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how can i get a weather of a particular city from a website. how to send a get request using python.

Hello all, I created a simple game using the pygame and livewires packages a few years ago on a windows PC. Since then my pc died on me :( and I've switched over to a mac. I decided I wanted to dust off my old game, make some modifications, and …

hi all... i have this problem... i want to create a summary base on the date from the txt file... also the summary must be in order... here is an eg for my txtfile 1 -day 8 -month 2011-year test 8pm $25 this is a test 2 8 2011 wee …

How do I use glob with urllib2? So what I have been trying to acheive with no success is creating a list of file names with glob from two sources and comparing them and download file if it doesn't exist. I can't get past the start because I am not …

Hi Experts, Please help me, i am writing code for csv conversion, in middle i facing one issue. i have one array which contains 3 elements like wise @array contanis: var1= '455,0,0,0,0\n 135,0,0,0,0\n 199,0,0,0,0\n', var2= '131.253.4.131,1,0\n 131.253.7.54,1,0\n 10.80.5.3,1,0\n'; i need to convert like wise as below var1= '455,0,0,0,0 , 131.253.4.131,1,0\n …

Hi I'm software engineering student. I know python, c, c++ and c#. It's been two years I'm trying to learn programming but somehow I still a beginner. I just know the syntax of these languages. I love Linux and open-source. I tried to learn programming in Visual Studio but my …

Hello, I get following error while importing h5py. Can some one please help me in how does this work. import h5py File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/h5py-1.3.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/h5py/__init__.py", line 24, in <module> import h5 File "h5.pyx", line 386, in init h5py.h5 (h5py/h5.c:5557) File "h5.pyx", line 359, in h5py.h5.init_hdf5 (h5py/h5.c:3946) File "h5r.pxd", line 24, in init …

So I'm creating a backup GUI in Python which basically asks the user for their username/password and source directory so it can be rsynced over to a remote server. The only trouble I'm coming across is passing the password (entered in the GUI) to the server after I execute the …

Regular Expression (RE) They can be used with string operations. Using this, we specify the rules for the set of possible strings that we want to match (Searching for patterns in another string). Note : its finds FIRST instance of that pattern We can also use REs to modify a …

hii, i am new to python.. i want to run a batch file on a remote computer by running python script on my computer both in the same network. i am able to run batch file on my computer in python script using subprocess, but not able to access the …

suppose i want to read excel contents of 123 as 'one hundred twenty three'. please provide suggestion. srinivas

I am using the following code to extract second name from the html having following kind of lines - <tr align="right"><td>3</td><td>Matthew</td><td>Brittany</td> So, I want to extract "Brittany" from the above line [CODE]for line in f: match3 = re.search(r'$([a-zA-Z]+)(</td>)',line) if match3: print match3.group(1)[/CODE] But this ain't working. Please help.

[CODE]con=L2DatabaseFactory.getInstance().getConnection() rem=con.prepareStatement("DELETE FROM buffer_scheme_contents WHERE scheme_id=? AND skill_id=? AND skill_level=? LIMIT 1") rem.setString(1, scheme) rem.setString(2, skill) rem.setString(3, level) try : rem.executeUpdate() except : pass if getBuffCount(scheme) == 0 : HTML = getOptionList(scheme) else : HTML = viewAllSchemeBuffs(scheme,eventParam2,"remove") return HTML if event == "add_buff" : event = eventParam1.split("_") scheme = event[0] …

<text> <p><s id="s1"><ng><w pws="yes" id="w1" p="CD">25</w> <w l="woman" pws="yes" id="w4" p="NNP" common="true" headn="yes">Woman</w></ng> <vg tense="past" voice="act" asp="simple" modal="no"><w l="create" pws="yes" id="w10" p="VBD" headv="yes">created</w></vg> <pg><w pws="yes" id="w18" p="IN">for</w></pg> <ng><w vstem="succeed" l="success" pws="yes" id="w22" p="NN" headn="yes">success</w> <w l="barbie" pws="yes" id="w30" p="NN" headn="yes">barbie</w></ng> <ng><enamex type="location"><w l="reynold" pws="yes" id="w37" p="NNP" locname="single">Reynolds</w></enamex> <w l="sep" pws="yes" …

Is there a way to read Adobe PDF files with Python?

