What are the differences between these built-in Python data types: list, sequence and slice? As I see it, all three essentially represent what C++ and Java call array.
I'm trying to use python to determine if one (small) image is within another (large) image.
Any suggestions before I take myself completely down the wrong path?
I am using Python with PLY to parse LISP-like S-Expressions and when parsing a function call there can be zero or more arguments. How can I put this into the yacc code. This is my function so far:
def p_EXPR(p):
'''EXPR : NUMBER
| STRING
| LPAREN funcname [EXPR] RPAREN'''
if len(p) == 2:
p[0] = p[1]
else:
p[0] = ("Call", p[2], p[3:-1])
I need to replace "[EXPR]" with something that allows zero or more EXPR's. How can I do this?
I have read about python sched (task schedular), it works like a cron.
but I have a question :
lets say if i schedule a function to ryn after every 2 hours and in the mean time my system gets shut down, then I again restart the system...did the schedular automatically starts and will run the function after 2 hours? or i have to start that again after shutting down the system?
did sched work like a deamon?
How can I parse text and find all instances of hyperlinks with a string? The hyperlink will not be in the html format of <a href="http://test.com">test</a> but just http://test.com
Secondly, I would like to then convert the original string and replace all instances of hyperlinks into clickable html hyperlinks.
I found an example in this thread:
Easiest way to convert a URL to a hyperlink in a C# string?
but was unable to reproduce it in python :(
it works fine on 64 bit machines but for some reason will not work on python 2.4.3 on a 32-bit instance.
i get the error
'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 76-79: invalid data
for the code
try:
str(sourceresult.sourcename).encode('utf8','replace')
except:
raise Exception( repr(sourceresult.sourcename ) )
it returns 'kazamidori blog\xf9'
i have modified my site.py file to make UTF8 the default encoding, but still doesnt seem to be working.
Hey, here's a dumb question: how can I set an object property given its name in a string. I have a dictionary being passed to me and I wish to transfer its values into namesake properties using code like this:
for entry in src_dict:
if entry.startswith('can_'):
tgt_obj[entry] = src_dict_profile[entry]
I'm still a bit of a noob with Python so would appreciate some help.
- dave.
Hello,
Is there a way to declare a string variable in python such that everything inside of it is automatically escaped, or has its literal character value? I'm NOT asking how to escape the quotes with slashes, that's obvious. What I'm asking for is a general purpose way for making EVERYTHING in a string literal so that I don't have to manually go through and escape everything for very large strings. Anyone know of a solution? Thanks!
How do you end up running pypcap for python 2.6 on a mac? It seems that there hasn't been any new releases since 2.5 or am I just looking in the wrong places?
Am doing a bit of unit testing on a function which attempts to open a new file, but should fail if the file already exists. when the function runs sucessfully, the new file is created, so i want to delete it after every test run, but it doesn't seem to be working:
class MyObject_Initialisation(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
if os.path.exists(TEMPORARY_FILE_NAME):
try:
os.remove(TEMPORARY_FILE_NAME)
except WindowsError:
#TODO: can't figure out how to fix this...
#time.sleep(3)
#self.setUp() #this just loops forever
pass
def tearDown(self):
self.setUp()
any thoughts? The Windows Error thrown seems to suggest the file is in use... could it be that the tests are run in parallel threads?
I've read elsewhere that it's 'bad practice' to use the filesystem in unit testing, but really? Surely there's a way around this that doesn't invole dummying the filesystem?
Is there any way other than creating a method myself to write XML using python which are easily readable? xMLFile.write(xmlDom.toxml()) does create proper xml but reading them is pretty difficult. I tried toprettyxml but doesn't seem like it does much. e.g. following is what I would consider a human readable xml:
Hi, I'm developing C extensions from python ad I obtain some segfaults (inevitable during the development...).
I'm searching a way to display at which line of code the segfault happens (an idea is like tracing every single line of code), how I can do that?
Hi,
I need to construct an if statement from the data coming from the client as below:
conditions: condition1, condition2, condition3, condition4
logical operators: lo1, lo2, lo3 (Possible values: "and" "or")
Eg.
if condition1 lo1 condition2 lo3 condition4:
# Do something
I can think of eval/exec but not sure how safe they are! Any better approach or alternative?
Appreciate your responses :)
PS: Client-side: Flex, Server-side: Python, over internet
Thanks
I've always laughed to myself when I looked back at my VB6 days, "What modern language doesn't allow incrementing with double plus signs?":
number++
To my surprise I can't find anything about this in the Python docs. Must I really subject myself to number = number + 1? Doesn't people use the ++/-- notation?
:-(
I write a python class which makes asynchronous method calls using D-Bus. When my reply_handler is called, it stores data in list. This list can be used by another class methods at the same time. Is it safe or I can use only synchronized data structures like Queue class?
What is the most effective and compatible automatic Python obfuscator? What are your experiences with using each?
And before anyone asks why I am obfuscating -- I am doing it simply because I can. Thanks.
This whole topic is way out of my depth, so forgive my imprecise question, but I have two computers both connected to one LAN.
What I want is to be able to communicate one string between the two, by running a python script on the first (the host) where the string will originate, and a second on the client computer to retrieve the string.
What is the most efficient way for an inexperienced programmer like me to achieve this?
Format is like:
CHINA;2002-06-25 00:00:00.000;5,60
CHINA;2002-06-26 00:00:00.000;5,32
CHINA;2002-06-27 00:00:00.000;5,31
and I try to use Python's CSV tools to parse it but cannot understand the paragraph, source:
And while the module doesn’t directly support parsing strings, it can easily be done:
import csv
for row in csv.reader(['one,two,three']):
print row
Could someone clarify the line ['one,two,three']? How would you use it with format A;B;C?
What sort of mime type should I be using to email a .avi file from an automated python script? There are specific ones for audio/images, but not video afaik.
Hello everyone,
How can I get the file name and line number in python script.
Exactly the file information we get from an exception traceback. In this case without raising an exception.
I am trying to get the response codes from Mechanize in python. While I am able to get a 200 status code anything else isn't returned (404 throws and exception and 30x is ignored). Is there a way to get the original status code?
Thanks
The greenlet package is used by gevent and eventlet for asynchronous IO. It is written as a C-extension and therefore doesn't work with Jython or IronPython. If performance is of no concern, what is the easiest approach to implementing the greenlet API in pure Python.
A simple example:
def test1():
print 12
gr2.switch()
print 34
def test2():
print 56
gr1.switch()
print 78
gr1 = greenlet(test1)
gr2 = greenlet(test2)
gr1.switch()
Should print 12, 56, 34 (and not 78).
Hello everyone, i'm looking for a way in python to run an external binary and watch it's output for: "up to date" If "up to date" isn't returned i want to run the original command again, once "up to date" is displayed i would like to be able to run another script. So far I've figured out how to run the binary with options using subprocess but thats as far as I've gotten. Thanks!
I am building a python application to pull data from a website. The application has to authenticate(HTTPS/SSL) with a CAC card and pin in order to make requests.
Am I correct in my assumptions that you can't retrieve the private key from a CAC card, and am therefore stuck using a PKCS #11 Wrapper like PyKCS?
Any tips or resources for going about this?