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Hello, I'm actually writing an application with pyinotify which watchs a directory. Pyinotify lets me know the events (access, modify, suppression, etc.) on and in the directory, but not the users who are responsable of them. Does someone know a library which could give me that information (who's using a file) ? Thank's in advance,

Version 1.4 of my scalar class is available at http://RussP.us/scalar.htm No major changes. I have corrected the "repr" function to make it more useful, and I have added a "unit_type" function that returns the type of a unit (e.g., time, length, force). The unit_type function is intended mainly for interactive, "calculator-style" use. ...

How to insert NULL values in to int field using params. I'm trying to use pymssql.execute, passing the operation and list of params. One of the values in the params is a NULL value going to int field. The pymssql._quote() puts ' around the NULL which causes an exception to be thrown, is there a way to use the params for this or do I need...

Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months? Something like: print lastMonths(3) Thanks

Hi, I have a json that i have parsed with simplejson, Now i have to make a xml by using this json a = simplejson.loads('{"result":"true","name":{"first":"abcd","middle":"efgh"}}') a {u'result': u'true', u'name': {u'middle': u'efgh', u'first': u'abcd'}}

I have two lists: a = b = What I'd like to do is append all of the elements of b at the end of a, so that a looks like: a =

We have an app and I'm trying to decide where the app should be installed. The question is whether it should be site-specific or not, as in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages or /usr/lib/site-python The latter would solve a lot of problems for me.

Hello, I am trying to get the output from the win32 platform command OutputDebugString. I have used the following C++ code as a guideline: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.utilities/browse_frm/thread/1434418cb968d053/1a3c957675242c7e?lnk=st&q=DBWIN_BUFFER&rnum=3#1a3c957675242c7e And I have been able to translate most...

Hello Folks, My first posting here and I am a stuck in figuring out the exact way to update a global variable from within a function that doesnt return any value (because the function is a target of the thread and I dont know how exactly return would work in such a case). I am sure I am missing something very fundamental here. The essential...

Hi! I'm relatively new to Python, so maybe there is an obvious answer to my question, that I just didn't find, yet. I've got quite some classes (from a data model mapped with SQL-Alchemy) that can be instatiated using kwargs for the attribute values. Example: class User(object): def __init__(self, name=None):

Hi.. I have a dictionary like these: a={'a': '1000', 'b': '18000', 'c':'40', 'd': '600'} ...... 100.000 element I want to sort this by value and i want to first 100 element.. Result must be: ( first 100 element) I done this using FOR and ITERATOR but it tooks 1 second and this is very big time to my project.

I thought I would post the source to a program that I made that will download the http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/gutsy/ as soon as its posted. It checks the site every 10 min time.sleep(600) This is mostly untested so I would appreciate comments, and if you use it, post that too! :) <code>

Python is supposed to be readable, but after programming in Python for a while I find my Python programs can be more obfuscated than their C/C ++ counterparts sometimes. Part of the reason is that with heterogeneous lists/tuples at hand, I tend to stuff many things into the list and *assume* a structure of the list or tuple, instead of...

Hello, I came across annoying problem during my fun with mod_python. I turned out that mod_python load package only onca and don't care about any changes to it. Obviously it makes sense on production server but during development is more then annoying. I find a way to reload my module: m = apache.import_module(name) reload(m)

Hi, in my program i need to call a couple of functions that do some stuff but they always print their output on screen. But I don't want them to print anything on the screen. Is there any way I can disable it from doing this, like redirect the output to somewhere else? But later on in the program i then need to print other stuff so i'd need...

I have this code inside a function: try: for linea in subprocess.Popen(comando, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).stdout: req = urllib2.Request(URL, "&mac_addr=" + mac_addr + " &sampled_time=" + sampled_time + " &line_data=" + linea) ret = urllib2.urlopen(req).read() except...

Here is the first installment of SQL helper functions which I use with two classes that I wrote which encapsulate a MySQL server and a MySQL client. These helpers make it easy to convert back and forth between python dictionaries and SQL tables. def MySQLSelect(table, arglist=, argdict={}, **kwargs): """Build an SQL SELECT command from the...

Here are the latest versions of My (as in mine) SQL helper functions. Please feel free to rename them if you use them. The SELECT helper:def MySQLSelect(table, arglist=(), argdict={}, **kwargs): """Build an SQL SELECT command from the arguments: Return a single string which can be 'execute'd. arglist is a list of strings that are...

This is a work in progress (current and active). There are some issues to resolve in supporting multiple connection types and I plan to add PySQLite to the mix. The this update is due to my suggesting the accompanying helper functions in a recent post and noticing that the ones posted here are a bit out of date. I'll post those helpers in a...

Hey all, sorry for the totally newb question. I recently switched over to python from ruby. I'm having problems figuring out how module importing works.. as a simple example I've got these files: /example/loader.py /example/loadee.py loadee.py class loadee(object): def __init__(self):

Hi everyone, What is the best GNU/Linux distribution (or the most preferred) for developing Python applications? Ideally I would like one with both Python *and* IDLE included on the install media (neither Ubuntu nor SUSE have IDLE on the CDs), so that I can use it on machines without a network connection. Thanks,

Hi everyone, I have been battling to make my code work with a HTTPS proxy, current my code uses urllib2 to to most things and works well, except that urllib2 doesn't handle HTTPS proxies. Urlgrabber (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/help/ urlgrabber.grabber.html) looks very promising except that I can find a way to handle...

What are the most popular, easiest to use, and most powerful mock object packages out there? Thanks in advance. Matt

I have recently (today) just started learning/playing with Python. So far I am excited and impressed (coming from PHP background). I have a few questions regarding Python behavior... val = 'string' li = list(val) print li.reverse() returns nothing, but,

I would like to set up a server that takes XMLRPC requests and processes them asynchronously. The XMLRPC server part is trivial in python. The job processing part is the part that I am having trouble with. I have been looking at how to use threadpool, but I can't see how to get that working. I would like to have the XMLRPC part of things...