I'm trying to get started with unit testing in Python and I was wondering if someone could inform me of the advantages and disadvantages of doctest and unittest. What conditions would you use each for?
Does anyone know how to do convert from a string to a boolean in Python? I found this link. But it doesn't look like a proper way to do it. I.e. using a built in functionality, etc.
EDIT: The reason I asked this is because I learned int("string"), from here. I tried bool ("string") but always got True.
I do Java programming and recently started learning Python via the official documentation.
I see that we can dynamically add data attributes to an instance object unlike in Java:
class House:
pass
my_house = House()
my_house.number = 40
my_house.rooms = 8
my_house.garden = 1
My question is, in what situations is this feature used? What are the advantages and disadvantages compared to the way it is done in Java?
I have an xml file in the following format:
<food>
<desert>
cake
<desert>
</food>
<history>
currently in my belly
</history>
I want to create two list, food and text populated with cake and history in string format. Is there an easy way to do it in python?
hi;
i need grab to firefox address bar. how to get address bar url for python ? (i need second part other browsers chrome and safari grabbing address bar but firefox is urgently).
Thanks.
Hello folks,
I am implementing caching for my Python application and I want to use memcached. Which module do you suggest me to use? There are so many that I don't know which one to choose.
Thanks, Boda Cydo.
Does anyone know if Python's shelve module uses memory-mapped IO?
Maybe that question is a bit misleading. I realize that shelve uses an underlying dbm-style module to do its dirty work. What are the chances that the underlying module uses mmap?
I'm prototyping a datastore, and while I realize premature optimization is generally frowned upon, this could really help me understand the trade-offs involved in my design.
Hi,
Does anybody know if there is a free python chess moves validation function available somewhere?
What I need. I have a diagram stored as a string, and move candidate. What I need is to see if move candidate is valid for the diagram.
Would be really interested to see examples, if possible.
I have a python app which is supposed to be very long-lived, but sometimes the process just disappears and I don't know why. Nothing gets logged when this happens, so I'm at a bit of a loss.
Is there some way in code I can hook in to an exit event, or some other way to get some of my code to run just before the process quits? I'd like to log the state of memory structures to better understand what's going on.
I don't know python and I'm porting a library to C#, I've encountered the following lines of code that is used in some I/O operation but I'm not sure what it is, my guess is that it's a hexadecimal but I don't know why it's inside a string, neither what the backslashes do?
sep1 = '\x04H\xfe\x13' # record separator
sep2 = '\x00\xdd\x01\x0fT\x02\x00\x00\x01' # record separator
I would like to pass some options to Python (version 2.6) every time, not just in interactive mode. Is there a file I can put such commands in?
EDIT: Specifically, I'm wanting to silence the Deprecation warnings.
Hi folks,
I'm having a problem with my python script.
It's printing massive amounts of data on the screen, and I would like to prevent all sorts of printing to screen.
Any ideas?
Help would be amazing and very much appreciated!
I am having some trouble getting appscript installed on OS/X 10.6.3 / Python 2.6.1. When I issue
sudo easy_install appscript
I get "unable to execute gcc-4.2: No such file or directory". Even when I do export CC=/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 (a valid gcc-4.2 executable), easy_install barks.
What could be the issue?
Disclaimer: OS/X newbie at the helm...
how can I get the list of cross product pairs from a list of arbitrarily long lists in python? e.g.
a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
crossproduct(a,b) should yield [[1,4], [1, 5], [1,6], ...]
thanks.
I'm not a Perl user, but from this question deduced that it's exceedingly easy to retrieve the standard output of a program executed through a Perl script using something akin to:
$version = `java -version`;
How would I go about getting the same end result in Python? Does the above line retrieve standard error (equivalent to C++ std::cerr) and standard log (std::clog) output as well? If not, how can I retrieve those output streams as well?
Thanks,
Geoff
What's the easiest way to count the longest consecutive repeat of a certain character in a string? For example, the longest consecutive repeat of "b" in the following string:
my_str = "abcdefgfaabbbffbbbbbbfgbb"
would be 6, since other consecutive repeats are shorter (3 and 2, respectively.) How can I do this in Python?
thanks.
I've got the entire contents of a text file (at least a few KB) in string myStr.
Will the following code create a copy of the string (less the first character) in memory?
myStr = myStr[1:]
I'm hoping it just refers to a different location in the same internal buffer. If not, is there a more efficient way to do this?
Thanks!
Note: I'm using Python 2.5.
hi,
in python, how can a custom format-specification be added, to a class ? for example, if i write a matrix class, i would like to
define a '%M' (or some such) which would then dump the entire contents of the matrix...
thank you
kind regards
anupam
I'm learning perl and everytime I search for perl stuff in the internet I get some random page with people saying that perl should die because code written in it looks like a lesson in steganography. Then they say that python is clean and stuff like that. Now, I know that those comparisons are always stupid and made by fellows that feel that languages are a extension of their boring personality so, let me ask instead: can you give me the implementation of a widely known algorithm to deal with a data structure like red-black trees in both languages so I can compare?
How do I download a file with progress report using python but without supplying a filename.
I have tried urllib.urlretrieve but I seem to have to supply a filename for the download.
Hello:
I am having some trouble with a very basic string issue in Python (that I can't figure out). Basically, I am trying to do the following:
'# read file into a string
myString = file.read()
'# Attempt to remove non breaking spaces
myString = myString.replace("\u00A0"," ")
'# however, when I print my string to output to console, I get:
Foo **<C2><A0>** Bar
I thought that the "\u00A0" was the escape code for unicode non breaking spaces, but apparently I am not doing this properly. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
Hi, I'm new here and on python too, and i need a code to login an HTTPS webpage
the page is: ritaj.birzeit.edu
and how can i know if its correct username or password , can you help in this :)
I am writing a python script that needs to make a log entry whenever it's invoked. The log created by the script must not be changeable by the user (except root) who invoked the script. I tried the syslog module and while this does exactly what I want in terms of file permissions, I need to be able to put the resulting log file in an arbitrary location. How would I go about doing this?
Hello.
I need a recommendation for a pythonic library that can marshall python objects to XML(let it be a file).
I need to be able read that XML later on with Java (JAXB) and unmarshall it.
I know JAXB has some issues that makes it not play nice with .NET XML libraries so a recommendation on something that actually works would be great.