How do you use the ellipsis slicing syntax in Python?
This came up in Hidden features of Python, but I can't see good documentation or examples that explain how the feature works. ...
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How can I join a list into a string (caveat)?
Along the lines of my previous question, how can i join a list of strings into a string such that values get quoted cleanly. Something like: ['a', 'one "two" three', 'foo, bar', """both"'"""] into: a, 'one "two" three', "foo, bar", "both\"'" I suspect that the csv module will come into play here, but i'm not sure how to get the out...
How do I create a non-standard type with SOAPpy?
I am calling a WSDL web service from Python using SOAPpy. The call I need to make is to the method Auth_login. This has 2 arguments - the first, a string being the API key; the second, a custom type containing username and password. The custom type is called Auth_credentialsData which contains 2 values as stings - one for the username an...
How do I read an Excel file into Python using xlrd? Can it read newer Office formats?
My issue is below but would be interested comments from anyone with experience with xlrd. I just found xlrd and it looks like the perfect solution but I'm having a little problem getting started. I am attempting to extract data programatically from an Excel file I pulled from Dow Jones with current components of the Dow Jones Industrial...
What is wrong with my snap to grid code?
First of all, I'm fairly sure snapping to grid is fairly easy, however I've run into some odd trouble in this situation and my maths are too weak to work out specifically what is wrong. Here's the situation I have an abstract concept of a grid, with Y steps exactly Y_STEP apart (the x steps are working fine so ignore them for now) The...
How to express this Bash command in pure Python
I have this line in a useful Bash script that I haven't managed to translate into Python, where 'a' is a user-input number of days' worth of files to archive: find ~/podcasts/current -mindepth 2 -mtime '+`a`+' -exec mv {} ~/podcasts/old \; I am familiar with the os.name and getpass.getuser for the most general cross-platform elements....
Is there a way to convert indentation in Python code to braces?
I am a totally blind programmer who would like to learn Python. Unfortunately the fact that code blocks are represented with different levels of indentation is a major stumbling block. I was wondering if there were any tools available that would allow me to write code using braces or some other code block delimiter and then convert that ...
Iron python, beautiful soup, win32 app
Does beautiful soup work with iron python? If so with which version of iron python? How easy is it to distribute a windows desktop app on .net 2.0 using iron python (mostly c# calling some python code for parsing html)? ...
How do I uninstall python from OSX Leopard so that I can use the MacPorts version?
I want to use the macports version of python instead of the one that comes with Leopard. ...
Adding code to __init__.py
I'm taking a look at how the model system in django works and I noticed something that I don't understand. I know that you create an empty __init__.py file to specify that the current directory is a package. And that you can set some variable in __init__.py so that import * works properly. But django adds a bunch of from ... import .....
Is it good to switch from c# to python?
Currently I am developing in the .Net environment using C# but I want to know whether it is worth learning python. I'm thinking of learning the Django framework. What is better? ...
time length of an mp3 file
What is the simplest way to determine the length (in seconds) of a given mp3 file, without using outside libraries? (python source highly appreciated) ...
Tabs versus spaces in Python programming
I have always used tabs for indentation when I do Python programming. But then I came across a question here on SO where someone pointed out that most Python programmers use spaces instead of tabs to minimize editor-to-editor mistakes. How does that make a different? Are there other reasons why you would use spaces instead of tabs for P...
Find matching sequences in two binary files
Let me start off with a bit of background. This morning one of our users reported that Testuff's setup file has been reported as infected with a virus by the CA antivirus. Confident that this was a false positive, I looked on the web and found that users of another program (SpyBot) have reported the same problem. A now, for the actual ...
Parse DICOM files in native Python
What is the simplest and most-pythonic way to parse a DICOM file? A native Python implementation without the use of non-Python libraries would be much preferred. DICOM is the standard file format in digital medical imaging (look here for more information). There are some C/C++ libraries that support reading (a subset) of DICOM files. ...
Using **kwargs with SimpleXMLRPCServer in python
I have a class that I wish to expose as a remote service using pythons SimpleXMLRPCServer. The server startup looks like this: server = SimpleXMLRPCServer((serverSettings.LISTEN_IP,serverSettings.LISTEN_PORT)) service = Service() server.register_instance(service) server.serve_forever() I then have a ServiceRemote class that looks li...
Dynamically create variables inside function
I want to create variables inside function from dictionary. Lets say I have a dictionary bar = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3} and function def foo(): pass What I want to do is to create inside function "foo" variables with names of each dictionary item name and values as dictionary item values So in the end it should be similar to d...
Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python
I try to fetch a Wikipedia article with Phython's urllib: f = urllib.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&printable=yes") s = f.read() f.close() However instead of the html page I get the following response: Error - Wikimedia Foundation: Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit...
Short Integers in Python
Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')? ...
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
In a pyGame application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG. What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ? (I like the OCEMP GUI toolkit but it seems to be bitmap dependent for its rendering) ...