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# extracting text from MS word files in python ## Question for working with MS word files in python, there is python win32 extensions, which can be used in windows. How do I do the same in linux? Is there any library? ## Answer Just an option for reading 'doc' files without using COM: miette. Should work on any platf...
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# extracting text from MS word files in python ## Question for working with MS word files in python, there is python win32 extensions, which can be used in windows. How do I do the same in linux? Is there any library? ## Answer If you have LibreOffice installed, you can simply call it from the command line to convert...
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# extracting text from MS word files in python ## Question for working with MS word files in python, there is python win32 extensions, which can be used in windows. How do I do the same in linux? Is there any library? ## Answer Is this an old question? I believe that such thing does not exist. There are only answered...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer Depends on what you want to do. To append you can open it with "a": with open("foo.txt", "a") as f: f.write("new line\n")...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer Unfortunately there is no way to insert into the middle of a file without re-writing it. As previous posters have indicated, you ...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer Rewriting a file in place is often done by saving the old copy with a modified name. Unix folks add a ~ to mark the old one. Wi...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer Python's mmap module will allow you to insert into a file. The following sample shows how it can be done in Unix (Windows mmap ma...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer The fileinput module of the Python standard library will rewrite a file inplace if you use the inplace=1 parameter: import sys i...
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# How do I modify a text file in Python? ## Question I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? ## Answer As mentioned by Adam you have to take your system limitations into consideration before you can decide on approach whether you ha...
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# Python library for rendering HTML and javascript ## Question Is there any python module for rendering a HTML page with javascript and get back a DOM object? I want to parse a page which generates almost all of its content using javascript. ## Answer Only way I know to accomplish this would be to drive real browser...
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# Python library for rendering HTML and javascript ## Question Is there any python module for rendering a HTML page with javascript and get back a DOM object? I want to parse a page which generates almost all of its content using javascript. ## Answer The big complication here is emulating the full browser environme...
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# Python library for rendering HTML and javascript ## Question Is there any python module for rendering a HTML page with javascript and get back a DOM object? I want to parse a page which generates almost all of its content using javascript. ## Answer QtWebKit is contained in PyQt4, but I don't know if you can use i...
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# Python library for rendering HTML and javascript ## Question Is there any python module for rendering a HTML page with javascript and get back a DOM object? I want to parse a page which generates almost all of its content using javascript. ## Answer You can probably use python-webkit for it. Requires a running gl...
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# Example Facebook Application using TurboGears -- pyFacebook ## Question I have a TurboGears application I'd like to run through Facebook, and am looking for an example TurboGears project using pyFacebook or minifb.py. pyFacebook is Django-centric, and I can probably figure it out, but this is, after all, the lazy w...
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# Example Facebook Application using TurboGears -- pyFacebook ## Question I have a TurboGears application I'd like to run through Facebook, and am looking for an example TurboGears project using pyFacebook or minifb.py. pyFacebook is Django-centric, and I can probably figure it out, but this is, after all, the lazy w...
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# Iterate a list with indexes in Python ## Question I could swear I've seen the function (or method) that takes a list, like this [3, 7, 19] and makes it into iterable list of tuples, like so: [(0,3), (1,7), (2,19)] to use it instead of: for i in range(len(name_of_list)): name_of_list[i] = something but I can't...
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# Iterate a list with indexes in Python ## Question I could swear I've seen the function (or method) that takes a list, like this [3, 7, 19] and makes it into iterable list of tuples, like so: [(0,3), (1,7), (2,19)] to use it instead of: for i in range(len(name_of_list)): name_of_list[i] = something but I can't...
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# Iterate a list with indexes in Python ## Question I could swear I've seen the function (or method) that takes a list, like this [3, 7, 19] and makes it into iterable list of tuples, like so: [(0,3), (1,7), (2,19)] to use it instead of: for i in range(len(name_of_list)): name_of_list[i] = something but I can't...
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# Iterate a list with indexes in Python ## Question I could swear I've seen the function (or method) that takes a list, like this [3, 7, 19] and makes it into iterable list of tuples, like so: [(0,3), (1,7), (2,19)] to use it instead of: for i in range(len(name_of_list)): name_of_list[i] = something but I can't...
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# Iterate a list with indexes in Python ## Question I could swear I've seen the function (or method) that takes a list, like this [3, 7, 19] and makes it into iterable list of tuples, like so: [(0,3), (1,7), (2,19)] to use it instead of: for i in range(len(name_of_list)): name_of_list[i] = something but I can't...
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# Checking for code changes in all imported python modules ## Question Almost every Python web framework has a simple server that runs a wsgi application and automatically reloads the imported modules every time the source gets changed. I know I can look at the code and see how it's done, but that may take some time a...
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# Checking for code changes in all imported python modules ## Question Almost every Python web framework has a simple server that runs a wsgi application and automatically reloads the imported modules every time the source gets changed. I know I can look at the code and see how it's done, but that may take some time a...
