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Install Locally Developed Python Module
I am currently in the process of developing a module that I am using as a library to be imported in another project. I need a sane way that I can install this module in the python site packages in ...
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Is it ok to extend Python module like this?
I have a base Python module basemodule.py with many functions and classes. Now I want to create many new modules, new1.py, new2.py, new3.py, etc.
Each of these modules will only add or change 1-2 ...
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How do I dynamically reload a module in a custom package?
I am trying to reload an entire custom package of modules that I wrote.
There is another question that I looked into on here, but it does not look like it works in my case.
modules/__init__.py
# ...
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Why does simply importing a python module executes everything present in that module ? [duplicate]
Recently I noticed that using modules was a good option to keep my python programming tidy.
For getting started, I made one module (named, oop.py) with a single class in it, which looks like below:
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How to install NodeBox for console
I'm working on OS X Mavericks and want to use the NodeBox modules in Python scripts.
The post about how to install the modules for console is from 2009 and doesn't work anymore as this refers to ...
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Python internals - How do objects know about global variables?
I recently discovered some interesting behavior that left me wondering about how an object knows about which global variables exist. For example, suppose I have a file "test.py":
globalVar = 1
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How to make pefile python module read multiple executable file in a directory
I'm currently working on this python code using pefile python module
import pefile
pe = pefile.PE('C:\Documents and Settings\Zha\Desktop\\test\\firefox.exe')
pe.parse_data_directories()
print ...
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Using a local module instead of system installed module (Python 2.x.x)
I have a cluster system at work with Python and some modules installed on that system - however I wanted to use the most up to date version of the module - it has several methods not present in older ...
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Cannot import livestreamer module in python
I am new to python and just tried to import the live streamer module (http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html) in Python.
The module is installed at:
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what library is able to extract SIFT features in Python?
In python which library is able to extract SIFT visual descriptors? I know opencv has an implementation but it is not free to use and skimage does not include SIFT particularly.
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ImportError: no module named pyslow.tool - how to 'use' pyslow 'correctly'?
Using Pyslow found at https://launchpad.net/pyslow, I've taken all the steps in the README. When I run the program, the message I get is
File "/usr/local/bin/pyslow", line 9, in <module>
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How to install python packages in Ubuntu SS? (noob)
I don't normally use python or act as a server admin in the least. I need to install the xlrd package. I have downloaded the package but have no idea where to upload this package on the server. I see ...
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Two instances of the same Python module?
I created a Python module with a single function that just prints 'a!'. I opened up the Python interpreter and imported the module in 2 different syntaxes
>>> import a
>>> from a ...
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Playing remote audio files in Python? [closed]
I'm looking for a solution to easily play remote .mp3 files. I have looked at "pyglet" module which works on local files, but it seems it can't handle remote files. I could temporary download the .mp3 ...
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Python module: how to prevent importing modules called by the new module
I am new in Python and I am creating a module to re-use some code.
My module (impy.py) looks like this (it has one function so far)...
import numpy as np
def read_image(fname):
....
and it is ...
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Changes doesn't apply to a python module
I am relatively new to python. I've started using and completing an under-development python library. However, the changes that I make in the modules don't apply. That is, I debug the code and the ...
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How to dynamically load a module in python
I'm trying to dynamically load modules. I've seen many questions on this topic - but none helped.
I've got this directory structure:
root
|-- tests
|---- test_modules
|------ modules (files=test.py, ...
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Installation error of python package using pip
I tried to install a python module called python-phonenumbers
I got this error
sudo pip install git+git://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers.git
Cleaning up... Command /usr/bin/python ...
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List installed Python modules error [duplicate]
When attempting to list all installed Python modules, as described here, I received the following output and caused python2.7 to "close unexpectedly."
Any ideas?
user@user-VirtualBox:~$ python
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Installing nose using pip, but bash doesn't recognize command on mac
I'm trying to install nose on my computer for the Learn Python the Hard Way tutorial, but can't seem to get it to work. I'm using pip to install:
$ pip install nose
And I get back:
Requirement ...
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pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound when zipping 3rd party modules
I'm trying to add third party modules to a 2.7.2 Python installation.
To optimize that installation in terms of memory, I'm zipping the whole /lib/python2.7/ directory into /lib/python27.zip (except ...
