I am trying to use textwrap to format an import file that is quite particular in how it is formatted. Basically, it is as follows (line length shortened for simplicity): abcdef <- Ok line abcdef ghijk <- Note leading space to indicate wrapped line lm Now, I have got code to work as follows: wrapper = TextWrapper(width=80, subseque...
Hello guys I have this code, and I would like to use the app parameter to generate the code instead of duplicating it. if app == 'map': try: from modulo.map.views import map return map(request, *args, **kwargs) except ImportError: pass elif app == 'schedule': try: from modulo.schedule.views ...
How to truncate the string to 75 characters only in Python? This is how it was done in JavaScript: var data="saddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd...
I am learning Python (I have a C/C++ background). I need to write something practical in Python though, whilst learning. I have the following pseudocode (my first attempt at writing a Python script, since reading about Python yesterday). Hopefully, the snippet details the logic of what I want to do. BTW I am using python 2.6 on Ubuntu K...
Hi ! I love doctests, it is the only testing framwork I use, because it is so quick to write, and because used with sphinx it makes such great documentations with almost no effort... However, very often, I end-up doing things like this : """ Descriptions ============= bla bla bla ... >>> test 1 bla bla bla + tests tests test...
Hi, I can do max(s) to find the max of a sequence. But suppose I want to compute max according to my own function , something like so - currmax = 0 def mymax(s) : for i in s : #assume arity() attribute is present currmax = i.arity() if i.arity() > currmax else currmax Is there a clean pythonic way of doing this? Thanks! ...
My first real-world Python project is to write a simple framework (or re-use/adapt an existing one) which can wrap small python scripts (which are used to gather custom data for a monitoring tool) with a "container" to handle boilerplate tasks like: fetching a script's configuration from a file (and keeping that info up to date if the ...
I love webpy, it's really quite Pythonic but I don't like having to add the url mappings and create a class, typically with just 1 function inside it. I'm interested in minimising code typing and prototyping fast. Does anyone have any up and coming suggestions such as Bobo, Nagare, Bottle, Flask, Denied, cherrypy for a lover of webpy's ...
Looking for solutions that push the envelope and: Avoid Manually writing SQL queries(Python can be more OO not passing DSL strings) Using non-Python datatypes for a supposedly required model definition Using a new class of types rather than perfectly good native Python types Boast Using Python objects Using Object Oriented and key...
Hey! Every day I love python more and more. Today, I was writing some code like: for i in xrange(N): do_something() I had to do something N times. But each time didn't depend on the value of i (index variable). I realized that I was creating a variable I never used (i), and I thought "There surely is a more pythonic way of doing...
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." Can we find the solution/s that fix the Python database world? Update: A 'lustdb' prototype has been written by Alex Martelli - if you know any somewhat lightweight, high-level database libraries with multiple backends we could wrap in syntax sugar honey, please weigh in! from some...
I am using a module that is part of a commercial software API. The good news is there is a python module - the bad news is that its pretty unpythonic. To iterate over rows, the follwoing syntax is used: cursor = gp.getcursor(table) row = cursor.next() while row: #do something with row row = cursor.next() What is the most ...
If I want a list initialized to 5 zeroes, that's very nice and easy: [0] * 5 However if I change my code to put a more complicated data structure, like a list of zeroes: [[0]] * 5 will not work as intended, since it'll be 10 copies of the same list. I have to do: [[0] for i in xrange(5)] that feels bulky and uses a variable so s...
Suppose i have a function like this: def getNeighbors(vertex) which returns a list of vertices that are neighbors of the given vertex. Now i want to create a list with all the neighbors of the neighbors. I do that like this: listOfNeighborsNeighbors = [] for neighborVertex in getNeighbors(vertex): listOfNeighborsNeighbors.append(...
I'm trying to join a set of sentences contained in a list. I have a function which determines whether a sentence in worth saving. However, in order to keep the context of the sentence I need to also keep the sentence before and after it. In the edge cases, where its either the first or last sentence then, I'll just keep the sentence a...
I need to start some threads in a python program. The threads perform a background task which might take a long time, so I don't want to block the main thread waiting on the task to happen. Python provides the ability to 'reap' threads using Thread.join() and Thread.isAlive(). But I don't actually care about finding out when the thread ...
I'm curious of what other people consider good, Pythonic code. What I mean by Pythonic are libraries that show off good and idiomatic Python code. Adhering to the guidelines of Python. I.e good naming, correct use of modules and generally following best practices and so on. What's your favorite idiomatic Python library? Please provide ...
This is more of a curiosity question than anything else. I'm new with Python and playing around with it. I've just looked at the base64 module. What if instead of doing: import base64 string = 'Foo Bar' encoded = base664.b64encode I wanted to do something like: >>> class b64string(): >>> <something> >>> >>> string = b64string('Foo ...
A side effect of this question is that I was lead to this post, which states: Whenever isinstance is used, control flow forks; one type of object goes down one code path, and other types of object go down the other --- even if they implement the same interface! and suggests that this is a bad thing. However, I've used code like th...
Imagine this: def method(self, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa): pass The line overpass the 79 characters, so, what's the pythonic way to multiline it? ...