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FindWindow fails Question: I've troubles with `FindWindow` using `pywin32` extension. Simple C code: int main() { HWND h = FindWindow(NULL, TEXT("SomeApp")); if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) SetForegroundWindow(h); return 0; } Works well. Same with python: ...
QtGui.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory() window won't close after directory has been chosen (PyQt) Question: I am trying to get a path with the `QtGui.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory()` dialog window in a `python` program to ease things up for users while the rest of the program is in console output. I have this piece...
Python pass instance of itself as an argument to another function Question: I have a UserModel class that will essentially do everything like login and update things. I'm trying to pass the instance of itself (the full class) as an argument to another function of another class. For example: (obviously not the code, b...
ImportError: No module named pyobjc Question: I am new to Python. I am running Mac OS X 10.8.2, Python 2.7.3, Xcode 4.5.1. I am not able to `import pyobjc` to python.I used `easy_install pyobjc` or manually downloading it from <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyobjc/2.3> and running `python setup.py install`. Here is a scr...
Complex query with Django (posts from all friends) Question: I'm new to Python and Django, so please be patient with me. I have the following models: class User(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length = 50) ... class Post(models.Model): userBy = models.ForeignKey(...
How to recover python dateutil.rrule object from a dictionary string? Question: I want to store dateutil.rrule objects to a database and recreate them after reading from the database. Given the following issue, I think I need to use a workaround. [Python dateutils print recurrence rule according to iCalendar format (s...
What code does Python's timeit(...) method actually time in this bit of code? Question: timeit.timeit("A0([randint(1,256) * (-1) ** randint(1,2) for j in range("+str(n)+")])", setup="from HW2 import A0", number=1000000) I want to measure the time that the A0 algorithm takes to complete its job on a list of s...
can I use FUSE with Cython bindings Question: I know FUSE has bindings for C, C++, Python etc. Which effectively means that I can develop FUSE filesystems using those languages. I wish to use Cython, as it offers much faster speeds as compared to pure Python. That is stressed in a filesystem. Is it possible to produce ...
UnicodeEncodeError when using os.listdir Question: * OS: Windows 7, 64-bit * Python 3.1.3 When I try to do this os.listdir("F:\\music") I get this UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\xe3' in position 643: illegal multibyte sequence `os.listdir` works w...
Tornado websocket logging Question: I'm trying to implement websockets using Tornado webserver. My setup looks as follows: from tornado.options import options, define, parse_command_line import django.core.handlers.wsgi import logging import tornado.httpserver import tornado.ioloop i...
flask url_for TypeError Question: I have an error when trying to use the url_for method in Flask. I'm not sure what the cause of it because I only follow the Flask quick start. I'm a Java guy with a bit of Python experience and want to learn Flask. Here's the trace: Traceback (most recent call last): ...
Python script that gets my latest tweet stopped working on my server Question: Consider the following code: import twitter api = twitter.Api() most_recent_status = api.GetUserTimeline('nemesisdesign')[0].text On my server (nemesisdesign.net) stopped working a few days ago. If I try the sam...
Python 3: creating a Letter Pyramid Question: I'm trying to create a text pyramid with a height of 291 lines. By this I mean: Here is an example of a pyramid of height 6: -----a----- ----bcd---- ---efghi--- --jklmnop-- -qrstuvwxy- zabcdefghij Notice: ...
Python log time window Question: I was asked to edit a script that would allow you time print out a time window of information from a log file. I am having a hard time figuring out what would be the best way of going about this. The logs have the time at the start of the log as follows: [11-Oct-2012 07:4...
Read from a gzip file in python Question: I've just make excises of gzip on python. import gzip f=gzip.open('Onlyfinnaly.log.gz','rb') file_content=f.read() print file_content And I get no output on the screen. As a beginner of python, I'm wondering what should I do if I want to read th...
How to match a string against a set of wildcard strings efficiently? Question: I am looking for a solution to match a single string against a set of wildcard strings. For example >>> match("ab", ["a*", "b*", "*", "c", "*b"]) ["a*", "*", "*b"] The order of the output is of no importance. I will...
Country name from ISO short code in dictionary, how to deal with non-ascii chars Question: I'm making a webapp that takes country short code (google app engine get from request header) and I want to get the country name (full name) not just the 2 letter initials. I tried making a python dictionary but it breaks bkz th...
