I know this sounds kind of vague, but please let me explain- I'm starting work on a brand new project, it will have two main components: "ACME PRODUCT" (think Gmail, Meebo, etc), and "THE SITE" (help, information, marketing stuff, promotional landing pages, etc lots of marketing-induced cruft). So basically the url /acme/* will load st...
Updated to remove extraneous text and ambiguity. The Rules: An employee accrues 8 hours of Paid Time Off on the day after each quarter. Quarters, specifically being: Jan 1 - Mar 31 Apr 1 - Jun 30 Jul 1 - Sep 30 Oct 1 - Dec 31 The Problem Using python, I need to define the guts of the following function: def acrued_hours_betw...
I need "get_ancestors_recursively" function. A sample run can be >>> dump(tr) <anc1> <anc2> <element> </element> </anc2> </anc1> >>> input_element = tr.getiterator("element")[0] >>> get_ancestors_recursively(input_element) ['anc1', 'anc2'] Can somebody help me with this ? ...
I've previously asked a question regarding passing files to the browser so a user receives a download prompt. However these files were really just strings creatd at the end of a function and it was simple to pass them to an iframe's src attribute for the desired effect. Now I have a more ambitious requirement, I need to pass pre existi...
I am trying to generate a log file with information in order. This is what I have: class ExecThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, command): self.command = command self._lock = threading.Lock() threading.Thread.__init__ ( self ) def run ( self ): self._lock.acquire() sys.stdout.write(''.join(["Executing: ",self.comma...
I'm trying to write a small graphic application, and I need to construct some image using PIL that I show in a widget. The image is correctly constructed (I can check with im.show()), I can convert it to a QImage, that I can save normally to disk (using QImage.save), but if I try to draw it directly on my QWidget, it only show a white sq...
I am running django 1.1.1 on python2.6.1, and did start the django web server like this manage.py runserver 192.0.0.1:8000 then tried to connect to the django dev web server on http://192.0.0.1:8000/ keep getting this message on the remote computer Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django...
Is there any short way to achieve what APT does in Python ? I mean, when the package manager prompts a yes/no question followed by "[Yes/no]". The scripts accepts YES/Y/yes/y or "enter" (defaults to Yes as hinted by the capital) The only thing I find in the official doc is input/raw_input.. I know it's not that hard to emulate, but i...
I'm writing a script to parse some text files, and insert the data that they contain into a mysql database. I don't have root access on the server that this script will run on. I've been looking at mysql-python, but it requires a bunch of dependencies that I don't have available. Is there a simpler way to do this? ...
Is there a neat way to make the record/object count for a model appear on the main model list in the django admin module? I have found techniques for showing counts of related objects within sets in the list_display page (and I can see the total in the pagination section at the bottom of the same), but haven't come across a neat way to ...
There are many inbulit functions like int(octal) which can be used to convert octal numbers into decimal numbers on command line but these doesn't work out in script . int(0671) returns 0671 in script, where as it represent decimal form of octal number on python command line. Help??? Thank You ...
Hey, I want to make a global hotkey, with alt+1, 2, ..., that paste some string in the clipboard. How can I do that? ...
I have a CGI script that is getting an "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied" error in the stack trace in the web server's error log. As part of debugging this problem, I'd like to add a little bit of code to the script to print the user and (especially) group that the script is running as, into the error log (presumably STDERR). I kn...
updated 2010-06-15T09:45:00Z: added an example for the "classes as instances" approach, and an explanation of the "instances as classes" approach; incorporated and referenced Alex Martelli's answer; I'm wondering how to implement prototypal inheritance in Python. There would seem to be two different approaches to this problem: class...
I have a method that will either return an object or None if the lookup fails. Which style of the following is better? def get_foo(needle): haystack = object_dict() if needle not in haystack: return None return haystack[needle] or, def get_foo(needle): haystack = object_dict() try: return haystack[needle] ...
So I'm trying to make a Python script that downloads webcomics and puts them in a folder on my desktop. I've found a few similar programs on here that do something similar, but nothing quite like what I need. The one that I found most similar is right here (http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/850927-problem-using-urllib-download-imag...
I have the following script which identifies lines in a file which I want to remove, based on an array but does not remove them. What should I change? sourcefile = "C:\\Python25\\PC_New.txt" filename2 = "C:\\Python25\\PC_reduced.txt" offending = ["Exception","Integer","RuntimeException"] def fixup( filename ): print "fixup ", f...
Hi, I need to compare two files and redirect the different lines to third file. I know using diff command i can get the difference . But, is there any way of doing it in python ? Any sample code will be helpful ...
I am a web developer and usually use php/JS/mysql. I have heard lot about python. I have no idea where is python used and why it is used. Just like php/asp/cold fusion/.net/ are used to build websites C, C++ , Java are used to build software or desktop apps Where does python stands from those langages WHich is the thing whic c...
Hi, I have a very simple python routine that involves cycling through a list of roughly 20,000 latitude,longitude coordinates and calculating the distance of each point to a reference point. def compute_nearest_points( lat, lon, nPoints=5 ): """Find the nearest N points, given the input coordinates.""" points = session.query...