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I'm about to build a piece of a project that will need to build and post an xml document to a web service, and I'd like to do it in Python as a means to expand my skills there. Unfortunately, while I know the XML model fairly well in .Net, I'm uncertain what the pros and cons are of the XML models…

I am using the Photoshop's javascript API to find the fonts in a given PSD. Given a font name returned by the API, I want to find the actual physical font file that that corresponds to on the disc. This is all happening in a python program running on OSX so I guess I'm looking for one of…

I have a cross-platform (Python) application which needs to generate a JPEG preview of the first page of a PDF. On the Mac I am spawning sips . Is there something similarly simple I can do on Windows?

I'm starting work on a hobby project with a python codebase and would like to set up some form of continuous integration (i.e. running a battery of test-cases each time a check-in is made and sending nag e-mails to responsible persons when the tests fail) similar to CruiseControl or TeamCity. I…

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I don't remember whether I was dreaming or not but I seem to recall there being a function which allowed something like, foo in iter_attr(array of python objects, attribute name) I've looked over the docs but this kind of thing doesn't fall under any obvious listed headers

I am quite fond of the Intellisense code completion baked into Microsoft Visual Studio. I find that I only type 2 to 4 characters of any given keyword which drasticaly speeds up my coding. Now that I have been spending time writing some Python code I find myself reaching for ctrl+space. Are t…

Django view points to a function, which can be a problem if you want to change only a bit of functionality. Yes, I could have million keyword arguments and even more if statements in the function, but I was thinking more of an object oriented approach. For example, I have a page that displays…

I can get Python to work with Postgresql but I cannot get it to work with MySQL. The main problem is that on the shared hosting account I have I do not have the ability to install things such as Django or PySQL, I generally fail when installing them on my computer so maybe it's good I can't instal…

I haven't been able to find an understandable explanation of how to actually use Python's itertools.groupby() function. What I'm trying to do is this: take a list - in this case, the children of an objectified lxml element - divide it into groups based on some criteria, and then later iterate over…

I have been dabbling in Python for a couple months now, read the online docs/tutorial and started playing with Django a bit as well... and I feel like I am starting to leave my formative toddler years and ready for some more serious code. Most everything I see is generally encapsulated in a single…

I've read that it is possible to add a method to an existing object (e.g. not in the class definition) in python , I think this is called Monkey Patching (or in some cases Duck Punching). I understand that it's not always a good decision to do so. But, how might one do this? And if you don't …

I need to be able to manipulate a large (10^7 nodes) graph in python. The data corresponding to each node/edge is minimal, say, a small number of strings. What is the most efficient, in terms of memory and speed , way of doing this? A dict of dicts is more flexible and simpler to implement, …

How do you express an integer as a binary number with Python literals? I was easily able to find the answer for hex: >>> 0x12AF 4783 >>> 0x100 256 and, octal: >>> 01267 695 >>> 0100 64 How do you use literals to express binary in Python? Summary of Answers …