I am reading chapter two of the Pylons book (http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.0/installing-pylons.html#quick-start-to-installation-for-the-impatient). In the text I am told to run:

$ python...

That is a solution that I have considered. But my question was meant to be more general. How is the site-packages directory determined for that installation of Python? Is there a system file...

I have found the answer. I had an http proxy (GlimmerBlocker) running. For whatever reason this program was not restored correctly.

I just reinstalled OS X 10.5 Leopard on my laptop and restored my data/applications from a Time Machine backup. When I use urllib.urlopen() I get the following error:


>>> import urllib
>>>...

Hi

I am running OS X 10.5 Leopard. It ships with Python 2.5.1 and I just installed Python 2.5.4 from python.org.

The site-packages directory for 2.5.1 is located at...

I found the solution.

SELECT name, COUNT(fk)
FROM TableA INNER JOIN TableB ON TableA.id = TableB.fk
GROUP BY TableB.fk

Hi

I have two tables that I want to use to build a third. They have a many-to-one relationship for one of the columns. Table A has the "one" side of the many-to-one relationship. Table B has...

I am trying to write a web scraper and am having trouble accessing pages that require authentication. I am attempting to utilise the mechanize library, but am having difficulties. The site I am...

I was able to solve this problem after a lot more research and tinkering. Here is the solution for anyone interested.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import cookielib
import...

The link "http://greenman:greenman@schoolfinder.com/" does not seem to log me into the Web site. Is that for basic authentication? I'm sure this Web site uses cookies somewhere, but I'm just not...

Hi I am trying to pull some data from a Web site: http://schoolfinder.com

The issue is that I want to use the advanced search feature which requires logging into the Web site. I have a username...

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My problem is that I have a large function with hundreds of lines. I want to break it apart into smaller functions. The issue is that if I make a module level function, the scope changes and...

Hi,

I've got about 10 functions that all share a bit of code. They all look something like this:


def func(arg):
statement1
statement2
statement3

Thanks so much for the help. It was a pretty simple solution after all.

Hi, I new to CSS and I can't seem to find the solution to my problem anywhere online. The page in question is here...

Hi, I'm writing a dictionary program with Turbogears that involves using Chinese text. There is an HTML form that has a dropdown menu, a text field and a button. The input from the form (in this...

Hi I'm trying to start learning how to use Turbogears but I can't figure out how to install sqlite on my computer. I'm running Mac OS 10.4 and there are no precompiled binaries on the sqlite download...

I am trying to run a Cherrypy tutorial from this site: http://www.serpia.org/cherrypy

It is giving me this error when I try to run the start.py:

...

Ok, I've figured it out now. It's not working because I'm mixing the versions up. I have wxPython 2.6 installed and am attempting to run the wxPython 2.8 demo. Once the versions are matched,...

Yes, I can run the programs in the "samples" directory, just not any from the "demo" directory.

Hi I know this sounds really stupid, but I cannot figure out how to run the wxPython demo program. I'm using OS X and I downloaded the latest demo/docs package. When I double click on the "wxPytho...

Hi I'm writing a programme that looks up data from 3 different Chinese dictionaries and then formats and displays them in html using the default browser of the system. So far it works well, but it...

Haha it was a really basic mistake. There are no <> signs. e.g.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Somehow my current working directory is set to my home directory by default. I found a solution to this problem though.


__dir__ = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
filepath =...

My *.py script has some non-ASCII characters in comment lines and when I run it I am getting the following warning:

sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe5' in file...

I understand what you're saying, but that solution does not work. If I use the example as you have written then python looks in "/Users/username" for the file even if the script is not in there. ...

This is a really simple question but it's been stumping me for a while. I want to open a file that is in the same directory as the .py script, but I want to specify that directory without using a...

Hi I'm a completely new to computer programming and am looking to make an application that can search through 3 dictionaries using one input. The dictionaries are Chinese-English, Chinese-Vietnamese...