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Python error with debugging Question: I am very new with Python and I have just received this message while trying to use Visual Studio plugin for Python: try: import boinc # getting the exception here _BOINC_ENABLED = True except: _BOINC_ENABLED = False and this is the ...
python: from modules import abc.py does not work Question: I have recently switched from python 2.7 to python 3.2 considering following folder structure: ~/my_program ~/my_program/modules where *my_program* is the root of the application, containing main script called _main.py_ ...
Setting properties from CSV file using eval (Python) Question: I have CSV files that contain numerous values that I want to reference. I wanted to parse them succinctly using `eval`. Here's what I tried: line = fileHandle.readline() while line != "": if line != "\n": parameter = line.sp...
modifying familyName and givenName Question: I'm having an issue renaming a user account's familyName and givenName. I'm using the GData API for Python. After running the program no errors are shown. When I print the entryObject it does not show any difference from the original. What am I doing wrong? Thank you! ...
Sorting a Python list by third element, then by first element, etc? Question: Say I have a list in the form [[x,y,z], [x,y,z] etc...] etc where each grouping represents a random point. I want to order my points by the z coordinate, then within each grouping of z's, sort them by x coordinate. Is this possible? Answer...
Get recarray attributes/columns python Question: I'm trying to retrieve the column titles of a recarray, and running into considerable trouble. If I read in a .csv file using pylab's csv2rec function, I am able to access column titles in the following manner: from pylab import csv2rec x = csv2rec(fil...
What are the downsides to defining a C macro that works like the Python "with" statement? Question: After playing around a bit with C preprocessors, I thought of a way to have something similar to a Pythonian with control structure, defined like this: #define with(var) for(int i##__LINE__=0;i##__LINE__<1...
Searching and writing Question: I need to write a program which looks for words with the same three middle characters(each word is 5 characters long) in a list, then writes them into a file like this : wasdy casde tasdf gsadk csade hsadi Between the similar words i need to ...
OpenGL ES source files Question: I am trying to build the OpenGL SO lib from android sources (libGLESv2.so) and i would like a little bit more understanding of the internal mechanism of Android OpenGL ES and the flow. Please correct me where i am wrong: I know that in windows a developer includes gl.h and static link ...
Why does "pip install" raise a SyntaxError? Question: I'm trying to use pip to install a package. I try to run `pip install` from the Python shell, but I get a `SyntaxError`. Why do I get this error? How do I use pip to install the package? >>> pip install selenium ^ SyntaxError: in...
Compare List Similarity Python Question: S = ['hom'] L = ['home','honda','Hammer','Elephant'] I want to get output to show similarity hom = home and print home How I can do this? I want to use approximate matching to change "hom" to "home". Answer: For somethi...
payload of an email in string format, python Question: I got payload as a string instance using `get_payload()` method. But I want my payload in a way where I could access it word by word I tried several things like `as_string() method, flatten() method, get_charset() method` , but every time there is some problem. I ...
Python callback working with functions but not methods Question: I have a third-party Python library that allows me to register a callback function that it called later. While the code works okay with functions, when I tried to pass a method it fails, the callback is never called. I have no control over the third par...
Python - Append to CSV Question: I am trying to append to a CSV file with the following code import csv cat_options = [row for row in csv.reader(open('catOptions.csv', 'r'), delimiter =',')] print cat_options new_cat = raw_input("\nEnter the new category: ") cat_options = csv.writer(open(...
Converting IBM DB2 IXF file to CSV or XML Question: How do I convert an exported IXF file (using `db2 export`) to a human-readable format, like CSV or XML? I am comfortable with doing it in Python or .NET C#. Answer: The PC/IXF format is fairly complex, and is practically unknown to programs outside of DB2. Writing y...
Python : Display a Dict of Dicts using a UI Tree for the keys and any other widget for the values Question: I have three dicts, one providing a list of all the available options, and two providing a subset of choices (one set for defaults and one for user choices). I get the three dicts using python's built in JSON par...
how to run python script from shell Question: I have a noob question. I got a python script path1/path2/file.py The script has a function: def run (datetime = None): In the shell I call import path1.path2.file import datetime path1.path2.file.run(datetime = datetime(2011,12...
