Hi
I wrote a matlab code (that easily could be implimented as a function) that convert a series of BMPs to avi. I want a python program to call to this program/function. how do I do it?
thanks
I have two floats in Python that I'd like to subtract, i.e.
v1 = float(value1)
v2 = float(value2)
diff = v1 - v2
I want "diff" to be computed upto two significant figures, that is compute it using %.2f of v1 and %.2f of v2. How can I do this? I know how to print v1 and v2 up to two decimals, but not how to do arithmetic like that.
thanks.
For some reason this function confused me:
def protocol(port):
return port == "443" and "https://" or "http://"
Can somebody explain the order of what's happening behind the scenes to make this work the way it does.
I understood it as this until I tried it:
Either A)
def protocol(port):
if port == "443":
if bool("https://"):
return True
elif bool("http://"):
return True
return False
Or B)
def protocol(port):
if port == "443":
return True + "https://"
else:
return True + "http://"
Is this some sort of special case in Python, or am I completely misunderstanding how statements work?
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to automatically run commands on entering the python shell as you would with the .bash_profile or .profile scripts with bash. I would like to automatically import some modules so I don't have to type the whole shebang everytime I hop into the shell.
Thanks,
I'm using the following code to hide stderr on Linux/OSX for a Python library I do not control that writes to stderr by default:
f = open("/dev/null","w")
zookeeper.set_log_stream(f)
Is there an easy cross platform alternative to /dev/null? Ideally it would not consume memory since this is a long running process.
Given a PyObject* pointing to a python object, how do I invoke one of the object methods? The documentation never gives an example of this:
PyObject* obj = ....
PyObject* args = Py_BuildValue("(s)", "An arg");
PyObject* method = PyWHATGOESHERE(obj, "foo");
PyObject* ret = PyWHATGOESHERE(obj, method, args);
if (!ret) {
// check error...
}
This would be the equivalent of
>>> ret = obj.foo("An arg")
I'm trying to use Emacs as a python editor and it works fine when I evaluate(C-c C-c) only single files but when I evaluate a file that imports another file in the same directory, I get an error saying that the file could not be imported.
Does anyone know of a workaround?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I was going over some pages from WikiVS, that I quote from:
because lambdas in Python are restricted to expressions and cannot contain statements
I would like to know what would be a good example (or more) where this restriction would be, preferably compared to the Ruby language.
Thank you for your answers, comments and feedback!
I want to know how to run a progress bar and some other work simultaneously, then when the work is done, stop the progress bar in Python (2.7.x)
import sys, time
def progress_bar():
while True:
for c in ['-','\\','|','/']:
sys.stdout.write('\r' + "Working " + c)
sys.stdout.flush()
time.sleep(0.2)
def work():
*doing hard work*
How would I be able to do something like:
progress_bar() #run in background?
work()
*stop progress bar*
print "\nThe work is done!"
given a list of python strings, how can I automatically convert them to their correct type? Meaning, if I have:
["hello", "3", "3.64", "-1"]
I'd like this to be converted to the list
["hello", 3, 3.64, -1]
where the first element is a stirng, the second an int, the third a float and the fourth an int.
how can I do this? thanks.
Working with Python in Emacs if I want to add a try/catch to a block of code, I often find that I am having to indent the whole block, line by line. In Emacs, how do you indent the whole block at once.
I am not an experienced Emacs user, but just find it is the best tool for working through ssh. I am using Emacs on the command line(Ubuntu), not as a gui, if that makes any difference.
Windows XP, Python 2.5:
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: 1934711907
Google App Engine (http://shell.appspot.com/):
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: -5768830964305142685
Why is that? How can I have a hash function which will give me same results across different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac)?
I'm writing a Python application, that I want to later migrate to GAE.
The new "Task Queues" API fulfills a requirement of my app, and I want to simulate it locally until I have the time to migrate the whole thing to GAE.
Does anyone know of a compatible module I can run locally?
I have
stringA = "xxxxxxFoundAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaFoundBxxxxxxx"
stringB = "FoundA"
stringC = "FoundB"
How do I do a regular expression in python in order to return aaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Can you please give me a simple, and straightforward python example of sending an HTML e-mail using App Engine? Plaintext is straightforward, but I'm having difficulties with HTML tags.
Hi! I was wondering how to make a simple Clipboard Monitor in python, for GUI I'm using PyGTK.
I found gtk.clipboard class and all that but I couldn't find any solution to get the "signals" to trigger the event when the clipboard content has changed :(
Any ideas?
Thanks you! :)
I have a system where a central Java controller launches analysis processes, which may be written in C++, Java, or Python (mostly they are C++). All these processes currently run on the same server. What are you suggestions to
Create a central log to which all processes can write to
What if in the future I push some processes to another server. How can I support distributed logging?
Thanks!
In the effort to learn python and/or ruby, I was wondering how a file shredder would be implemented? I would like it to take in a file as an argument and then employ an algorithm to make that file unrecoverable. Would possibly add the support for multiple files or even whole directories later.
Hey
Is it possible with python to set the timezone just like this in php:
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");
$Year = date('y');
$Month = date('m');
$Day = date('d');
$Hour = date('H');
$Minute = date('i');
I can't really install any other modules etc as I'm using shared web hosting.
Any ideas?
How to truncate sthe string to 75 characters only in python
This is how it was done in javascript
var data="saddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd"
var info = (data.length > 75) ? data.substring[0,75] + '..' : data;
Hello!
I`m trying to write simple batch file generator in python. Batch file consist of about 30-50 lines of text and is passed to other applications. During the execution of script there a lot of calls to external applications. I want to create file in memory (like named pipes in win32). Is there any platform independ way?
p.s. sorry for possible mistakes in text, I'm still learning English
I'd like to work with a dict in python, but limit the number of key/value pairs to X. In other words, if the dict is currently storing X key/value pairs and I perform an insertion, I would like one of the existing pairs to be dropped. It would be nice if it was the least recently inserted/accesses key but that's not completely necessary.
If this exists in the standard library please save me some time and point it out!
Right now I am using an arduino to send data from an analog sensor to COM4. I am trying to make a python script that continuously monitors that data and looks for a certain parameter.
I tried something like this but it isn't outputing the data like I want.
import serial
port = "COM4"
ser = serial.Serial(port,9600, timeout =1)
value = 0
while 1:
value = ser.read()
print value