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How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
510,324
<p>The DOM has (atleast in level 2) an interface DATASection, and an operation Document::createCDATASection. They are extension interfaces, supported only if an implementation supports the "xml" feature.</p> <p>from xml.dom import minidom</p> <p>my_xmldoc=minidom.parse(xmlfile)</p> <p>my_xmldoc.createCDATASection(d...
1
2009-02-04T06:53:24Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
8,915,039
<p>Here is a variant of gooli's solution that works for python 3.2:</p> <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree def CDATA(text=None): element = etree.Element('![CDATA[') element.text = text return element etree._original_serialize_xml = etree._serialize_xml d...
8
2012-01-18T18:03:56Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
10,440,166
<p>Here's my version which is based on both gooli's and amaury's answers above. It works for both ElementTree 1.2.6 and 1.3.0, which use very different methods of doing this.</p> <p>Note that gooli's does not work with 1.3.0, which seems to be the current standard in Python 2.7.x.</p> <p>Also note that this version ...
0
2012-05-03T22:27:49Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
13,919,169
<p>I got here looking for a way to "parse an XML with CDATA sections and then output it again with the CDATA sections". </p> <p>I was able to do this (maybe lxml has been updated since this post?) with the following: (it is a little rough - sorry ;-). Someone else may have a better way to find the CDATA sections progr...
0
2012-12-17T17:39:44Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
14,118,042
<p>The accepted solution cannot work with <strong>Python 2.7</strong>. However, there is another package called <a href="http://lxml.de/" rel="nofollow">lxml</a> which (though slightly slower) shared a largely identical syntax with the <code>xml.etree.ElementTree</code>. <code>lxml</code> is able to both write and pars...
1
2013-01-02T06:56:08Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
16,944,089
<p>This ended up working for me in Python 2.7. Similar to Amaury's answer.</p> <pre><code>import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET ET._original_serialize_xml = ET._serialize_xml def _serialize_xml(write, elem, encoding, qnames, namespaces): if elem.tag == '![CDATA[': write("&lt;%s%s]]&gt;%s" % (elem.tag, elem...
3
2013-06-05T15:37:11Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
20,894,783
<p>I've discovered a hack to get CDATA to work using comments:</p> <pre><code>node.append(etree.Comment(' --&gt;&lt;![CDATA[' + data.replace(']]&gt;', ']]]]&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&gt;') + ']]&gt;&lt;!-- ')) </code></pre>
1
2014-01-03T01:04:33Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
174,890
<p>I've discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than <code>xml.dom.minidom</code> and I'm rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.</p> <p>Can it be done?</p>
26
2008-10-06T15:56:07Z
30,019,607
<p>I don't know whether previous versions of proposed code worked very well and whether ElementTree module has been updated but I have faced problems with using this trick:</p> <pre><code>etree._original_serialize_xml = etree._serialize_xml def _serialize_xml(write, elem, qnames, namespaces): if elem.tag == '![CDA...
2
2015-05-03T21:27:30Z
[ "python", "xml" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
175,258
<p><em>I think this is a deeper issue than you realize</em>. Simply changing the file from Unicode into ASCII is easy, however, getting all of the Unicode characters to translate into reasonable ASCII counterparts (many letters are not available in both encodings) is another.</p> <p>This Python Unicode tutorial may gi...
11
2008-10-06T17:17:01Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
175,260
<p>Like this:</p> <pre><code>uc = open(filename).read().decode('utf8') ascii = uc.decode('ascii') </code></pre> <p>Note, however, that this will <strong>fail</strong> with a <code>UnicodeDecodeError</code> exception if there are any characters that can't be converted to ASCII.</p> <p>EDIT: As Pete Karl just pointed ...
2
2008-10-06T17:18:04Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
175,270
<p>You can convert the file easily enough just using the <code>unicode</code> function, but you'll run into problems with Unicode characters without a straight ASCII equivalent.</p> <p><a href="http://www.peterbe.com/plog/unicode-to-ascii">This blog</a> recommends the <code><a href="http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib...
41
2008-10-06T17:21:15Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
175,286
<p>Here's some simple (and stupid) code to do encoding translation. I'm assuming (but you shouldn't) that the input file is in UTF-16 (Windows calls this simply 'Unicode').</p> <pre><code>input_codec = 'UTF-16' output_codec = 'ASCII' unicode_file = open('filename') unicode_data = unicode_file.read().decode(input_cod...
2
2008-10-06T17:24:48Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
176,044
<p>It's important to note that there is no 'Unicode' file format. Unicode can be encoded to bytes in several different ways. Most commonly UTF-8 or UTF-16. You'll need to know which one your 3rd-party tool is outputting. Once you know that, converting between different encodings is pretty easy:</p> <pre><code>in_f...
0
2008-10-06T20:24:46Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
1,906,165
<p>As other posters have noted, ASCII is a subset of unicode. </p> <p>However if you:</p> <ul> <li>have a legacy app </li> <li>you don't control the code for that app</li> <li>you're sure your input falls into the ASCII subset</li> </ul> <p>Then the example below shows how to do it:</p> <pre><code>mystring = u'bar'...
