I need to develop a multiplatform software that takes screenshots from opengl games without affecting the game in performance, it will run in the background and will add a watermark to my screenshots. What language should i use? I thought of Perl / Python. Anyone can point me out something to start? Thanks! ...
Assuming that I have the following directory structure for a Python project: config/ scripts/ src/ where should a fabric deployment script should go? I assume that it should be in scripts, obviously, but for me it seems more appropriate to store in scripts, the actual code that fires up the project. ...
I am running through a tutorial online at http://www.sthurlow.com/python/lesson08/ and I believe I understand how classes work in python, at least to some degree but when I run this code: class Shape: def __init__(self,x,y): self.x = x self.y = y description = "This shape has not been described yet" author = ...
Is there a way to retreive the path of the executable that is running the current python script (from within the python script)? ...
Hi! I have a C++ application that loads externals plugins thanks to QPluginloader. QPluginLoader provides access to a Qt plugin. A Qt plugin is stored in a shared library (a DLL). The plugins have to inherit from a pure virtual class ( and Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE ) and QObject. I would like to create plugins by using python and PyQt. Is t...
Hi all, I'm having a problem with processing a largeish file in Python. All I'm doing is f = gzip.open(pathToLog, 'r') for line in f: counter = counter + 1 if (counter % 1000000 == 0): print counter f.close This takes around 10m25s just to open the file, read the lines and increment this counter. In...
Hey guys. I'm building a website where I hook people up so that they can anonymously vent to strangers. You either choose to be a listener, or a talker, and then you get catapulted into a one-on-one chat room. The reason for the app's construction is because you often can't vent to friends, because your deepest vulnerabilities can oft...
I am using the gdata module in python, when using this query I get an 'Illegal combination of dimensions and metrics' error. I have looked at documentation but not found the reason. data_query = gdata.analytics.client.DataFeedQuery({ 'ids': tid, 'start-date': '2010-04-20', 'end-date': '2010-04-21', 'dimen...
Hi folks, I'm having quite a problem deciding how to serve a few Python scripts. The problem is that the basic functionality could be generalized by this: do_something() time.sleep(3) do_something() I tried various WSGI servers, but they have all been giving me concurrency limitations, as in I have to specify how many threads to u...
I have a folder with subfolders that are all in the pattern YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (timestamp). I want to use glob to only select the folders that match that pattern. ...
There are times that I automagically create small shell scripts from Python, and I want to make sure that the filename arguments do not contain non-escaped special characters. I've rolled my own solution, that I will provide as an answer, but I am almost certain I've seen such a function lost somewhere in the standard library. By “lost” ...
Is there any python library that can keep a client-side SQLite database in sync with a server-side PostgreSQL database? There are solutions for Java, such as Daffodil or SymmetricDS. Is there something similar for python? ...
I know this is simple but I can't get it working! I have no probs with insert,update or select commands, Lets say I have a dictionary and I want to populate a table with the column names in the dictionary what is wrong with my one line where I add a column? ##create con = sqlite3.connect('linksauthor.db') c = con.cursor() c.execute('''...
I have two arrays and I take their logs. When I do that and try to plot their scatter plot, I get this error: File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-1.0.svn_r7892-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 2192, in scatter ret = ax.scatter(x, y, s, c, marker, cmap, norm, vmin, vmax, alpha, linewidths, ...
My question is nearly identical to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227037/substitutions-inside-links-in-rest-sphinx except that I want to have text substitution within the role text. That is, I want to be able to say something like :apilink:`/search?api_key=\ |demo_api_key|\ &query=monkeys` Is there a way to do this? ...
I want to write a C++ application with Qt, but build a prototype first using Python and then gradually replace the Python code with C++. Is this the right approach, and what tools (bindings, binding generators, IDE) should I use? Ideally, everything should be available in the Ubuntu repositories so I wouldn't have to worry about incompa...
How might one extract all images from a pdf document, at native resolution and format? (Meaning extract tiff as tiff, jpeg as jpeg, etc. and without resampling). Layout is unimportant, I don't care were the source image is located on the page. I'm using python 2.6 but can use 3.x if required. thanks Summarized Responses There is a JP...
I'd like to write a python function that has a dynamically created docstring. In essence for a function func() I want func.__doc__ to be a descriptor that calls a custom __get__ function create the docstring on request. Then help(func) should return the dynamically generated docstring. The context here is to write a python package wra...
Hi, I'm on Mac OS X 10.6. Python is 2.6.1. I've installed bencode module as sudo easy_install BitTorrent-bencode It appeared in site-packages /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/BitTorrent_bencode-5.0.8-py2.6.egg But, how to import and use this module? >>> import bencode doesn't work... Traceback (most recent call last): ...
how do i import classes from a pylons project for maintenance scripts? ...