I have a program that looks like the following What is the easiest way to give it slanted edges, like the following? This is in windows 7, b...

I have a Django view that receives POSTs which do not need to have the CSRF token. Therefore I used the @csrf_exempt decorator on the view. The problem is that sometimes I do not issue a response from the view (it's a Twitter bot, it receives an HTTP POST for every tweet and I do ...

Hi there! I am searching for an short and cool rot13 function in Python ;-) I've written this function: def rot13(s): chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" trans = chars[13:]+chars[:13] rot_char = lambda c: trans[chars.find(c)] if chars.find(c)>-1 else c ...

resp = raw_input("What is your favorite fruit?\n") if "I like" in resp: print "%s" - "I like" + " is a delicious fruit." % resp else: print "Bubbles and beans." OK I know this code doesn't work, and I know why. You can't subtract strings from each other...

Python Extension modules are just dynamic libraries, so I assume it's possible to link a Python extension to another. The problem is on Windows they are given the .pyd extension instead of .dll, so I can't get distutils to link them when I run the setup script. (I don...

Hi I'd like to convert a file that's tab delimited and looks like this: Species Date Data 1 Dec 3 2 Jan 4 2 Dec 6 2 Dec 3 to a matrix like this (species is the row header): 1 2 Dec 3 9 Jan 4

First let me say that I know it's better to use the subprocess module, but I'm editing other people's code and I'm trying to make as few changes as possible, which includes avoiding the importing any new modules. So I'd like to stick to the currently-imported modules (os, sys, and paths) if a...

i want to get a new model that the same as one model , so how do i copy it , thanks this is my model: class Geo(db.Model): title = db.StringProperty() link = db.StringProperty() updated = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now =True) author = db.Re...

I find this design pattern comes up a lot: try: year = int(request.GET['year']) except: year = 0 The try block can either fail because the key doesn't exist, or because it's not an int, but I don't really care. I just need a sane valu...

So I am trying to write a rich text editor in PyGTK, and originally used the older, third party script InteractivePangoBuffer from Gourmet to do this. While it worked alright, there were still plenty of bugs with it which made it frustrating to use at times, so I decided to write my own utiliz...

In a function, I need to perform some logic that requires me to call a funtion inside a function. what i did with this , like : def dfs(problem): stack.push(bache) search(root) while stack.isEmpty() != 0: def search(vertex): closed.add(vertex) ...

Hi, trying to have two class that reference each others, in the same file. What would be the best way to have this working: class Foo(object): other = Bar class Bar(object): other = Foo if __name__ == '__main__': print 'all ok' ? The pro...

Hi, I'm using the python poster library to try to upload a form containing including an image to a servlet. Locally, it runs fine, but when I deploy to app engine, it doesn't recognize it as multipart content. ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request) returns false ...

I have problem with a if statement code below: do_blast(x): test_empty = open('/home/rv/ncbi-blast-2.2.23+/db/job_ID/%s.blast' % (z), 'r') if test_empty.read() == '': test_empty.close() return 'FAIL_NO_RESULTS' else: do_something def return_...

I have a group of buckets, each with a certain number of items in them. I want to make combinations with one item from each bucket. The loop should keep making different combinations until each item has participated in at least some defined number. I can easily see how to run the loop ...

func(a(), b.c) When executing the line above in the pdb debugger, using step will actually step into a, and then into the getter for b.c if its atypical (such as being a property), before actually stepping into

I put in a partially transparent PNG image in Tkinter and all I get is this How do I make the dark triangle on the left clear? (like it's supposed to be) This is python 2.6 on Windows 7, btw.

I don't really know if this is a StackOverflow-type question or a Python-dev question. I'd like to host sprints at my place for converting python2.0 libraries to Python3.0 ; currently I am working on porting Distutils2. Is there any place I could find a graph/log of the libra...

Hi all, Is there something equivalent to the conains or like queries in google app engine. I am working on app engine patch with google app engine. I tried but __icontains does not seem to work with google app engine. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

I am working on a project that requires reading text files, extracting data from them, and then generating reports (text files). Since there are a lot of string parsing, I decided to do it in Perl or Python or PHP. But I don't want to expose the source code to my client. Is there any good comp...

s = problem.getSuccessors(currNode) print s child = dict((t[0], t[1:]) for t in s) print child output of s = [((5, 4), 'South', 1), ((4, 5), 'West', 1)] output of child = {(4, 5): ('West', 1), (5, 4): ('South', 1)} Why the order has been changed??...

Hello, I can't understand one thing with logic in python. Here is the code: maxCounter = 1500 localCounter = 0 while True: print str(localCounter) + ' >= ' + str(maxCounter) print localCounter >= maxCounter if localCounter >= maxCounter: break loca...

The following snippet is annotated with the output (as seen on ideone.com): print "100" < "2" # True print "5" > "9" # False print "100" < 2 # False print 100 < "2" # True print 5 > ...

Hi, I am currently using rsvg in Python to separate Svggroups. I got it working so that rsvg loads a single group ... alas all the transparent space around that still remains. Is there a gtk functionallity to cut away all this space? Thanks for all the answers!

Is there any documentation about using ropemacs (or just Emacs with the default python.el) with Python 3? Will it work? With stackoverflow.com/questions/2855378/ropemacs-usage-tutorial/2...