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Python - output from functions?

Hi I have a very rudimentary question. Assume I call a function, e.g., def foo(): x = 'hello world' How do I get the function to return x in such a way that I can use it as the input for another function or use the variable within the body of a program? When I use return and call the variable within another functions I get a Na...

AppEngine: Can I write a Dynamic property (db.Expando) with a name chosen at runtime?

If I have an entity derived from db.Expando I can write Dynamic property by just assigning a value to a new property, e.g. "y" in this example: class MyEntity(db.Expando): x = db.IntegerProperty() my_entity = MyEntity(x=1) my_entity.y = 2 But suppose I have the name of the dynamic property in a variable... how can I (1) rea...

how to convert a binary data into interger?

when I am using the wave_read.readframes() I am getting the result in binary data such as /x00/x00/x00:/x16#/x05" etc a very long string when asked for single frame it gives @/x00 or \xe3\xff or so I want this individual frame data in integer how can I convert them into integer to store them into array. ...

Django models avoid duplicates

In models, class Getdata(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=255) state = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=STATE, default="0") name = models.ForeignKey(School) created_by = models.ForeignKey(profile) def __unicode__(self): return self.id() In templates <form> <input type="submit" s...

Python Attributes and Inheritance

Say I have the folowing code: class Class1(object): def __init__(self): self.my_attr = 1 self.my_other_attr = 2 class Class2(Class1): def __init__(self): super(Class1,self).__init__() Why does Class2 not inherit the attributes of Class1? ...

Python, Thread never exiting...

Hi, I'm developing a small media player in Python. A problem I have run into is that my thread which plays the .wav file never exits. I've provided the thread class, and how I handle the create of thread below. class myThread (threading.Thread): def __init__(self, threadID, wf): self.threadID = threadID s...

multiple custom app in django

I want to have two custom made app dealing with two different tasks. i have a page(template) where the data from the both app come together. how to deploy url for that, in the common urls.py so that the two app work together. how to integrate the views from both app to return data to same template simultaneously. is that possible? I fou...

How to read watermarks with Python?

Is there any way to read metadata - watermarks from image files with Python? Thanks. ...

Beginner questions regarding Python classes.

Hi. I am new to Python so please don't flame me if I ask something too noobish :) 1. Consider I have a class: class Test: def __init__(self, x, y): self.x = x self.y = y def wow(): print 5 * 5 Now I try to create an object of the class: x = Test(3, 4) This works as expected. However, when I try to ...

How do I set a property in python using its string name

Possible Duplicate: How do you programmatically set an attribute in Python? Hey, here's a dumb question: how can I set an object property given its name in a string. I have a dictionary being passed to me and I wish to transfer its values into namesake properties using code like this: for entry in src_dict: if e...

adding space in an output file with out having to read the entire thing first

Question: How do you write data to an already existing file at the beginning of the file with out writing over what's already there and with out reading the entire file into memory? (e.g. prepend) Info: I'm working on a project right now where the program frequently dumps data into a file. this file will very quickly balloon up to 3-...

Django : In a view how do I obtain the sessionid which will be part of the Set-Cookie header of following response ?

In case of views that contain login or logout, this sessionid is different from the one submitted in request's Coockie header. I need to retrieve it before returning response for some purpose. How can I do this ? ...

How do I implement a dictionary "with a Python tuple" as key in C++?

I currently have some python code I'd like to port to C++ as it's currently slower than I'd like it to be. Problem is that I'm using a dictionary in it where the key is a tuple consisting of an object and a string (e.g. (obj, "word")). How on earth do I write something similar in C++? Maybe my algorithm is horrendous and there is some wa...

[Python] Best strategy for dealing with incomplete lines of data from a file.

I use the following block of code to read lines out of a file 'f' into a nested list: for data in f: clean_data = data.rstrip() data = clean_data.split('\t') t += [data[0]] strmat += [data[1:]] Sometimes, however, the data is incomplete and a row may look like this: ['955.159', '62.8168', '', '', '', '', '', ''...

defining precision in python(2.6) division

Hi, I am using: from __future__ import division To perform a division in which I need some percision. However, it gives a long number, like: 1.876543820098765 I only need the the first two numbers after "." => 1.87 How can I do that? ...

Python/Biomolecular Physics- Trying to code a simple stochastic simulation of a system exhibiting conditional behavior!

*edited 6/17/10 I'm trying to understand how to improve my code (make it more pythonic). Also, I'm interested in writing more intuitive 'conditionals' that would describe scenarios that are commonplace in biochemistry. The conditional criteria in the below program I've explained in Answer #2, but I am not satisfied with the code- it wor...

Python execution order using C module

Hi! I'm trying to learn python and have encountered some strange behaviour. I am experimenting with ctypes and a self-made (very simple) DLL. This is Python script I'm trying to run: from ctypes import * myLib = CDLL("libDlltest") myLib.hello() myLib.goodbye() print 'I am a line' myLib.goodbye() I've configured eclipse according t...

Using Python: How can I telnet into a server and then from that connection telnet into a second server?

I am able to establish the initial telnet session. But from this session I need to create a second. Basically I can not telnet directly to the device I need to access. Interactively this is not an issue but I am attempting to setup an automated test using python. Does anyone know who to accomplish this? ...

How do I export GUI mockups to Python GUI code (e.g. wxpython)?

I want to take my mockups and export them to code using any python GUI library (wxpython, pyqt, etc). For example, this capability already exists for mockups->HTML/Javascript here: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/community I need a fast, easy, high level mockup tool like balsamiq, not a slow, low level tool like boa constructo...

Converting Numpy Lstsq residual value to R^2

I am performing a least squares regression as below (univariate). I would like to express the significance of the result in terms of R^2. Numpy returns a value of unscaled residual, what would be a sensible way of normalizing this. field_clean,back_clean = rid_zeros(backscatter,field_data) num_vals = len(field_clean) x = field_clean[:,r...