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Do I need a lock when using python multi-thread? Question: Think about this code: #!/usr/bin/env python from threading import Thread count = 0 def test(): global count for i in range(10): count = count + 1 if __name__ == '__main__': ...
Is there a way to view cPickle or Pickle file contents without loading Python in Windows? Question: I use cPickle to save data sets from each run of a program. Since I sometimes need to see the outline of the data without running the code, I would like an easy way to quickly view the contents by just double-clicking on...
Django: url and content creation results in 500 and no apache error log entry Question: If i try to open a created url i get an 500 error. My procedure was: First `python manage.py startapp black` I added in `project/settings.py` under `INSTALLED_APPS` `'black',` I added in `project/urls.py` `url(r'^test/', include...
gtk python expanding content to fit window Question: I have this program and, as much as I try I can not make the elements expand to occupy the area defined for the tire size of the application. Code: import smtpClass import xmlHostes import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0') import gtk ...
Index similar entries in Python Question: I have a column of data (easily imported from Google Docs thanks to [gspread](http://burnash.github.com/gspread/userguide.html#getting-the-entire- row-or-column)) that I'd like to intelligently align. I ingest entries into a dictionary. Input can include email, twitter handle o...
App Engine Python Authentication Custom Redirect Question: handlers: - url: /secure_api/.* script: _go_app login: required auth_fail_action: unauthorized This code only brings me to a page saying "Login required to view page." Is there a way to instead redirect to my home page? Answer...
Python Bar Plot pylab not reading in all data from csv Question: I am attempting to create a bar plot of a large text file of data that looks like the following, storedd in a csv file: #DowntonPBS, 23 #DowntonAbbey, 12 #Download, 8 #Download:, 2 #Downloads, 2 #DownstairsMixtape, 1 ...
How do I read a text file containing an array and place it in an array? (Python) Question: from numpy import * f = open('matrix.txt', 'r') x = [] for line in f.readlines(): y = [value for value in line.split()] x.append(y) f.close() x = map(int, x) a...
How to define a Django model with a reference to itself? Question: I'm new to Django and currently write an application, where users can enter their opinions on some topic. Every opinion A may have zero or more opinions, which support A and several (zero or more) opinions, which refute A. I tried to create a model fo...
Using Python 3.3 to access blocked webpages Question: I'm trying to download webpages off the internet. I'm able to steal the HTML (with URLlib), but I can't download images correctly. There's already a question for that though. My question is, **is there any way I can use python to bypass a firewall to access 'blocked...
Get 10 numbers from the end of the string with Python regex? Question: I have some strings like - 1. "07870 622103" 2. "(0) 07543 876545" 3. "07321 786543 - not working" I want to get the last 10 digits of these strings. like - 1. "07870622103" 2. "07543876545" 3. "07...
unicodedata.unidata_version prints wrong unicode version? Question: >>> import sys >>> sys.version_info sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=2, releaselevel='final', serial=0) >>> import unicodedata >>> unicodedata.unidata_version '5.2.0' Which means my Python version should have...
Inputting data from a text file with multiple numbers on each line - Python Question: Lets say I have a data file that has this inside it: 23 33 45 91 81 414 28 0 4 7 9 14 8 9 17 1 1 3 38 19 84 How can I import it into a list so that each individual number it its own item? ...
What can I do if celery forgets about tasks on a (apparently) random basis? Question: I have a flask app with sqlalchemy and a celery worker up and running. I use redis as my broker. Every time someone submits a new message in a conversation, a worker is started and is supposed to send notification mails to all people ...
import a file from different directory Question: i'm using python 2.7. I have written a script, i need to import a function from some other file which is there in different folder. my script is in the path C:\python\xyz\xls.py Path of File having function that i need to call is C:\py...
How do I implement a sliding window in Python? Question: I have a matrix for instance a=[12,2,4,67,8,9,23] and I would like a code that appends a value say 45 to it and removes the first value '12' so in essence I want to make a = [2,4,67,8,9,23,45] I want to work with regular ...
AttributeError when using numpy.logical_and with Pandas Series object Question: I'm confused about the difference between Pandas Series objects when using `reindex_like` and related features. For example, consider the following Series objects: >>> import numpy >>> import pandas >>> series = panda...