0
2009-12-15T09:12:38Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
6,312,083
<p>For my problem where I just wanted to skip the Non-ascii characters and just output only ascii output, the below solution worked really well:</p> <pre><code> import unicodedata input = open(filename).read().decode('UTF-16') output = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', input).encode('ASCII', 'ignore') </code></...
2
2011-06-10T21:08:02Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
How do I convert a file's format from Unicode to ASCII using Python?
175,240
<p>I use a 3rd party tool that outputs a file in Unicode format. However, I prefer it to be in ASCII. The tool does not have settings to change the file format.</p> <p>What is the best way to convert the entire file format using Python?</p>
18
2008-10-06T17:11:30Z
8,543,825
<p>By the way, these is a linux command <code>iconv</code> to do this kind of job.</p> <pre><code>iconv -f utf8 -t ascii &lt;input.txt &gt;output.txt </code></pre>
3
2011-12-17T09:29:58Z
[ "python", "unicode", "encoding", "file", "ascii" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,585
<p>This is an NP-complete problem, I think, so it'll be impossible to have a very fast algorithm for any large data sets. </p> <p>There's also the problem where you might have a schedule that is impossible to make. Given that that's not the case, something like this pseudocode is probably your best bet:</p> <pre><cod...
2
2008-10-06T18:29:26Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,612
<p>There are several questions I'd ask before answering this queston:</p> <ul> <li>what happens if there is a conflict, i.e. a worse player books first, then a better player books the same court? Who wins? what happens for the loser?</li> <li>do you let the best players play as long as the match runs, or do you have f...
1
2008-10-06T18:35:00Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,683
<p>Money. Allocate time slots based on who pays the most. In case of a draw don't let any of them have the slot.</p>
-2
2008-10-06T18:53:38Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,697
<p>You are describing a matching problem. Possible references are <a href="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/files/matching.shtml" rel="nofollow">the Stony Brook algorithm repository</a> and <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321295358" rel="nofollow">Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos</a>. If th...
2
2008-10-06T19:00:09Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,831
<p>I would advise using a scoring algorithm. Basically construct a formula that pulls all the values you described into a single number. Who ever has the highest final score wins that slot. For example a simple formula might be:</p> <pre><code>FinalScore = ( PlayerRanking * N1 ) + ( PlayerPreference * N2 ) </code></pr...
1
2008-10-06T19:34:44Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
175,941
<p>Basically, you have the advantage that players have priorities; therefore, you sort the players by descending priority, and then you start allocating slots to them. The first gets their preferred slot, then the next takes his preferred among the free ones and so on. It's a O(N) algorithm.</p>
0
2008-10-06T20:00:10Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
178,185
<h2>The basic Algorithm</h2> <p>I'd sort the players by their rank, as the high ranked ones always push away the low ranked ones. Then you start with the player with the highest rank, give him what he asked for (if he really is the highest, he will always win, thus you can as well give him whatever he requested). Then...
3
2008-10-07T12:17:48Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
writing optimization function
175,544
<p>I'm trying to write a tennis reservation system and I got stucked with this problem. Let's say you have players with their prefs regarding court number, day and hour. Also every player is ranked so if there is day/hour slot and there are several players with preferences for this slot the one with top priority should...
2
2008-10-06T18:21:53Z
4,594,898
<p>I think you should use genetic algorithm because:</p> <ul> <li>It is best suited for large problem instances.</li> <li>It yields reduced time complexity on the price of inaccurate answer(Not the ultimate best)</li> <li>You can specify constraints &amp; preferences easily by adjusting fitness punishments for not met...
0
2011-01-04T14:52:36Z
[ "python", "algorithm" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
176,033
<p>My understanding is that arrays are stored more efficiently (i.e. as contiguous blocks of memory vs. pointers to Python objects), but I am not aware of any performance benefit. Additionally, with arrays you must store primitives of the same type, whereas lists can store anything.</p>
8
2008-10-06T20:22:50Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
176,043
<p>For almost all cases the normal list is the right choice. The arrays module is more like a thin wrapper over C arrays, which give you kind of strongly typed containers (see <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/array.html#module-array">docs</a>), with access to more C-like types such as signed/unsigned short or do...
42
2008-10-06T20:24:38Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
176,047
<p>Array can only be used for specific types, whereas lists can be used for any object.</p> <p>Arrays can also only data of one type, whereas a list can have entries of various object types.</p> <p>Arrays are also more efficient for some numerical computation.</p>
4
2008-10-06T20:25:05Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
176,073
<p>If you're going to be using arrays, consider the numpy or scipy packages, which give you arrays with a lot more flexibility.</p>
2
2008-10-06T20:30:54Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
176,589
<p>Basically, Python lists are very flexible and can hold completely heterogeneous, arbitrary data, and they can be appended to very efficiently, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_array#Geometric_expansion_and_amortized_cost">amortized constant time</a>. If you need to shrink and grow your array time-ef...
241
2008-10-06T23:11:06Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
178,511
<p>The standard library arrays are useful for binary I/O, such as translating a list of ints to a string to write to, say, a wave file. That said, as many have already noted, if you're going to do any real work then you should consider using NumPy.</p>
4
2008-10-07T13:47:01Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Python List vs. Array - when to use?
