In Python, how would one find all integer points common to two circles? For example, imagine a Venn diagram-like intersection of two (equally sized) circles, with center-points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) and radii r1=r2. Additionally, we already know the two points of intersection of the circles are (xi1,yi1) and (xi2,yi2). How would one gene...
What if I only need to download the page if it has not changed since the last download? What is the best way? can I get the size of the page first, then compare the decide if it has changed, if so, I ask for download else skip? I plan to use (python) mechanize. ...
I have a set of folders, and I want to be able to run a function that will find the most recently edited file and tell me the name of the file and the folder it is in. Folder layout: root Folder A File A File B Folder B File C File D etc... Any tips to get me started as i've hit a bit of a wall...
I am asking this because I use Python, but it could apply to other interpreted languages as well (ruby, php, javascript). Whenever I leave a comment in my code, is it slowing down the interpreter? My limited understanding of an interpreter is that it reads program expressions in as strings and converts those strings into code. It seems ...
I've been working on a basic testing framework for an automated build. The piece of code below represents a simple test of communication between two machines using different programs. Before I actually do any tests, I want to completely define them - so this test below is not actually run until after all the tests have been declared. ...
Given the thread here It seems that numpy is not the most ideal for ultra fast calculation. Does anyone know what overhead we must be aware of when using numpy for numerical calculation? ...
Before I start I should add I am a musician and not a native programmer, this was undertook to make my life easier. Here is the situation, at work I'm given a new csv file each which contains a list of sound files, their length, and the minimum total amount of time they must be played. I create a playlist of exactly 60 minutes, from th...
I wanted to learn how to create python packages, so I visited http://docs.python.org/distutils/index.html. For this exercise I'm using Python 2.6.2 on Windows XP. I followed along with the simple example and created a small test project: person/ setup.py person/ __init__.py person.py My person.py file is simp...
I'm making a Python package that gets installed with a setup.py file using setuptools. The package includes a GUI, and when it's installed on a Windows machine, I want the installation to make a folder in "Programs" in the start menu, and make a shortcut there to a pyw script that will start the GUI. (The pyw think works on all platform...
I'm learning javascript. Poked around this excellent site to gather intel. Keep coming across questions / answers about javascript, JQUERY, JQUERY with AJAX, javascript with JQUERY, AJAX alone. My conclusion: these are all individually powerful and useful. My confusion: how does one determine which/which combination to use ? I've co...
I have a web application in python wherein the user submits their email and password. These values are compared to values stored in a mysql database. If successful, the script generates a session id, stores it next to the email in the database and sets a cookie with the session id, with allows the user to interact with other parts of the...
I'm having an issue running unit tests for authorization in a Pylons app. It appears as though certain cookies set in the test case may not be correctly written or parsed. Cookies work fine when hitting the app with a browser. Here is my test case inside a paste-generated TestController: def test_good_login(self): r = self.app.post...
I was amazed at Python's timeit module and wondered if there's an equivalent in Java's standard library. If not, is there a 3rd party module? ...
I want to subclass a numeric type (say, int) in python and give it a shiny complex constructor. Something like this: class NamedInteger(int): def __init__(self, value): super(NamedInteger, self).__init__(value) self.name = 'pony' def __str__(self): return self.name x = NamedInteger(5) print x + 3 print ...
I have a list of strangely encoded files: 02 - Charlie, Woody and You／Study #22.mp3 which I suppose isn't so bad but there are a few particular characters which Django OR nginx seem to be snagging on. >>> test = u'02 - Charlie, Woody and You／Study #22.mp3' >>> test u'02 - Charlie, Woody and You\uff0fStudy #22.mp3' I am using nginx as ...
I have a partially converted XML document in soup coming from HTML. After some replacement and editing in the soup, the body is essentially - <Text...></Text> # This replaces <a href..> tags but automatically creates the </Text> <p class=norm ...</p> <p class=norm ...</p> <Text...></Text> <p class=norm ...</p> and so forth. I nee...
I have written up a python script that allows a user to input a message, his email and the time and they would like the email sent. This is all stored in a mysql database. However, how do I get the script to execute on the said time and date? will it require a cron job? I mean say at 2:15 on april 20th, the script will search the datab...
On my machine, the execution speed between d.clear() and d={} is over 100ns so am curious why one would use one over the other. import timeit def timing(): d = dict() if __name__=='__main__': t = timeit.Timer('timing()', 'from __main__ import timing') print t.repeat() ...
I found this python plugin list but thought I'd ask if anyone has any experience with anything listed there? I'm totally new to both python and dynamic programming languages if that makes any difference. ...
I have a little command line tool that reads from stdin. On the command line I would run either... ./foo < bar or ... cat bar | ./foo With a gziped file I can run zcat bar.gz | ./foo in Python I can do ... Popen(["./foo", ], stdin=open('bar'), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) but I can't do import gzip Popen(["./foo", ], stdin=gzip...