Unique user ID in a Pylons web application
What is the best way to create a unique user ID in Python, using UUID? ...
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Python - import error
I've done what I shouldn't have done and written 4 modules (6 hours or so) without running any tests along the way. I have a method inside of /mydir/__init__.py called get_hash(), and a class inside of /mydir/utils.py called SpamClass. /mydir/utils.py imports get_hash() from /mydir/__init__. /mydir/__init__.py imports SpamClass from ...
customizing Django look and feel in Python
I am learning Django and got it to work with wsgi. I'm following the tutorial here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/intro/tutorial01/ My question is: how can I customize the look and feel of Django? Is there a repository of templates that "look good", kind of like there are for Wordpress, that I can start from? I find the tuto...
I need to speed up a function. Should I use cython, ctypes, or something else?
I'm having a lot of fun learning Python by writing a genetic programming type of application. I've had some great advice from Torsten Marek, Paul Hankin and Alex Martelli on this site. The program has 4 main functions: generate (randomly) an expression tree. evaluate the fitness of the tree crossbreed mutate As all of generate, cr...
Emitting Cythonic warnings?
In Cython, the usual raise keyword emits C code that contains a reference to the line and name of the Cython source file, allowing a useful error message to be generated. However, I haven't seen anything for warnings. Simply calling warnings.warn leaves the interpreter confused as to where the warning came from. I could use PyErr_WarnEx...
Using urllib and BeautifulSoup to retrieve info from web with Python
I can get the html page using urllib, and use BeautifulSoup to parse the html page, and it looks like that I have to generate file to be read from BeautifulSoup. import urllib sock = urllib.urlopen("http://SOMEWHERE") htmlSource = sock.read() sock.close() ...
What are the most frustrating Python hacks to unwind, rewrite, etc.?
My impression of Python from the short time I've been developing with it is that it's incredible powerful and flexible, but I can't help but feel like "with great power comes great responsibility." So while I've read numerous blog posts about simple and elegant Python snippets that solve a problems, I wonder if there are design patterns...
HTTP Negotiate windows vs. Unix server implementation using python-kerberos
I tried to implement a simple single-sign-on in my python web server. I have used the python-kerberos package which works nicely. I have tested it from my Linux box (authenticating against active directory) and it was without problem. However, when I tried to authenticate using Firefox from Windows machine (no special setup, just having ...
Python List length as a string
Is there a preferred (not ugly) way of outputting a list length as a string? Currently I am nesting function calls like so: print "Length: %s" % str(len(self.listOfThings)) This seems like a hack solution, is there a more graceful way of achieving the same result? ...
python interactive web data/forms/interface communicating with remote server
What's an efficient method (preferably simple as well) for communicating with a remote server and allowing the user to 'interact' with it (IE submit commands, user interface) via the web browser (IE a text box to input commands, and an text area for output, or various command-less abstracted interfaces)? I have the 'standalone' python c...
urllib2 to string
I'm using urllib2 to open a url. Now I need the html file as a string. How do I do this? ...
Python Pre-testing for exceptions when coverage fails
I recently came across a simple but nasty bug. I had a list and I wanted to find the smallest member in it. I used Python's built-in min(). Everything worked great until in some strange scenario the list was empty (due to strange user input I could not have anticipated). My application crashed with a ValueError (BTW - not documented in t...
How can I tell what directory an imported library comes from in python?
I'm trying to modify a python library that I downloaded and am using. But the changes I'm making aren't doing anything. So I suspect that python is importing a different copy of this library from somewhere else on the filesystem. So... When I run import foolib in python, how can I tell where on the filesystem it's getting that librar...
Long running stats process - thoughts on language choice?
I am on a LAMP stack for a website I am managing. There is a need to roll up usage statistics (a variety of things related to our desktop product), and I initially tackled the problem with PHP (being that I had a bunch of classes to work with the data already). All worked well on my dev box which was using 5.3 Long story short, 5.1 memo...
What are 'len', 'dir', 'vars' named?
I was wondering what language to use when talking about a function that takes in a specific object, acts on it and returns something else. Clearly they're functions, but I was wondering if there's a more specific term. A couple examples of Python built-in functions that fit this spec are: 'len', 'dir', 'vars' I thought it was 'predicat...
Python frequency detection
Ok what im trying to do is a kind of audio processing software that can detect a prevalent frequency an if the frequency is played for long enough (few ms) i know i got a positive match. i know i would need to use FFT or something simiral but in this field of math i suck, i did search the internet but didn not find a code that could do o...
Connecting to Python XML RPC from the Mac
Hi, I wrote an XML RPC server in python and a simple Test Client for it in python. The Server runs on a linux box. I tested it by running the python client on the same linux machine and it works. I then tried to run the python client on a Mac and i get the following error socket.error: (61, 'Connection Refused') I can ping and ssh i...
Python unit test. How to add some sleeping time between test cases?
I am using python unit test module. I am wondering is there anyway to add some delay between every 2 test cases? Because my unit test is just making http request and I guess the server may block the frequent request from the same ip. ...
rpcbind authorization problems
Hy, I am using rpcbind (SunRPC) on Arch linux and python rpc.py (wich use standard python socket module) interface for comunication with it, but every time I try to send request for registration or unregistration to rpcbind I get message that I am rejected for security reasons. Only situation when everything works is that when I call rp...
html/javascript automaticly getting link from submit button (maybe automating with python?)
I have a website where I have to click a submit button on a form. This gives me a link. I know the link is made up with the paramter that is passed through a hidden value. I was wondering if I could make a python script or something else that would go to the website and click some buttons returning the link that the submit button generat...