I am trying the following code with a particular HTML file from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import re import codecs import sys f = open('test1.html') html = f.read() soup = BeautifulSoup(html) body = soup.body.contents para = soup.findAll('p') print str(para).encode('utf-8') I get the following error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'asci...
I'd like to take user input (sometimes this will be large paragraphs) and generate a LaTeX document. I'm considering a couple of simple regular expressions that replaces all instances of "\" with "\textbackslash " and all instances of "{" or "}" with "\}" or "\{". I doubt this is sufficient. What else do I need to do? Note: In case t...
How would I go about adding a script written in python to a c++ project? Thanks Edit: Basically all the script does is email some data. I would like to pass the data and maybe the email address to a function written in python. Hope that clears things up.. ...
Hi, We have a project that uses HP Quality Center and one of the regular issues we face is people not updating comments on the defect. So I was thinkingif we could come up with a small script or tool that could be used to periodically throw up a reminder and force the user to update the comments. I came across the Open Test Architectu...
Having a snippet like this: import yaml class User(object): def __init__(self, name, surname): self.name= name self.surname= surname user = User('spam', 'eggs') serialized_user = yaml.dump(user) #Network deserialized_user = yaml.load(serialized_user) print "name: %s, sname: %s" % (deserialized_user.name, deserialized...
Without installing third party libraries, what kind of client\server protocols python supports out of the box ? ...
I have a python package with some C code needed to build an extension (with some non-trivial building needs). I have used SCons as my build system because it's really good and flexible. I'm looking for a way to compile my python extensions with SCons ready to be distributed with distutils. I want that the user simply types setup.py inst...
Hi, I am learning python for a while, now I like to learn python for web, using python as a back-end of website. where and how do I start learning this: Example usages are : connecting database and retrieve and store information from forms ...
I'm trying to split a string into a int list for further processing. But somehow I can't remove certain whitespaces in between elements of the list. The string x is supposed to have a length of 1000 instead of 1019. I tried reading the documentation for python and saw the function strip() for stripping whitespaces from strings. However, ...
Hey Stackers! :) My Django project's directory hierarchy looks like this: + pybsd |---+ devices |---+ templates |---+ views |---+ interaction |---- __init__.py |---- geraete.py |---- geraetemodelle.py |---- geraetegruppen.py |---- __init__.py |---- ajax.py ...
I have a directory /tmp/dir with two types of file names /tmp/dir/abc-something-server.log /tmp/dir/xyz-something-server.log .. .. and /tmp/dir/something-client.log I need append a few lines (these lines are constant) to files end with "client.log" line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 append thes...
Hi, I'm wondering what is the best time to register a font for use in reportlab. I added the following line into my settings.py: pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Calibri', FONT_DIR + '/fonts/Calibri.ttf')) After this call the font is available for pdf generation. But it occurs that after a few days the font is not available anymore an...
Hi, How do I make syncdb execute SQL queries (for table creation) defined by me, rather then generating tables automatically. I'm looking for this solution as some particular models in my app represent SQL-table-views for a legacy-database table. So, I've created their SQL-views in my django-DB like this: CREATE VIEW legacy_series AS S...
I am looking for a good example of how to achieve the following: I would like to use get_or_create to check whether an object already exists in my database. If it does not, then it will be created. If it does exist, then I will not create the new object, but need to raise a form error to inform the user that they need to enter different...
As I just found out import package does not make the package's modules available through package.module. The same obviously holds true for from package import subpackage as well as from package import * What's the purpose of importing a package at all then if I can't access its submodules but only the objects defined in __init__.py? It...
If there exists an old data of a model say , query=Emp.objects.filter(pk=profile.id) Is there a easier way to copy the same values into the same model again.. Now that the id will be different so.. I have this requirement. Thanks.. ...
Hi I'm building a graph with many nodes, around 3000. I wrote a simple python program to do the trick with graphviz, but it gives me segmentation fault and I don't know why, if the graph is too big or if i'm missing something. The code is: #!/usr/bin/env python # Import graphviz import sys sys.path.append('..') sys.path.append('/us...
Hi folks, is there a difference between using FAPWS3 and MOD_WSGI when dealing with Django? FAPWS3 seems alot faster when serving requests toward Python scripts. I would like to know if I'm missing out anything. :) Any ideas? ...
Possible Duplicate: Remove items from a list while iterating in Python My problem is simple: I have a long list of elements that I want to iterate through and check every element against a condition. Depending on the outcome of the condition I would like to delete the current element of the list, and continue iterating over it...
In *nix systems one can use which to find out the full path to a command. For example: $ which python /usr/bin/python or whereis to show all possible locations for a given command $ whereis python python: /bin/python.exe /bin/python2.5-config /usr/bin/python.exe /usr/bin/python2.5-config /lib/python2.4 /lib/python2.5 /usr/lib/python...