Whitespace is signification in Python in that code blocks are defined by their indentation. Furthermore, Guido van Rossum recommends using four spaces per indentation level (see PEP 8: Style Guide for Python Code). What was the reasoning behind not requiring exactly four spaces per indentation level as well? Are there any technical rea...
I want to change the app index page so I add help text to the models themselves, e.g. under each model I want to add help text. I know that I should override AdminSite.app_index. What is the best way to do this? ...
I'm writing a setup.py file for a Python project so that I can distribute it. The aim is to eventually create a .egg file, but I'm trying to get it to work first with distutils and a regular .zip. This is an eclipse pydev project and my file structure is something like this: ProjectName src somePackage module1.py ...
Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to write scripts in Python (or Perl or any other Linux friendly script language) that generate C++ code from XML or py files from the command line. I'd like to be able to write up some xml files and then run a shell command that reads these files and generates .h files with fully inlined ...
I'm writing a mapping class which persists to the disk. I am currently allowing only str keys but it would be nice if I could use a couple more types: hopefully up to anything that is hashable (ie. same requirements as the builtin dict), but more reasonable I would accept string, unicode, int, and tuples of these types. To that end I wo...
So I have a function which creates a dynamic model. I accomplish this in a way very similar to AuditTrail (see django wiki). Sample of code is here: https://gist.github.com/0212845ae00891efe555 Is there any way I can make a dynamically-generated class pickle-able? Ideally something thats not a crazy monkeypatch/hack? ...
I am using Python. What is the best way to open a file in rw if it exists, or if it does not, then create it and open it in rw? From what i read, file = open('myfile.dat', 'rw') should do this, no? it is not working for me (python 2.6.2) and im wondering if it is a version problem, or not supposed to work like that or what. The bottom...
I have created a virtualenv with the --no-site-packages option. I get an error trying to install PIL: http://pastebin.com/SVqxs1sC ... error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Command /home/dustin/.virtualenvs/django1.2/bin/python -c "import setuptools; __file__='/home/dustin/.vi...
In PHP, I had this line matches = preg_grep('/^for/', array_keys($hash)); What it would do is it would grab the words: fork, form etc. that are in $hash. In Python, I have a dict with 400,000 words. It's keys are words I'd like to present in an auto-complete like feature (the values in this case are meaningless). How would I be able to ...
I am using scipy-cluster to generate a hierarchical clustering on some data. As a final step of the application, I call the dendrogram function to plot the clustering. I am running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard using the built-in Python 2.6.1 and this matplotlib package. The program runs fine, but at the end the Rocket Ship icon (as I underst...
I can set up an autofilter using pyWin32, but I wondered if it's possible to set a default filter and what the syntax would be. For example, I'd like to set a filter on a year column and set the default for the current year. xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application") xl.Workbooks.Open(file_path) xl.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(sheetname).Range...
How can I minimize Microsoft Speech Recognition: using C# or python? ...
I'm interested in reproducing a particular python script. I have a friend who was accessing an ldap database, without authentication. There was a particular field of interest, we'll call it nin (an integer) for reference, and this field wasn't accessible without proper authentication. However, my friend managed to access this field thro...
I two programs running, one in Python and one in C++, and I need to share a two-dimensional array (just of decimal numbers) between them. I am currently looking into serialization, but pickle is python-specific, unfortunately. What is the best way to do this? Thanks Edit: It is likely that the array will only have 50 elements or so, bu...
The title says it all. The objective is to have two simple ways to source some code, say func.R, containing a function. Calling R CMD BATCH func.R initializes the function and evaluates is. Within a session, issuing source("func.R") simply initializes the function. Any idea? ...
I'm trying to access an object that is linked to by a db.ReferenceProperty in Google app engine. Here's the model's code: class InquiryQuestion(db.Model): inquiry_ref = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=GiftInquiry, required=True, collection_name="inquiry_ref") And I am trying to access it in the following way: linkedObject =...
So, I'm trying to get gtksourceview python bindings work under windows (I'm developing a cross platform gtk application that shows code, so gtksourceview seemed like a natural choice). I have pygtk installed and working (I followed the instructions in http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html) I tried the instructions in http://projects.gnom...
Embedding Python interpreter in a C/C++ application is well documented. What is the best approach to run multiple python interpreter on multiple operating system threads (i.e. one interpreter on one operating system thread within the same process) which are invoked from the C/C++ application? Such applications may also have problems rela...
hi i wonder if there is a php equivalent to jython so you can use java classes with php? thanks ...
Hi every one. I need help writing a basic IRC bot that just connects to a channel.. is anyone able to explain me this? I have managed to get it to connect to the IRC server but i am unable to join a channel and log on. The code i have thus far is: import sockethost = 'irc.freenode.org' port = 6667 join_sock = socket.socket() join_sock.c...