Python subprocess call with arguments having multiple quotations Question: I use the following command in bash to execute a Python script. python myfile.py -c "'USA'" -g "'CA'" -0 "'2011-10-13'" -1 "'2011-10-27'" I'm writing a Python script to wrap around this one. I'm currently having to use os.sy...
Sending JSON using the django test client Question: I'm working on a django a project that will serve as the endpoint for a webhook. The webhook will POST some JSON data to my endpoint, which will then parse that data. I'm trying to write unit tests for it, but I'm not sure if I'm sending the JSON properly. I keep get...
How to receive/get C struct from Python Question: I have a standalone Python module used to perform analysis on some raw data. The module is working great. Now I need the output generated by the Python module in C source that will do further processing on output. Here is the rough idea of flow: 1. C source will ca...
Writing complex custom metadata on images through python Question: I'm looking to write custom metadata on to images(mostly jpegs, but could be others too). So far I haven't been able to do that through PIL preferably (I'm on centos 5 & I couldn't get pyexiv installed) I understand that I can update some pre-defined ta...
How to do POS tagging using the NLTK POS tagger in Python? Question: I just started using a part-of-speech tagger, and I am facing many problems. I started POS tagging with the following: import nltk text=nltk.word_tokenize("We are going out.Just you and me.") When I want to print `'text'`, th...
How to fill a textArea in an online form automatically using Python? Question: I am wondering how I can fill an online form automatically. I have researched it and it tuned out that, one can uses Python ( I am more interested to know how to do it with Python because it is a scripting language I know) but documentation ...
How to use python NLP POS tagger in C# code? Question: I came across and successfully used a python NLP POS tagger.The problem is that my code was in c# and I used a python pos tagger because I could not find a good c# pos tagger.Now,I don't know how to use this python NLP POS tagger in my c# code.Could anyone guide me...
How to put device context (wx.DC) into a sizer? -wxpython Question: Hello I would like to put device context into a sizer, however when I try to do this, python returns an error. import wx class Example(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, parent, title): super(Example, self).__init__(pa...
load pyd files from a zip from embedded python Question: I can load Python modules (.py, .pyc, .pyd) from a zip file by calling "import some_module" from a Python interpreter only after sys.path has been extended to include the zip file and only after I have run import zipextimporter zipextimporter.i...
Get point IDs after clustering, using python Question: > **Possible Duplicate:** > [Python k-means > algorithm](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1545606/python-k-means- > algorithm) I want to **cluster** 10000 indexed points based on their feature vectors and **get their ids** after clustering i.e. cluster1:[p1, ...
How to tell what python version libboost_python.so is using? Question: I'd like to know what version of python boost_python.so is expecting. This is on a computer with multiple python versions and I did not build/install boost myself (nor do i have root access). How can i tell what version of python boost_python.so is...
Using matplotlib: ImportError: No module named animation? Question: I've tried using the EPD installation on Mac OS X, the apt-get install process on Ubuntu, and the EPD installation on Ubuntu. In the python interactive interpretor: >>> import matplotlib.animation as animation Traceback (most recent...
How to pass value to a function Question: I am new to python and doing this homework. I need to create a small program with menu. I was very good 'til now. I am a little bit lost. How can I pass a value to the function? Can you please check if there are any other faults in my code. import turtle as t ...
Using Voice instead of 'raw_input' in python for Mac OS X Question: I'm in the process of making a Python-based personal assistant/question answerer, which, in my wildest dreams, will rival the inevitable "Siri For Mac". However, as of now, it requires you type text into an infinite loop of raw_inputs, and processes th...
Initializing a static variable in Python Question: ## Context Say, we want to use the Box-Muller algorithm. Starting from a couple of random numbers U1 and U2, we can generate G1 and G2. Now, for any call, we just want to output either G1 or G2. In other languages, we could use static variables to be able to know if w...
Python logging with multiple modules Question: I have got various modules in which I use Python logging heavily. When I import them into the main module like in the Python documentation and try to run it, I don't get any output from the logging. Has anyone got any idea what is happening? Logging is called in the modul...
Removing cocos2d-python from Mac Question: I installed cocos2d today on OS X Lion, but whenever I try to import **cocos** in the Python interpreter, I get a bunch of import errors. > File "", line 1, in File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/ python2.7/site- > packages/cocos2d-0.5.0-py2.7.egg/co...