Transformed Data Takes up 4x more space for a doubling of variables in pandas for python Question: I've performed some simple z-transforms on some variables I have in a pandas DataFrame. There was a total of 216 columns in the dataframe, I transformed 196 of them and then concatenated the 197 onto the original 216 for ...
Unit test python udev interaction Question: I've inherited some python code that writes a new '/etc/udev/rules.d' mapping file and then makes a subprocess call to udev to have it refresh its devices list: call(['/sbin/udevadm', 'trigger', '--action=change']) The trigger call is necessary as we need...
JDBC driver not found error in monkeyrunner/jython Question: I need to Insert something in the `DB`. im using `JDBC` as a `connector, jython the script`, `mysql` the DB and the script is running in `CentOS`. my code looks something like this: > from `com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice, > Monke...
Issues with translating the strings Question: I am using **multiple translation** in my project For that I have updated my **settings file** as LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' gettext = lambda s: s LANGUAGES = ( ('es', gettext('Spanish')), ('en', g...
wxPython: Problems with GridBagSizer Question: I'm new to wxpython and it seems to be very powerful tool for building up GUI, but I have a question about GridBagSizer. Could you please tell me how to adjust the size of the items that are placed inside GridBagSizer to the size of the frame they are supposed to be placed...
Python: is the system function too slow? Question: I have a small network with 3 computers. I have a C++ program on the 2nd computer that reads packets from a network interface while the first computer sends it data. I need to run that from the third computer. I wrote a small python script using `flask` ...
Spynner doesn't load html from URL Question: I use spynner for scraping data from a site. My code is this: import spynner br = spynner.Browser() br.load("http://www.venere.com/it/hotel/roma/hotel-ferrari/#reviews") text = br._get_html() This code fails to load the entire html page....
How to share secondary y-axis between subplots in matplotlib Question: If you have multiple subplots containing a secondary y-axis (created using _twinx_), how can you share these secondary y-axis between the subplots? I want them to scale equally in an automatic way (so not setting the y-limits afterwards by hand). Fo...
looping over large csv python Question: I have a large csv-file(several hundreds of lines) containing following structure: _filename, sitename, servername_ this csv-file contains several doubles, since the servernames are those from a cluster(always the same couples) and language-aliases for the sitenames(eg. mijnhu...
Sorting: Return an array with new positions of each element Question: I need to sort an array whilst also returning an array which contains the sorted positions of the original elements. (N.B. not an argsort, the indexes to sort the array) At present this requires two steps: 1. An argsort 2. A scatter operation o...
Importing a class to another class in python Question: I am trying to learn python i tried to import a class in another class but it is not working `Application.py`: class Application: def example(self): return "i am from Application class" `Main.py` class M...
PyQt4 QPixmap Rotating Jpg according to EXIF Question: Consider [simple `PyQt4` app, loading picture with `QPixmap`](http://zetcode.com/tutorials/pyqt4/widgets2/) and [scaling with ratio](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9351984/544721). Crucial part of code: from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore (...) pixm...
Python - Twisted and PyAudio + Chat Question: I've been playing around with the Twisted extension and have fooled around with a chat room sort of system. However I want to expand upon it. As of now it only support multi-client chats with usernames ect. But I want to try and use the pyAudio extension to build a sort of ...
Weird Error in scrapy (CENTOS 6.2) Question: >>> import scrapy >>> from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Scrapy-0.14.4-py2.7.egg/scrapy/selector /__init__.py", line 28, i...
Python 3.2.3 running error Question: I using this code to get the organization in ip address import urllib import lxml.html as lh req= urllib.Request("http://www.ip-address.com/ip_tracer/157.123.22.11", headers={'User-Agent' : "Magic Browser"}) html = urllib.urlopen(req).read() doc = lh....
Change/Add payload existing TCP packages? Question: I want to change the payload of all existing outgoing packets, so all packets that have "wordA" in it will be changed to "wordB", this will be done by a regex match. I tried Python's scapy, but I don't know how to get it working. PS: There won't be any wifi involved...