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# Find out number of capture groups in Python regular expressions ## Question Is there a way to determine how many capture groups there are in a given regular expression? I would like to be able to do the follwing: def groups(regexp, s): """ Returns the first result of re.findall, or an empty default >>> gr...
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# Find out number of capture groups in Python regular expressions ## Question Is there a way to determine how many capture groups there are in a given regular expression? I would like to be able to do the follwing: def groups(regexp, s): """ Returns the first result of re.findall, or an empty default >>> gr...
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# Find out number of capture groups in Python regular expressions ## Question Is there a way to determine how many capture groups there are in a given regular expression? I would like to be able to do the follwing: def groups(regexp, s): """ Returns the first result of re.findall, or an empty default >>> gr...
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# Find out number of capture groups in Python regular expressions ## Question Is there a way to determine how many capture groups there are in a given regular expression? I would like to be able to do the follwing: def groups(regexp, s): """ Returns the first result of re.findall, or an empty default >>> gr...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer I guess one way would be to help with documentation (tr...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer If you aren't up to actually working on the Python core...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer Get involved with the community: http://www.python.org...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer Add to the docs. it is downright crappy Help out other ...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer Build something cool in Python and share it with others...
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# Contributing to Python ## Question I'm a pretty inexperienced programmer (can make tk apps, text processing, sort of understand oop), but Python is so awesome that I would like to help the community. What's the best way for a beginner to contribute? ## Answer I see two ways of going about it: working on Python dir...
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# Editing XML as a dictionary in python? ## Question I'm trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python. Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some text attributes, and write the new xml out to a file. I wanted it to work something like this: con...
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# Editing XML as a dictionary in python? ## Question I'm trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python. Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some text attributes, and write the new xml out to a file. I wanted it to work something like this: con...
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# Editing XML as a dictionary in python? ## Question I'm trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python. Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some text attributes, and write the new xml out to a file. I wanted it to work something like this: con...
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# Editing XML as a dictionary in python? ## Question I'm trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python. Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some text attributes, and write the new xml out to a file. I wanted it to work something like this: con...
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# Editing XML as a dictionary in python? ## Question I'm trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python. Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some text attributes, and write the new xml out to a file. I wanted it to work something like this: con...
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# How to implement a Decorator with non-local equality? ## Question Greetings, currently I am refactoring one of my programs, and I found an interesting problem. I have Transitions in an automata. Transitions always have a start-state and an end-state. Some Transitions have a label, which encodes a certain Action tha...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer What is the exact error yo...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer import re,datetime s="2008...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer Try the iso8601 module; it...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer Note in Python 2.6+ and Py...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer For something that works w...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer I've coded up a parser for...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer The python-dateutil packag...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer The python-dateutil will t...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer If you don't want to use d...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer Nobody has mentioned it ye...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer This works for stdlib on P...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer Several answers here sugge...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer If you are working with Dj...
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# How to parse an ISO 8601-formatted date in Python? ## Question I need to parse RFC 3339 strings like "2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z" into Python's datetime type. I have found strptime in the Python standard library, but it is not very convenient. What is the best way to do this? ## Answer Django's parse_datetime() ...
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# What is the best way to store set data in Python? ## Question I have a list of data in the following form: [(id\__1_, description, id\_type), (id\__2_, description, id\_type), ... , (id\__n_, description, id\_type)) The data are loaded from files that belong to the same group. In each group there could be multiple...
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# What is the best way to store set data in Python? ## Question I have a list of data in the following form: [(id\__1_, description, id\_type), (id\__2_, description, id\_type), ... , (id\__n_, description, id\_type)) The data are loaded from files that belong to the same group. In each group there could be multiple...
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# What is the best way to store set data in Python? ## Question I have a list of data in the following form: [(id\__1_, description, id\_type), (id\__2_, description, id\_type), ... , (id\__n_, description, id\_type)) The data are loaded from files that belong to the same group. In each group there could be multiple...
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# What's the best way to upgrade from Django 0.96 to 1.0? ## Question Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ## Answer Upgrade. For me it was very simple: change __str__() to __unicode__(), write basic admin.py, and done. Ju...
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# What's the best way to upgrade from Django 0.96 to 1.0? ## Question Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ## Answer Although this depends on what you're doing, most applications should be able to just upgrade and then fix...
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# What's the best way to upgrade from Django 0.96 to 1.0? ## Question Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ## Answer Just upgrade your app. The switch from 0.96 to 1.0 was huge, but in terms of Backwards Incompatible chang...
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# What's the best way to upgrade from Django 0.96 to 1.0? ## Question Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ## Answer Only simplest sites are easy to upgrade. Expect real pain if your site happen to be for non-ASCII part o...