I clear try clearing the surface in python, then it still draws the button? Question: I clear try filling the screen with white then importing an image, but when I use display.flip() the buttons are still there and it still detects collision? How do I fix this?? def stagesel(): screen.fill(WHITE) ...
Python, os.system fails when script not in same folder Question: I have a bat.bat file containing the following command: **'setup.py build'** I have a script that executes this bat command using: `os.system('E:/bla/FPtest/retryURL/Temp_installed/bat.bat'` If i run the script from the same folder as the bat.bat ...
Unexpected: flufl.enum prints integer value Question: Using Python 3, I unpackaged the flufl.enum code into my application source tree just to try it. Sample code: from taurine.flufl.enum import Enum class Colors(Enum): red = 1 green = 2 blue = 3 print(Colors.red...
Click the javascript popup through webdriver Question: I am scraping a webpage using Selenium webdriver in Python The webpage I am working on, has a form. I am able to fill the form and then I click on the Submit button. It generates an popup window( Javascript Alert). I am not sure, how to click the popup through we...
Why do I keep getting this title match error with my Python program? Question: When I run the following code, I keep getting this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Robert\Documents\j-a-c-o-b\newlc.py", line 94, in <module> main() File "C:\Users\Robert\Documents\...
More pythonic way to iterate in Numpy Question: I am an engineering student and I'm accustomed to write code in Fortran, but now I'm trying to get more into Python for my numerical recipes using Numpy. If I needed to perform a calculation repeatedly using elements from several arrays, the immediate translation from wh...
Python tkinter grid manager? Question: I just learned how to use tkinter in Python (3.2.2), and I'm having some problem using the grid manager. When I put button.grid(sticky=SE), for example, the button is not being put in the bottom-right and is just being put in the upper-left, ignoring the sticky value. What am I do...
What is wrong with my regex Pattern to find recurring cycles in Python? Question: I want to match any string that has a recurring cycle. Like in this data: 3333333333333333333333333333333333333333 / 1 digit cycle(3) 1666666666666666666666666666666666666666 / 1 digit cycle(6) 142857142857142857142...
Why does the code : os.popen('move *.bin tmp) only move one file? Question: all, Currently, I write a python code in WIN, i'd like to run the command line code move *.bin tmp but only one file was removed. How can I make popen to finish this task? Best wish! Answer: I suggest using Pythons own...
Extract Text from a Binary File (using Python 2.7 on Windows 7) Question: I have a binary file of size about 5MB.. which has lots of interspersed text.. and control characters.. This is actually an equivalent of an outlook .pst file for SITATEX Application (from SITA). The file contains all the TEXT MESSAGES sent and...
Why are my Amazon S3 key permissions not sticking? Question: I'm using the Python library `boto` to connect to Amazon S3 and create buckets and keys for a static website. My keys and values are dynamically generated, hence why I am doing this programmatically and not through the web interface (it works using the web in...
multiprocessing Listeners and Clients between python and pypy Question: Is it possible to have a [Listener server process and a Client process](http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#module- multiprocessing.connection) where one of them uses a python interpreter and the other a [pypy](http://pypy.org/) int...
TaggedCorpusReader and UnigramTagger in nltk (python) Question: I'm trying to use nltk to auto-categorize news articles in a very lo-fi way. I've created a custom corpus of word/tag pairs correlating to my categories (ie. teacher/EDU, computer/TECH, etc.) I've been reading around and [this question](http://stackoverflo...
gai error at /home [Errno -2] Name or service not known Question: per the example in the httplib docs: >>> import httplib, urllib >>> params = urllib.urlencode({'@number': 12524, '@type': 'issue', '@action': 'show'}) >>> headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", ... ...
Pprint module works slowly with Django in 32bits system Question: I use Django on a 32 bits Ubuntu machine with Python 2.7. My development server has been slow all the time, taking about 15 seconds to render any page. I ran a cProfile test to see what works so slowly. Seems that it's the pprint module. Here's my stat...
Conversion of unix epoch time to windows epoch time in python Question: Quick question: Is there a pythonic (whether in the standard libraries or not) way to convert unix 32-bit epoch time to windows 64-bit epoch time and back again? Answer: You can convert a POSIX timestamp to a `datetime` with >>> ts...
pythonic way to iterate over part of a list Question: I want to iterate over everything in a list except the first few elements, e.g.: for line in lines[2:]: foo(line) This is concise, but copies the whole list, which is unnecessary. I could do: del lines[0:2] for line in...