176,011
<p>If you are creating a 1d array, you can implement it as a List, or else use the 'array' module in the standard library. I have always used Lists for 1d arrays.</p> <p>What is the reason or circumstance where I would want to use the array module instead?</p> <p>Is it for performance and memory optimization, or am ...
195
2008-10-06T20:17:43Z
178,590
<p>The array module is kind of one of those things that you probably don't have a need for if you don't know why you would use it (and take note that I'm not trying to say that in a condescending manner!). Most of the time, the array module is used to interface with C code. To give you a more direct answer to your qu...
19
2008-10-07T14:00:40Z
[ "python", "arrays", "list" ]
Writing a reliable, totally-ordered multicast system in Python
176,179
<p>I have to write a reliable, totally-ordered multicast system from scratch in Python. I can't use any external libraries. I'm allowed to use a central sequencer.</p> <p>There seems to be two immediate approaches:</p> <ol> <li>write an efficient system, attaching a unique id to each multicasted message, having the ...
4
2008-10-06T21:03:55Z
176,287
<p>The flooding approach can cause a bad situation to get worse. If messages are dropped due to high network load, having every node resend every message will only make the situation worse.</p> <p>The best approach to take depends on the nature of the data you are sending. For example:</p> <ol> <li>Multimedia data: n...
4
2008-10-06T21:32:46Z
[ "python", "sockets", "networking", "ip", "multicast" ]
Writing a reliable, totally-ordered multicast system in Python
176,179
<p>I have to write a reliable, totally-ordered multicast system from scratch in Python. I can't use any external libraries. I'm allowed to use a central sequencer.</p> <p>There seems to be two immediate approaches:</p> <ol> <li>write an efficient system, attaching a unique id to each multicasted message, having the ...
4
2008-10-06T21:03:55Z
176,501
<p>The approach you take is going to depend very much on the nature of the data that you're sending, the scale of your network and the quantity of data you're sending. In particular it is going to depend on the number of targets each of your nodes is connected to.</p> <p>If you're expecting this to scale to a large nu...
1
2008-10-06T22:42:25Z
[ "python", "sockets", "networking", "ip", "multicast" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,226
<p>I found these two books very useful when I used to build full-text search engines.</p> <p><a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0134638379">Information Retrieval</a></p> <p><a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1558605703">Managing Gigabytes</a></p>
5
2008-10-06T21:14:52Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,245
<p>As always start in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(search_engine)" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a>. First start is usually building an inverted index.</p>
2
2008-10-06T21:21:49Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
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<p>See also a question I asked: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47762/how-to-ranking-search-results">How-to: Ranking Search Results</a>.</p> <p>Surely there are more approaches, but this is the one I'm using for now.</p>
0
2008-10-06T21:23:36Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,374
<p>First build your index. Go through the input, split into words<br /> For each word check if it is already in the index, if it is add the current record number to the index list, if not add the word and record number.<br /> To look up a word go to the (possibly sorted) index and return all the record numbers for that...
1
2008-10-06T21:59:14Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,521
<p>Honestly, smarter people than I have figured this stuff out. I'd load up the solr app and make json calls from my appengine app and let solr take care of indexing. </p>
0
2008-10-06T22:49:56Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,549
<p>Here's an original idea:</p> <p><em>Don't</em> build an index. Seriously.</p> <p>I was faced with a similar progblem some time ago. I needed a fast method to search megs and megs of text that came from documentation. I needed to match not just words, but word proximity in large documents (is this word <em>near<...
3
2008-10-06T22:58:42Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
176,972
<p>Read Tim Bray's <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/30/OnSearchTOC">series of posts on the subject</a>.</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Background</li> <li>Usage of search engines</li> <li>Basics</li> <li>Precision and recall</li> <li>Search engne intelligence</li> <li>Tricky search term...
6
2008-10-07T02:06:11Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
177,030
<p>I would not build it yourself, if possible.</p> <p>App Engine includes the basics of a Full Text searching engine, and there is a <a href="http://appengineguy.com/2008/06/how-to-full-text-search-in-google-app.html" rel="nofollow">great blog post here</a> that describes how to use it.</p> <p>There is also a <a href...
3
2008-10-07T02:30:26Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
177,046
<p>I just found this article this weekend: <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/19/engine.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/19/engine.html</a></p> <p>Looks not too complicated to do a simple one (though it would need heavy optimizing to be an enterprise type solution for sure). I plan on try...
0
2008-10-07T02:40:28Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
177,904
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene" rel="nofollow">Lucene</a> or <a href="http://www.searchtools.com/tools/autonomy.html" rel="nofollow">Autonomy</a>! These are not out of the box solutions for you. You will have to write wrappers on top of their interfaces.<br /> They certainly do take care of the stemmi...
2
2008-10-07T10:41:51Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
181,086
<p>The book <a href="http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-book.html" rel="nofollow">Introduction to Information Retrieval</a> provides a good introduction to the field.</p> <p>A dead-tree version is published by Cambridge University Press, but you can also find a free online edition (in HTML and...