Get a list of object properties from list of objects in python Question: I will give you my specific example but this is a general python question. I have a list of apscheduler job objects [Link](http://packages.python.org/APScheduler/modules/job.html) I am trying to figure out what is the most efficient way to get a ...
input with delimiters in python Question: I have a problem with the following specification: **Input:** First line contains an integer N , the number of element in the given sequnce. Then follows N integers A1, A2.... An, Ai is ith element of the given sequence. These numbers may be either space separated or newline ...
OpenCV Python single (rather than multiple) blob tracking? Question: I've been trying to get single color blob tracking thru OpenCV on Python. The below code is working, but it finds the centroid of all the tracked pixels, not just the centroid of the biggest blob. This is because I'm taking the moments of all the pixe...
handing Null return in rpy2 Question: I am using rpy2 to call R function from python. from rpy2.robjects import * result=r.someFunctioninR() #someFunctioninR is a R function written by myself if result==r('as.null()'): do something else: do something else The "result...
Using python to parse XML file Question: I have a python module that was already written for me to download and parse data from googles patent listing. The code works great until I do anything before 2005. I have no knowledge of python except how to run the module. How do I fix it? The traceback I receive is: ...
Python 2.6 - Parse arguments Question: Problem: Need to parse some specific arguments which could be in any order, non are optional: -h -d -src -dst Am new to Python and have looked at the alternatives such as getopt and argparse but couldn't get a working example so went custom as below; argv=sys.argv[...
Import error of Cephes Scipy library within WinPython Question: I'm trying to test the [WinPython environment](http://code.google.com/p/winpython/), a portable Python environment, in order to create a version featuring more packages. I'm working in Windows Vista 32 bit (but the underlying CPU is 64 bit), Service Pack ...
Activating and Disabling button after process in python and pyGTK Question: Essentially, I am trying to make a button "active" first, run a process, and then after that process has finished running, disable the button again. Using pyGTK and Python, the code in question looks like this... self.MEDIA_PLAY...
Python decoding errors with BeautifulSoup, requests, and lxml Question: I'm attempting to pull some data off a popular browser based game, but am having trouble with some decoding errors: import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup r = requests.get("http://www.neopets.com/") p = Beauti...
I keep getting ValueError: frequency must be in 37 thru 32767 on Python with Winsound Question: This is the code I have: import winsound from myro import * def main(): HftM1 = makeSong("REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; REST 1; D4 1/6; F4 1/6; D5 2/3; D4 1/6; F4 1/6; D...
Return XML Values from Multiple Files in Python? Question: So I am working on a browser based program, written in Python, that parses XML data from multiple files in a directory, then returns the values of certain XML tags on the page. I have successfully been able to return the values from one of the XML files, but am...
Number of pages of a word document with Python Question: Is there a way to get efficiently the number of pages of a word document (.doc, .docx) with Python ? And for an .odt file ? I want to use this for a web application based on Web2py on Linux. Thank you ! Answer: Only for those who search for this blog entry.....
Python 3 - reading text from a file Question: This is exercise 15 from Learn Python the Hard Way, but I'm using **Python 3**. from sys import argv script, filename = argv txt = open(filename) print ("Here's your file %r:") % filename print txt.read() print ("I'll also ask yo...
how do I search for an xml tag with the matching closing tag? Question: I'm wondering what is the best way in python to search & delete an XML tag, content inside it(whatever it is doesn't matter) as well as its closing tag? XML is well formed as well. Answer: You could identify the element with XPath and then use th...
Python multiprocessing - probably failure when method name pass to Process Question: I have problem with multiprocessing. Under you have the code (he's in couple of class and files, but i simplified it). I suppose, that problem lies in pass method name which I want to multiply in multiprocessing. Informations: "args"...
trouble plotting function Question: Im trying to write a function, and then plot it. I am new to python and am having some trouble. I have to be missing information, just not sure where. Can anyone help? xv= arange(-4,5,1) def f(x): if (x<0): return log(x) elif (0<=x<2):...
Handling French text Python Question: I am trying to read some French text and do some frequency analysis of words. I want the characters with the umlauts and other diacritics to stay. So, I did this for testing: >>> import codecs >>> f = codecs.open('file','r','utf-8') >>> for line in f: ......