Let's say the website has this code: [url]http://www.hypergurl.com/randomimage.html[/url] What it does is each time you load the page the script generates a random number and loads the appropriate image. Let's just say that the image is an image of that number and this website displays this random number in text …

Say I have a list of lists as follows (which I do): [CODE][['Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3'], ['Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3'], ['Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3'], ['Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3']][/CODE] What I want to accomplish is if in any list Value1 & Value2 equal the Value1 & Value2 of any other list, I want to merge …

[CODE]Hi all... I'm making a php interface to start, stop and control a program running on a windows pc. At the moment I can start it with [CODE="php"]pclose(popen('start c:\users\server\mtaserver.exe',"r"));[/CODE] and stop it with [CODE="php"]pclose(popen('taskkill /F /IM mtaserver.exe',"r"));[/CODE] both of which use windows tools to operate, they then get killed allowing …

[CODE]class Triangle: def __init__(self,x,y,z): self.x = x self.y = y self.z = z def perimeter(self): return self.x + self.y + self.z def area(self): ang = acos(self.y^2 - self.x^2 - self.z^2 / -2 * self.x * self.z) h = sin(ang) * self.x return self.z * h / 2 triangle = Triangle(input("Please …

hi there guys I have to make a program that computes for the convolution, but I am still quite confused how convolution works? I have a matlab program in my pc and I tried to use convolution there and here is what I got: >> x=[3,4,5]; >> y=[5,4,3]; >> conv …

Hello, colleagues, Greetings I'm developing this code but I have problems on the part of a database query look at the full function code in which I have problems other than data base is [CODE]import sqlite3 as lite con = lite.connect('MiBase.sqlite') c = con.cursor() c.execute("""create table inventario (codigo real, producto …

This snippet defines a context [icode]autofilename()[/icode] to create an existing temporary file with a new name in python. Unlike the methods in the [icode]tempfile[/icode] module, it only gives a filename which exists within a 'with' block, instead of an open file. This is useful for example when a program needs …

Hi All When trying to open a URL with bellow code, it Gives "TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting" [CODE=python]import urllib City="%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86" Province="%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85" myurl = 'http://www.owghat.com/owghat.png.aspx?Province='+'%s'+'&City='+'%s'%(Province, City) #the real address is:http://www.owghat.com/owghat.png.aspx?Province=%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85&City=%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86 a="e:\\img.png" urllib.urlretrieve(myurl,a)[/CODE] So, what I'm doing wrong? AND Another question: How to encode a utf-8 string(example: مهران) …

Hello my fellow friends! :) I joined Daniweb because I find the community very friendly and the forum is very active. I am currently a year 1 Computer Science student studying in the University of Nottingham. I'm trying hard to gain knowledge on programming right now, and I know that …

I'm interested in a generic event system for Python. I've searched the forum for similar topics, and I've searched the web for existing implementations. I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. I'm familiar with the Observer pattern. However, my implementation and other implementations lack strong support for concurrency and …

Hey is there a way to find the maximum occuring character in a string without using a hash map. ? Maybe in dynamic Programming or something ???

I have been looking for tutorials for about an hour now for pythin networking and nothing i am finding is helpful. What i need is a python program that will take a computers ip adress and tell me if a specific port is open. Can anyone give me a quick, …

Here is Mandelbrot set viewer in Tkinter and modules for shedskining (included compiled modules for windows in the zip file): [CODE]# mandelsh.py def mandel(real, imag, max_iterations=20): '''determines if a point is in the Mandelbrot set based on deciding if, after a maximum allowed number of iterations, the absolute value of …

Hello, I'm a student in a summer workshop and i'm trying to make a python table from which people can choose the type , and within a mile radius. It's suppose to be compatible with an Arcgis map. If anyone knows how to make something similar please tell me how …

We have here at our home my wife's work computer. While not today's hottest iron, it is still Centrino Duo machine, runningn WinXP Professional with 1 GB RAM. Our home machine is aged AMD Semptron 3100+ (1.81 GHz) and has 2 GB RAM running WindowsXP Home. While running my Mandelbrot …

I am working in an older version of Python (2.6, I believe). I cannot update to the latest version because it is not currently compatible with the other program I need the code to run with so, unfortunately, the "decimal" module is not available to me (as far as I …

