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How can we get a full directory size (sum of all his data)? like when we type `du -sh mydir` Because os.path.getsize('mydir') only give the size of the directory physical representation on the disk. Thanks

I have recently installed pySNMP 3.3.2 and use Python 2.2.2. Thanks to Peter Hansen, I succeeded to install pySNMP properly. I'm not completely new to SNMP (I know the basics), but I'm new to Python and pysnmp. While experimenting, I find some strange things. When using pySNMP: 1) I can type: 'import pysnmp' or 'from pysnmp import *' 2)...

Hi I am a few months new into python. I have used regexps before in perl and java but am a little confused with this problem. I want to parse a number of strings and extract only those that contain a 4 digit number anywhere inside a string However the regexp p = re.compile(r'\d{4}')

Hi. I'd like to be able to write a loop such as: for i in range(10): pass but without the i variable. The reason for this is I'm using pylint and it complains about the unused variable i. I can achieve the above with more lines of code like: i = 0 while (i != 10): i += 1 Is there a concise way to accomplish this without adding extra lines

I would like to be able to open, read, and extract data from a report that is produced in MS Word. The doc seems to contain embedded spreadsheets. I would like to extract some of the data from the spreadsheets and feed it into another application. I've been reading a little bit about OLE and MS Word and sure would like to find a module that...

hi, is cls & self the same thing? I have seen something like class A: def dosomething(cls): #doing something

How do you go about converting something to ASCII using python? I have an example below of some randomly generated text that would need converted: 96,114,101,106,60, Shift: 27 I don't know where to begin with this....

Hi I don't have much experience on python coding. Can someone give me a answer for this ques. Question: Write a python program that splits a sentence into words. Change the first and last letter of each word into uppercase and display them. For example if we type input as hello,world The output must be: HellO WorlD

Hi Buddies, I am facing this problem and I dont know what to use as EOF in python: I want to read a file, and put all the individual words in a dictionary with their index: For example if the file is: Hello there I am doing fine How are you?

Hi, I have a function, looks a bit like this: def function(): if condition: do stuff, including a few recursive calls (to function()), this 'stuff' also changes the state of 'condition'. 'condition' is a global list.

hai i am a student and need to write a simple web crawler using python and need some guidance of how to start.. i need to crawl web pages using BFS and also DFS... one using stacks and other using queues... i will try on the obsolete web pages only and so tht i can learn of how to do that.. i have taken a course called search engines and...

I'd like to do something like the following: a = 1; b = 2; c = None mylist = for my in mylist: if my is None: print 'you have a problem with %s' % my #this line is problematic >>> You have a problem with None

HI, Iam creating a python application using Tkinter. Ia trying to attach a scrollbar to a listbox. Please tell me how can i set the height of the scrollbar to that of the listbox. Beacuse in the docs i found the fill=X and fill=Y options, but this is not i want. I want to limit the height of scrollbar to match the height of listbox. ...

Hi All, While I know there is a zillion ways to do this.. What is the most efficient ( in terms of lines of code ) do simply do this. a=1, b=2, c=3 ... z=26 Now if we really want some bonus points.. a=1, b=2, c=3 ... z=26 aa=27 ab=28 etc..

i am trying to get the pixel data using im.getpixel() i am getting a tuple like (152,118,106) for a pixel in a RGB jpeg image . what i really want is an integer value representing a pixel ,like waht i can get from java's BufferedImage.getRGB(x,y) .. i am wondering if someone can advise me on how i can do this thanx dn

Hello. Is there an easy one-line way to see if a list of strings contains at least one occurance of a substring? E.g. string_list= substring_list= I really don't want to loop, as I loop too many times in my code already.

On my machine, this runs fine, but when I try to run it on someone elses machine it blows up with an attribute error: <code> import win32com.client, pythoncom pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED) myWord = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch ("Word.Application") myWord.Visible = True myDoc =...

I am new to Tkinter. Following an example, I executed the following: window = Tk() b = Button(window) b.configure(bg = '#FF00FF') b.grid(row = 0, column = 0) how can I later get the value of this button's background color? Thanks.

I need to be able to get the name of the currently executed method within that method. I know that the method object does have the __name__ attribute but I know know how to access it from withing the method. Something like this: class A: ..... def a_method (self, this, that):

Dear All, I have a problem while data logging in a single table in SQL DB. We are not able to do it. When we are running the python code in raspberry pi we are getting the following error msg. Program: import serial import time import MySQLdb as mdb arduino = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyACM0") arduino.baudrate=9600

Is there a command you can execute in Python that will open a window on the desktop, such as 'My Documents'? Kind of like 'system', but for folder names, not just programs. I'm running on Windows 2000.

I already know C/C++ programming and now wish to learn Python to do scripting for some games that are coming out. What book would you recommend. I am thinking Teach Your Self Python in 24 Hours is probably the best place to start...

Does Python 3 have no way anymore to sort with a comparison function? Both .sort() and sorted() seem to accept only 'key' and 'reverse' arguments, the 'cmp' argument seems to be gone. Can that be? Thomas

Hi, here is a piece of pseudo-code (taken from Ruby) that illustrates the problem I'd like to solve in Python: str = 'abc' if str =~ /(b)/ # Check if str matches a pattern str = $` + $1 # Perform some action elsif str =~ /(a)/ # Check another pattern str = $1 + $' # Perform some other action