How do I get minidom to ignore namespaces?
I am using minidom in Python and I'd like getElementsByTagName() to match elements purely by tag-name and ignore any namespaces. The documents are being parsed by minidom.parseString(). Is it possible? ...
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Django foreign key question
All, i have the following model defined, class header(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length = 255) created_by = models.CharField(max_length = 255) def __unicode__(self): return self.id() class criteria(models.Model): details = models.CharField(max_length = 255) headerid = models.Forei...
What is the difference between .get() and .fetch(1)
I have written an app and part of it is uses a URL parser to get certain data in a ReST type manner. So if you put /foo/bar as the path it will find all the bar items and if you put /foo it will return all items below foo So my app has a query like data = Paths.all().filter('path =', self.request.path).get() Which works brilliantly. ...
want to add url links to .csv datafeed using python
Hi all ive looked through the current related questions but have not managed to find anything similar to my needs. Im in the process of creating a affiliate store using zencart - now one of the issues is that zencart is not designed for redirects and affiliate stores but it can be done. I will be changing the store so it acts like a...
importing files in python
I have that file structure- Blog\DataObjects\User.py Blog\index.py I want to import the function(say_hello) at User.py from index.py. I am trying this code - from Blog.DataObjects.User import say_hello say_hello() And I have that error - Traceback (most recent call last): File "index.py", line 1, in <module> from Blog.Da...
How can I detect if the caller passed any variables to my function in Python?
I guess the subject sounds pretty stupid, so I'll show some code: def foo(**kwargs): # How can you detect the difference between (**{}) and ()? pass foo(**{}) foo() Is there any way to detect inside of foo, how the method was called? Update 1 Because there were some comments why you possible want to do something, I'll try to...
Can Django be used for non web apps?
I noticed in the main Django introductin they show a feature that maps python objects to the database. This doesn't strike me as being mutually exclusive with with development, is there any reason why this can't be used for non web apps? Is it easy to separate out? ...
Python idiom for '... if ... else ...' expression
Hello! How to write the exprission shorter: return '%.0f' % float_var if float_var else float_var or if float_var: return formatted_string else: return None Thanks! ...
Refresh decorator
I'm trying to write a decorator that 'refreshes' after being called, but where the refreshing only occurs once after the last function exits. Here is an example: @auto_refresh def a(): print "In a" @auto_refresh def b(): print "In b" a() If a() is called, I want the refresh function to be run after exiting a(). If b() is ...
google app engine - auto increment
Hi, I am new to Google App Engine, I have this entites User class - user_id - integer user_name - string password - string I want to do auto increment for the user_id,How I can do this? ...
Faster or more memory-efficient solution in Python for this Codejam problem.
I tried my hand at this Google Codejam Africa problem (the contest is already finished, I just did it to improve my programming skills). The Problem: You are hosting a party with G guests and notice that there is an odd number of guests! When planning the party you deliberately invited only couples and gave each couple a...
Get parent function
Is there a way to find what function called the current function? So for example: def first(): second() def second(): # print out here what function called this one Any ideas? ...
Python beautifulsoup trying to remove html tags 'span'
I am trying to remove [<span class="street-address"> 510 E Airline Way </span>] and I have used this clean function to remove the one that is in between < > def clean(val): if type(val) is not StringType: val = str(val) val = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '',val) val = re.sub("\s+" , " ", val) return val.strip() and ...
Django Foreign key queries
In the following model: class header(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length = 255) created_by = models.CharField(max_length = 255) def __unicode__(self): return self.id() class criteria(models.Model): details = models.CharField(max_length = 255) headerid = models.ForeignKey(header) def __unic...
Why eclipse + pydev print() output look strange with two strings?
hay all, I just did the following: a = input("give a word: ") b = input("give another word: ") c = a + " " + b print("result is", c) and get the output as follows: give a word: name give another word: word result is name word my question is why the output on pydev or eclipse console in two lines? i expected to output as follows: ...
Help getting frame rate (fps) up in Python + Pygame
I am working on a little card-swapping world-travel game that I sort of envision as a cross between Bejeweled and the 10 Days geography board games. So far the coding has been going okay, but the frame rate is pretty bad... currently I'm getting low 20's on my Core 2 Duo. This is a problem since I'm creating the game for Intel's March de...
Python unit-testing with nose: Making sequential tests
I am just learning how to do unit-testing. I'm on Python / nose / Wing IDE. (The project that I'm writing tests for is a simulations framework, and among other things it lets you run simulations both synchronously and asynchronously, and the results of the simulation should be the same in both.) The thing is, I want some of my tests to...
python MySQLdb got invalid syntax when trying to INSERT INTO table
COMMENT OUT below just for reference "" cursor.execute (""" CREATE TABLE yellowpages ( business_id BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, categories_name VARCHAR(255), business_name VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, business_address1 VARCHAR(500), business_city VARCHAR(255), business_state...
Python regex group clarification
I have 0 experience with python, very little with regex and I'm trying to figure out what this small snippet of python regex would give back from a http response header Set-Cookie entry: REGEX_COOKIE = '([A-Z]+=[^;]+;)' resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) re.search(REGEX_COOKIE, resp.info()['Set-Cookie']).group(1) Can one give a simple exampl...
Python: How to transfer varrying length arrays over a network connection
Hi, I need to transfer an array of varying length in which each element is a tuple of two integers. As an example: path = [(1,1),(1,2)] path = [(1,1),(1,2),(2,2)] I am trying to use pack and unpack, however, since the array is of varying length I don't know how to create a format such that both know the format. I was trying to turn...