Hello python gurus! I dabble in python casually, and I've just recently begun to use classes. For the most part they've proven very helpful, but this error has me stumped: [CODE]creature.health=creature.health-2*creature.metabolsim/resolution AttributeError: predator instance has no attribute 'metabolsim'[/CODE] Here's the full code of the program (it's designed to run a …

Hello, kind citizens of DaniWeb! I beg your assistance in the solution of my problem! I was trying to create a simple audio player using Tkinter and pygame, pygame being the best library that included audio playback I could find (by the way, DO NOT USE SNACK!!). Anyway, I was …

I am working with a CSV file with multiple rows, which I need to be able to access individual data elements from a row so I can assign them to variables and send them to the other program I am working with in a loop, going through each individual row. …

I'm trying to embed python script in c in windows. [CODE] #include <Python.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); PyRun_SimpleString("from time import time,ctime\n" "print 'Today is',ctime(time())\n"); Py_Finalize(); return 0; } [/CODE] from the python documentation. I'm compiling with Microsoft's lcc. I'm getting following errors. Error c:\lcc\examples\python\pyembed.c 7 undefined reference …

this prints all five iterations. cani make it only print the last iteration? [CODE]key1 = [' ','a','b','c','0','1','2','3'] out = '' inpt = raw_input('enter text:') for i in inpt: if i in key1: out = out + key1[key1.index(i)+3] print out[/CODE]

I am newbie in Python and given a task from my boss to do this : 1. Grab streaming(real time) data from twitter using PyCurl connection and output in JSON 2. Parsing using NLTK and Regular Expression 3. Save it to database file(MySQL) Note : i took the data from …

hi, can any one tell me how to i convert amount(in digitts) to word. thanks in advance

Hi any idea of how to parse a file like this. The problem that I found reading a line a putting into a list that it does not respect the blanks, I need to parse first 9 positions, then 8 positions then 8 positions, then 7, then 7 then 7 …

Hello I need to rename a folder within / inside a ZIP file, preferably without extract it and compress it off-course. How can I do this (only with free help stuff if needed) ? Thanks

I'm frustrated by the nature of time.sleep(), which prevents the script from doing anything else during the allotted time period. For example, I have: [CODE]while True: checkSomething() time.sleep(0.1) print 'hello'[/CODE] In this case, "hello" is never printed. I really want to check something every few milliseconds, but I also need …

i) Create a class called Complex for performing arithmetic with complex numbers. ii) Write a driver program to test your class. Complex numbers have the form realPart+imaginaryPart *i Where i is: √-1 Use floating point variables to represent the private data of the class. Provide a constructor method that enables …

Ive written a small program to convert celcuis o Fahrenheit and vice versa. The script as it stands works : [CODE]#!/usr/bin/python import sys def convert(t,fc): if t == "c": print (fc * 9) / 5 + 32,"Degress Fahrenheit" elif t == "f": print (fc - 32) / 9 * 5,"Degress …

i searched the internet and found no scripts for dynamic text (user input, process and output) for blender game engine. id appreciate any help. i can only make the user type in the game but could not get it to be saved in a global variable which i will use …

Hi, I'm new to Python, I'm practicing queries sqlite3 database, I will present what I have so far. until now I have not seen an example of how to reflect queries a database using wxPython I hope I help, do not write very good English. frame.py import wx import sqlite3 …

I am just learning python. I am switching from visual basic so this is a bit new to me. I am trying to write a loop for a super small script. It is below I am trying to understand the def f() how to loop that short code over and …

[B][LIST=1] [*]it's very exciting to be alive in this age of technological revolution and deep spiritual awakening. for me, to be fulfilled means to be fully engaged expanding your knowledge and wisdom and giving back to the society while you remain happy and true to your mission. i would like …

How to calculate the sum & product of dis-similar numbers of an array[10]. i do have a code but it stop working after a certain limit, so please help.....

1) Let X be the length of the first linked list until intersection point. Let Y be the length of the second linked list until the intersection point. Let Z be the length of the linked list from intersection point to End of the linked list including the intersection node. …

I have two text files containing multiple lines of text from a datalogger, and I need to compare the two files and save the difference into a third text file. ie.... text1: 10/13/01, 21:34:23, 4324 10/14/01, 09:12:32, 3423 10/15/01, 04:45:54, 7834 text2: 10/12/01, 43:34:34, 6453 10/13/01, 21:34:23, 4324 10/14/01, 09:12:32, …