Error: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' after setting up virtualenv for Django Question: I am doing this on Fedora **Problem:** (sandbox)[root@localhost mysite]# django-admin.py runserver Error: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named mysite.setti...
imp.load_source() in Python Question: When is it useful to use `imp.load_source()` [method](http://docs.python.org/library/imp.html) for importing Python module? Has it some advantage in some scenario in opposite to normal importing with `import` keyword? Answer: `import` always looks in the following [order](http://...
including additional static xml with python Question: I need my current script to include additional xml. This is the script in its current form: import csv import sys from xml.etree import ElementTree from xml.dom import minidom video_data = ((256, 336000), (5...
Eclipse PyDev auto-import malfunctioning Question: I've been trying to get used to pydev for a couple of days now, and I really like it, but if I keep the auto-import option on, it keeps importing for example `from test.test_iterlen import len` (and many others) whenever I want a `len(something)` even though it's not n...
do not understand this use of sys module Question: Here is code from a tutorial in A Byte of Python: import sys filename = 'poem.txt' def readfile(filename): #Print a file to standard output f = file(filename) while True: line = f.readline() ...
Why does Django make Python look ugly? Question: I took up the Python programming language because of its design philosophies, its great community and most importantly for me its beautiful syntax. However, recently I've been a left a little disheartend. In my attempts to customise Django I've come across code that I th...
Unescaping filenames generated by ls -R Question: I have a text file containing the output of a recursive directory listing that generally looks like this: ./subfolder/something with spaces: something\ with\ spaces.txt* something\ with\ spaces.dat* ./subfolder/yet another thing: yet\...
Unusual Math with incorrect results? Question: My python interpreter is acting funky when I use the math.cos() and math.sin() function. For example, if I do this on my calculator: cos(35)*15+9 = 21.28728066 sin(35)*15+9 = 17.60364655 But when I do this on python (both 3.2 and 2.7) ...
Roundrobin over changing set Question: I'd like to implement a simple round robin over a Python list or set that may be changed at runtime. The Problem is that I have a set of tasks that are to be executed in a round robin fashion, which should be simple enough to implement with a list and a modular increment of the in...
Mac OS X 10.6, Mysql, Mysql-Python, Django Question: # UPDATE: I came across this post: [Python mysqldb on Mac OSX 10.6 not working](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5072066/python-mysqldb-on-mac- osx-10-6-not-working) saw two options: 1. Add MySQL client libraries to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH mysql_config --libs -L/u...
Python SUDS SOAP request to https service 401 Question: I am trying use SUDS and am stuck trying to figure out why I can't get authentication to work (or https). The service I am trying to access is over https with basic digest authentication. Based on the debugs it seems to be using http instead of https. But not rea...
How can I use Python to pipe stdin/stdout to Perl script Question: This Python code pipes data through Perl script fine. import subprocess kw = {} kw['executable'] = None kw['shell'] = True kw['stdin'] = None kw['stdout'] = subprocess.PIPE kw['stderr'] = subprocess.PIPE args =...
Python: How to import, from two modules, Classes that have same names? Question: I'm writing a python programm to do granular syncs between different DB. I'm using SQLAlchemy and a module named sqlautocode for DB inspecting and Schema Classes production. Having two DB to sync, with same tables name, the Classes writt...
Python catch any exception, and print or log traceback with variable values Question: When I catch unexpected error with sys.excepthook import sys import traceback def handleException(excType, excValue, trace): print 'error' traceback.print_exception(excType, excValue, trace)...
wxpython capture keyboard events in a wx.Frame Question: I'm trying to capture keyboard events that happen inside a wx.Frame, and I would expect the following code to capture those events. However, the handler OnKeyDown is never called when I run the code: import logging as log import wx cla...
Application of the dynamic/functional features of Python Question: I'm learning Python and it seems to be too dynamic to me. Application of some of the dynamic/functional features I understand. For example, you can use dynamic typing to write functions that behave the same for complex and real numbers. But application ...
Python IP Check Question: Given the range xxx.xxx.xxx.(195-223) Is that correct to write it in xxx.xxx.xxx.196/29 and check whether an IP is in the given network by doing from ipaddr import IP, CIDR #if IP('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx') in IP('xxx.xxx.xxx.196/29') or #if IP('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx') in CIDR('xxx.x...
