Following the reply to this question (Thanks again Ellie P!) I created a search page and a results page. For instance if you search for the lawyer "delelle" the result page shows her firm, school and year graduated. But instead of displaying her info, I want to display other lawyers who graduated from the same school the same year. T...
I'm using this code to upload myfile.txt from my windows machine to a ftp server. after the upoad the script deletes the file on my local machine (I'm not deleting it on the ftp). try: ftp = FTP(ftp.host.com) ftp.login(your_username, your_password) file = open(myfile.txt, "rb") ftp.storbinary('STOR myfile.txt', file) ...
How could I get the version defined in setup.py from my package? (for --version, or other purposes) thanks! ...
Is there a way to do what classmethod does in Python in C#? That is, a static function that would get a Type object as an (implicit) parameter according to whichever subclass it's used from. An example of what I want, approximately, is class Base: @classmethod def get(cls, id): print "Would instantiate a new %r with ID...
for elt in itertools.chain.from_iterable(node): if elt is the last element: do statement How do I achieve this ...
How would you go about formatting a long line such as this? I'd like to get it to no more than 80 characters wide: logger.info("Skipping {0} because its thumbnail was already in our system as {1}.".format(line[indexes['url']], video.title)) Is this my best option? url = "Skipping {0} because its thumbnail was already in our system as...
I stumbled upon the following python weirdity: >>> two = 2 >>> ii = 2 >>> id(two) == id(ii) True >>> [id(i) for i in [42,42,42,42]] [10084276, 10084276, 10084276, 10084276] >>> help(id) Help on built-in function id in module __builtin__: id(...) id(object) -> integer Return the identity of an object. This is guaranteed to b...
I have created a list -> a = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]] 1) How do I get the count of number of sub-lists in a? Like in this case it is 3 2) I am using iterator tool chain for traversing this list for elt in itertools.chain.from_iterable(node): Is there any way to know if I have traversed a sub list ? ...
In code(pseudo) like this def path(): dirList = ['c:\\', 'y:\\', 'z:\\'] home_folder = 'peter.txt' complete = [s + home_folder for s in dirList] print complete def fileWrite(): filename = 'c:\peter.txt' text = 'Hello World' file = open(filename, 'w') file.write(text) file.close() I can make both wo...
Hi. Here is some code: if (message.value[0] == "/" or message.value[0] == "\"): do stuff. I'm sure it's a simple syntax error, but something is wrong with my if statement. Any ideas to help out a python newbie? Cheers ...
After calling update(), I know that the return value has a .rowcount attribute that will reveal how many rows were changed. Is there a way to get the actual new values that they were changed to? For example, if I do the SQLAlchemy equivalent of: UPDATE t SET x=x+1 WHERE y=z ...is there a way to get the new value for x? Or do I have t...
I am trying to parse information (html tables) from this site: http://www.511virginia.org/RoadConditions.aspx?j=All&r=1 Currently I am using BeautifulSoup and the code I have looks like this from mechanize import Browser from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup mech = Browser() url = "http://www.511virginia.org/RoadConditions.aspx...
I am purely a windows programmer and spend all my time hacking VC++. Recently I have been heading several web based applications and myself built applications with python (/pylons framework) and doing projects on rails. All the web projects are hosted on ubuntu linux. The RELEASE procedures and check list we followed for building and...
All, I have a template page say x.html i have 3 text fields name(varchar2) ,age(int),school(varchar2) in it. If the users enters values in the form in x.html(say values name="a" ,age="2" ,school="a") and submit it.I need to return the same values back to x.html indicating an error. My question is how to return the same values to x.ht...
I am pretty sure the answer is no but of course there are cleverer guys than me! Is there a way to construct a lazy SAX based XML parser that can be stopped (e.g. raising an exception is a possible way of doing this) but also resumable ? I am looking for a possible solution for Python >= 2.6 with standard XML libraries. The "lazy" part...
I use the following code to temporarily modify environment variables. @contextmanager def _setenv(**mapping): """``with`` context to temporarily modify the environment variables""" backup_values = {} backup_remove = set() for key, value in mapping.items(): if key in os.environ: backup_values[key] = o...
I want to sort the array c. But I don't get the answer a,b,c,d. Instead I get a,b,d,c. What could I do, for sorting the whole array and not only one row? EDIT: I want to sort the numbers. And the connected letters, should have the same order like the sorted numbers. sorry my question wasn't clear. Maybe I should join number and letters ...
In Python 2.6 it is possible to suppress warnings from the warnings module by using with warnings.catch_warnings(): warnings.simplefilter("ignore") fxn() Versions of Python before 2.6 don't support with however, so I'm wondering if there alternatives to the above that would work with pre-2.6 versions? ...
I'm considering integrating some C code into a Python system (Django), and I was considering using the Python / C API. The alternative is two separate processes with IPC, but I'm looking into direct interaction first. I'm new to Python so I'm trying to get a feel for the right direction to take. Is it possible for a call to a C initiali...
I have a little program that goes to news aggregater's, gets the hrefs, and returns in a window. I want to have multiple windows open if multiple sites are choosen, right now, it will only go to the first one in a list, and completes perfectly. I assume I am not passing the the contents of the list properly to the next step in my program...