Trying to use PyOpenGL and having problems Question: I am following the tutorial from <http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/tutorials/shader_1.xhtml> The problem is I am using PyOpenGL 3.0.2, which when I import OpenGL from python3.2 it works perfectly fine. I just can't find a way to get OpenGL context working for...
all() returns different values for the same expression Question: I'm facing a very weird problem in my python script when I use the function `all()`. The console gives me `false` (which is obviously correct) for this line: all(x == 2 for x in (8,2,2,2)) and in my script the same line returns `true...
Errors in program for calculating integrals Question: I am trying to calculate the area of a graph using integrals. The user is supposed to give me 3 numbers: * x1, x2 - the bounds of the integral * N is in how many pieces the program will divide the function However, I keep getting wrong results. The first di...
How to create a two-dimensional array in Python? Question: I want to create 2-d array in python like this: n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 w1 1 4 0 1 10 w2 3 0 7 0 3 w3 0 12 9 5 4 w4 9 0 0 9 7 Where w1 w2... are the different words and n1 n2 n3 are diff...
How to check if my list has an item from another list(dictionary)? Question: I'm a beginner in programming with python, and I've got a question which may have an easy answer. So I have a dictionary of words which is imported from a .txt file, next my program asks you to type a sentence, and then it saves every word wh...
Using readlines in python? First time Question: I have a text file with columns of data and I need to turn these columns into individual lists or arrays. This is what I have so far f = open('data.txt', 'r') temp = [] for row in f.readlines(): Data = row.split() temp.append(float(D...
Python: Get random value from a array dimension Question: I am trying to get a random element from an array's single dimension in Python. So in the case below, I would like to retrieve any one of the 5 floats. ar = rand(1, 5) ar = array([[ 0.29889882, 0.84955019, 0.52989055, 0.57220576, 0.16...
OpenCL Matrix Multiplication - Getting wrong answer Question: here's a simple OpenCL Matrix Multiplication kernel which is driving me crazy: By the way I am using pyopencl. __kernel void matrixMul( __global int* C, __global int* A, __global in...
Using BeautifulSoup Library with Python Question: I'm following a tutorial on creating a map using Python and the Beautiful Soup library. I have downloaded beautiful soup and the folder is called "beautifulsoup4-4.1.3". The contents of this folder are in the attached image. During the tutorial I am given the followin...
Iterate through XML to get all child nodes text value Question: i have a xml with following data. i need to get value of and all other attribute. i return a python code there i get only first driver value. My xml : <volume name="sp" type="span" operation="create"> <driver>HDD1</driver> <...
How to get data from the TreelView list Question: [http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/mangroves/aphia.php?p=browser&id=235056&expand=true#ct](http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/mangroves/aphia.php?p=browser&id=235056&expand=true#ct) (That's the information I am trying to scrape) **I wanna to scrape this detailed taxonomic trees so ...
gnuplot - Histogram with histeps connects bars Question: This is a minimal working example of the code I'm using: #!/bin/bash gnuplot << EOF set term postscript portrait color enhanced set encoding iso_8859_1 set output 'temp.ps' set grid noxtics noytics noztics front set si...
Identify a shape inside another shape using AForge.Net Question: I am using the AForge.Net library to do some basic image processing stuff as part of a project. I have found it trivial to identify individual geometric shapes in an image (like a square, circle etc.,). However when I have an image like ![image](http://i....
Get country code for timezone using pytz? Question: I'm using [pytz](http://pytz.sourceforge.net/#country-information). I've read through the entire documentation sheet, but didn't see how this could be done. I have a timezone: America/Chicago. All I want is to get the respective country code for this timezone: US. I...
Which is the preferred method to use jinja2 on App Engine? Question: I originally implemented Jinja2 on App Engine using the examples shown on the App Engine site here: <https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstartedpython27/templates> where jinja2 is imported directly: import jinja2 ...
Streaming continuous data over a network with python Question: I have a device that continually outputs data and I would like to send that data to a client on the same network as it is produced and I'm not finding a good solution. Here is what I'm trying. Server: import SocketServer from subprocess ...
Embed Python HTTP server into C program as RPC server? Question: I have a program written in C++ with a web interface to for the purpose of RPC. I can call `http://localhost/ListVariables` or `http://localhost/RunFunction?var=1` and have the C code execute ListVariables or RunFunction. It works, but I'd rather not have...
