utilizing lxml, but memory usage is through the roof.	false	3,049,188	0.099668	1	2	The only sane way to generate so large an XML file is line by line, which means printing while running a state machine, and lots of testing.	0	4,751	0	11	2010-06-15T21:27:00.000	python,xml,lxml	Generating very large XML files in Python?	1	2	4	3,049,245

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