Hello all, I know how to append date to the end of the file name, but I m not sure how can I later in script put that filename as a link to FTP server. For instance: import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() suffix = now.strftime(""%d-%m-%Y, %H:%M"") filename = 'My history(%s).txt'%suffix How can I hard code it NOW variable so ...
Hi, I have a bunch of apps written in Python 2.4. I'd like to port them onto more recent version of the interpreter. Let's say I have no need of syntax features, but I am very concerned about performance. So which of the upper python versions is the fastest (the most optimized) - 2.4 or 2.5 or 2.6 or 2.7 ? Performance comparison artic...
Hi Everyones, I'm trying to use this library : pastebin.com/xgPXpGtw (an example of use: pastebin.com/fNFAW3Fh) I have some issues since I dont want to split in an array all the byte as he does. My test script looks like this: import random from random import * def onerand(packet): pack = packet[:] byte = str(chr(choice(rang...
I have a dataset consisting of date-value pairs. I want to plot them in a bar graph with the specific dates in the x-axis. My problem is that matplotlib distributes the xticks over the entire date range; and also plots the data using points. The dates are all datetime objects. Here's a sample of the dataset: data = [(DT.datetime.strpt...
A person (a senior citizen who is learning the very basics of computers) asked me to make a program that will save him LOTS of time with a grunt work type of task. I made the script in Python, it's simple, command line, takes input from the user and saves the output to a file and that's it. My first question is related to the output of ...
I am trying to install the aggdraw python library to create high quality graphics but I keep getting this error: agg22/include/agg_array.h: In member function `agg::int8u* What is the workaround for this? How can I install it? ...
I am looking for (list of) projects that use py.test. I am new to testing, and want to use py.test. I need examples from projects, so i can use py.test extensively. The documentation is good for py.test but is too fragmented to get a good grasp. I have a vague idea of how it works. I saw the py.test video(3hrs) from pycon. But need some...
A webpage has a product code I need to retrive, and it is in the following HTML section: <table...> <tr> <td> <font size="2">Product Code#</font> <br> <font size="1">2342343</font> </td> </tr> </table> So I guess the best way to do this would be first to reference the html element with the text value 'Product Code#', and then re...
Suppose that I am looping over a iterable and would like to take some action if the iterator is empty. The two best ways that I can think of to do this are for i in iterable: # do_something if not iterable: # do_something_else and empty = True for i in iterable: empty = False # do_something if empty: # do_someth...
can i connect two objects that are in different classes ? lets say i want button1's clicked() signal to clear line2 class A(QGroupBox): def __init__(self, parent=None): super(A, self).__init__(parent) self.button1= QPushButton('bt1') self.button1.show() class B(QGroupBox): def __init__(self, parent=Non...
A url looks like: http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/blahblah?&PC=abd23423&uy=020 I need to extract the value: abc23423 I tried this regex but its not working: rx = re.compile(r'PC=(\w*)&uy=') I then I did: pc = rx.search(url).groups() but I get an error: attribute error: nonetype object has no attribute groups. ...
Say I reference an element inside of a table in a HTML page like this: someEl = soup.findAll(text = "some text") I know for sure this element is embedded inside a table, is there a way to find the parent table without having to call .parent so many times? <table...> .. .. <tr>....<td><center><font..><b>some text</b></font></center><...
I have a numpy array of pixel data that I want to draw at interactive speeds in pygtk. Is there some simple, fast way to get my data onto the screen? ...
I want to send it and forget it. The http rest service call I'm making takes a few seconds to respond. The goal is to avoid waiting those few seconds before more code can execute. I'd rather not use python threads I'll use twisted async calls if I must and ignore the response. ...
Can seem to find a substring function in python. Say I want to output the first 100 characters in a string, how can I do this? I want to do it safely also, meaing if the string is 50 characters it shouldn't fail. ...
Hi I have a wxpython app designed using XRC which has a multiline textctrl inside nested boxlayouts. I'm adding some text(retrieved from the web) to the text control using SetValue(), inside the longtask method from a separate thread using the following code thread.start_new_thread(self.longtask, ()) The app runs fine the first c...
Hi All, i'm a newbie in python , and trying to install libgmail .. this is what i get : C:\libgmail-0.1.11>setup.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\libgmail-0.1.11\setup.py", line 7, in <module> import libgmail File "C:\libgmail-0.1.11\libgmail.py", line 96 exec data in {'__builtins__': None}, {'D': lambda x: r...
I've got an exam coming up soon. I've been looking through the past paper, this question keeps bugging me. I can't seem to find what the bug in the program could be because I'm quite new to all this. Can anyone help me out? The following program contains a bug. Determine what kind of problem the program exhibits, and show how it can be...
So I have this page: http://hub.iis.sinica.edu.tw/cytoHubba/ Apparently it's all kinds of messed up, as it gets decoded properly but when I try to save it in postgres I get: DatabaseError: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xedbdbf The database clams up after that and refuses to do anything without a rollback, which will be...
Hi I wonder if you can help. I want to write a script in python that will run a query on google and output the results of the query as Thanks adaptive ...