For example:
import random
x = random.randint(1, 6)
y = 2
new = x / y
...
now, lets say x turns out to be 5.
How can I catch if it's an int or a float before doing other things in my program?
I'm writing a Python application, that I want to later migrate to GAE.
The new "Task Queues" API fulfills a requirement of my app, and I want to simulate it locally until I have the time to migrate the whole thing to GAE.
Does anyone know of a compatible module I can run locally?
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.
For some reason this function confused me:
def protocol(port):
return port == "443" and "https://" or "http://"
Can somebody explain the order of what's happening behind the scenes to make this work the way it does.
I understood it as this until I tried it:
Either A)
def protocol(port):
if port == "443":
if bool("https://"):
return True
elif bool("http://"):
return True
return False
Or B)
def protocol(port):
if port == "443":
return True + "https://"
else:
return True + "http://"
Is this some sort of special case in Python, or am I completely misunderstanding how statements work?
Cant download any pyhton windows modules and install. I wanted to experiment with scrapy framework and stackless but unable to install due to error "Python veIrsion 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry".
Trying to install it to
Windows 7, 64 bit machine
I'm using the following code to hide stderr on Linux/OSX for a Python library I do not control that writes to stderr by default:
f = open("/dev/null","w")
zookeeper.set_log_stream(f)
Is there an easy cross platform alternative to /dev/null? Ideally it would not consume memory since this is a long running process.
Hi,
I was going over some pages from WikiVS, that I quote from:
because lambdas in Python are restricted to expressions and cannot contain statements
I would like to know what would be a good example (or more) where this restriction would be, preferably compared to the Ruby language.
Thank you for your answers, comments and feedback!
Windows XP, Python 2.5:
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: 1934711907
Google App Engine (http://shell.appspot.com/):
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: -5768830964305142685
Why is that? How can I have a hash function which will give me same results across different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac)?
Hi
I wrote a matlab code (that easily could be implimented as a function) that convert a series of BMPs to avi. I want a python program to call to this program/function. how do I do it?
thanks
In the effort to learn python and/or ruby, I was wondering how a file shredder would be implemented? I would like it to take in a file as an argument and then employ an algorithm to make that file unrecoverable. Would possibly add the support for multiple files or even whole directories later.
I have two floats in Python that I'd like to subtract, i.e.
v1 = float(value1)
v2 = float(value2)
diff = v1 - v2
I want "diff" to be computed upto two significant figures, that is compute it using %.2f of v1 and %.2f of v2. How can I do this? I know how to print v1 and v2 up to two decimals, but not how to do arithmetic like that.
thanks.
Working with Python in Emacs if I want to add a try/catch to a block of code, I often find that I am having to indent the whole block, line by line. In Emacs, how do you indent the whole block at once.
I am not an experienced Emacs user, but just find it is the best tool for working through ssh. I am using Emacs on the command line(Ubuntu), not as a gui, if that makes any difference.
Given a PyObject* pointing to a python object, how do I invoke one of the object methods? The documentation never gives an example of this:
PyObject* obj = ....
PyObject* args = Py_BuildValue("(s)", "An arg");
PyObject* method = PyWHATGOESHERE(obj, "foo");
PyObject* ret = PyWHATGOESHERE(obj, method, args);
if (!ret) {
// check error...
}
This would be the equivalent of
>>> ret = obj.foo("An arg")
Hello!
I`m trying to write simple batch file generator in python. Batch file consist of about 30-50 lines of text and is passed to other applications. During the execution of script there a lot of calls to external applications. I want to create file in memory (like named pipes in win32). Is there any platform independ way?
p.s. sorry for possible mistakes in text, I'm still learning English
Can you please give me a simple, and straightforward python example of sending an HTML e-mail using App Engine? Plaintext is straightforward, but I'm having difficulties with HTML tags.
I have
stringA = "xxxxxxFoundAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaFoundBxxxxxxx"
stringB = "FoundA"
stringC = "FoundB"
How do I do a regular expression in python in order to return aaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Hi folks,
I'm having quite a problem deciding how to serve a few Python scripts.
The problem is that the basic functionality could be generalized by this:
do_something()
time.sleep(3)
do_something()
I tried various WSGI servers, but they have all been giving me concurrency limitations, as in I have to specify how many threads to use and so on.
I only wish that the resources on the server be used efficiently and liberally.
Any ideas?
I have a python module with a lot of variables. These variables are used and changed by many other modules. And I want to reload this module from itself when it happens (for refresh).
How to do that?
# ==================================
# foo.py
spam = 100
def set_spam(value):
spam = value
foo = reload(foo) # reload module from itself
# ==================================
# bar.py
import foo
print foo.spam # I expect 100
# assume that value changes here from some another modules (for example, from eggs.py, apple.py and fruit.py)
foo.set_spam(200)
print foo.spam # I expect 200
Hey
Is it possible with python to set the timezone just like this in php:
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");
$Year = date('y');
$Month = date('m');
$Day = date('d');
$Hour = date('H');
$Minute = date('i');
I can't really install any other modules etc as I'm using shared web hosting.
Any ideas?
How to truncate sthe string to 75 characters only in python
This is how it was done in javascript
var data="saddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd"
var info = (data.length > 75) ? data.substring[0,75] + '..' : data;
I have a system where a central Java controller launches analysis processes, which may be written in C++, Java, or Python (mostly they are C++). All these processes currently run on the same server. What are you suggestions to
Create a central log to which all processes can write to
What if in the future I push some processes to another server. How can I support distributed logging?
Thanks!
Hi! I was wondering how to make a simple Clipboard Monitor in python, for GUI I'm using PyGTK.
I found gtk.clipboard class and all that but I couldn't find any solution to get the "signals" to trigger the event when the clipboard content has changed :(
Any ideas?
Thanks you! :)