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Itertools group by functionality

I want to group by on dict key >>> x [{'a': 10, 'b': 90}, {'a': 20}, {'a': 30}, {'a': 10}] >>> [(name, list(group)) for name, group in groupby(x, lambda p:p['a'])] [(10, [{'a': 10, 'b': 90}]), (20, [{'a': 20}]), (30, [{'a': 30}]), (10, [{'a': 10}])] This must group on key 10 :( ...

mod_wsgi daemon mode vs threaded fastcgi

Can someone explain the difference between apache mod_wsgi in daemon mode and django fastcgi in threaded mode. They both use threads for concurrency I think. Supposing that I'm using nginx as front end to apache mod_wsgi. UPDATE: I'm comparing django built in fastcgi(./manage.py method=threaded maxchildren=15) and mod_wsgi in 'daemon' ...

Search a variable for an address

Hello, I am trying to match information stored in a variable. I have a list of uuid's and ip addresses beside them. The code I have is: r = re.compile(r'urn:uuid:5EEF382F-JSQ9-3c45-D5E0-K15X8M8K76') m = r.match(str(serv)) if m1: print'Found' The string serv contains is: urn:uuid:7FDS890A-KD9E-3h53-G7E8-BHJSD6789D:[u'http://10.1...

Comparing a time delta in python

I have a variable which is <type 'datetime.timedelta'> and I would like to compare it against certain values. Lets say d produces this datetime.timedelta value 0:00:01.782000 I would like to compare it like this: #if d is greater than 1 minute if d>1:00: print "elapsed time is greater than 1 minute" I have tried converting datet...

call a server side python script from javascript

how to call a server side python script from javascript. if test.py is the python script file in server, and if the parameter to be passed to python is another url , then how this can be executed from javascript, how the return string from python script is obtained to the javascript. ...

PyPy -- How can it possibly beat CPython?

From the Google Open Source Blog: PyPy is a reimplementation of Python in Python, using advanced techniques to try to attain better performance than CPython. Many years of hard work have finally paid off. Our speed results often beat CPython, ranging from being slightly slower, to speedups of up to 2x on real applicat...

Python: Converting a tuple to a string

Given this : import os import subprocess def check_server(): cl = subprocess.Popen(["nmap","10.7.1.71"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) result = cl.communicate() print result check_server() check_server() returns this tuple: ('\nStarting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2010-04-07 07:26 EDT\nInteresting ports on 10.7.1....

Django User M2M relationship

When trying to syncdb with the following models: class Contact(models.Model): user_from = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name='from_user') user_to = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='to_user') class Meta: unique_together = (('user_from', 'user_to'),) User.add_to_class('following', models.ManyToManyField('self',...

How to use ';' in urls, using Google Appengine

Using the local dev server, I can use ';' in urls, but as soon as I try the live version hosted by Google, it looks like the ';' and everything afterward is stripped (at least according to request.path_qs). (I would prefer not to encode them if possible, it's much less user friendly if the url cannot be constructed by copy-pasting, espe...

Rewriting a for loop in pure NumPy to decrease execution time

I recently asked about trying to optimise a Python loop for a scientific application, and received an excellent, smart way of recoding it within NumPy which reduced execution time by a factor of around 100 for me! However, calculation of the B value is actually nested within a few other loops, because it is evaluated at a regular grid o...

What does a b prefix before a python string means ?

In a python source code I stumbled upon I've seen a small b before a string like in: b"abcdef" I know of u prefix that means unicode and r prefix that means raw. What does the b stand for and in which kind of source code is it useful as it seems to be exactly like a plain string without any prefix ? ...

How can I skip the current item and the next in a Python loop?

This might be a really dumb question, however I've looked around online, etc. And have not seen a solid answer. Is there a simple way to do something like this? lines = open('something.txt', 'r').readlines() for line in lines: if line == '!': # force iteration forward twice line.next().next() <etc> It's easy t...

How to know if optparse option was passed in the command line or as a default

Hi Using python optparse.py, is there a way to work out whether a specific option value was set from the command line or from the default value. Ideally I would like to have a dict just like defaults, but containing the options actually supplied from command line I know that you could compare the value for each option with defaults...

Process a set of files from a source directory to a destination directory in Python

Being completely new in python I'm trying to run a command over a set of files in python. The command requires both source and destination file (I'm actually using imagemagick convert as in the example below). I can supply both source and destination directories, however I can't figure out how to easily retain the directory structure fr...

How should I write this string-prefix check so that it's idiomatic Python?

I have a couple of lists of items: specials = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', ...] smoothies = ['banana-apple', 'mocha mango', ...] I want to make a new list, special_smoothies, consisting of elements in smoothies that start with the elements in specials. However, if specials is blank, special_smoothies should be identical to smoothies...

Running Java, Python, Ruby and Perl programs in .NET

I've .NET framework 3.5 installed in my laptop. Just .NET alone, no Visual Studio. How can I run Java, Python, Ruby and Perl programs from the console? Do I need to install something else also, for running these language files? In case there is a need for something extra to be installed and after i have all of them, what are the comma...

Is there a way to backup everything in an app-engine blobstore?

bulkloader.py is very handy. But as far as I can tell it doesn't appear to fetch items from the blobstore, so you can be left with broken entity relationships if you needed to dump/restore your application. Does anyone know a method for completely backing up their data from app-engine including blobstore data? ...

Running python batch file that has a path with SPACE character

The batch file is something like this, I put the python in some directory that has SPACE character in its path. C:\"Documents and Settings"\Administrator\Desktop\bracket\python\python C:\\"Documents and Settings"\\Administrator\\Desktop\\bracket\\[10,20]\\brackettest.py When I run this one, I get this error. C:\Documents and Set...

How to write a shell in Python

I've written a small console application that can perform certain tasks. The user interface is similar to things like version control systems or yum etc. So basically you can think of it as a domain specific language. Now I'd like to write a (bash like) shell that can execute and auto-complete this language and has a command history (so ...

Pylons paginator question

Only comments associated with the current page should be listed, so once again the query is modified to include the page ID. In this case, though, we also have to pass the pageid argument, which will in turn get passed to any h.url_for() calls in the paginator. from http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.1/simplesite-tutorial-part-2.html i can...