I'm using PyWin32 to make WMI calls to the system in python from my django web application. My goal is to allow users to add printers to the system via a web interface. To do this, I'm using win32print.AddPrinterConnection. This works well running the development server under my user account. I can add all the printers I want. However, ...
How can I do a for() or foreach() loop in Python and Perl, respectively, that only prints every third index? I need to move every third index to a new array. ...
I have a file contained in a key in my S3 bucket. I want to create a new key, which will contain the same file. Is it possible to do without downloading that file? I'm looking for a solution in Python (and preferably boto library). ...
I have a shell that runs CentOS For a project I'm doing I need python 2.5+ but centOS is pretty dependent on 2.4 From what I've read a number of things will break if you upgrade to 2.5 I wan't to install 2.5 separately from 2.4 but I'm not sure how to do it. So far I've downloaded the source tarball, untarred it and did a ./configure --p...
I'm new to Python, and confused by the date/time documentation. I want to compute the time that it takes to perform a computation. In java, I would write: long timeBefore = System.currentTimeMillis(); doStuff(); long timeAfter = System.currentTimeMillis(); elapsed time = timeAfter - timeBefore; I'm sure it's even easier in Python. C...
How do you do jinja2 aware syntax highlighting for vim? ...
Hi, Trying to use a reasonably long regex and it comes down to this small section that doesn't match how I'd expect it to. >>> re.search(r'(foo)((?<==)bar)?', 'foo').groups() ('foo', None) >>> re.search(r'(foo)((?<==)bar)?', 'foo=bar').groups() ('foo', None) The first one is what I'm after, the second should be returning ('foo', 'b...
How do I get the number of elements in a list in jinja2 template. For example, in python: print template.render(products=[???]) and in jinja2 <span>You have {{what goes here?}} products</span> ...
What steps would be necessary, and what kind of maintenance would be expected if I wanted to contribute a module to the Python standard API? For example I have a module that encapsulates automated update functionality similar to Java's JNLP. ...
I use mod_python.publisher to run Python code and discovered a problem: When I update a script the update doesn't always work right away and I get the same error I fixed with the update until I restart Apache. Sometimes it works right away, but sometimes not...but restarting Apache definitely always catches it up. It's a pain to have to...
I know it is possible to realize decrease-key functionality in O(log n) but I don't know how? ...
I've just started to learn how to do queries in my Django application, and I have a query that gets me the list of new users filtered by the date joined: newUsers = User.objects.filter(is_active=True).order_by("-date_joined") This as I understand it gives me ALL the users, sorted by date joined. How would I best limit it to get me the...
Hi folks! :) I'd like to run an appengine app on a subdomain like something.no-ip.org instead of something.appspot.com is this doable? If so, can you please help me understand? :) Thank you so much for your help! ...
I am trying to get started on working with Python on Django I am by profession a PHP developer and have been told to set up django and python on my current apache and mysql setup however I am having trouble getting the Mysqldb module for python to work, I must of followed about 6 different set of instructions, I am running snow leopard a...
In the python built-in open function, what is the exact difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+? ...
Dear all, I'm working with wxpython (2.8) with python 2.5. is it possible to force a wx.CheckBox to display its label on multiple lines? I'd like to be able to do the same as wx.StaticText.Wrap(width) See the attached example: the wx.CheckBox is 200 px wide, but it's label does not fit in this space. Any help is really appreciated! Th...
I have a loop of the following type: a = range(10) b = [something] for i in range(len(a)-1): b.append(someFunction(b[-1], a[i], a[i+1])) However the for-loop is killing a lot of performance. I have try to write a windows generator to give me 2 elements everything time but it still require explicit for-loop in the end. Is there a w...
I'm using Python's gzip module to gzip content for a single file, using code similar to the example in the docs: import gzip content = "Lots of content here" f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') f.write(content) f.close() If I open the gz file in 7-zip, I see a folder hierarchy matching the path I wrote the gz to and my conten...
I would like to get the content of a list box thanks to python and ctypes. item_count = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageA(hwnd, win32con.LB_GETCOUNT, 0, 0) items = [] for i in xrange(item_count): text_len = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageA(hwnd, win32con.LB_GETTEXTLEN, i, 0) buffer = ctypes.create_string_buffer("", text_len+1)...
I want to create a class that wraps another class so that when a function is run through the wrapper class a pre and post function is run as well. I want the wrapper class to work with any class without modification. For example if i have this class. class Simple(object): def one(self): print "one" def two(self,two): ...