I must have skipped a page or two by accident during my PDF Tutorials on Python commands and arguments, because I somehow cannot find a way to take user input and shove it into a file. Don't tell me to try and find solutions online, because I did. None made sense to me. EDIT: I am using Python 3.1.2, sorry for forgetting ...
I have to read a file from a particular line number and i know the line number say "n": i have been thinking of two choice: 1)for i in range(n) fname.readline() k=readline() print k 2)i=0 for line in fname: dictionary[i]=line i=i+1 but i want to know faster alternative as i might have to perform this on different f...
One of the ideas of Python's design philosophy is "There should be one ... obvious way to do it." (PEP 20), but that can't always be true. I'm specifically referring to (simple) if statements versus boolean evaluation. Consider the following: if words: self.words = words else: self.words = {} versus self.words = words or {} ...
I am using Google Calendar as a storage engine for a calendar system I am building, however, I am using a single Google user account with multiple calendars, i.e. each user on my system has their own calendar within the one user account. I'm able to create a calendar per user just fine, but I would like to have FullCalendar retrieve the...
cost=0 for i in range(12): cost=cost+math.pow(float(float(q[i])-float(w[i])),2) cost=(math.sqrt(cost)) Any faster alternative to this? i am need to improve my entire code so trying to improve each statements performance. thanking u ...
I'm trying to parse UTF-8 XML file and save some parts of it to another file. Problem is, that this is my first Python script ever and I'm totally confused about the character encoding problems I'm finding. My script fails immediately when it tries to write non-ascii character to a file, but it can print it to command prompt (at least i...
I just took my first baby step today into real scientific computing today when I was shown a data set where the smallest file is 48000 fields by 1600 rows (haplotypes for several people, for chromosome 22). And this is considered tiny. I write Python, so I've spent the last few hours reading about HDF5, and Numpy, and PyTable, but I sti...
Hi, I have a little problem. I need to do some little operations on quite many files in one little program. So far I have decided to operate them in a single loop where I just change the number after the name. The files are all named TFxx.txt where xx is increasing number from 1 to 80. So how can I open them all in a single loop one aft...
İ ned to write a code sniplet that enables to disable connection to some parts of a site. Admin and the mainpage will be displayable, but user section (which uses ajax) will be displayed, but can not be used (vith a transparent div set over the page). Also there is a few pages which will be disabled. my logic is that, i write a middlewa...
I have a text file containing data in rows and columns (~17000 rows in total). Each column is a uniform number of characters long, with the 'unused' characters filled in by spaces. For example, the first column is 11 characters long, but the last four characters in that column are always spaces (so that it appears to be a nice column w...
Recently I've gone through an existing code base and refactored a lot of instance attributes to be lazy, ie. not be initialised in the constructor but only upon first read. These attributes do not change over the lifetime of the instance, but they're a real bottleneck to calculate that first time and only really accessed for special case...
So I'm working on pypreprocessor which is a preprocessor that takes c-style directives and I've been able to make it work like a traditional preprocessor (it's self-consuming and executes postprocessed code on-the-fly) except that it breaks library imports. The problem is. The preprocessor runs through the file, processes' it, outputs t...
Hi. I'm new to python and django. Apps | Versions: Python 2.6.2 Django (working with PostgreSQL) Question: I wrote a simple model: class OperationType(models.Model): eid = models.IntegerField() name = models.TextField(blank=True) description = models.TextField(blank=True) def __unicode__(s...
I came across the Python with statement for the first time today. I've been using Python lightly for several months and didn't even know of its existence! Given its somewhat obscure status, I thought it would be worth asking: What is the Python with statement designed to be used for? What do you use it for? Are their any gotchas ...
I had to do heavy I/o bound operation, i.e Parsing large files and converting from one format to other format. Initially I used to do it serially, i.e parsing one after another..! Performance was very poor ( it used take 90+ seconds). So I decided to use threading to improve the performance. I created one thread for each file. ( 4 threa...
i want to make a chat room on gae ,(audio chat) has any framework to do this ? thanks ...
I have a Python list with a number of entries, which I need to downsample using either: A maximum number of rows. For example, limiting a list of 1234 entries to 1000. A proportion of the original rows. For example, making the list 1/3 its original length. (I need to be able to do both ways, but only one is used at a time). I believ...
I have some surface data that is generated by an external program as XYZ values. I want to create the following graphs, using matplotlib: Surface plot Contour plot Contour plot overlayed with a surface plot I have looked at several examples for plotting surfaces and contours in matplotlib - however, the Z values seems to be a functio...
My text editor allows me to code in several different character formats Ansi, UTF-8, UTF-8(No BOM), UTF-16LE, and UTF-16BE. What is the difference between them? What is commonly regarded as the best format (I'm using Python if that makes a diffrence)? ...
How does Django's event routing system work? ...