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| | Hi I have a script that makes FTP requests, HTTP requests and stores files. It needs to be run daily, ideally I would like for it to be run in the cloud. I thought about using Google App Engine, but I have heard you can't make FTP requests using their … |
| | I am hoping someone might point me in the right direction. I am still very newbie with coding and python. I am currently trying to open a zip file and I keep getting "file is not a zip file". I have checked using “file” in terminal and it shows as … |
| | Hi, so im writting a Python program, and ive hit a spot of bother "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'list' and 'int'" #if n is 1 the sequence ends #if n is even the next n of the sequence = n/2 #if n is odd then the next n … |
 | Terminal shows foloowing error on entering command for "post review". "Unable to find a Review Board server for this source code tree". can you suggest how to set review board server url.  |
| | Hey guys, I've done alot of work coding a script that works great in Python. I hope to move it into java then hopefully into an android app. Any advice on getting started? I have searched and searched and cannot really find a good way to do this. I had …  |
| | How do I commit to svn in after posting a review request and being reviewed . Please elaborate |
 | Anyone know any good online.. I guess.. challenges or tutorials that will teach the fundamentals of the automated QA process using Python? Is it simply TDD? Or is there more to it? If it is TDD, can anyone suggest where to practice this more, other than "come up with a … |
| | I have a function and want to use time.sleep(2) everytime an attack happens, but what ends up happening is the time.sleep(2) will work for the first player and enemy attack, then the program will print the rest of the attacks instantly. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? def attack(player, …  |
| | Hi, I have a HTML page in one variable. I need build a mehod that will extract a tag content (dif extract_tag(self, tag_name)). For example, given webpage: <div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div> <div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div> <!-- content --> <div id="content" class="mw-body"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="mw-js-message" style="display:none;"></div> <!-- sitenotice --> <div id="siteNotice"><!-- centralNotice … |
| | i searched a llot but in vain. can anyone help me with how to include code written using GTK+ as module in a code that uses wxpython as toolkit. any help whatsoever is appreciated. |
| | I am trying to pipe username and password (not to pass through command line for safety purposes) from one python script to another python script with some arguments. I was successful in perl implementing the above like this program - perl1: open(INPUT,"|perl my.pl $arg1 $arg2") or die "cant fork $!"; … |
 | Just a simple text editor using the Tkinter expansion TIX. You are encouraged to improve this program with added functions. TIX is included with the latest Python distributions.  |
| | Hi, I'm really new to both Pygame and Python. To get started, I just want to create a basic program of a sprite called "Player" in a background that responds to keyboard input. I pretty much just want to program it to move left and right in response to the … |
| | Here are instructions for voting for winner of the code snippet competition! http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/threads/429756/code-snippet-contest-...-cast-your-vote |
| | Hi, I have some data like this, Actualy bigger than this more than this column and more than this rows. Run1 Run2 Run3 RUN4 Run5 1 23 123 1234 12.33 2 12 124 1225 13.123 3 15 125 1345 32.32 4 18 135 1456 12.23 5 19 137 1563 12.43 … |
| | Hi again I have another query I a struggling with that I would like to get some advice on. Basically put as part of a process we have a number of shortcuts created. These are Windows shortcuts based on an item id - so an example would be 1000.lnk Also … |
| | Hi I am trying to get a tkinter UI to allow me to do two things. * When I right click in a Treeview widget and my mouse pointer is over an item I would like the item to be selected as if the user clicked on it * When … |
| | I have a code that takes a file and splits the file into two files. The problem I am having is when writing the lower half of the file I have two lines of whitespace I need removed. Here is what I have and am wonder how I could add … |
| | As a project after learning about classes, I'm trying to create a type of board game where the program tells you where all of it's pieces are, and then you tell it where you've moved your pieces, and then the AI moves its pieces accordingly. However I'm having a bit … |
| | So, in an exercise in futility, I decided to write a script that will take either a file or a string and find patterns in the words, and display the results for a nice friendly human use. Right now, it simply searches forwards and backwards(ish), but Im wondering if there … |
| | while at work i had nothing to do so i wrote this simple python script that uses the dbm module to store user information its not perfect but im sure someone will find it helpful. import dbm,sys from time import ctime class Database(object): def __init__(self): self.userData = dbm.open("User Data", "c") … |
| | What I want to do is use my variable in creating a lists name. I'm not sure if that's possible, but if it is my goal is to have it look something like this: i = 3 asdf = ['00','34','43','61','35','64','25'] asdf + i = [] # So in this case … |
| | Using Python 3.2., wing ide: chr( i ) converts the integer i to a single character or string. How can I know which unicode encoding is being used ? When I execute the following code I get a single character symbol per character, including the protocol symbols such as ETX, … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to generate Docx files using python. I searched the web and found a module: https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx/blob/master/README.markdown It says to install using easy_install or pip, which I have no idea how to do. I also have a mac so I think that makes it a little more complicated. I'm …  |
| | Hi, I have been looking at a few tasks I want to do using a MySQL DB and Python. Therefor I'm spending some time looking at the MySQLdb module for Python and how I can use it. I've worked out a few bits but I want to be able to … |
| | I have a large dictionary and want to filter the dictionary by values, which is in Hex. dataDict = { ('apple':0,'orange':0):0x8000, ('apple':0,'orange':1):0x0001,('apple':0,'orange':1):0x0010 } What I want to do is filter out the values of the dictionary according to a match. For example, one of the filters I would print out … |
