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How can you change the process name of Wing IDE from python to something more descriptive

In my process list under Ubuntu (using top/System Monitor) one of the largest memory hogs (200+Mb) was python. I searched a bit for one of my programs to be the cause until I realised this was my ...
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Running 'make test' on an individual module for Python 2.7.4 build

I am working on building Python 2.7.4 on CentOS 6.4. When running the make test step, the test_gdb step fails, and I would like to get some more info as to why. Build commands I'm running: ...
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Django not installing with pip because of mismatched hash

I have a virtual machine set up with a directory created with virtualenv (env2). I am inside this directory and have it activated and want to instal django 1.4. This is my command: $ pip install ...
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Can't install python because of zypper conflict

I have a virtual machine I just set up. I'm running a completely fresh install of OpenSUSE (with online updates from yast). At the terminal I tried to run python: $ python bash: python: command not ...
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Gajim, gtalk, and logind

Since the Google talk outage earlier this month, I keep not being able to connect using gajim. I tried deleting all the configuration, updated to the latest development version, and tried in different ...
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Can't open Gajim

When I try to open Gajim using terminal on gnome I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "gajim.py", line 106, in <module> import common.configpaths File ...
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Software Center not opening in Linux Mint

I'm a Linux Mint 14 user. I'm not able to open the software center. $ software-center ERROR:root:DebFileApplication import Traceback (most recent call last): File ...
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Safely convert unicode strings to printable characters

I have many HTML files containing mixed unicode strings like \303\243 and printable characters like %s. What I'd like to do is converting the unicode strings into printable characters in a safe way. ...
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Start Repl/CLI in Background and Feed Commands

Lets say the python repl takes a long time to start up, is there a way to start it up in the background so I can create an alias and feed it commands like python-current "command to run".
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Delete XML node containing certain element

I want to remove all Placemarks from a KML file that contain the element <tessellate>. The following block should be wholly removed: <Placemark> ...
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Extract an RPM using Python [migrated]

I'm trying to write a python script that reads in an RPM file and extracts its contents into a directory. So far I've got code that can get all the files containing RPMs and also print them to the ...
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Accidentally deleted python, python2, python2.7 files from /usr/bin/. Is it possible to recover them? [closed]

I accidentally deleted python, python2, python2.7 files from /usr/bin/. Now yum is also not working. Is it possible to recover them?
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How to configure linux mail system which can sent email with external Exchange server [closed]

I want to implement the program which can sent email automatically at the given time everyday. And make the effect just like [email protected]. I have tried a lot of solution ,but none of these ...
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Can a GTK applet widget be instantiated through dbus?

I just posted this: #274616: “Simple” gnome applets in Unity - stickynotes ... where I could instantiate a Gnome 2 bonobo applet in a standalone window, ... using ...
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Vim :fold of python code not different to C/C++ code

When I enter the command :fold inside my python code in .py files, Vim inserts the /*{{{*/ and /*}}}*/ tags. They, of course, cannot be parsed by python interpreter. When I'm in python I would like ...

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