1
2008-10-08T01:37:25Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Building a full text search engine: where to start
176,213
<p>I want to write a web application using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a> (so the reference language would be <strong>Python</strong>). My application needs a simple search engine, so the users would be able to find data specifying keywords.</p> <p>For example, if I have one table wi...
7
2008-10-06T21:10:44Z
181,138
<p>Look into the book "Managing Gigabytes" it covers storage and retrieval of huge amounts of plain text data -- eg. both compression and actual searching, and a variety of the algorithms that can be used for each.</p> <p>Also for plain text retrieval you're best off using a vector based search system rather than a ke...
0
2008-10-08T02:26:31Z
[ "python", "full-text-search" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
176,921
<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; ["foo", "bar", "baz"].index("bar") 1 </code></pre> <p>Reference: <a href="http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists">Data Structures > More on Lists</a></p>
1,857
2008-10-07T01:40:49Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
178,399
<p>One thing that is really helpful in learning Python is to use the interactive help function:</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; help(["foo", "bar", "baz"]) Help on list object: class list(object) ... | | index(...) | L.index(value, [start, [stop]]) -&gt; integer -- return first index of value | </code></pre> ...
615
2008-10-07T13:19:56Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
7,241,298
<p><code>index()</code> returns the <strong>first</strong> index of value!</p> <blockquote> <p>| index(...)<br> | L.index(value, [start, [stop]]) -> integer -- return first index of value</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>def all_indices(value, qlist): indices = [] idx = -1 while True: try: ...
75
2011-08-30T09:40:54Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
12,054,409
<pre><code>a = ["foo","bar","baz",'bar','any','much'] b = [item for item in range(len(a)) if a[item] == 'bar'] </code></pre>
34
2012-08-21T12:01:54Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
16,034,499
<p>Problem will arrise if the element is not in the list. You can use this function, it handles the issue:</p> <pre><code># if element is found it returns index of element else returns -1 def find_element_in_list(element, list_element): try: index_element = list_element.index(element) return index...
31
2013-04-16T10:19:36Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
16,593,099
<p>All of the proposed functions here reproduce inherent language behavior but obscure what's going on.</p> <pre><code>[i for i in range(len(mylist)) if mylist[i]==myterm] # get the indices [each for each in mylist if each==myterm] # get the items mylist.index(myterm) if myterm in mylist else None # get the first inde...
11
2013-05-16T16:45:29Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
16,807,733
<p>Simply you can go with</p> <pre><code>a = [['hand', 'head'], ['phone', 'wallet'], ['lost', 'stock']] b = ['phone', 'lost'] res = [[x[0] for x in a].index(y) for y in b] </code></pre>
6
2013-05-29T07:17:15Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
16,822,116
<p>Another option</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a = ['red', 'blue', 'green', 'red'] &gt;&gt;&gt; b = 'red' &gt;&gt;&gt; offset = 0; &gt;&gt;&gt; indices = list() &gt;&gt;&gt; for i in range(a.count(b)): ... indices.append(a.index(b,offset)) ... offset = indices[-1]+1 ... &gt;&gt;&gt; indices [0, 3] &gt;&gt;&gt;...
4
2013-05-29T19:17:21Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
17,202,481
<p>I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned <a href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#enumerate"><code>enumerate()</code></a> yet:</p> <pre><code>for i, j in enumerate(['foo', 'bar', 'baz']): if j == 'bar': print i </code></pre> <p>This can be more useful than index if there are duplicat...
262
2013-06-19T22:31:52Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
17,300,987
<p>To get all indexes:</p> <pre><code> indexes = [i for i,x in enumerate(xs) if x == 'foo'] </code></pre>
63
2013-06-25T15:07:55Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
22,708,420
<p>A variant on the answer from FMc and user7177 will give a dict that can return all indices for any entry:</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a = ['foo','bar','baz','bar','any', 'foo', 'much'] &gt;&gt;&gt; l = dict(zip(set(a), map(lambda y: [i for i,z in enumerate(a) if z is y ], set(a)))) &gt;&gt;&gt; l['foo'] [0, 5] &gt;...
4
2014-03-28T09:11:57Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
23,862,698
<p>You have to set a condition to check if the element you're searching is in the list</p> <pre><code>if 'your_element' in mylist: print mylist.index('your_element') else: print None </code></pre>
22
2014-05-26T04:26:52Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
27,712,517
<p>And now, for something completely different, checking for the existence of the item before getting the index. The nice thing about this approach is the function always returns a list of indices -- even if it is an empty list. It works with strings as well.</p> <pre><code>def indices(l, val): """always returns...
2
2014-12-30T21:03:10Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
30,283,031
<p>This solution is not as powerful as others, but if you're a beginner and only know about <code>for</code>loops it's still possible to find the first index of an item while avoiding the ValueError:</p> <pre><code>def find_element(p,t): i = 0 for e in p: if e == t: return i else: i +=1 return ...
3
2015-05-17T03:21:00Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
31,230,699
<pre><code>name ="bar" list = [["foo", 1], ["bar", 2], ["baz", 3]] new_list=[] for item in list: new_list.append(item[0]) print(new_list) try: location= new_list.index(name) except: location=-1 print (location) </code></pre> <p>This accounts for if the string is not in the list too, if it isn't in the list...
