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Program/tools to develop a desktop gadget? [on hold]
this is more of an idea type question rather than a programming type question so please just let me know if this is the wrong place to post kindly.
I wanted to create a desktop gadget, such as a ...
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virtualenv on windows installs in system site packages
I initialize my project with virtualenv through these steps(in Windows 7 OS):
$ cd myproject
$ virtualenv venv
$ venv\scripts\activate
and then I try to install flask
$ pip install Flask
but I ...
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Check if PID exists on Windows with Python without requiring libraries
Is there a way to check if a PID exists on Windows with Python without requiring libraries? How to?
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python: why does os.makedirs cause WindowsError?
In python, I have made a function to make a directory if does not already exist.
def make_directory_if_not_exists(path):
try:
os.makedirs(path)
break
except OSError as ...
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How to execute batch file from Python so that it could alter environment of the calling process? [duplicate]
On Windows there's a 3rd party command line tool I would like to use in my python script. Let's say it's foobar.exe located under C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar. Foobar comes with an additional batch ...
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Python + Tkinter Windows 7 taskbar progress
I want to show the progress of my app in a taskbar button.
I used this answer as a reference.
Here's an example of what I do:
import tkinter
import comtypes.client as cc
...
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Google App Engine Launcher slow app response
When I try to access a local app from localhost:8080 using the GAE launcher, it takes about 42 seconds for a response every time very consistently. Even for the simplest apps like the hello world ...
google-app-engine
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Computing folder size: Empty folders have a default size?
I'm trying to compute a folder's size in Python, but I have strange result.
This is a snippet of my code:
def bestsize(filepath):
""" Return a tuple with 3 values. The first is the file (or ...
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How to write a window in python [on hold]
I know python uses toolkits to write GUI's, but is it possible to write a simple, blank, custom window for MS Windows from scratch, without relying on a third party toolkit? If so, how would python ...
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0answers
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HCI Socket with Python on Windows
In Linux i can easily get a raw HCI socket to a bluetooth adapter:
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.BTPROTO_HCI)
which does not work in windows. First of ...
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1answer
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COmmunication between windows host and centos guest through vbox [on hold]
I am trying to access the db which is there on my windows 7 machine through centos mounted on oracle virtual box. I am using python as the language, using Django.
I have made the following changes ...
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1answer
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Remove a network printer with Python's wmi module?
For starters, here's the WMI module I'm referring to.
I've tried many combinations of code, and understand how to remove network printers with wmic from the command line, as well as a basic ...
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1answer
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Python keyboard event does not respect layout
I have a problem with win32api.keybd_event in python (see script below):
Under EN layout the script press "q" key then "1" key (seems ok).
Under FR layout the script press "q" key then "&" key ...
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1answer
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Ignoring windows hidden files with python glob
I am moving some files with a python script. The script should work on both osx and windows.
I am using the the glob module to select the files. Filter out directories with isfile method from ...
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Tcl error : invalid command name tcl_findLibrary
This error appears when I type the following commands (using iPython)Tkinter.Tk(), %pylab, plot ..... or run pylab in general but import pylab doesn't fire any error.
Tcl error : invalid command name ...
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0answers
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how to capture the devcon.exe's output log under the the normal users?
Now I want to capture the devcon.exe's output in the normal users permission,
How to capture commandline output
the guy resolve this problem just in the administator's permission,yes! I can capture ...
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1answer
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How to use espeak with python
I want to use espeak(http://espeak.sourceforge.net) with python2.7.0-32 bit in windows7 can anyone of you help in doing that and one more thing that i want to save an audio file generated by ...
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4answers
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Merge two lines with grep or sed
I have such a problem: I have two files with keys:
file1: aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, gg;
file2: aa, bb, cc, zz, yy, ww, oo;
I need to write a script using grep/sed to produce two files:
res1.txt - ...
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0answers
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Pinger fof web application
I have a web application written in turbogears and I want to build a pinger to check if the web application is still alive! d you have any idea on how to achieve that?
The problem we usually have is ...
0
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1answer
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signal.SIGINT in windows cause process exit directly
I wrote those test python code as following:
import signal
import time
import os
def handler(signum, frame):
print "do whatever, like call thread.interrupt_main()"
return
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0answers
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psycopg2 windows install missing file?
I am trying to work with psycopg2 but cannot get it to work.
I have tried to install from the site http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/.
I tried the basic install and also as ...
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Open windows photo gallery from python
I want the end of a python script to open windows photo gallery from python
I try:
>>> os.system("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Live\\Photo Gallery\\WLXPhotoGal
lery.exe");
I get:
...
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0answers
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Python 3.3. not found in registry
I have python 3.3 installed on my windows system. When I do
python -v
I get 3.3
However when I try to install Pillow-2.1.0.win32-py3.3.exe from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
I get:
...
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1answer
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Change Python environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE
How do I change the environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE.
For example in Windows I want it to be:
c:\mysite
I tried this:
set PYTHONUSERBASE=c:\mysite
When I run python setup.py install --user
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4answers
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Python, Getting All LAN IPs
I am trying to print all the Live IPs that connected to my Network in the fastest way.
I tried to ping in a for loop, but it is very slow:
def PingTry(host):
ping = subprocess.Popen(["ping", ...
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1answer
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IronPython WPF Load New Window
Bear with me, I'm new to GUI Programming, IronPython, WPF and .NET. However, I am fairly familiar with Python. I have browsed many online tutorials, but none seem to address the exact issue I'm ...
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0answers
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Win 64bit GetThreadContext returns zeroe'd out registers, or 0x57 errorcode
I'm working on a Windows 7 64 bit machine (I have admin privs).
I'm using Python 2.7 (64-bit) with PyDev ctypes for Eclipse to try and read the values of registers in all threads associated with a ...
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Read Environment Variable from all processes
I've got some quession about environment variables. I want to read and print environment variables to each processes in Windows system.
But I`ve got a problem with it. I use Python, module "pywin32".
...
1
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1answer
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tasklist does not list all Modules in 64-systems
I've got some problem. I'll tried to get all modules(dll files) for all processes on my machine. I tried to do this command in CMD:
tasklist /m
But it's a problem with 64-bit systems. If you`re ...
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3answers
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How to embed python code in batch script
In bash, we can:
python - << EOF
import os
print 'hello'
EOF
to embed python code snippet in bash script.
But in Windows batch, this doesn't work - although I can still use python -c but ...