While loop waiting for input python Question: I have a question about while loops in python. I want to make a program that performs a while loop in a certain time.I want to add the extra feature that while the program us running,a certain variable can be changed by pressing a random key. from time imp...
Interfacing with TUN\TAP for MAC OSX (Lion) using Python Question: I found the following tun\tap example program and can not get it to work: <http://www.secdev.org/projects/tuntap_udp/files/tunproxy.py> I have modified the following lines: f = os.open("/dev/tun0", os.O_RDWR) ifs = ioctl(f, TUNSETIF...
Permission issue for apache Question: Environment Details: Amazon Ec2 Ubuntu 12.04 Django + mod_wsgi + python 2.6 web server: apache2 I have mounted a `10GB` `ebs volume` to an instance to `/mnt/ebs1/`. After mounting the volume and formatting, I have placed all my project files in `/mnt/eb...
Running Python scripts on local machine Question: I am trying to run a simple hello world example in python that runs against mongodb. I've set up mongo, bottle and pymong and have the following script inside `C:\Python27\Scripts`: import bottle import pymongo @bottle.route('/') def...
Python calendar: day/month names in specific locale Question: I am playing with Python's [calendar](http://docs.python.org/library/calendar.html) module that's in the standard library. Basically I need a list of all days of a month, like so: >>> import calendar >>> calobject = calendar.monthcalendar(...
Python Regular Expression for validate numbers Question: I want to create a regular expression for python snippet. import re pattern = "\d*\.?\d+[Ee]?[+-]?\d*" r = re.compile(pattern) txt = """ 12 .12 12.5 12.5E4 12.5e4 12.4E+4 12E4 12e-4 """ x = r.find...
unable to call firefox from selenium in python on AWS machine Question: I am trying to use selenium from python to scrape some dynamics pages with javascript. However, I cannot call firefox after I followed the instruction of selenium on the pypi page(http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium). I installed firefox on AWS ub...
how do I get momoko working? Question: I am new to python and even newer to tornado/momoko. I am struggling with an example from [momoko's website](https://github.com/FSX/momoko/blob/master/examples/gen_example.py). I have the database.cfg file configured with my settings. #!/usr/bin/env python impor...
DataFrame Indexing with a date series Question: I'm new to Python and Pandas, and am having some trouble indexing by a date series. I am trying to pull data into a DataFrame from a SQLite db that consists of a date in format 'mm/dd/yyyy' and an equity price. I then create a new DataFrame using set_index to index the pr...
python parse conditional xml value Question: Here is my XML file: <METAR> <wind_dir_degrees>210</wind_dir_degrees> <wind_speed_kt>14</wind_speed_kt> <wind_gust_kt>22</wind_gust_kt> </METAR> Here is my script to parse the wind direction and speed. However, the wind gust is a conditio...
Can't compile python bindings using boost-python on OS X Question: I try to do python bindings on C++ using boost-python, but I can't compile and I can't find out why. I'm using a code sample from boost-python `hello.cpp`: // Copyright Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve 2002-2004. Distributed under the Boost ...
Python Scrapy function to be called just before spider_closed signal sent? Question: I wrote a spider using scrapy, one that makes a whole bunch of HtmlXPathSelector Requests to separate sites. It creates a row of data in a .csv file after each request is (asynchronously) satisfied. It's impossible to see which request...
linker command failed at fastmath installing pycrypto on OSX Question: I did `pip install pycrypto` (actually wanted to install `fabric` but it failed at pycrypto) and got the error below. I'm on python 2.7.3. Tried 3.3 too but same error. How do I fix this please? My clang version: $ clang --version ...
How to print module documentation in Python Question: I know this question is very simple, I know it must have been asked a lot of times and I did my search on both SO and Google but I could not find the answer, probably due to my lack of ability of putting what I seek into a proper sentence. I want to be able to read...
FFTW3 on complex numpy array directly in scipy.weave.inline Question: I am trying to implement an FFT based subpixel shifting (translation) algorithm in `Python`. The Fourier shift theorem allows an array to be translated by a subpixel amount by: 1\. Forward FFT array 2\. Multiply array by linear phase ramp in Fourier ...
Cannot create browser process when using selenium from python on RHEL5 Question: I'm trying to use selenium from python but I'm having a problem running it on a RHEL5.5 server. I don't seem to be able to really start firefox. from selenium import webdriver b = webdriver.Firefox() On my laptop w...