| | We are getting trouble when reading the data like ("â¦", "dóñez", etc) from a data file and storing into oracle DB, these are special characters and they must read and write into database as they are. These following areas where we are getting the problems: 1) when we use split() … |
| | **I'm supposed to do a hangman project for my CSC class. I have the code here and it works when I type all the words into a word list, but I can't import the words from my file: words_dos.txt into a wordlist. Can someone please help me?** import random HANGMANPICS … |
| | Hi All, I have managed to get my program working now using UDP to send a message to a sensor and get a reply.The last major issue i am having is the data i recieve back. data, addr = sock.recvfrom(782) # buffer size is 782 bytes This is my line … |
| | Hi I am struggling with the Tkinter (ttk) Treeview. I want to allow the user to select multiple items in the Treeview using Shift and clicking. However I then want to be able to right click on the selection, or drag the selection using the normal left mouse button (B1). … |
| | Hi I am busy building a small Python app in which I have two tkinter (ttk) Treeview widgets. I want to be able to drag an item (or multiple selected items) from the one treeview to the other, having the dragged items added to the treeview where they are dropped. … |
| | I'm trying to make a battle function but am having some trouble. Is there a way to do this? At the moment I'm getting an error "AttributeError: 'function'object has no attribute 'att'. My guess is that this would be easier with classes, but I've not learned classes yet. So is … |
| | Hey guys! I'm having a hard time finding a way to set up pythonpath on a windows machine, by a script. I know how to do it manually, but I want to make a script that would add a certain directory to pythonpath and would save it. Thanks for reading, …  |
 | Hi guys, So I'm busy writing an application that needs to update a list from the web after a certain amount of time. main.py file class Gui: def ...... def ...... def ...... def on_update_click(): update() app=Gui() Gtk.main() So when the program loads up, user will click the update button … |
| | Hi, I'm curious about a few conventions. If you have a function that can return a or b based on some conditionals, which do you think is the best/accepted notation? def test(val): if val > 10: return a else: return b Or def test(val): if val>10: return a return b …  |
| | Hey guys, My question is pretty simple but I haven't been able to run across it in any of the examples I've seen online. I want to basically have a GUI that asks some questions with comboboxs. I would like it to be where the one at top is the … |
| | Hi All, I am trying to run a second script from my first script and this works ok i can send it a variable and recieve back my answer however I am using Tkinter for my forms but when i start the main my program both scripts run although i … |
| | Hi, I have several functions that I'd like to operate on both mutable and immutable containers (mostly tuples vs. objects) and I'm looking for the optimal way to test for mutability in these objects. I can think of many ways to do this. For example: try setattr: do mutable stuff … |
 | If you are a non coder that wants the easiest book to start with, something very simple, easy to read and short , that can take you step by step in learning the basics of python in a few hours then you may like the book I have created for … |
| | There was discussion thread http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/424953/polynomial-division for class based implementation for polynomials, and I developed a version utilizing the magic methods to enable operation with normal arithmetic operation. I only inherited sequence structure from list type. Interoperability with scalar types is not implemented to avoid too complicated type checks of the … |
| | I am new to python but have experience with Java. I am creating a bouncing ball program which throuhg a for loop creates a large sum of bouncing balls. I appreciate any help! Thank you import time from random import randint x0 = 10.0 y0 = 10.0 ball_diameter = 15 … |
| | Hi, I have an object subclass that I am using with a cusom __repr__() method. class NewClass(object): def __repr__(self): return ', '.join('%s=%s'%(k, v) for (k,v) in self.__dict__.items()) This works fine (leaving out some more details about my program): test=NewClass(a=1,b=2) print test a=1, b=2 But what I really want for reasons … |
| | I'm learning about Classes and this thing is driving me crazy. Whenever I run this, it will use the __del__ object even though I never used del droid1, del droid2, or del droid3. Can someone please help? class Robots: '''Represents a robot, with a name.''' #A class variable, counting the … |
| | I have a problem i wrote a code and copyed some code but now my sprite dosent move anymore....and i dont know why # Import a library functions called 'pygame' import pygame from pygame.locals import * # Initialize the game engine pygame.init() # Define some colors black = (0, 0, … |
| | I'm trying to write a script that will search a page for mp3 files, and download the first one. All is fine, but when I'm finding the links the first two are not mp3 files. At the moment I'm doing: for link in page.findAll('a')[:3]: f.write(link.get('href')) This finds the first 3 … |
| | Hi I have always been a windows user but a few months ago switch to Ubuntu Linux. I have started learning Python and want to find out from experienced developers what the best way is to setup a development environment on a Ubuntu machine. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 which … |
| | This post is a followup to an older dicsussion [on recordmanaging](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/429753/custom-named-tuples-for-record-storage). I am writing this to share with colleagues, so it may be a bit fluffy and not straight to the point. I apologize to all the experts. Good programs always start by managing data in a flexible and robust … |
| | I recently came across this code on the internet and I'm having a very hard time understand how it works. I was hoping someone could comment the code a bit in order to help me learn it better? I understand most of it, but get lost when any of the … |
| | Write a function estimatePi() to estimate and return the value of Pi based on the formula found by an Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It should use a while loop to compute the terms of the summation until the last term is smaller than 1e-15. The formula for estimating Pi is … |
| | So, I would like to start working on a python module to support RFC 2326 (RTSP), in an effort to work on a larger application that I will probably need help with later. I am unsure how to go about making software that is meant to adhere to a specific … |
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