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Can not import class from custom django package
I am writing a custom Django module but I seem to have something wrong. I cannot import a class that lives in a certain file. I get the error
ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'admins': Cannot ...
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How does python know that you need to interface the requests module through api.py?
In my foray into learning more about Python, I've been studying the structure of a Python module called requests or sometimes known as python-requests.
Now, the question is this, which is a link to ...
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Keeping Python packages with the same top-level name in different directories
I have several Python packages that I'd like to keep on separate filesystems but which unfortunately share the same top-level module name.
To illustrate, the directory structure looks like this:
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Python — class vs module
I'm working on a group of functions that are probably easier to manage on their own, just in a module. But there are reasons beyond my pay-grade that would like to think about turning this into a ...
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Call functions from class which is in another Python-File
I have the following Problem in Python 2.7:
If I define 3 functions in a file "a.py",
and call these functions in another file, like:
import a
a.function1(arg1,...)
everything works fine.
But when ...
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In Python, is it a bad idea for a directory module's __init__.py to do this?
I have a package with several subdirectories containing __init__.py files. These files perform checks and initialization jobs.
Now I also have in some of these folders a file that isn't supposed to ...
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Django AttributeError in settings.py file
I've been stuck all day on what seems to be a very silly import problem. From my Django project directory, I can import a module and run a function just fime:
(msg-gw)slashingweapon:~/msg-gw/www$ ...
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release code in Pypi
I want set my package to Pypi.
When I run
python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload
occur this error:
File "setup.py", line 8, in <module>
long_description=open('README.txt').read(),
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How to write a Python module?
I've been making Python scripts for simple tasks at work and never really bothered packaging them for others to use. Now I have been assigned to make a Python wrapper for a REST API. I have absolutely ...
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Python: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
I have a 100 lines, 3 years old python scraper that now bug. Starting lines are:
import urllib, re, os, sys, time # line 1: import modules
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])) # line 2: all ...
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PyInstaller cannot find libpython2.7.so when making binary?
I'm trying to make a binary version of a Python script using PyInstaller 2.0 on Linux. When I run:
$ python pyinstaller.py myscript.py
I get the error:
8907 INFO: Looking for Python library ...
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How to override stuff in a package at runtime?
[EDIT: I'm running Python 2.7.3]
I'm a network engineer by trade, and I've been hacking on ncclient (the version on the website is old, and this was the version I've been working off of) to make it ...
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Automatically import to all Python files in the given folder?
I am relatively quite new to Python and I try to learn the "Pythonic" way of doing things to build a solid foundation in terms of Python development. Perhaps what I want to achieve is not Python at ...
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problems installing matplotlib for Python — or, how else to graph in Python?
I currently have Python2.7, and Python3.3 installed on a Mac. I am trying to install matplotlib so that I can create candlestick, and line graphs. I have tried multiple methods of installing ...
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why i cannot import sqlite3 module?
my question is similar to ImportError: No module named _sqlite3 no solution yet,
No module named _sqlite3 i build python from source, so my solution should not by install some package to solve my ...
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How to prevent an imported module from 'importing' sys.argv[1:]
I am a python newbie. To pose my question in a comprehensible manner, I created two scripts. One script is named: called_script.py The other script is named: calling_script.py
The following two ...
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Python: What's the difference between __builtin__ and __builtins__?
I was coding today and noticed something. If I open a new interpreter session (IDLE) and check what's defined with the dir function I get this:
$ python
>>> dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', ...
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Changing python global variables between modules
I'm trying to carry a change from a global variable over to another module in Python2.7.
I've done this in similar situations before but for some reason it won't work in this instance.
The first file ...
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Python robotparser module won't load 'robots.txt'
I'm writing a very simple web crawler and trying to parse 'robots.txt' files. I found the robotparser module in the standard library, which should do exactly this. I'm using Python 2.7.2. ...
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Python dependency between modules [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Python: Circular (or cyclic) imports
Circular dependency in Python
I have a Python package featuring two modules that import each other. That is, in module A we have ...
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what is wrong with this python code? the if block is not getting executed
I am writing a module, in which the email string is validated before it gets inserted into the db. When i try to enter invalid email string it prints else block with wrong email message but when i ...
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Weird stuff happening while importing modules
I hate to give the question this heading but I actually don't know whats happening so here it goes.
I was doing another project in which I wanted to use logging module. The code is distributed among ...