Combine items in list Question: Python3: dct = {'Mazda': [['Ford', 95], ['Toyota', 20], ['Chrysler', 52], ['Toyota', 5], ['Toyota', 26]]} I have the above dictionary with the values being a list within a list. What I would like to do is combine the items within the list that are the same and add th...
"object has no attribute" in custom Django model field Question: I am trying to create a Django model field that represents a duration with days, hours, minutes and seconds text input fields in the HTML, and stores the duration in the db using the ical format (RFC5545). (this is related to my question on [How to creat...
How can I extract a wrapped C++ type from a Python type using boost::python? Question: I've wrapped a C++ class using Py++ and everything is working great in Python. I can instantiate the c++ class, call methods, etc. I'm now trying to embed some Python into a C++ application. This is also working fine for the most-pa...
Transferring specific data from one excel file to another using python Question: I just started learning Python and I need help with a script my internship asked me to write. I have a csv file (sheet1.csv) and I need to extract data from only two of the columns which have the headers referenceID and PartNumber that co...
Python OS PostreSQL and quotes Question: I can find plenty here about quotes in PSQL but nothing that quite fits this problem. First it's a kludge. I know it's a kludge but I think I'm stuck with it (open to other alternatives though) I have a near black box third-party linux appliance to which I have limited access ...
Recurring function call with twisted Question: I have a basic IRC bot that looks something like this (see below), what I would like to do is use something like the `_5_mins` function to be called every 5 mins with a `LoopingCall` import sys import re from twisted.internet import reactor, task, de...
Python CSV module, add column to the side, not the bottom Question: I am new in python, and I need some help. I made a python script that takes two columns from a file and copies them into a "new file". However, every now and then I need to add columns to the "new file". I need to add the columns on the side, not the b...
Python Class Inheritance : dict how to pickle(save, load) Question: I'm playing around with class inheritances and I'm stuck on how to pickle data in the class dictionary. If dump only the dictionary part of self, when I load the dictionary back to self, self takes on a dict type instead of a class. But if I pickle th...
How to process xml files in python Question: I have a ~1GB XML file that has XML tags that I need to fetch data from. I have the XML file in the following format (I'm only pasting sample data because the actual file is about a gigabyte in size). **report.xml** <report> <report-name name="ALL_TIME_...
Python pygame continuos image loading FPS Question: Using pygame on a linux machine, continuously loading new images and displaying them slows down the program. The input images (400x300) are in PPM format to keep the file size constant (360K) - not to affect IO and avoid any decompression delays. It starts off at 50...
ImportError: cannot import name BaseHTTPRequestHandler Question: I try to run first example from [python wiki](http://wiki.python.org/moin/BaseHttpServer) and when I try to run it: $ python BaseHttpServer.py I get an error **AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'BaseHTTPRequestHandler'*...
How can I iterate over a data file without code duplication in python? Question: I want to write a script to process some data files. The data files are just ascii text with columns of data, here is a simple example... The first column is an ID number, in this case from 1 to 3. The second column is a value of interest...
Alter each for-loop in a function to have error handling executed automatically after each failed iteration Question: This question follows from [catch errors within generator and continue afterwards](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13645112/catch-errors-within- generator-and-continue-afterwards) I have about 50 si...
What happens to file descriptors in Python 3 when .close() fails? Question: The following Python 3 code exhibits some strange behavior (to me, at least) when I run it through `strace`: import os import sys if len(sys.argv) != 2: print('Usage: ecpy <filename>') sys.exit(1) try...
Is "cgi.escape" necessary in a Python application? Question: Was looking over a developer's code. He did something that I have never seen before in a Python application. His background is in PHP and is just learning python, so I don't know if this is perhaps a holdover from the different system architectures that he is...
How to add multiple files to py2app? Question: I have a python script which makes a GUI. When a button 'Run' is pressed in this GUI it runs a function from an imported package (which I made) like this from predictmiP import predictor class MiPFrame(wx.Frame): [...] def runmiP(self, ev...