Python embedded in c . Is calling PyRun_SimpleString synchronous? Question: people. I would be grateful if you can help me. The application's purpose is to translate lemmas of words present in the sentence from Russian to English. I'm doing it with help of sdict formatted vocabulary, which is queried by python script w...
Find whether a numpy array is a subset of a larger array in Python Question: I have 2 arrays, for the sake of simplicity let's say the original one is a random set of numbers: import numpy as np a=np.random.rand(N) Then I sample and shuffle a subset from this array: b=np.array() ...
Using Flask-SQLAlchemy in Blueprint models without reference to the app Question: I'm trying to create a "modular application" in Flask using Blueprints. When creating models, however, I'm running into the problem of having to reference the app in order to get the `db`-object provided by Flask- SQLAlchemy. I'd like to...
can you print a file from python? Question: Is there some way of sending output to the printer instead of the screen in Python? Or is there a service routine that can be called from within python to print a file? Maybe there is a module I can import that allows me to do this? Answer: Most platforms—including Windows—...
calling python module dynamically using exec Question: I have 2 modules mexec1.py def exec1func(): print 'exec1' exec 'c:/python27/exec2.py' if __name__ == '__main__': exec1func() exec2.py def exec2func(parm=''): print 'exec2 parm',parm ...
In Python, how can I increment a count conditionallly? Question: Say I have the list: list = [a,a,b,b,b] I'm looping over the list. The variable "count" increments by 1 when the previous letter is the same as the current letter. Below is only part of the code: for item in list: ...
convert a dict to sorted dict in python Question: I want to convert a dict into sorted dict in python data = pandas.read_csv('D:\myfile.csv') for colname, dtype in data.dtypes.to_dict().iteritems(): if dtype == 'object': print colname count = data[colname].value_counts...
when does import module at bottom of file Question: when I read a file `riak-python-client/riak/riak_object.py`. At the bottom of the file, I saw this from mapreduce import * what's it use for? Why just import at the top of the file. Answer: This is designed to put all of the module `mapreduce` i...
implementation of command line arg passing in python, doesn't work Question: I'm very new to python. I wish I could implement the command-line arg passing in python as my first python script. I have written this code: def main(argv): try: opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv, "hb:b:f", ["h...
Parallelise python loop with numpy arrays and shared-memory Question: I am aware of several questions and answers on this topic, but haven't found a satisfactory answer to this particular problem: What is the easiest way to do a simple shared-memory parallelisation of a python loop where numpy arrays are manipulated t...
how to use webkit code in scrapy/python Question: In the question at [How to combine scrapy and htmlunit to crawl urls with javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8047666/how-to-combine-scrapy- and-htmlunit-to-crawl-urls-with-javascript), it is advised to use webkit with scrapy to go through javascript. However...
Syntax Error in Dice game Question: I made this dice game in python, but am getting a syntax error with my inputdice function. Below is the dice game in its entirety. When run, the game should go through 10 rounds and stop after round 10 or when the user runs out of money. Any suggestions? from random im...
Call current PyMOL session from python script Question: I'm trying to call current PyMOL session from python script (wxpython GUI), and then load some data from PyMOL and send few commands to PyMOL. At the moment I can open a new PyMOL session in python script: import sys, os from wx import * app...
How to stop the program when the output fills the screen in python? Question: How can I get the status of the terminal from a Python program? I want the program to stop printing lines to the screen when the screen is full and wait for user input. Answer: The simplest (no code) way to accomplish that is to pipe your p...
python struct pack with space padding Question: I need to create/send binary data in python using a given protocol. The protocol calls for fixed width fields , with space padding thrown in. Using python's struct.pack, the only thing I can think of is, calculating the space padding and adding it in myself. Is there a be...
reading column from excel and doing specific math Question: I have an excel file that has 27 columns. I want to write a python code which reads column by column and stores the final 5 values in the coloum which will have math equations done on them. I have this so far: from math import tan #Wri...
How to iterate over each pair of items in a dictionary Question: I'm making a gravity simulator and I need to calculate the resultant force acting upon each body. In order to do this, I need to iterate through every pair of bodies in a dictionary `(id: instance of Body class)` and get the gravitational force between t...