If there will be a small number of files it should be easy with a recursive function to pass through all the files and add the size but what if there are lots of files, and by lots i really mean lots of files. ...
What I want to do is patch an existing python module that uses urllib2 to run on app engine, but I don't want to break it so it can be used elsewhere. So I'm looking for a quick solution to test if the module is imported in the app engine environment or not. Catching ImportError on urllib2 might not be the best solution. ...
I'm looking to do various processing of email - eg. inspect the headers, and if they meet some criteria (look like spam), drop the connection, or inspect the recipient list and perform special filtering. Looks like Python's smtpd library provides a nice and simple interface for processing the received email. To deal with the message b...
Hi! The typical ConfigParser generated file looks like: [Section] bar=foo [Section 2] bar2= baz Now, is there a way to index lists like, for instance: [Section 3] barList={ item1, item2 } Related question: Python’s ConfigParser unique keys per section ? Thanks in advance ...
I have the following shell script registered in my "Login Items" preferences but it does not seem to have any effect. It is meant to launch the moinmoin wiki but only works when it is run by hand from a terminal window, after which it runs until the machine is next shut down. #!/bin/bash cd /Users/stuartcw/Documents/Wiki/moin-1.7.2 /usr...
Hi, I am trying to write my first real python function that does something real. What i want to accomplish is searching a given folder, and then open all images and merging them together so they make a filmstrip image. Imagine 5 images stacked on top of eachother in one image. I have this code now, which should be pretty much ok, but pr...
I'm working on a PyGTK/glade application that currently has 16 windows/dialogs and is about 130KB, and will eventually have around 25 windows/dialogs and be around 200KB. Currently, I'm storing all the windows in one monolithic glade file. When I run a window I call it like... self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML("interface.glade", "WindowXYZ")...
Some of you may recognize this as Project Euler's problem number 11. The one with the grid. I'm trying to replicate the grid in a large multidimensional array, But it's giving me a syntax error and i'm not sure why grid = [ [ 08, 02, 22, 97, 38, 15, 00, 40, 00, 75, 04, 05, 07, 78, 52, 12, 50, 77, 91, 08 ], [ 49, 49, 99, 40, 17, 81, 18...
Hi guys Ive decided that I really dont like microsoft and their ways. Please could you give me directions on how to handle winmail.dat in emails, is there a jython library or a java library that will allow me to handle this. Ive just completed a email processing program, written in jython 2.2.1 on java 5. During the final load test, I ...
I have a series of forms that I need a user to complete in sequence, which is perfect for the formwizard app. However, I've some need of the admin application also and would like to set the whole thing up to trigger several forms within the admin app. Is it possible/easy to integrate a 'formwizard' into the admin application? If not, ...
I want to create a very simple HTML/AJAX based GUI for a Python program. So the frontend is a HTML page which communicates with the program via AJAX. Can you give me a minimal implementation for the server-side using the python SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandle? A simple example would be a textfield and a button. When the button ...
Hi, I am not sure what optparse's metavar parameter is used for. I see it used all around, but I can't see its use. Can someone make it clear to me? Thanks. ...
Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to python! If I want all the lines of a file until (edit: and including) the line containing some string stopterm, is there a way of using the list syntax for it? I was hoping there would be something like: usefullines = [line for line in file until stopterm in line] For now, I've got usefullines = [] for ...
MySQL ResultSets are by default retrieved completely from the server before any work can be done. In cases of huge result sets this becomes unusable. I would like instead to actually retrieve the rows one by one from the server. In Java, following the instructions here (under "ResultSet"), I create a statement like this: stmt = conn.cr...
Does python have the ability to create dynamic keywords? For example: qset.filter(min_price__usd__range=(min_price, max_price)) I want to be able to change the usd part based on a selected currency. ...
I run a subprocess using: p = subprocess.Popen("subprocess", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdid=subprocess.PIPE) This subprocess could either exit immediately with an error on stderr, or keep running. I want to detect either of these condition...
I have some Python code that works correctly when I use python.exe to run it, but fails if I use pythonw.exe. def runStuff(commandLine): outputFileName = 'somefile.txt' outputFile = open(outputFileName, "w") try: result = subprocess.call(commandLine, shell=True, stdout=outputFile) except...
Where can I download a PyLucene+JCC Windows build compiled for python 2.6? Jose ...
Not many are aware of this feature, but Python's functions (and methods) can have attributes. Behold: >>> def foo(x): ... pass ... >>> foo.score = 10 >>> dir(foo) ['__call__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__get__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__name__', '__new__', '__reduce_...
I'm running Emacs 22.1.1 and IPython 0.9.1 on OS X and I'd like to be able to run lines/methods/snippets of Python code from my current buffer on demand inside an IPython interpreter. What do I need to do to get this working? ...