0
2015-07-05T13:12:19Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
33,644,671
<p>all indexes with zip function</p> <pre><code>get_indexes = lambda x, xs: [i for (y, i) in zip(xs, range(len(xs))) if x == y] print get_indexes(2,[1,2,3,4,5,6,3,2,3,2]) print get_indexes('f','xsfhhttytffsafweef') </code></pre>
5
2015-11-11T05:16:38Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Finding the index of an item given a list containing it in Python
176,918
<p>For a list <code>["foo", "bar", "baz"]</code> and an item in the list <code>"bar"</code>, what's the cleanest way to get its index (1) in Python?</p>
1,222
2008-10-07T01:39:38Z
33,765,024
<p>If you want all indexes, then you can use numpy:</p> <pre><code>import numpy as np array = [1,2,1,3,4,5,1] item = 1 np_array = np.array(array) item_index = np.where(np_array==item) print item_index # Out: (array([0, 2, 6], dtype=int64),) </code></pre> <p>It is clear, readable solution.</p>
8
2015-11-17T19:05:23Z
[ "python", "list" ]
Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears
176,955
<p>How to add offline access functionality to <a href="http://moinmo.in" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin wiki</a>?</p> <p>As a minimum, I would love to have browsing access to all pages on a server-based wiki (while being offline). Search and other things, which do not modify the content, are secondary. An added bonus would ...
3
2008-10-07T01:53:38Z
176,980
<p>If you have the freedom to change the wiki software, I might suggest looking at <a href="http://ikiwiki.info" rel="nofollow">ikiwiki</a>. You can set it up so the pages are backed by a real VCS such as Git, in which case you can clone the whole wiki and read and even update it offline.</p>
2
2008-10-07T02:10:26Z
[ "python", "wiki", "offline", "google-gears", "moinmoin" ]
Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears
176,955
<p>How to add offline access functionality to <a href="http://moinmo.in" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin wiki</a>?</p> <p>As a minimum, I would love to have browsing access to all pages on a server-based wiki (while being offline). Search and other things, which do not modify the content, are secondary. An added bonus would ...
3
2008-10-07T01:53:38Z
177,321
<p>Have a look at <a href="http://moinmo.in/DesktopEdition" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin Desktop Edition</a>.</p>
-1
2008-10-07T05:33:30Z
[ "python", "wiki", "offline", "google-gears", "moinmoin" ]
Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears
176,955
<p>How to add offline access functionality to <a href="http://moinmo.in" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin wiki</a>?</p> <p>As a minimum, I would love to have browsing access to all pages on a server-based wiki (while being offline). Search and other things, which do not modify the content, are secondary. An added bonus would ...
3
2008-10-07T01:53:38Z
178,209
<p><em>By using Gears with the Firefox Greasemonkey plugin, you can inject Gears code into any website that you want. Don't wait for your favorite website to enable offline support -- do it yourself.</em> <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gears/articles/gearsmonkey.html" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/apis/ge...
2
2008-10-07T12:27:47Z
[ "python", "wiki", "offline", "google-gears", "moinmoin" ]
Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears
176,955
<p>How to add offline access functionality to <a href="http://moinmo.in" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin wiki</a>?</p> <p>As a minimum, I would love to have browsing access to all pages on a server-based wiki (while being offline). Search and other things, which do not modify the content, are secondary. An added bonus would ...
3
2008-10-07T01:53:38Z
1,385,496
<p>If you're patient enough, MoinMoin release 2.0 will ship with Mercurial DVCS backend, so you won't have to switch. More info on <a href="http://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2.0" rel="nofollow">http://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2.0</a></p>
1
2009-09-06T11:53:57Z
[ "python", "wiki", "offline", "google-gears", "moinmoin" ]
Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears
176,955
<p>How to add offline access functionality to <a href="http://moinmo.in" rel="nofollow">MoinMoin wiki</a>?</p> <p>As a minimum, I would love to have browsing access to all pages on a server-based wiki (while being offline). Search and other things, which do not modify the content, are secondary. An added bonus would ...
3
2008-10-07T01:53:38Z
1,932,825
<ul> <li>if you want to do that on servers see HelpOnSynchronisation in moinmoin + DesktopEdition </li> <li>if locally, use <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/" rel="nofollow">unison</a> + DesktopEdition . be careful to ignore cache and such. this will allow 2-way synchronisation.</li> </ul>
1
2009-12-19T12:42:53Z
[ "python", "wiki", "offline", "google-gears", "moinmoin" ]
SQL Absolute value across columns
177,284
<p>I have a table that looks something like this:</p> <pre> word big expensive smart fast dog 9 -10 -20 4 professor 2 4 40 -7 ferrari 7 50 0 48 alaska 10 0 1 0 gnat -3 0 0 0 </pre> <p>Th...
