Is there a way in python to programmatically determine the width of the console? I mean the number of characters that fits in one line without wrapping, not the pixel width of the window. Edit Looking for a solution that works on Linux ...
I am trying to debug a problem with a django view. When I run it on the command line. I don't get any of these messages. However when I run the it in the PyDev debugger i get these error messages. I am running with the --noreload option. What do these error messages mean? Why do I not get them when I run it on the command line? /Syste...
I'm in the process of learning Python while implementing build scripts and such. And for the moment everything is working fine in that the scripts do what they need to do. But I keep having the feeling I'm missing something, such as "The Python Way". I know build scripts and glue scripts are not really the most exciting development work ...
Hi, could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with this code. It is just printing 'count' anyway. I just want a very simple prime generator (nothing fancy). Thanks a lot. lincoln. import math def main(): count = 3 one = 1 while one == 1: for x in range(2, int(math.sqrt(count) + 1)): if count % x == 0: ...
I would be interested in knowing what the StackOverflow community thinks are the important language features (idioms) of Python. Features that would define a programmer as Pythonic. Python (pythonic) idiom - "code expression" that is natural or characteristic to the language Python. Plus, Which idioms should all Python programmers lea...
Hello. I like to know what libraries do you use for simple plot graphs? --Bar charts, line charts, pie charts ... Particularly in Python. Thanks! ...
Is it safe to use Python UUID module generated values in URL's of a webpage? Wnat to use those ID's as part of URL's. Are there any non-safe characters ever generated by Python UUID that shouldn't be in URL's? ...
Heyas So I'm trying to get a process to be run as a super user from within a python script using subprocess. In the ipython shell something like proc = subprocess.Popen('sudo apach2ctl restart', shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) works fine, but as soon as I stick it into a script I st...
I have a python script which is querying a MySQL server on a shared linux host. For some reason, queries to MySQL often return a "server has gone away" error: _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') If you try the query again immediately afterwards, it usually succeeds. So, I'd like to know if there's ...
Does anyone know of a good online compiler/runtime (for C++, Java, Python, ObjC etc.) that I can access on the web? What I'm looking for is something that would allow me to type in a program in a web form and to run the program and see the results online. (Let's not get into the why for now. Suffice it to say for the moment that I don...
What would be an easy expression to process command line arguments if I'm expecting anything like 001 or 999 (let's limit expectations to 001...999 range for this time), and few other arguments passed, and would like to ignore any unexpected? I understand if for example I need to find out if "debug" was passed among parameters it'll be ...
I am using BeautifulStoneSoup to parse an XML document and change some attributes. I noticed that it automatically converts all XML tags to lowercase. For example, my source file has <DocData> elements, which BeautifulSoup converts to <docdata>. This appears to be causing problems since the program I am feeding my modified XML document t...
I am looking for a way for clients in a LAN to find all the instances of my server application without any configuration. Instead of hacking something myself, I'd like to use an existing solution. Personally, I need it to be done in Python, but I'd happy to hear about solutions in any other language. So why am I not using avahi or OpenS...
I'm using curl and pycurl to connect to a secure 3rd party api and when I use pycurl I'm getting authentication errors back from the server, but when I use curl on the command line and do the same thing it works. I set both to verbose mode and am seeing some differences in the request, but I can't seem to figure out what the error is. T...
Is there a way to check to see if a pid corrosponds to a valid process? I'm getting a pid from a different source other than from os.getpid() and I need to check to see if a process with that pid doesn't exist on the machine. Much thanks. Update: I need it to be available in Unix and Windows. Update #2: I should be more specific - I'm ...
How can you get the diff of two word .doc documents programatically? Where you can then take the resulting output and generate an html file of the result. (As you would expect to see in a normal gui diff tool) I imagine if you grabed the docs via COM and converted the output to text you could provide some diff funcitonality. Thoughts? ...
I'm sure I must be being very dumb, but I can't figure out how to use an array or matrix in the way that I would normally use a list. I.e., I want to create an empty array (or matrix) and then add one column (or row) to it at a time. At the moment the only way I can find to do this is like: mat = None for col in columns: if mat is ...
Looking for a way to programmatically insert comments (using the comments feature in Word) into a specific location in a MS Word document. I would prefer an approach that is usable across recent versions of MS Word standard formats and implementable in a non-Windows environment (ideally using Python and/or Common Lisp). I have been looki...
I want to do build a small app that creates MIDI sounds. I've never dealt with sound in programming so I'd like to start with something that's basic and has good documentation. I want to stick with Python since I'm the most comfortable with it and don't want to overwhelm myself, initially. My time is split about 50/50 between Windows an...
I'm building a support ticket tracking app and have a few models I'd like to create from one page. Tickets belong to a Customer via a ForeignKey. Notes belong to Tickets via a ForeignKey as well. I'd like to have the option of selecting a Customer (that's a whole separate project) OR creating a new Customer, then creating a Ticket and fi...