I am looking for best practices for function/class/module documentation, i.e. comments in the code itself. Ideally I would like a comment template which is both human readable and consumable by Python documentation utilities. I have read the Python documentation on docstrings: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html. I underst...
I'm going to start of by noting that I have next to no python experience. As you may know, by simply dropping a shortcut in the Send To folder on your Windows PC, you can allow a program to take a file as an argument. How would I write a python program that takes this file as an argument? And, as a bonus if anyone gets a chance -- ...
I'm having a small problem with a Python program (below) that I'm writing. I want to insert two values from a MySQL table into another table from a Python program. The two fields are priority and product and I have selected them from the shop table and I want to insert them into the products table. Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. Mar...
I want to do something like this: c:\data\> python myscript.py *.csv and pass all of the .csv files in the directory to my python script (such that sys.argv contains file1.csv, file2.csv, etc.) But sys.argv just receives *.csv indicating that the wildcard was not expanded, so this doesn't work. I feel like there is a simple way to ...
I have written a few Python tools in the past to extract data from my Outlook contacts. Now, I am trying to modify my Outlook Contacts. I am finding that my changes are being noted by Outlook, but they aren't sticking. I seem to be updating some cache, but not the real record. The code is straightforward. import win32com.client import ...
On a Django project, I was hoping to flatten a shallow list with a nested list comprehension, like this: [image for image in menuitem.image_set.all() for menuitem in list_of_menuitems] But I get in trouble of the NameError variety there, because the name 'menuitem' is not defined. After googling and looking around on Stack Overflow, ...
My code: a = '2.3' I wanted to display a as a floating point value. Since a is a string, I tried: float(a) The result I got was : 2.2999999999999998 I want a solution for this problem. Please, kindly help me. I was following this tutorial. ...
This is a(n) historical question, not a comparison-between-languages question: This article from 2005 talks about the lack of a single, central framework for Python. For Ruby, this framework is clearly Rails. Why, historically speaking, did this happen for Ruby but not for Python? (or did it happen, and that framework is Django?) Also,...
Hi, how can i catch key combinations like ALT+K or CTRL+ALT+H in python curses? Thanks in advance. ...
I'm having difficulty getting widgets in a QDialog resized automatically when the dialog itself is resized. In the following program, the textarea resizes automatically if you resize the main window. However, the textarea within the dialog stays the same size when the dialog is resized. Is there any way of making the textarea in the d...
Hi, I'm making a game engine in c++ and python. I'm using OGRE for 3D rendering, OpenAL for sound, ODE for physics, OIS for input, HawkNL for networking and boost.python for embedded python interpreter. Every subsystem (library) is wrapped by a class - manager and every manager is singleton. Now, I have a class - Object - this could be ...
Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to initiate a file upload with urllib2 and the urllib2_file library. Here's my code: import sys import urllib2_file import urllib2 URL='http://aquate.us/upload.php' d = [('uploaded', open(sys.argv[1:]))] req = urllib2.Request(URL, d) u = urllib2.urlopen(req) print u.read() I've placed this .py fi...
Few blob's have been duplicated in my database(oracle 11g), performed XOR operations on the blob using UTL_RAW.BIT_XOR. After that i wanted to count the number of set bits in the binary string, so wrote the code above. During a small experiment, i wanted to see what is the hex and the integer value produced and wrote this procedure.. ...
Hello, I need to use a priority queue in my Python code. Looking around for something efficient, I came upon heapq. It looks good, but seems to be specified only for integers. I suppose it works with any objects that have comparison operators, but it doesn't specify what comparison operators it needs. Besides, heapq seems to be implem...
Python's subprocess module by default passes all open file descriptors to any child processes it spawns. This means that if the parent process is listening on a port, and is killed, it cannot restart and begin listening again (even using SO_REUSEADDR) because the child is still in possession of that descriptor. I have no control over t...
I've been inspired by Modifying Microsoft Outlook contacts from Python -- I'm looking to try scripting some of my more annoying Outlook uses with the win32com package. I'm a Linux user trapped in a Windows users' cubicle, so I don't know much about COM. I'm looking for information on whether COM allows for reflection via win32com or whe...
More particularly - I have a window handle of another running application. This application contains a TListControl.UnicodeClass control somewhere (I know this from Winspector). How can I, using the Windows API and that window handle, go through all the items in that list control and get the text from all of the items? You can assume th...
Last couple of days we were discussing at another question the best to manage randomness in a RESTful way; today I went to play a little bit with some ideas in Django only to find that there is no easy standard way of returning a 303 response (nor a 300 one, btw), that is, there doesn't seem to exist an HttpResponseSeeOther inside django...
I use cvs to maintain all my python snippets, notes, c, c++ code. As the hosting provider provides a public web- server also, I was thinking that I should convert the cvs automatically to a programming snippets website. cvsweb is not what I mean. doxygen is for a complete project and to browse the self-referencing codes online.I think...
I have a wxPython application that relies on an external config file. I want provide friendly message dialogs that show up if there are any config errors. I've tried to make this work by wrapping my app.MainLoop() call in a try/except statement. The code below works for the init code in my MainWindow frame class, but doesn't catch any...