How to test functions that throw exceptions Question: > **Possible Duplicate:** > [How do you test that a Python function throws an > exception?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/129507/how-do-you-test-that- > a-python-function-throws-an-exception) I have to do white-box and black-box testing so i`m wondering how...
How to change the layout of a Gtk application on fullscreen? Question: I'm developing another image viewer using Python and Gtk and the viewer is currently very simple: it consists of a `GtkWindow` with a `GtkTreeView` on the left side displaying the list of my images, and a `GtkImage` on the right side, displaying the...
Why am I getting DistributionNotFound error when I try to run Pyramid project? Question: **I installed in my new Windows 8 (x64):** * python-2.7 * pywin32-218.win32-py2.7 * setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7 * and pyramid (via easy_install) I tried to run my pyramid project: pserve I:\Projects\Py...
Rotation an object around his center using vpython Question: I'm making a moonlander game using VPython. The moonlander itself must be able to rotate around his own center, but he rotates around the wrong axis and/or around his original position instead. The axis and position where it has to rotate around don't change ...
Python: Searching for Unicode string in HTML with index/find returns wrong position Question: I am trying to parse the number of results from the HTML code returned from a search query, however when I use find/index() it seems to return the wrong position. The string I am searching for has an accent, so I try searching...
gtkSwitch in pygtk 2 on windows Question: I'm creating a python program to switch some hardware devices on and off. The program has to run on windows. I would really like to use the [gtkSwitch widget](http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/GtkSwitch.html) that was created in gtk 3.0, because then it is immediately obvious...
Finding the optimal set of pairwise alignments from a similarity matrix, with some wrinkles, in Python Question: I am trying to find the best alignment of two sequences from a similarity matrix. Higher values indicate better alignments. import numpy as np a = np.array([ [0,5,5,5,5,5,5,5], [3,...
application error on google app engine launcher Question: I am getting this error while running an application on google app engine launcher. This is the error i am getting. I have tried reinstalling but it didnt solve the error. Please tell me where i am going worng?! <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> Pyt...
ImportError: cannot import name timezone Question: After installing django-norel, and running `python manage.py shell`, I get this error: >>> from django.utils import timezone Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: cannot import name timezone ...
With python, how can I connect to and download files from, a WebDAV server? Question: My school has a webdav file server that contains files that I frequently need to download. For this server, I have a username and password that I can use to connect to the server, and If I go to the URL in chrome I can view everything...
Import error? (PYTHON 3.2) Question: I have my own module named v_systems, and I'm trying to import that module in another python file (which is also saved in the same directory as the file v_systems is saved) I need to import it as `import v_systems as vs` or even if I try to import as `import v_systems`. However it ...
Python and displaying HTML Question: I've gotten pretty comfortable with Python and now I'm looking to make a rudimentary web application. I was somewhat scared of Django and the other Python frameworks so I went caveman on it and decided to generate the HTML myself using another Python script. Maybe this is how you d...
Stream Parse Wiki Xml dump Question: I'm not sure if this question has been asked before but it has been I couldn't find it and please pardon my ignorance. I want to parse (stream parse) wikipedia xml dumps that are about 40 Gigs. I'm trying to use lxml iterparse aka stream parser to do this job for me but the code I w...
asynchronous subprocess with Popen Question: Using Windows 7 + python 2.6, I am trying to run a simulation model in parallel. I can launch multiple instances of the executable by double-clicking on them in my file browser. However, asynchronous calls with `Popen` result in each successive instance interrupting the prev...
Instantiating an object in a function - Python Question: I'm relatively new to python but think I have a decent enough understanding, except for (apparently) the correct way to use the "import" statement. I assume that's the problem, but I don't know. I have from player import player def initia...
Twitter Python program giving connection error Question: I am working on a Twitter data mining application in Python, using the modules twitter and redis, based upon the book "Mining the Social Web" by Matthew A.Russell. Whenever I try to get the information of friends and followers using the redis module, it gives me ...
Dictionary object to decision tree in Pydot Question: I have a dictionary object as such: menu = {'dinner':{'chicken':'good','beef':'average','vegetarian':{'tofu':'good','salad':{'caeser':'bad','italian':'average'}},'pork':'bad'}} I'm trying to create a graph (decision tree) using pydot with the 'm...
