I need a copy of this library installed on my system because my software depends on this library. Unfortunately, at the moment, it's impossible install it trough easy_install: andrea@puzzle:~$ sudo easy_install Unipath [sudo] password for andrea: Searching for Unipath Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Unipath/ Reading http://slugg...
Common Lisp guys have their CL-WHO, which makes HTML templating integrated with the "main" language thus making the task easier. For those who don't know CL-WHO, it looks like this (example from CL-WHO's webpage): (with-html-output (*http-stream*) (:table :border 0 :cellpadding 4 (loop for i below 25 by 5 do (htm (:tr :a...
I am writing editing front ends in Python since several years now, and I am fed up with micromanaging every UI detail of a window or dialog every single time. Is there a technology that allows me to, say, specify the relations between a GTK+ Glade-designed interface and the tables and records of an SQLite database to do all the middle m...
This is quite n00bish, but I'm trying to learn/understand functional programming in python. The following code: foos = [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0] bars = [1,2,3] def maptest(foo, bar): print foo, bar map(maptest, foos, bars) produces: 1.0 1 2.0 2 3.0 3 4.0 None 5.0 None Q. Is there a way to use map or any other functional tools in ...
Is there, in Django, a standard way to write complex, custom filters for QuerySets? Just as I can write MyClass.objects.all().filter(field=val) I'd like to do something like this : MyClass.objects.all().filter(customFilter) I could use a generator expression (x for x in MyClass.objects.all() if customFilter(x)) but that would...
Guys, How do i send AT GSM commands using python? Am able to do this quite easily using Delphi and some comport component (TComport), but how do i talk to my modem using python? Gath ...
I'm a somewhat advanced C++/Java Developer who recently became interested in Python and I enjoy its dynamic typing and efficient coding style very much. I currently use it on my small programming needs like solving programming riddles and scripting, but I'm curious if anyone out there has successfully used Python in an enterprise-quality...
is python slower than java/C#? performance-comparison-c-java-python-ruby-jython-jruby-groovy Here is a project that optimizes CPython unladen-swallow ...
I want to select file from a dialog box. Here is code that does all I need but tkMessageBox Not Found. I am using Py3k. How should I solve this problem? Or Is there any other way to create File Dialog in python? Thanks ...
I am using reportlab toolkit in Python to generate some reports in PDF format. I want to use some predefined parts of documents already published in PDF format to be included in generated PDF file. Is it possible (and how) to accomplish this in reportlab or in python library? I know I can use some other tools like PDF Toolkit (pdftk) bu...
My next work is going to be heavily focused on working with data that is best understood when organized on a two-dimensional zoomable plane or canvas, instead of using lists and property forms. The library can be based on OpenGL, GTK+ or Cairo. It should allow me to: build widgets out of vector shapes and text (perhaps even SVG based?...
I have a Window with a TextView, and I would like to perform some actions when the user pastes some text. I would also like to know what signal(s) should I catch in order to perform something when the user presses a key inside the TextView. Can you tell me what are the signals I must connect? ...
I want to enable a user on a website to upload an image, and write some text over it. Also, they should be able to crop/scale/move the image and text. For that stuff, I can do it in jQuery. After they've made the image the way they want it, is there a way i can take a screenshot of that image (using PiL) and save it on the server? Wh...
I'm trying to read from an open os.pipe() to see if it's empty at the moment of the reading. The problem is that calling read() causes the program to block there until there is actually something to read there however there won't be any, if the test I'm doing succeeded. I know I can use select.select() with a timeout however I wanted t...
In Oracle sql there is a feature to order as follow: order by decode("carrot" = 2 ,"banana" = 1 ,"apple" = 3) What will be the best way to implement this in python? I want to be able to order a dict on its keys. And that order isn't alphabetically or anything, I determine the order. ...
I have a small Django website which I am trying to run on an Apache 2.2 HTTP-Server. The application is running fine using "python manage.py runserver". Django Version: 1.0.2 final Python: 2.5 OS: Windows 2000 I wen't through the steps described in the documentation and after some fiddling, came out with the following in my httpd.con...
I'm a C(++)/C# programmer and I would like to learn a scripting language to create small tools (text processing, build scripts, a little web development, etc). I would like to learn either Ruby or Python. Is there a good reason to chose one over the other? I looked at some sample code in both languages and they seem very similar to me....
Basically I want to have an editable form for related entries instead of a static listing. ...
I've added new models and pushed to our staging server, run syncdb to create their tables, and it locks up. It gets as far as 'Create table photos_photousertag' and postgres output shows the notice for creation of 'photos_photousertag_id_seq', but otherwise i get nothing on either said. I can't ctrl+c the syncdb process and I have no ind...
I'm using a PyQt4 user interface. I've redirected stderr to a log file for easy debugging and trouble-shooting, but now I need to display error messages to the user when an error occurs. My issue is that I need to catch an exception when it happens and let the user know that it happened, but still let the traceback propagate to stderr ...