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# What's the best way to upgrade from Django 0.96 to 1.0? ## Question Should I try to actually upgrade my existing app, or just rewrite it mostly from scratch, saving what pieces (templates, etc) I can? ## Answer We upgraded in a multi step process and I'm quite happy with that. The application in Question was about ...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Should Python import statements always be at the top of a module? ## Question PEP 08 states: Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. However if the class/method/function that I am importing is only used in rare cases...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Using property() on classmethods ## Question I have a class with two class methods (using the classmethod() function) for getting and setting what is essentially a static variable. I tried to use the property() function with these, but it results in an error. I was able to reproduce the error with the following in...
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# Doing CRUD in Turbogears ## Question Are there any good packages or methods for doing extensive CRUD (create-retrieve-update-delete) interfaces in the Turbogears framework. The FastDataGrid widget is too much of a black box to be useful and CRUDTemplate looks like more trouble than rolling my own. Ideas? Suggestions...
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# Doing CRUD in Turbogears ## Question Are there any good packages or methods for doing extensive CRUD (create-retrieve-update-delete) interfaces in the Turbogears framework. The FastDataGrid widget is too much of a black box to be useful and CRUDTemplate looks like more trouble than rolling my own. Ideas? Suggestions...
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# Does Django support multi-value cookies? ## Question I'd like to set a cookie via Django with that has several different values to it, similar to .NET's HttpCookie.Values property. Looking at the documentation, I can't tell if this is possible. It looks like it just takes a string, so is there another way? I've tri...
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# Does Django support multi-value cookies? ## Question I'd like to set a cookie via Django with that has several different values to it, similar to .NET's HttpCookie.Values property. Looking at the documentation, I can't tell if this is possible. It looks like it just takes a string, so is there another way? I've tri...
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# Does Django support multi-value cookies? ## Question I'd like to set a cookie via Django with that has several different values to it, similar to .NET's HttpCookie.Values property. Looking at the documentation, I can't tell if this is possible. It looks like it just takes a string, so is there another way? I've tri...
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# Perl or Python script to remove user from group ## Question I am putting together a Samba-based server as a Primary Domain Controller, and ran into a cute little problem that should have been solved many times over. But a number of searches did not yield a result. I need to be able to remove an existing user from ...
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# Perl or Python script to remove user from group ## Question I am putting together a Samba-based server as a Primary Domain Controller, and ran into a cute little problem that should have been solved many times over. But a number of searches did not yield a result. I need to be able to remove an existing user from ...
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# Perl or Python script to remove user from group ## Question I am putting together a Samba-based server as a Primary Domain Controller, and ran into a cute little problem that should have been solved many times over. But a number of searches did not yield a result. I need to be able to remove an existing user from ...
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# Perl or Python script to remove user from group ## Question I am putting together a Samba-based server as a Primary Domain Controller, and ran into a cute little problem that should have been solved many times over. But a number of searches did not yield a result. I need to be able to remove an existing user from ...
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# Generic Exception Handling in Python the "Right Way" ## Question Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such: try: foo(a, b) except Exception, e: baz(e) try: bar(c, d) except Exception, e: baz(e) ... This same pattern occurs when exception...
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# Generic Exception Handling in Python the "Right Way" ## Question Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such: try: foo(a, b) except Exception, e: baz(e) try: bar(c, d) except Exception, e: baz(e) ... This same pattern occurs when exception...
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# Generic Exception Handling in Python the "Right Way" ## Question Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such: try: foo(a, b) except Exception, e: baz(e) try: bar(c, d) except Exception, e: baz(e) ... This same pattern occurs when exception...
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# Generic Exception Handling in Python the "Right Way" ## Question Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such: try: foo(a, b) except Exception, e: baz(e) try: bar(c, d) except Exception, e: baz(e) ... This same pattern occurs when exception...
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# Generic Exception Handling in Python the "Right Way" ## Question Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such: try: foo(a, b) except Exception, e: baz(e) try: bar(c, d) except Exception, e: baz(e) ... This same pattern occurs when exception...
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# How do you test that a Python function throws an exception? ## Question How does one write a unittest that fails only if a function doesn't throw an expected exception? ## Answer Have a look at the assertRaises method of the unittest module. Tags: python, unit-testing, exception, exception-handling
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# How do you test that a Python function throws an exception? ## Question How does one write a unittest that fails only if a function doesn't throw an expected exception? ## Answer Use TestCase.assertRaises (or TestCase.failUnlessRaises) from the unittest module, for example: import mymod class MyTestCase(unittest....
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# How do you test that a Python function throws an exception? ## Question How does one write a unittest that fails only if a function doesn't throw an expected exception? ## Answer Your code should follow this pattern (this is a unittest module style test): def test_afunction_throws_exception(self): try: ...
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# How do you test that a Python function throws an exception? ## Question How does one write a unittest that fails only if a function doesn't throw an expected exception? ## Answer The code in my previous answer can be simplified to: def test_afunction_throws_exception(self): self.assertRaises(ExpectedException,...
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