1
2008-10-07T05:06:31Z
177,302
<p>Can you use the built-in database aggregate functions like MAX(column)?</p>
0
2008-10-07T05:22:33Z
[ "python", "mysql", "sql", "oracle", "postgresql" ]
SQL Absolute value across columns
177,284
<p>I have a table that looks something like this:</p> <pre> word big expensive smart fast dog 9 -10 -20 4 professor 2 4 40 -7 ferrari 7 50 0 48 alaska 10 0 1 0 gnat -3 0 0 0 </pre> <p>Th...
1
2008-10-07T05:06:31Z
177,308
<p>Words listed by absolute value of big:</p> <pre><code>select word, big from myTable order by abs(big) </code></pre> <p>totals for each category:</p> <pre><code>select sum(abs(big)) as sumbig, sum(abs(expensive)) as sumexpensive, sum(abs(smart)) as sumsmart, sum(abs(fast)) as sumfast fro...
3
2008-10-07T05:25:12Z
[ "python", "mysql", "sql", "oracle", "postgresql" ]
SQL Absolute value across columns
177,284
<p>I have a table that looks something like this:</p> <pre> word big expensive smart fast dog 9 -10 -20 4 professor 2 4 40 -7 ferrari 7 50 0 48 alaska 10 0 1 0 gnat -3 0 0 0 </pre> <p>Th...
1
2008-10-07T05:06:31Z
177,311
<p>abs value fartherest from zero:</p> <pre><code>select max(abs(mycol)) from mytbl </code></pre> <p>will be zero if the value is negative:</p> <pre><code>select n+abs(mycol) from zzz where abs(mycol)=(select max(abs(mycol)) from mytbl); </code></pre>
2
2008-10-07T05:28:46Z
[ "python", "mysql", "sql", "oracle", "postgresql" ]
SQL Absolute value across columns
177,284
<p>I have a table that looks something like this:</p> <pre> word big expensive smart fast dog 9 -10 -20 4 professor 2 4 40 -7 ferrari 7 50 0 48 alaska 10 0 1 0 gnat -3 0 0 0 </pre> <p>Th...
1
2008-10-07T05:06:31Z
177,637
<p>Asking the question helped clarify the issue; here is a function that gets more at what I am trying to do. Is there a way to represent some of the stuff in ¶2 above, or a more efficient way to do in SQL or python what I am trying to accomplish in <code>show_distinct</code>?</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python i...
0
2008-10-07T08:41:06Z
[ "python", "mysql", "sql", "oracle", "postgresql" ]
SQL Absolute value across columns
177,284
<p>I have a table that looks something like this:</p> <pre> word big expensive smart fast dog 9 -10 -20 4 professor 2 4 40 -7 ferrari 7 50 0 48 alaska 10 0 1 0 gnat -3 0 0 0 </pre> <p>Th...
1
2008-10-07T05:06:31Z
177,898
<p>The problem seems to be that you mainly want to work within one row, and these type of questions are hard to answer in SQL.</p> <p>I'd try to turn the structure you mentioned into a more "atomic" fact table like</p> <pre><code>word property value </code></pre> <p>either by redesigning the underlying table (if pos...
1
2008-10-07T10:39:37Z
[ "python", "mysql", "sql", "oracle", "postgresql" ]
Alert boxes in Python?
177,287
<p>Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.</p> <p>This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.</p> <p>Update:<br /> This is intended to run in the background and alert the user w...
16
2008-10-07T05:08:36Z
177,312
<p>what about this:</p> <pre><code>import win32api win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title') </code></pre> <p>Additionally:</p> <pre><code>win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title', 0x00001000) </code></pre> <p>will make the box appear on top of other windows, for urgent messages. See <a href="http://msdn.microsoft....
28
2008-10-07T05:29:15Z
[ "python", "alerts" ]
Alert boxes in Python?
177,287
<p>Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.</p> <p>This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.</p> <p>Update:<br /> This is intended to run in the background and alert the user w...
16
2008-10-07T05:08:36Z
177,316
<p>Start an app as a background process that either has a TCP port bound to localhost, or communicates through a file -- your daemon has the file open, and then you <code>echo "foo" &gt; c:\your\file</code>. After, say, 1 second of no activity, you display the message and truncate the file.</p>
-1
2008-10-07T05:30:52Z
[ "python", "alerts" ]
Alert boxes in Python?
177,287
<p>Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.</p> <p>This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.</p> <p>Update:<br /> This is intended to run in the background and alert the user w...
16
2008-10-07T05:08:36Z
11,831,178
<p>You can use win32 library in Python, this is classical example of OK or Cancel. </p> <pre><code>import win32api import win32com.client import pythoncom result = win32api.MessageBox(None,"Do you want to open a file?", "title",1) if result == 1: print 'Ok' elif result == 2: print 'cancel' </code></pre> <p>The co...
1
2012-08-06T15:23:17Z
[ "python", "alerts" ]
Alert boxes in Python?
177,287
<p>Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.</p> <p>This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.</p> <p>Update:<br /> This is intended to run in the background and alert the user w...
16
2008-10-07T05:08:36Z
20,461,473
<p>GTK may be a better option, as it is cross-platform. It'll work great on Ubuntu, and should work just fine on Windows when GTK and Python bindings are installed.</p> <pre><code>from gi.repository import Gtk dialog = Gtk.MessageDialog(None, 0, Gtk.MessageType.INFO, Gtk.ButtonsType.OK, "This is an INFO M...