Downloading YouTube Captions with API in Python with utf-8 characters Question: I'm using [Jeff's demo code](http://gdata- samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gdata/captions_demo.py) for using the YouTube API and Python to interact with captions for my videos. And I have it working great for my videos in English. Unfortun...
How to make a list of characters in Python Question: My exam question asks me to take two letters as inputs, and display all letters in the alphabet between the two inputs (inclusively). It also needs to do this in the order the user input them (so GA produces `GFEDCBA` not `ABCDEFG`). How would I approach this task? ...
how to include django templates in app installed via pip? Question: I'm working on a django app ([django- flux](https://github.com/deanmalmgren/django-flux)) and I'm trying to get it to properly install with pip from [pypi](http://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=django- flux&version=0.1.0&%3aaction=display). From [this blog ...
I'm trying to print this array to a text file but only boxes show up, why? Python Question: import numpy as np with open('matrix.txt', 'r') as f: x = [] for line in f: x.append(map(int, line.split())) f.close() a = array(x) l, v = eig(a) L = ident...
Check if image is black Question: I'm running a Python script under Windows which deals with 480x800 `PNG` images with 32-bit depth. I need to check if the given image is fully black or not. After some searching I've found that ImageMagick could help me to achieve this but unfortunately there's no manual for such task....
PythonMagic: How do a composite with a dissolve value? Question: I like to do this with PythonMagick: composite -dissolve 40 over.png base.png new.png I have tried: import PythonMagick base = PythonMagick.Image("base.png") over = PythonMagick.Image("over.png") base.compos...
Effective way to get part of string until token Question: I'm parsing a very big csv (big = tens of gigabytes) file in python and I need only the value of the first column of every line. I wrote this code, wondering if there is a better way to do it: delimiter = ',' f = open('big.csv','r') for li...
python-dev installation error: ImportError: No module named apt_pkg Question: I got stuck in a problem. I am Debian user, and I want to install python-dev, but when I run the code in the shell as a root: # aptitude install python-dev I get the following error: Traceback (most recent ...
Using exec vs import in python Question: In django it's very common to use a `local_settings.py` file to supplement `settings.py` so that each machine can have different settings. Usually people do something like this. try: from local_settings import * except ImportError: print "No lo...
Get the runpath of a python console-script Question: Short of it - I need to get a console_script to return to me its current run path, so that I can override modules it is using at run time. Here is my basic setup (summarized as best I could): package_1: caller_module.py cons...
Python : getsize not defined Question: I am trying to sort the files based on their size and store the log in a file. But I get an error that says 'getsize' not defined. Please help me fix this. from ClientConfig import ClientConfig import os import os.path class VerifyFileNSize: ...
Pig UDF running on AWS EMR with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/pig/LoadFunc Question: I am developing an application that try to read log file stored in S3 bucks and parse it using Elastic MapReduce. Current the log file has following format ------------------------------- COLOR=Black ...
How to parse this special config file in python? Question: I have some config files and the data format can't be changed. One of them looks like this: root { configuration { field_a: "aaaa" field_b: "bbbb" } child { configuration { field_a: "aaa1" ...
String segmentation with html tags in python Question: I am trying to break a string into smaller segments using Python. The various cases can be: str1 = "Hello world. This is an ideal example string." Result: Hello world. This is an ideal example string. str2 = "`<H1>`Hello world.`</H1><P>`This is an HTML examp...
Opening/running Excel file from python Question: I need to start excel and open a file directly from python. Currently I am using: import os os.system('start excel.exe file.xls') However I do not get desired result. I want to open a file from local destination (file is in the same folder with p...
Way too slow wxPython application getting data from Google Spreadsheet and User input needs speed up solution Question: I want to make an application that reads out city names, road names, and distances between them from a Google Spreadsheet with several worksheets. So far I have the code bellow working right. It read...
