I came back today to an old script I had for logging into Gmail via SSL. The script worked fine last time I ran it (several months ago) but now it dies immediately with: <urlopen error The read operation timed out> If I set the timeout (no matter how long), it dies even more immediately with: <urlopen error The connect operation time...
In Python for the *nix, does time.sleep() block the thread or the process? ...
Basically, something similar to System.Xml.XmlWriter - A streaming XML Writer that doesn't incur much of a memory overhead. So that rules out xml.dom and xml.dom.minidom. Suggestions? ...
Simple question: What Python GUI API's are out there and what are the advantages of any given API? I'm not looking for a religious war here, I'm just wanting to get a good handle on all that is out there in terms of Python GUI APIs. ...
I am attempting to use the 'tempfile' module for manipulating and creating text files. Once the file is ready I want to save it to disk. I thought it would be as simple as using 'shutil.copy'. However, I get a 'permission denied' IOError: >>> import tempfile, shutil >>> f = tempfile.TemporaryFile(mode ='w+t') >>> f.write('foo') >>> shut...
Hi all, what is the best python framework to make distributed apps? For example to build a P2P app. Thanks ...
I need to read selected files, matching on the file name, from a remote zip archive using Python. I don't want to save the full zip to a temporary file (it's not that large, so I can handle everything in memory). I've already written the code and it works, and I'm answering this myself so I can search for it later. But since evidence su...
I've recently come across a problem which requires at least a basic degree of image processing, can I do this in Python, and if so, with what? ...
Apparently xrange is faster but I have no idea why it's faster (and no proof besides the anecdotal so far that it is faster) or what besides that is different about for i in range(0, 20): for i in xrange(0, 20): ...
I recently wrote a parser in Python using Ply (it's a python reimplementation of yacc). When I was almost done with the parser I discovered that the grammar I need to parse requires me to do some look up during parsing to inform the lexer. Without doing a look up to inform the lexer I cannot correctly parse the strings in the language....
Long story short, I have a substantial Python application that, among other things, does outcalls to "losetup", "mount", etc. on Linux. Essentially consuming system resources that must be released when complete. If my application crashes, I want to ensure these system resources are properly released. Does it make sense to do something...
On my desktop I have written a small Pylons app that connects to Oracle. I'm now trying to deploy it to my server which is running Win2k3 x64. (My desktop is 32-bit XP) The Oracle installation on the server is also 64-bit. I was getting errors about loading the OCI dll, so I installed the 32 bit client into C:\oracle32. If I add this...
Hi All, I am a little new to pyOpenSSL. I am trying to figure out how to associate the generated socket to an ssl cert. verify_cb gets called which give me access to the cert and a conn but how do I associate those things when this happens: cli,addr = self.server.accept() ...
When using PyWin I can easily load a python file into a fresh interactive shell and I find this quite handy for prototyping and other exploratory tasks. I would like to use Komodo as my python editor, but I haven't found a replacement for PyWin's ability to restart the shell and reload the current module. How can I do this in Komodo? ...
What is your single favorite mocking library for Python? ...
I want to use the Django template engine in my (Python) code, but I'm not building a Django-based web site. How do I use it without having a settings.py file (and others) and having to set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable? If I run the following code: >>> import django.template >>> from django.template import Template, ...
Name your single favorite Python templating engine (and describe why it's your favorite). ...
I have developed some custom DAO-like classes to meet some very specialized requirements for my project that is a server-side process that does not run inside any kind of framework. The solution works great except that every time a new request is made, I open a new connection via MySQLdb.connect. What is the best "drop in" solution...
I´ve mastered almost all the Python concepts (well, let´s say there are just OO concepts :-)) but this one is tricky. I know it has something to do with introspection but it´s still unclear to me. So what are metaclasses? What do you use them for? Concrete examples, including snippets, much appreciated! ...
Given a datetime.time value in Python, is there a standard way to add an integer number of seconds to it, so that 11:34:59 + 3 = 11:35:02, for example? These obvious ideas don't work: >>> datetime.time(11, 34, 59) + 3 TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime.time' and 'int' >>> datetime.time(11, 34, 59) + datetime.timede...