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I wish to control my computer (and usb devices attached to the computer) at home with any computer that is connected to the internet. The computer at home must have a program installed that receives commands from any other computer that is connected to the internet. I thought it would be best if I do this with a web interface as it would...
Hi All, I am testing chardet in one of my scripts. I wanted to identify the encoding type of a result variable and chardet seems to do fine here. So this is what I am doing: myvar1 <-- gets its value from other functions myvar2 = chardet.detect(myvar1) <-- to detect the encoding type of myvar1 Now when I do a print myvar2,...
Let's say I'm working in the Python shell and I'm given a function f. How can I access the string containing its source code? (From the shell, not by manually opening the code file.) I want this to work even for lambda functions defined inside other functions. ...
Hey, I have a method which I will accept either a single object or a list of objects. I want to add whatever is passed to another list. Currently, my method looks like this: def appendOrExtend(self, item): if type(item).__name__ == "list": self.list.extend(item) else: self.list.append(item) It seems to me that there shoul...
I've have asked these questions before with no proper answer. I hope I'll get some response here. I'm developing an instant messenger in python and I'd like to handle video/audio streaming with VLC. Tha basic idea right now is that in each IM client I'm running one VLC instance that acts as a server that streams to all the users I want...
How to serialize dajngo model in json format if i want include foreign key models fields. If i have: class Model1(models.Model): name=models.CharField() child=models.ForeignKey(Model2) class Mode2(models.Model): field1=models.CharField() field2=models.IntegerField() I wanna include everything in js...
I have a master/worker model implemented with separate python processes. The master process holds job/result lists which are protected by mutexes. Many workers run on many machines (about 200 worker processes). I have noticed that on each machine the workers tend to do 0-20% more or less work than other worker processes and that the mac...
Is there any reason for a class declaration to inherit object? I just found some code that does this and I can't find a good reason why. class MyClass(object): # class code follows... The code is using swig for binding some C code to Python, if that's relevant. ...
Which compression method in Python has the best compression ratio? Is the commonly used zlib.compress() the best or are there some better options? I need to get the best compression ratio possible. I am compresing strings and sending them over UDP. A typical string I compress has about 1,700,000 bytes. ...
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I want to establish a standard script file that is imported into python at startup using the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable. Additionally, I want to be able to conveniently reload the same script file after modifying it in an external editor, to test its behavior after the modification. I created a ~/.pythonrc.py file and set it as P...
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I downloaded the python client for magento from Here But When I am downloading is using python setup.py install then it shows following error. How can i rectify this error? error: File "setup.py", line 31, in <module> import magento File "/home/sam/Downloads/magento-0.1.1/magento/__init__.py", line 21, in <module> from api...
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I have created a Python Program that converts strings into images at run time , using PIL's Image Draw module. I want to run this program interfaced with a simple web form that should display a text field to input the string and on pressing a button , it should display the string converted as an image. Would be a great deal of help if...
After installing Python 2.7 on Windows XP, then manually setting the %PATH% to python.exe (why won't the python installer do this?), then installing setuptools 0.6c11 (why doesn't the python installer do this?), then manually setting the %PATH% to easy_install.exe (why doesn't the installer do this?), I finally tried to install a python ...
Hi, Looking for few days for some simple solution for this, but I think that in this moment I am still on the beginning :) I need good web crawler written in Python to store complete page into mysql database. Small system that I am experimenting uses now PHP Sphider to crawl and store into database. I need something that works almost ex...