Arduino, python, pyserial and socket Question: I am trying to write a simple webserver on an Arduino to test a few things, but I couldn't find my Arduino with Ethernet on it. "No worries" I thought, "I'll just write a socket server in python that acts as a proxy for the serial connection". import socket...
skip excel lines with python Question: I am making a Python script that parses an Excel file using the `xlrd` library. What I would like is to do calculations on different columns `if` the cells contain a certain value. Otherwise, skip those values. Then store the output in a dictionary. Here's what I tried to do : ...
python dictmixin object with property decorator Question: I was instructed to use more pythonish way of setter and getters @property. So we have something like this: from UserDict import DictMixin class A(dict): def __init__(self, a, b): self.a = a self.b = b ...
How do I open a .py file in python from a .py file in pypy? Question: My program currently consists of 2 .py files. I run the main part of the code in pypy (which is much faster) and then I open a second file in python that plots my data using `matplotlib.pyplot`. I have managed to open the using: subp...
best way to visualize google map in python Question: I am wondering which is the best way to visualize google's map using python and pygtk, for now I have tried this: import gtk import webkit win = gtk.Window() win.set_default_size(600, 400) web = webkit.WebView() web.open('https://go...
ctypes/C++ segfault accessing member variables Question: I am no stranger to the python ctypes module, but this is my first attempt at combining C++, C and Python all in one code. My problem seems to be very similar to [Seg fault when using ctypes with Python and C++](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12142766/seg-fau...
'==' operator not working correctly in python Question: Following piece of code is behaving incorrectly in my script : from ctypes import * base_addr = c_uint64(0) base_addr_temp = c_uint64(0) print base_addr print base_addr_temp if(base_addr == base_addr_temp): print "val" ...
How to selet a specific Test with python unitest testsuites Question: I have python unittest code organized as follows: Maindir | |--Dir1 | | | |-- test_A.py | |-- test_B.py | |-- test_C.py | |--Dir2 | ... I assume you get the p...
Estimating an Affine Transform between Two Images Question: I have a sample image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Xewdl.png) I apply the affine transform with the following warp matrix: [[ 1.25 0. -128 ] [ 0. 2. -192 ]] and crop a 128x128 part from the r...
Easiest way to draw tree diagrams? Question: I want to have a program which generates diagrams for trees, ones looking pretty much like [this](http://i.imgur.com/P11MX.jpg) It is to be a part of a project I am working on using C#, but if there is a way to make a Python or Javascript do it, that be okay as well. Maybe ...
What is the naming convention for Python class references Question: What is the naming convention for a variable referencing a class in Python? class MyClass(object): pass # which one is correct? reference_to_class = MyClass # or ReferenceToClass = MyClass Here is ...
Selecting conserved residues in protein using PyMol script by importing residue list from a text file Question: I wanted to select certain highly conserved residues in a protein (computed by a scoring mechanism and listed in a text file - each residue in a single line) using a PyMol script. The PyMol script below that ...
python script to open excel workbook, and change the name of the first worksheet and execute stored proc Question: i have this python script that's supposed to open an excel workbook from directory and then change the name of the first worksheet and then run a stored procedure on the first worksheet and the subsequent ...
Changing str to int in Python Question: I am new to python. I am trying to make a small elavator program. The code: import time elavator = True # 0 is B floor // basement elavatorFloors = [0,1,2,3,4,5] while elavator == True: getLevel = input ("Which floor would you like to ...
Python MultiThreading Queue suddenly stops doing anything Question: I have a file that contains 600K+ lines of stuff I want to process. So I use multithreading to speed up the process. But the problem is for example I use 50 as the number of threads, after processing 50 lines the script just does nothing else. It d...
Django 1.5b1: executing django-admin.py causes "No module named settings" error Question: I've recently installed Django-1.5b1. My system configuration: * OSX 10.8 * Python 2.7.1 * Virtualenv 1.7.2 When I call **django-admin.py** command I get the following error (devel)ninja Django-1.5b1: django...
Loop patchwork in python3 Question: I need to create a patchwork in Python 3. All I have left to do is create a loop which makes the design border the graphics window. I know I need a for loop however I am not sure how to do this. This is what I have so far: from graphics import * def main(): ...
calling standard python functions from rubypython Question: I am trying to use the rubypython gem. Not sure how to call standard python functions like len and set. In the python examples I see len(text3) and set(text3). How do I call these in rubypython? Here is the link to rubypython: <http://rubypython.rubyforge.or...
how do i write a program to click a particular link in Python Question: My program takes an user input and searches it through a particular webpage . Further i want it to go and click on a particular link and then download the file present there . Example : 1. The webpage : <http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do> ...