Error while using urllib.request.urlopen in Python Question: What's wrong with this code? >>> from urllib.request import urlopen >>> for line in urlopen("http://google.com/"): print(line.decode("utf-8")) <!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text...
matlab subsref: {} with string argument fails, why? Question: There are a few implementations of a hash or dictionary class in the Mathworks File Exchange repository. All that I have looked at use parentheses overloading for key referencing, e.g. d = Dict; d('foo') = 'bar'; y = d('foo'); wh...
Python variables naming convention Question: So I am trying to switch to PEP8 notation (from a rather personal CamelCase notation) and I was wondering how you guys are tackling the cases where existing functions/variables would be overwritten? e.g. having something like: open, high, low, close, sum = ro...
python: how to tell if file executed as import vs. main script? Question: I'm writing a python file `mylib.py` I'd like mylib.py to do something based on `sys.argv` if it's being executed as a script. But if it's imported from some other script, I don't want it to do that. How can I tell if my python file is being im...
Python UTF-8 XML parsing (SUDS): Removing 'invalid token' Question: Here's a common error when dealing with UTF-8 - 'invalid tokens' In my example, It comes from dealing with a SOAP service provider that had no respect for unicode characters, simply truncating values to 100 bytes and neglecting that the 100'th byte ma...
How to append to PYTHONPATH in Tornado so Handlers can use other libraries? Question: I am attempting to start a Tornado web server, but I need the Handlers to be able to import libraries from a custom path. I cannot simply add sys.path.append('..') when launching Tornado, so how do I do it? Answer: import sys ...
Passing in arguments to a called script Question: I'm running `nosetests` on my project with `--with-snort` for Growl notifications. The problem is that I have some lib files that I put on the path, so I have a custom python script at `bin/python`. I have no issues running nose via my `bin/python` by doing `which nos...
PYTHON 2.6 XML.ETREE to output single quote for attributes instead of double quote Question: i got the following code : #!/usr/bin/python2.6 from lxml import etree n = etree.Element('test') n.set('id','1234') print etree.tostring(n) the output generate is `<tes...
AES Encryption in Google App Engine (Python) and Decryption on iOS (Objective-C) Question: I'm trying to encrypt some data from python (Google App Engine) and then decrypt it on iOS. There are several issues surrounding this based on the fact that there are so many options with AES Encryption and the different formats...
Best way to implement 2-D array of series elements in Python Question: I have a dynamic set consisting of a data series on the order of hundreds of objects, where each series must be identified (by integer) and consists of elements, also identified by an integer. Each element is a custom class. I used a defaultdict to...
Google App Engine static pages Python 2.5 directories etc Question: I am new at this and am planning to move my stuff from a paid web service to GAE (nothing dynamic just static pages). Believe me I have spent countless hours trying to make this work but am at an impasse whereby I achieve one result at the exclusion of...
how to extract certain text from file? Question: i want to extract certain section of the text file. my input file: -- num cell port function safe [ccell disval rslt] "17 (BC_1, CLK, input, X)," & "16 (BC_1, OC_NEG, input, X), " &-- Merged input/ " 8 (BC_1, D(8), input, X)," & -- ce...
Python's pretty printing of matrix Question: I have to print several rows of data and do it good. I can do it with C++ changing parameters of std::cout, but I can't understand how I can do it with Python. For example, I have this: row1 = [1, 'arc1.tgz', 'First', '15.02.1992'] row2 = [16, 'arc2modifie...
Change from re.findall(regex, text) to nltk.Text.findall(regex) Question: Using Python and the NLTK I have written a regex to find words with start with a capital letter in a body of text but aren't at the beginning of a sentence. Initially I was using it as follow: [w for w in text if re.findall(r'(?<!...
Linear interpolation using pycuda (lerp) Question: I am a recreational pythonista who just got into pyCUDA. I am trying to figure out how to implement a linear interpolation (lerp) using pyCUDA. The CUDA CG function is: <http://http.developer.nvidia.com/Cg/lerp.html> My ultimate goal is a bilinear interpolation in pyc...
Python CGI not executing on Mac OSX 10.6.7 Question: Recently I started reading Mark Lutz's "Programming Python - Fourth Edition". I am a mac user, using ActivePython and OSX 10.6.7. Anyways, everything was going fine until the first instance of CGI in the book. The code example creates a form, and uses a POST method f...
