I'll have couple of python functions I must interface with from the assembly code. The solution doesn't need to be a complete solution because I'm not going to interface with python code for too long. Anyway, I chewed it a bit: What does a python object look like in memory? How can I call a python function? How can I pass python object...
What's the best way to validate that an IP entered by the user is valid? It comes in as a string. ...
What's the best way to do case insensitive string comparison in Python? I would like to encapsulate comparison of a regular strings to a repository string using in a very simple and pythonic way. I also would like to have ability to look up values in a dict hashed by strings using regular python strings. Much obliged for advice. ...
using jython I have a situation where emails come in with different attachments. Certain file types I process others I ignore and dont write to file. I am caught in a rather nasty situation, because sometimes people send an email as an attachment, and that attached email has legal attachments. What I want to do is skip that attached e...
I'm looking for a way to upload a file to s3. I am using django. I am currently using amazon's python library for uploading along with the following code: View: def submitpicture(request): fuser = request.session["login"] copied_data = request.POST.copy() copied_data.update(request.FILES) content_type = copied_data['file'].get('conte...
Hello, What is you preferred method of traversing a tree data structure, since recursive method calls can be pretty inefficient in some circumstances, I am simply using a generator like the one above. Do you have any hints to make it faster ? def children(self): stack = [self.entities] while stack: for e in stack.pop()...
I am starting a new project to provide monitoring and control services for a number of unix (Linux and FreeBSD) servers (think munin, monit, mrtg, etc). The reason I'm not considering using an already existing monitoring solution is that I need to do checks for custom APIs (like post a specific HTTP request and parse the answer body for ...
self.logger.info(msg) popinstance=poplib.POP3(self.account[0]) self.logger.info(popinstance.getwelcome()) popinstance.user(self.account[1]) popinstance.pass_(self.account[2]) try: (numMsgs, totalSize)=popinstance.stat() self.logger.info("POP contains " + str(numMsgs) + " emails") for thisNu...
Is there a way to ensure all created subprocess are dead at exit time of a Python program? By subprocess I mean those created with subprocess.Popen(). If not, should I iterate over all of the issuing kills and then kills -9? anything cleaner? ...
I'm writing a simple program to help generate orders for a game I'm a member of. It falls into the catergory of programmes I don't actually need. But now I've started I want it to work. It all pretty much runs smoothly but I can't figure out how to stop a type-error ocurring about half way through. Here's the code; status = 1 print "[b...
Hey, I am looking to format a number like 188518982.18 to £188,518,982.18 using Python. How can I do this? Cheers ...
I need to have the output of a PHP snippet in a Plone site. It was delivered to be a small library that has a display() function, in PHP, that outputs a line of text. But I need to put it in a Plone site. Do you have any recommendations? I was thinking a long the lines of having a display.php that just runs display() and from the Plone ...
I know python functions are virtual by default. Lets say i have this: class foo: def __init__(self, args): do some stuff def goo(): print "You can overload me" def roo(): print "You cannot overload me" I dont want them to be able to do this: class aoo(foo): def roo(): print "I dont want you to be able to do this" Is...
I've written this to try and log onto a forum (phpBB3). import urllib2, re import urllib, re logindata = urllib.urlencode({'username': 'x', 'password': 'y'}) page = urllib.urlopen("http://www.woarl.com/board/ucp.php?mode=login"[logindata]) output = page.read() However when I run it it comes up with; Traceback (most recent call last):...
I've recently written this with help from SO. Now could someone please tell me how to make it actually log onto the board. It brings up everything just in a non logged in format. import urllib2, re import urllib, re logindata = urllib.urlencode({'username': 'x', 'password': 'y'}) page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.woarl.com/board/index...
Hello all, I'm trying to install the Python Imaging Library 1.1.6 for Python 2.6. After downloading the installation executable (Win XP), I receive the following error message: "Application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem" Any thoughts on what I hav...
I have an object that can build itself from an XML string, and write itself out to an XML string. I'd like to write a unit test to test round tripping through XML, but I'm having trouble comparing the two XML versions. Whitespace and attribute order seem to be the issues. Any suggestions for how to do this? This is in Python, and I'm usi...
I want to generate a list in C#. I am missing python's list comprehensions. Is there a c# way to create collections on the fly like list comprehensions or generator statements do in python? ...
I plan to read about Django. Should I go with Django or Plone? What makes Django/Plone better than the other? Edit: From a comment below: I just wanted to know a framework for developing web applications. ...
I am using python 2.6 on XP. I have just installed py2exe, and I can successfully create a simple hello.exe from a hello.py. However, when I try using py2exe on my real program, py2exe produces a few information messages but fails to generate anything in the dist folder. My setup.py looks like this: from distutils.core import setup i...