Here is a python script that loads a url and captures response time: import urllib2 import time opener = urllib2.build_opener() request = urllib2.Request('http://example.com') start = time.time() resp = opener.open(request) resp.read() ttlb = time.time() - start Since my timer is wrapped around the whole request/response (including ...
This was the best name I could come up with for the topic and none of my searches yielded information relevant to the question. How do I call a function from a string, i.e. functions_to_call = ["func_1", "func_2", "func_3"] for f in functions_to_call: call f ...
Hi. I'm trying to build an a simple CRUD admin section of my application. Basically, for a given Model, I want to have a template loop through the model's attributes into a simple table (once I do this, I can actually implement the CRUD part). A possible way to accomplish this is to dynamically generate a template with all the necessary ...
In particular, I'd like to know if I can specify an embedded option in the pattern string that will enable multiline mode. That is, typically with Python regular expressions multiline mode is enabled like this: pattern = re.compile(r'foo', re.MULTILINE) I'd like a way to get multiline matching by specifying it in the pattern string, ...
I want to pull certain comments from my py files that give context to translations, rather than manually editing the .pot file basically i want to go from this python file: # For Translators: some useful info about the sentence below _("Some string blah blah") to this pot file: # For Translators: some useful info about the sentence b...
What is the best way to have many children records pointing to one parent record in the same model/table in Django? Is this implementation correct?: class TABLE(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) parent = models.ForeignKey("TABLE", unique=False) ...
I've been messing around with different languages and frameworks to find the right fit and I think at some point it would be nice to make money doing web development. Likely I would need to start out with freelance projects to find work at first, which I think would be ideal anyway. My problem is that there really doesn't seem to be mu...
How can I define a multi-statement function or procedure in using the MySQLdb lib in python? Example: import MySQLdb db = MySQLdb.connect(db='service') c = db.cursor() c.execute("""DELIMITER // CREATE FUNCTION trivial_func (radius float) RETURNS FLOAT BEGIN IF radius > 1 THEN RETURN 0.0; ELSE RETURN...
It appears Python's difflib.HtmlDiff, rather than using INS and DEL, uses SPAN elements with custom classes: python -c 'import difflib; txt1 = "lorem ipsum\ndolor sit amet".splitlines(); txt2 = "lorem foo isum\ndolor amet".splitlines(); d = difflib.HtmlDiff(); print d.make_table(txt1, txt2)' Before I go about fixing this myself, has a...
I know next to nothing about Python but have decided to jump in. I'm curious though, is Python strictly interpreted at run time, or can it be used to develop programs that run as background applications (like a Java app or C program)? ...
Lately I have been playing a game on my iPhone called Scramble. Some of you may know this game as Boggle. Essentially, when the game starts you get a matrix of letters like so: F X I E A M L O E W B X A S T U The goal of the game is to find as many words as you can that can be formed by chaining letters together. You can start with an...
I need to have following attribute value in my XML node: CommandLine="copy $(TargetPath) ..\..\
echo dummy > dummy.txt" Actually this is part of a .vcproj file generated in VS2008. 
 means line break, as there should be 2 separate commands. I'm using Python 2.5 with minidom to parse XML - but unfortunately I don'...
Hi All, I've got a basic problem in python, and I would be glad for some help :-) I have two functions. One that convert a text file to a dictionary. And one that splits a sentence into separate words: (This is the functiondoc.txt) def autoparts(): list_of_parts= open('list_of_parts.txt', 'r') for line in list_of_parts: ...
By creating datastore models that inherit from the Expando class I can make my model-entities/instances have dynamic properties. That is great! But what I want is the names of these dynamic properties to be determined at runtime. Is that possible? For example, class ExpandoTest (db.Expando): prop1 = db.StringProperty() prop2 = db.Str...
How can I call a specific event manually from my own code? ...
I'm having problems implementing a borg in python. I found an example in an answer to this question but it's not working for me, unless I'm missing something. Here's the code: class Config: """ Borg singleton config object """ __we_are_one = {} __myvalue = "" def __init__(self): #implement the borg pattern...
When I call a external .exe program in python, how can I get the output of printf in .exe application and print them on python IDE? ...
I'm interested in testing the performance of my django apps as I go, what is the best way to get line by line performance data? note: Googling this returns lots of people benchmarking django itself. I'm not looking for a benchmarks of django, I'm trying to test the performance of the django apps that I'm writing :) Thanks! edit: By "l...
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Hello, I have a python script that is writing text to images using the PIL. Everything this is working fine except for when I encounter strings with carriage returns in them. I need to preserve the carriage returns in the text. Instead of writing the carriage return to the image, I get a little box character where the return should be. ...