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Python not looping properly over xml file

I'm having difficultly getting python to loop / iterate over an xml file. I am able to load the file and get to each element, but the variable assignment (inside an inner loop) never seems to move ...
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Self-study assignment gone wrong. (PYTHON)

Word1 = input("Please type a word: ") Word2 = input("Please type a word: ") if len(Word1) + len(Word2)> 30: print("Words are to long") # exit -- Gotten rid of. 30 - (len(Word1) + len(Word2) ...
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AWS boto sqs - why can't I post messages bigger than 196 000 bytes?

According to the SQS docs, it it possible to post messages up to 256KB of data. I configured my queue to 256KB of data, but when I post using boto, I max out at ~196 000 bytes. Anything over this, I ...
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Python boolean giving wrong answers

print 'a' in 'ab' returns True while, print 'a' in 'ab' == True returns False Any guess why?
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Got a curious issue with paramiko and pycrypto

I'm working on a SFTP module in python, and have been using Paramiko and Pycrypto (i'm an amateur programmer, bear with me experts). I am building it in 2.7, but the error it gives me doesn't make ...
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How can I improve this code for checking if text fields are empty in WxPython?

I have a method GetEmpID that takes up to two optional arguments: lastname, and firstname. It handles cases where either lastname or firstname are None, or when neither are None. When sending the ...
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Same Program Runs Fine when ran from IDLE but not when ran directly

I wrote a small Tkinter based GUI app on python. It worked fine when run with IDLE, but displays moduleError on running it directly. I am on windows. Running it directly means double-clicking the .py ...
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How to order a dictionary by the value types without importing modules. [python]

I'm trying to sort this dictionary: dictionary = {24249:"t",390395:"b",90395:"q",5939:"z",1:"k",3909:"a"} I've seen people use lambda to do this, but I'm trying to solve this problem by using only ...
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bat file running py script in different directory

I have a python script "cost_and_lead_time.py" in C:\Desktop\A. This script imports 3 other scripts and a "cost_model.json" file, all of which are in folder A. Now, I have a simulation result in say ...
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Python package or process for updating and managing Unix config files

Questions similar to this have been asked, but most seem to focus on Windows .INI files. I am interested in Unix config files. They usually have a pretty simple syntax: one line only per command, ...
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Python Matplotlib Basemap animation with FFMpegwriter stops after 820 Frames?

If I run the following code it just stops after 820 Frames. I tested this on both a Ubuntu 12.04 VM and on Linux Mint 15. Unfortunately there is no error message. The program just hangs after printing ...
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Python2.7 argparse.parse_known_args parsing incorrectly

background I have a script where I am using parseargs to partially parse the input. parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("-c", action="store_true") nspc = parser.parse_known_args() ...
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Identify DataFrame index object where a condition is met

How do I get an index object from my DataFrame when a specific condition is met, say for a given column? The following returns a Series object with True/False values where some condition in the foo ...
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python numpy and memory efficiency (pass by reference vs. value)

I've recently been using python more and more in place of c/c++ because of it cuts my coding time by a factor of a few. At the same time, when I'm processing large amounts of data, the speed at which ...
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Python - Replacing letters in a string?

I am basically writing a simple function in which the user enters a sentence (strng), a letter (letter) and another letter (replace) to replace the first letter with. Here's what I have: def ...

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