How can I provide Sphinx documentation for a namedtuple (with autodoc)? Question: I am trying to document a Python project with Sphinx, but I'm having trouble combining the `autodoc` extension with a `namedtuple` generated class. In one document, `gammatone.rst`, I have: :mod:`gammatone` -- gammatone fi...
List all files in an online directory with Python? Question: Hello i was just wondering i'm trying to create a python application that downloads files from the internet but at the moment it only downloads one file with the name i know... is there any way that i can get a list of files in an online directory and downloa...
Python & lxml / xpath: Parsing XML Question: I need to get the value from the FLVPath from this link : <http://www.testpage.com/v2/videoConfigXmlCode.php?pg=video_29746_no_0_extsite> from lxml import html sub_r = requests.get("http://www.testpage.co/v2/videoConfigXmlCode.php?pg=video_%s_no_0_ext...
Python + Sqlite: Unable to determine cause of incorrect number of bindings supplied error Question: I'll get right into it - I first created a local db for myself: import sqlite3 conn = sqlite3.connect("tofire.db") # cursor = conn.cursor() # create a table cursor.execu...
Pickling Django QuerySet Question: from myapp.models import MyModel from cPickle import * tmp = MyModel.objects.all()[:1] print(loads(dumps(t, -1)) == t) #Output is "False" In my case pickled query result differs from unpickled. I already read here: <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev...
UnicodeEncodeError Python when creating .csv file Question: I am trying to create a .csv file with data that I have stored into a list from Twitter search API. I have saved the last 100 tweets with a keyword that I chose (in this case 'reddit') and I am trying to save each tweet into a cell in a .csv file. My code is b...
The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous error? python Question: from numpy import * from pylab import * from math import * def TentMap(a,x): if x>= 0 and x<0.5: return 2.*a*x elif x>=0.5 and x<=1.: return 2.*a*(1.-x) # We...
How do I plot 3 subplots in the same display window? python Question: # Import plotting routines from pylab import * # 1D ODE that has a pitchfork bifurcation # x_dot = r * x - x * x * x def PitchforkODE(r,x): return r * x - x * x * x # 1D Euler def OneDEuler(r,x,f,dt): ...
bdate_range AttributeError Question: The following lines give AttributeError: `'module' object has no attribute 'bdate_range'`. I think this might have something to do with a circular reference; but, I don't know where. import pandas as pd times = pd.bdate_range(start=pd.datetime(2012,11,14,0,0...
Is there a way to write a Python script that creates and executes code? Question: Is there a way in Python to create Python code inside the Python script and then execute/test it? My function has the following type of form (as an example) def f(n): if n<=3: return [0, 0, 6, 12][n] return...
Plotting a differentiated graph from nested lists in Python Question: I have made a script which produces a graph from data in a nested list (temperature and changes). #!/usr/bin/python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt temperature = [['65', '65.5', '66', '66.5', '67', '67.5', '68', '68.5', '6...
about python, I can't understand the example provided in a book Question: I'm a new learner about python and there are some problems when I try to repeat the example provided in a guide book. This example is about recommendation algorithm. This example is trying to implement an item list which stores the users having r...
Scale imread matrix in python Question: I am looking for a way to rescale the matrix given by reading in a png file using the matplotlib routine imread, e.g. from pylab import imread, imshow, gray, mean from matplotlib.pyplot import show a = imread('spiral.png') #generates a RGB image, so do ...
What does "input() already active" mean in python fileinput module? Question: I'm trying to read 2nd line in text.txt file: import fileinput x = 0 for line in fileinput.input([os.path.expandvars("$MYPATH/text.txt")]): if x < 3: x += 1 if x == 2: ...
text process in python Question: I have data like this: value1 something text something text And I want to change the something text with the value. Example: value1 value1 value1 Answer: One way: import sys file = open('file','r') ...