I am using Python to extract the filename from a link using rfind like below: url = "http://www.google.com/test.php" print url[url.rfind("/") +1 : ] This works ok with links without a / at the end of them and returns "test.php". I have encountered links with / at the end like so "http://www.google.com/test.php/". I am have trouble ...
I'm relatively new to Python and am having problems programming with Scapy, the Python network manipulation tool. However, I can't tell if it's as much a Scapy problem as it is a being-a-Python-newbie problem. On the scapy site, they give a sample program which I'm not able to run on my own machine: #! /usr/bin/env python import sys fr...
I'm looking to implement a "Contact Us" form with Cherrypy and was wondering: Is there a good recipe (or a BSD licensed set of code) that I could use instead of reinventing the wheel? Ideally, this would be Cherrpy 3.1 compatible. ...
I would like to force Python's print function to output to the screen. ...
I'm writing a python script that executes a csh script in Solaris 10. The csh script prompts the user for the root password (which I know) but I'm not sure how to make the python script answer the prompt with the password. Is this possible? Here is what I'm using to execute the csh script: import commands commands.getoutput('server sto...
I have a list of variable names, like this: ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] (I originally asked how I convert a list of variables. See Greg Hewgill's answer below.) How do I convert this to a dictionary where the keys are the variable names (as strings) and the values are the values of the variables? {'foo': foo, 'bar': bar, 'baz': baz} No...
Which are the most advanced frameworks and tools there are available for python for practicing Behavior Driven Development? Especially finding similar tools as rspec and mocha for ruby would be great. ...
What is the use of the yield keyword in Python? What does it do? For example, I'm trying to understand this code (**): def node._get_child_candidates(self, distance, min_dist, max_dist): if self._leftchild and distance - max_dist < self._median: yield self._leftchild if self._rightchild and distance + max_dist >= self._...
In C++ you can disable a function in parent's class by declaring it as private in the child class. How can this be done in Python? I.E. How can I hide parent's function from child's public interface? ...
Python has a number of soap stacks; as near as I can tell, all have substantial defects. Has anyone had luck consuming and using WSDL for S3, EC2, and SQS in python? My experience is that suds fails when constructing a Client object; after some wrangling, ZSI generates client code that doesn't work; etc. Finally, I'm aware of boto but...
I've been exploring the details of Django for about a week now and like what I see. However I've come upon some.. negativity in relation to fine-grained control of permissions to the CRUD interface. What I'm writing is an Intranet client management web-app. The organisation is about 6 tiers, and I need to restrict access to client group...
I have a bunch of C files that are generated by a collection of python programs that have a number of shared python modules and I need to account for this in my make system. It is easy enough to enumerate which python program need to be run to generate each C file. What I can't find a good solution for is determining which other python ...
I have a two way foreign relation similar to the following class Parent(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) favoritechild = models.ForeignKey("Child", blank=True, null=True) class Child(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=255) myparent = models.ForeignKey(Parent) How do I restrict the choices ...
I'm running Python 2.6 on Unix and when I run the interactive prompt (SQLite is supposed to be preinstalled) I get: [root@idev htdocs]# python Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Oct 23 2008, 16:25:34) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sqlite Trace...
While I was investigating a problem I had with lexical closures in Javascript code, I came along this problem in Python: flist = [] for i in xrange(3): def func(x): return x * i flist.append(func) for f in flist: print f(2) Note that this example mindfully avoids lambda. It prints "4 4 4", which is surprising. I'd expect...
Do you know of well designed open source applications that are instructive to analyse? Of course this question is strictly related to this other post, but I am specifically interested in applications written in Python. ...
I have a string which is like this: this is [bracket test] "and quotes test " I'm trying to write something in Python to split it up by space while ignoring spaces within square braces and quotes. The result I'm looking for is: ['this','is','bracket test','and quotes test '] ...
So my group is trying to set up a shared-server environment for various and sundry web services. I think we've settled on setting disable_functions and disable_classes site wide in php.ini and php_admin_value to force open_basedir in each app's httpd.conf for php scripts, and passenger's user switching for ruby scripts. We still nee...
Is there a way to have a default parameter passed to a action in the case where the regex didnt match anything using django? urlpatterns = patterns('',(r'^test/(?P<name>.*)?$','myview.displayName')) #myview.py def displayName(request,name): # write name to response or something I have tried setting the third parameter in the u...
What are the key differences between the "python way" and the "ruby way" ...