Python - Multiple choice markup parsing Question: Consider this text: > Would you like to have responses to your questions sent to you via email ? I'm going to propose multiple choices for several words by marking up them like that: > Would you like [to get]|[having]|g[to have] responses to your questions sent > [up...
heatmap using scatter dataset python matplotlib Question: I am writing a script to make a heatmap for scatter data on two dimensionS. The following is a toy example of what I am trying to do: import numpy as np from matplotlib.pyplot import* x = [1,2,3,4,5] y = [1,2,3,4,5] heatmap, xedges...
Gunicorn + Subprocesses raises exception [Errno 10] Question: I've stumbled across a weird exception I haven't been able to resolve... can anyone suggest what is wrong or a new design? I'm running a Gunicorn/Flask application. In the configuration file, I specify some work to do with an `on_starting` hook [1]. Inside t...
How to create a query for matching keys? Question: I use the key of another User, the sponsor, to indicate who is the sponsor of a User and it creates a link in the datastore for those Users that have a sponsor and it can be at most one but a sponsor can sponsor many users like in this case ID 2002 who sponsored three ...
Unresolved import csv Pydev Eclipse Question: I have a love-hate relationship with Pydev on Eclipse. For some reason it is now telling me that it has an unresolved import on the code: import csv Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/peterstannett/Documents/Programming/python/ecli...
wxpython: Multiple panels Question: I'm new to wxpython so bare with me. I'm having two problems with my program. The code below generates two panels when it should generate 3. It generates `panel1` and `panel2` no problem but `panel3` should be to the right of `panel2` is no where to be seen. `Panel1` and `panel2` ar...
using Mysql and SqlAlchemy in Pyramid Framework Question: Pyramid Framework comes with a sample tutorial of sql alchemy that uses sqlite. The problem is that i want to use mysql so i change this sqlalchemy.url = sqlite:///%(here)s/tutorial.db Into this sqlalchemy.url = mysql://root:2...
How do you make a sprite appear in pygame/python? Question: I'm trying to make a basic (Mario style) game but my sprite(plumber) doesn't appear, it could be hidden behind background? i'm not exactly sure, i am not getting any errors either. import pygame import sys import itertools import pyg...
Python: Using itertools to get previous, current, and next item in list from text file Question: I have setup my code as outlined in [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1012089/571600) (shown below): from itertools import tee, islice, chain, izip def previous_and_next(some_iterable): ...
Draw simple shapes and save to file (pdf) Question: I am looking for a python library that I can use to draw simple shapes and characters and then save to a file (in a format convertible to pdf). I would prefer if I did not need an X-server running. E.g. could look something like this import drawing_lib...
Internal Python ID for first field in database Question: The following is part of my python script: gp.CalculateField_management("parcs", "Apn", "[oldApnfield]") The problem is that the field I am calculating from is going to be named something different in each shapefile, so I can't use the field ...
Neighbourhood of Scipy Labels Question: I've got an array of objects labeled with `scipy.ndimage.measurements.label` called `Labels`. I've got other array `Data` containing stuff related to `Labels`. How can I make a third array `Neighbourhoods` which could serve to map **the nearest label to _x,y_ is _L_** Given `Lab...
Algorithm to extract network info from ifconfig (ubuntu) Question: Im trying to parse info from ifconfig (ubuntu). Normally, I would split a chunk of data like this down into words, and then search for substrings to get what I want. For example, given `line = "inet addr:192.168.98.157 Bcast:192.168.98.255 Mask:255.255....
Control loop for a number-guessing game in Python Question: I'm trying to write a program which generates a pseudo-random number and allows the user to guess it. When the user guesses the number wrong, as is most likely, I would like the function to return to the beginning of the conditional loop, not the very beginnin...
Optimizing matplotlib pyplot: plotting for many small plots Question: I want to make a movie of some plotted points moving around for a rudimentary traffic simulation. Plotting takes forever, though--~10 frames takes 7s!! What's up with that? Python code: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot ...
Python unittest issue Question: I have a unittest script in a 'tests' directory which I execute like: $ python3 -m unittest mainmodule.tests, the entire class is a super simple one, has an assertEquals(1, 1), the script runs, but it says: 0 tests ran in 0.000 seconds .... OK. No matter how I run the script (from cons...