2
2013-12-09T01:14:00Z
[ "python", "alerts" ]
Testing socket connection in Python
177,389
<p>This question will expand on: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python</a><br /> When opening a socket how can I test to see if it has been established, and that it did not timeout, or generally...
17
2008-10-07T06:30:19Z
177,411
<p>It seems that you catch not the exception you wanna catch out there :)</p> <p>if the <code>s</code> is a <code>socket.socket()</code> object, then the right way to call <code>.connect</code> would be:</p> <pre><code>import socket s = socket.socket() address = '127.0.0.1' port = 80 # port number is a number, not s...
23
2008-10-07T06:46:53Z
[ "python", "sockets" ]
Testing socket connection in Python
177,389
<p>This question will expand on: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python</a><br /> When opening a socket how can I test to see if it has been established, and that it did not timeout, or generally...
17
2008-10-07T06:30:19Z
177,652
<p>You should really post:</p> <ol> <li>The complete source code of your example</li> <li>The <strong>actual</strong> result of it, not a summary</li> </ol> <p>Here is my code, which works:</p> <pre><code>import socket, sys def alert(msg): print &gt;&gt;sys.stderr, msg sys.exit(1) (family, socktype, proto,...
4
2008-10-07T08:48:00Z
[ "python", "sockets" ]
Testing socket connection in Python
177,389
<p>This question will expand on: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68774/best-way-to-open-a-socket-in-python</a><br /> When opening a socket how can I test to see if it has been established, and that it did not timeout, or generally...
17
2008-10-07T06:30:19Z
20,541,919
<p>You can use the function <a href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.socket.connect_ex" rel="nofollow">connect_ex</a>. It doesn't throw an exception. Instead of that, returns a C style integer value (referred to as <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/3/errno" rel="nofollow">errno</a> in C):</p> <pre>...
7
2013-12-12T11:12:04Z
[ "python", "sockets" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
177,563
<p>Click 2 times "Back"?</p>
1
2008-10-07T08:15:56Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
180,855
<p>Unfortunately there's no easy way to do this. The filtering does not seem to be saved in any session variable.</p> <p>Clicking back twice is the normal method, but it can be unweildy and annoying if you've just changed an object so that it should no longer be shown using your filter.</p> <p>If it's just a one-off...
2
2008-10-07T23:41:28Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
2,645,126
<p>There's a simple hack to do this, but it's not a general solution and requires modifying every <code>ModelAdmin</code> which you want to support this. Maybe there is a general way to do this, but I've not spent the time to solve it on a general level.</p> <p>The first step is to write a custom <code>FilterSpec</cod...
1
2010-04-15T12:25:45Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
2,967,841
<p>Another way to do this is to embed the filter in the queryset.</p> <p>You can dynamically create a proxy model with a manager that filters the way you want, then call admin.site.register() to create a new model admin. All the links would then be relative to this view.</p>
0
2010-06-03T16:20:20Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
9,112,369
<p>In my opinion its better to override methods from ModelAdmin <code>changelist_view</code> and <code>change_view</code>:</p> <p>Like so:</p> <pre><code>class FakturaAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): [...] def changelist_view(self, request, extra_context=None): result = super(FakturaAdmin, self).changelist_view(request...
0
2012-02-02T12:32:47Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
9,489,312
<p>There is a change request at the Django project asking for exactly this functionality.</p> <p>All it's waiting for to be checked in is some tests and documentation. You could write those, and help the whole project, or you could just take the proposed patch (near the bottom of the page) and try it out.</p> <p><a h...
0
2012-02-28T20:36:46Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Keeping filters in Django Admin
177,492
<p>What I would like to achive is: </p> <ul> <li>I go to admin site, apply some filters to the list of objects</li> <li>I click and object edit, edit, edit, hit 'Save'</li> <li>Site takes me to the list of objects... unfiltered. I'd like to have the filter from step 1 remembered and applied.</li> </ul> <p>Is there an...
5
2008-10-07T07:33:58Z
23,236,174
<p>This feature has been added to Django as part of the 1.6 release and is enabled now by default. It is described in the <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6/#minor-features" rel="nofollow">release notes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>ModelAdmin now preserves filters on the list view after creating...
0
2014-04-23T06:12:00Z
[ "python", "django", "django-admin" ]
Accessing python egg's own metadata
177,910
<p>I've produced a python egg using setuptools and would like to access it's metadata at runtime. I currently got working this:</p> <pre><code>import pkg_resources dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution("my_project") print(dist.version) </code></pre> <p>but this would probably work incorrectly if I had multiple versio...
4
2008-10-07T10:43:22Z
177,939
<p>I am somewhat new to Python as well, but from what I understand: </p> <p>Although you can install multiple versions of the "same" egg (having the same name), only one of them will be available to any particular piece of code at runtime (based on your discovery method). So if your egg is the one calling this code, ...
