I've googled around for this, but I still have trouble relating to what Django defines as "apps". Should I create a new app for each piece of functionality in a site, even though it uses models from the main project? Do you guys have good rule of thumb of when to split off a new app, and when to keep functionality together with the "...
I have corporate proxy that supports https but not HTTP CONNECT (even after authentication). It just gives 403 Forbidden in response anything but HTTP or HTTPS URLS. It uses HTTP authenication, not NTLM. It is well documented the urllib2 does not work with https thru a proxy. App Engine trys to connect to a https URL using urllib2 to upd...
I'm looking for a good server/client protocol supported in Python for making data requests/file transfers between one server and many clients. Security is also an issue - so secure login would be a plus. I've been looking into XML-RPC, but it looks to be a pretty old (and possibly unused these days?) protocol. Thanks for your help in ...
is there any way to leave a time delay between the execution of two lines of code? ...
I'm using the following method to send mail from Python using SMTP. Is it the right method to use or are there gotchas I'm missing ? from smtplib import SMTP import datetime debuglevel = 0 smtp = SMTP() smtp.set_debuglevel(debuglevel) smtp.connect('YOUR.MAIL.SERVER', 26) smtp.login('USERNAME@DOMAIN', 'PASSWORD') from_addr = "John Doe...
What is the best WYSIWYG GUI editor for Python? I'm looking for something like Visual Studio form designer. The specific GUI toolkit doesn't matter. And I'm not looking for a code editor/IDE. ...
I've troubles setting VIM (7.1.xxx) for editing python files. Identing seems broken (optimal 4 spaces). I've followed some tutorials I found via google. Still no effect :/ Please help. ...
Each time a python file is imported that contains a large quantity of static regular expressions, cpu cycles are spent compiling the strings into their representative state machines in memory. a = re.compile("a.*b") b = re.compile("c.*d") ... Question: Is it possible to store these regular expressions in a cache on disk in a pre-compi...
How do I add an instance method to a class using a metaclass (yes I do need to use a metaclass)? The following kind of works, but the func_name will still be "foo": def bar(self): print "bar" class MetaFoo(type): __new__(cls, name, bases, dict): dict["foobar"] = bar return type(name, bases, dict) class Foo(obje...
Not sure if what I want to accomplish is even possible, but I'd like to make a child class have a method of the parent class be a 'classmethod' even though the method in the parent class is not. Essentiall I'm trying to accomplish the following: class foo(Object): def meth1(self,val): self.value=val class bar(foo): met...
I've created a python object, but I want to send signals on it. I made it inherit from gobject.GObject, but there doesn't seem to be any way to create a new signal on my object. ...
When doing an INSERT with a lot of data, ie~ `INSERT INTO table (mediumtext_field) VALUES ('...lots of text here: about 2MB worth...')', MySQL returns "OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')" This is happening within a minute of starting the script, so it is not a timeout issue. Also, mediumtext_field should be able to h...
I'm writing opengl code in python using the library pyglet. When I draw to the screen using pyglet.graphics.vertex_list or pyglet.graphics.batch objects, they are very slow (~0.1 fps) compared to plain old pyglet.graphics.draw() or just glVertex() calls, which are about 40fps for the same geometry. In Linux the vertex_list is about the s...
How to serve users a dynamically generated ZIP archive in Django? I'm making a site, where users can choose any combination of available books and download them as ZIP archive. I'm worried that generating such archives for each request would slow my server down to a crawl. I have also heard that Django doesn't currently have a good solu...
How can I load a python module given its full path? Note that the file can be anywhere in the filesystem, as it is a configuration option. ...
I'm looking to write a programming language for fun, however most of the resource I have seen are for writing a context free language, however I wish to write a language that, like python, uses indentation, which to my understanding means it can't be context free. ...
When defining a method on a class in Python, it looks something like this: class MyClass(object): def __init__(self, x, y): self.x = x self.y = y But in some other languages, such as C#, you have a reference to the object that the method is bound to with the "this" keyword without declaring it as an argument in the...
I create a new Button object but did not specify the command option upon creation. Is there a way in Tkinter to change the command (onclick) function after the object has been created? ...
I have a text file on my local machine that is generated by a python script run daily in cron. I would like to add a bit of code to have that file sent securely to my server over ssh. Help. ...
Is there a way to send a file using POST from a Python script? ...