I have a simple word jumble game. I made the jumble already, but now I want to add a 'hint' system. I don't know how to have 1 item from tuples show up. I have 2 tuples, and I want to pull from the 2nd tuple based on the what the first tuple is. I have a WORD=("x", "y", "z") and HINT=("x", "y", "z"). When the user enters "hint", I want t...
I'm a newbie at Django and I want to do something that I'm not sure how to do. I have a model SimplePage, which simply stands for a webpage that is visible on the website and whose contents can be edited in the admin. (I think this is similar to FlatPage.) So I have a bunch of SimplePages for my site, and I want one of them to be the m...
I'm writing my own captcha system for user registration. So I need to create a suitable URL for receiving generated captcha pictures. Generation looks like this: _cipher = cipher.new(settings.CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY, cipher.MODE_ECB) _encrypt_block = lambda block: _cipher.encrypt(block + ' ' * (_cipher.block_size - len(block) % _cipher.block...
I'd like to fetch the whole message from IMAP4 server. In python docs if found this bit of code that works: >>> t, data = M.fetch('1', '(RFC822)') >>> body = data[0][1] I'm wondering if I can always trust that data[0][1] returns the body of the message. When I've run 'RFC822.SIZE' I've got just a string instead of a tuple. I've skimm...
I need to get the next item of the first loop given certain condition, but the condition is in the inner loop. Is there a shorter way to do it than this? (test code) ok = 0 for x in range(0,10): if ok == 1: ok = 0 continue for y in range(0,20): if y == 5: ok = ...
I have Mako taking a template from a preprocessor, and now thinks there is a 'pass' after my if statement. Here is the complete traceback Error ! SyntaxException: (SyntaxError) invalid syntax (, line 1) (u"if ${session['anonymous']}:pass") in file '/.../site/templates/shpaml/views/index.html' at line: 3 char: 1 1 <p>your anonymous stat...
I need a more-or-less portable programmatic way for querying the the dynamic library path list. For Linux, I can concatenate the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf (processing the include directives as needed and possibly filtering by architecture), but that doesn't work e.g. on FreeBSD. Ultimately, I need a Python fun...
hello im searching for a way to get a specific tags .. from a very big xml document with python dom built in module for example : <AssetType longname="characters" shortname="chr" shortnames="chrs"> <type> pub </type> <type> geo </type> <type> rig </type> </AssetType> <AssetType longname="camera" shortname="ca...
If I have a script that builds eggs, basically by running python setup.py bdist_egg --exclude-source-files for a number of setup.py files that use setuptools to define how eggs are built, is there an easy way to determine if there were any errors in building the egg? A situation I had recently, was that there was a syntax error in a ...
Hi All I would like to get a file attached to an email I receive using Outlook. I need to run this python script in a Linux Box. I read about the win32com.client library. Do you know if it works also for Linux? If not do you know any alternative if there are? Thanks AFG ...
I want to use the newest version of Python on Snow Leopard using the installer package, but I've read some confusing articles about conflicts when upgrading. I plan on using PyDev in Eclipse, will there be any conflicts with Snow Leopard if I upgrade? ...
class TrafficData(object): def __init__(self): self.__data = {} def __getitem__(self, epoch): if not isinstance(epoch, int): raise TypeError() return self.__data.setdefault(epoch, ProcessTraffic()) def __iadd__(self, other): for epoch, traffic in other.iteritems(): # th...
As per the python documentation,x<y<z comparison is translated to x<y and y<z and expression y is evaluated only once at most. Now my question is , does an expression y ( look at the code below) is evaluated only once here? if(x<y and y<z): ...
I believe that running an external command with a slightly modified environment is a very common case. That's how I tend to do it: import subprocess, os my_env = os.environ my_env["PATH"] = "/usr/sbin:/sbin:" + my_env["PATH"] subprocess.Popen(my_command, env=my_env) I've got a gut feeling that there's a better way; does it look alrigh...
Hello, I am writing a program that opens and records data sent through a serial port into a text file. I am currently adding functionality to allow reconfiguring the serial port during run-time. I prompt the user to choose which variable to change one at a time, so as to keep it simple for myself (i would appreciate elegant solutions as...
I am having an intermittent error causing my Python module to crash, and I'm assuming it's because of a memory error occurring by not getting the refcounts correct in the c code. I have a bit of code that gets a response at a random time from a remote location. Based on the data received, it needs to update a data variable which I should...
Hi have have the following tables nfiletable = Table( 'NFILE', base.metadata, Column('fileid', Integer, primary_key=True), Column('path', String(300)), Column('filename', String(50)), Column('filesize', Integer), schema='NATIVEFILES')#,autoload=True,autoload_with=engine) sheetnames_table=Table( 'SHEETNAMES'...
I tried to subclass threading.Condition earlier today but it didn't work out. Here is the output of the Python interpreter when I try to subclass the threading.Condition class: >>> import threading >>> class ThisWontWork(threading.Condition): ... pass ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> Type...
What is the simplest and reasonably efficient way to slice a list into a list of the sliced sub-list sections for arbitrary length sub lists. For example, if our source list is: input = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ... ] And our sub list length is 3 then we seek: output = [ [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], ... ] Likewise if our sub...
Are there any large django powered sites who has made their source available? I would love to see how a large Django project is built. :) ...