3
2008-10-07T10:56:40Z
[ "python", "setuptools", "pkg-resources" ]
Accessing python egg's own metadata
177,910
<p>I've produced a python egg using setuptools and would like to access it's metadata at runtime. I currently got working this:</p> <pre><code>import pkg_resources dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution("my_project") print(dist.version) </code></pre> <p>but this would probably work incorrectly if I had multiple versio...
4
2008-10-07T10:43:22Z
177,966
<p>Exactly. So you should only be able to get the information for the currently available egg (singular) of a library. If you have multiple eggs of the same library in your site-packages folder, check the easy-install.pth in the same folder to see which egg is really used :-)</p> <p>On a site note: This is exactly the...
0
2008-10-07T11:06:09Z
[ "python", "setuptools", "pkg-resources" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,211
<p>Yes,</p> <pre><code>a = {"id": 1, "name":"Sesame Street"} </code></pre>
6
2008-10-07T12:29:21Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,213
<p>This sounds like the PHP array using named indices is very similar to a python dict:</p> <pre><code>shows = [ {"id": 1, "name": "Sesaeme Street"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Dora The Explorer"}, ] </code></pre> <p>See <a href="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries">http://docs.python.org/tut...
36
2008-10-07T12:29:57Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,224
<p>PHP arrays are actually maps, which is equivalent to dicts in Python.</p> <p>Thus, this is the Python equivalent:</p> <p><code>showlist = [{'id':1, 'name':'Sesaeme Street'}, {'id':2, 'name':'Dora the Explorer'}]</code></p> <p>Sorting example:</p> <pre><code>from operator import attrgetter showlist.sort(key=attr...
19
2008-10-07T12:33:18Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,227
<p>You should read the <a href="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">python tutorial</a> and esp. the section about <a href="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html" rel="nofollow">datastructures</a> which also covers <a href="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries" rel...
2
2008-10-07T12:34:06Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,239
<p>To assist future Googling, these are usually called associative arrays in PHP, and dictionaries in Python.</p>
5
2008-10-07T12:37:05Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,370
<p>Not exactly the same syntax, but there are a number of dictionary extensions out there which respect the order in which the key/value pairs have been added. E.g. <a href="http://home.arcor.de/wolfgang.grafen/Python/Modules/seqdict/Seqdict.html" rel="nofollow">seqdict</a>.</p>
1
2008-10-07T13:13:47Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
178,668
<p>@Unkwntech,</p> <p>What you want is available in the just-released Python 2.6 in the form of <a href="http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#new-improved-and-deprecated-modules">named tuples</a>. They allow you to do this:</p> <pre><code>import collections person = collections.namedtuple('Person', 'id name age'...
11
2008-10-07T14:21:43Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
179,169
<p>Python has lists and dicts as 2 separate data structures. PHP mixes both into one. You should use dicts in this case. </p>
0
2008-10-07T15:55:45Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
199,271
<p>I did it like this:</p> <pre><code>def MyStruct(item1=0, item2=0, item3=0): """Return a new Position tuple.""" class MyStruct(tuple): @property def item1(self): return self[0] @property def item2(self): return self[1] @property def item...
-3
2008-10-13T22:32:51Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Python: can I have a list with named indices?
178,199
<p>In PHP I can name my array indicies so that I may have something like:</p> <pre><code>$shows = Array(0 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 1, 'name' =&gt; 'Sesaeme Street'), 1 =&gt; Array('id' =&gt; 2, 'name' =&gt; 'Dora The Explorer')); </code></pre> <p>Is this possible in Python?</p>
13
2008-10-07T12:25:25Z
39,307,547
<p>The <code>pandas</code> library has a really neat solution: <code>Series</code>. </p> <pre><code>book = pandas.Series( ['Introduction to python', 'Someone', 359, 10], index=['Title', 'Author', 'Number of pages', 'Price']) print book['Author'] </code></pre> <p>For more information check it's documentation: <a hr...
0
2016-09-03T13:39:23Z
[ "python", "arrays" ]
Paver 0.8.1 compatibility with python 2.6
178,300
<p>Does anyone manage to bootstrap its development area using paver with python 2.6 ?</p> <p>I have install python 2.6, install paver with easy_install-2.6, everything looks fine. But when I try to launch the bootstrap method it raises an urllib2.HTTPError (: HTTP Error 404: Not Found) while trying to download <a href...
0
2008-10-07T12:56:40Z
2,703,878
<p>You should try newer version. =) <a href="http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/</a></p>
2
2010-04-24T09:15:11Z
[ "python", "bootstrapper", "build-environment" ]
Python, unit-testing and mocking imports
178,458
<p>I am in a project where we are starting refactoring some massive code base. One problem that immediately sprang up is that each file imports a lot of other files. How do I in an elegant way mock this in my unit test without having to alter the actual code so I can start to write unit-tests?</p> <p>As an example: Th...
10
2008-10-07T13:34:42Z
178,582
<p>"imports a lot of other files"? Imports a lot of other files that are part of your customized code base? Or imports a lot of other files that are part of the Python distribution? Or imports a lot of other open source project files?</p> <p>If your imports don't work, you have a "simple" <code>PYTHONPAT</code>H pr...
1
2008-10-07T13:59:18Z
[ "python", "unit-testing", "refactoring", "python-import" ]