Topics by chophouse

I'm trying to design a lambda function that returns any line in a file that begins with any digit [0-9]. The point would be to return the whole line if it does, and skip any line if it doesn't. This is for log analysis where I want all the lines …

I've written this function to take a list and shift each member right by the number supplied as the offset. I want to preserve the supplied list and return the shifted list. My problem is that the function modifies the supplied input list itself as well as returning a new …

I'm having trouble calling a function I've written after importing the module containing it. The module is called funky.py. Here is the code for funky.py: from ftplib import FTP_TLS #### FUNCTION --- fileup() #### for sending file via FTP TLS ## ## arg1 .. destname > the filename to be …

Need help understanding this error, and how to eliminate it. Using Python 3.3. I'm trying to define a function that takes two arguments and then constructs the proper arguments for a call to the ftblib.storbinary method. Here's my code: from ftplib import FTP_TLS ftps = FTP_TLS('xxxxxx', user='xxxx', passwd='xxxx') ftps.prot_p() ftps.set_pasv(False) …

I'm writing a script to automatically up load a file from Server A to FTP server B. I'm getting stuck at the connecting part. I can connect with a python script using regular FTP, and have done so, but when trying to implement a SSL connection, I keep getting a …

My Python environment: Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:57:17) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 I have a script that has been running for months. It's a cron job and suddenly it started throwing this error: *pymysql.err.Error: (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError("'int' does not support the buffer interface",))* I don't …

I'm getting an error/crash when trying to use Python on my virtual server running Win 2008 Server. Python installed without incident, and IDLE opens and the interactive widnow works fine. But when I try to open a new window and run it it crshes when trying to save. Example: I …

I have a question about a better way to do this as what I've written seems clunky. I'm trying to generate 2 variables here that will be used as the date in a BETWEEN clause in MySQL. In order to get the proper construction (YYYYMMDD) I am converting to a …

This is part of another script, too long for here, but isolating this part, my dilemma is that this works when manually invoked from IDLE, but not when run as a cron job. from datetime import datetime import os # check to see if a log file exists, make one …

Is there a way to use Order by RAND() for a query so that it returns a list of results and guarantees that adjacent values will be at least 'x' from each other, on either side? The results are all numbers, no strings. So if it returns 5 results r1 …

I'm writing a script to populate a list with the last 5 albums frm a list of what's about to play. My query works in terms of retrieving the values, but the list populates with a set of parens and an extra comma added to each returned value. Any ideas …

My first Daniweb question!! Am at the front end of learning Python (3.2.3) I'm doing a SQL query into a MySQL database for two fields, track_ID and track_duration. I'm getting a return of both, but instead of the duration value being expressed as 00:02:50, as it is stored in the …