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Blender3D - Installing along side python 2.7 win7 64bit

I'm interested in doing some work in Blender3D, but the latest release won't run and I believe it is because of my current python 2.7 install, which I use due to certain modules not supporting python ...
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How to parse a large XML file in python?

I'm using python version 2.7.* and i need to get youtube playlist. I do it like this: import urllib from xml.dom import minidom playlist_xml = ...
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CPUID in Python & timing it's response

I am planning on writing a python(2.7) script which can detect a virtual environment. I know of a method which involves executing the CPUID instruction within a virtual environment and then timing ...
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I am trying to write a program that will interleave a list which contains a pair of lists?

I am trying to write a program that will interleave a list which contains a pair of lists? def interleave(lst): if lst==[]: return [] return ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Update python 2.7.3 to 2.7.6 without breaking dependencies [on hold]

So, I recently reinstalled Precise after encountering some swap issues. A friend and I were discussing working on something in Python together, so I checked my version. However, 12.04 comes with ...
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Python “variable not defined” error when it is

Below is the code I have been working on. I am new to python and programing and have been trying to teach myself. I get the following error. But messages is defined so I don't understand. ...
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Python Invalid Snytax

Below is the code I have been working on. The very last line write_csv('twitter_gmail.csv', messages, append=True) throws a [ec2-user@ip-172-31-46-164 ~]$ ./twitter_test16.sh Traceback (most recent ...
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function that returns past tense of given verb

Any python program support to find the past tense of the given verb. I think there is no ambiguous on this question but stack overflow not allowed to post a small explanation that's why I explain the ...
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Parse CSV containing list in a column

I have a CSV file that I generated through a csv.writer object. Here is a simplified version of the code to generate the file: output = open('out.txt', 'ab+') writer = csv.writer(output, ...
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__init__ in GUI with tkinter

I am learning to create simple GUIs with python using Tkinter. I am currently using the python documentation as reference (link). First thing I am trying to do is understand the sample code there. I ...
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Adding in drops from enemies in Pygame?

I am trying to add in random drops from enemy deaths to a game I am making in Python and wondering how to implement it. the drops I am wanting to add currently are shield and health, with shield ...
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Searching for strings in a list which contain a specific word

I am writing a code in Python 2.7 in which I have defined a list of more then a million strings. Here is my simple code to find the strings that contain a keyword: for word in wordlist: if keyword ...
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Python 2.7.3 | Created a list and tried to append it to itself, this is the result I got, could some please explain me what's happening with it? [duplicate]

I've created a list in python, list1 = [1,2,3,4] and tried to append it tp itself, list1.append(list1) this is what i've got, it's kind of never ending! could someone please explain me what is ...
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Installing Tweepy on OS x

I have been trying to install tweepy on OSx via pip install tweepy I have already installed pip, but I am getting this strange error message I haven't come accross before and, obviously Tweepy ...
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Trouble using max(list)

Im trying to use max() func to find max value in given a list. Im creating a list for a given column from a txt file (representing a table, each line has a name and same amount of data columns). for ...
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Displaying a pdf document within a PySide python application

I have a python application using PySide, Qt and python. In my application I would like to open and display a pdf document, but have the viewer within the application and not using the default viewer ...
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Writing into CSV file using python

Here some simple code I have written. Data is not accumulated in the CSV file; can someone share code to read data from serial port and log this to a CSV file? import serial import csv import string ...
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Get a text file specific field issue

I am working on python in order to use data mining on social media to analysis data . Now I have written a code which gives me information about Facebook most liked pages and I have stored ...
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ImportError: No module named scipy.linalg.blas on Mac OS

I am trying to use decaf (git clone https://github.com/UCB-ICSI-Vision-Group/decaf-release.git) which depends on scipy, but I recieve an error: slesarev-osx-2:decaf-release slesarev$ python ...
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Strange behavior when comparing unicode objects with string objects

when comparing two strings in python, it works fine and when comparing a string object with a unicode object it fails as expected however when comparing a string object with a converted unicode ...
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Radiobutton modifying increment values in spinbox Python

I'm trying to create a GUI in Python 2.7 with Tkinter. I need that the increment value from my Spinbox changes accordingly to a value selected from a selection of Radiobutton. I've tried different ...
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Setting a try / timeout with ftplib in python?

How can I set a timeout of 10~ seconds and if it fails to upload or times out to try again? Current code: print "Uploading LIST{}.html".format(counter) ftp_session = ...
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Placing text from python to windows 8 clipboard

I've searched around on stackoverflow and I can't seem to understand how you would copy a string input into the windows clipboard. So what I want to do right now is to take a string in a program in ...
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Selenium WebDriver: socket.error: Connection Reset by Peer

I am trying to run Selenium WebDriver using PhantomJS. Whenever I try execute: from selenium import webdriver x = webdriver.PhantomJS() x.get('any address') I get the following error message: ...
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Is there a more Pythonic way to test if an object is a number or return its value? [duplicate]

I have not tried decorators yet or functions within functions, but this current un-pythonic method seems a little convoluted. I dont like how I need to repeat myself when I check the return_type (3 ...
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Tweepy import error

I installed tweepy module using command in mac UNIX shell: pip install tweepy but when I try to import tweepy after running python, it returns: ImportError: No module named tweepy Any ideas ...
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Remove certain type of tag from HTML (without string operations) with Python and BeautifulSoup [on hold]

I have a long html file, and it has a bunch of "span" elements throughout. (Ie they begin with <span and end with /span>. Is there a way with BeautifulSoup to eliminate all of those span ...
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Basic Matplotlib Scatter Plot From Pandas DataFrame

How to make a basic scatter plot of column in a DataFrame vs the index of that DataFrame? Im using python 2.7. import numpy as np import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ...
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Parse HTML with Python and BeautifulSoup - get text both inside and outside the <a> tags

I have html with a number of tags, and then text which is outside those tags. The text I'm trying to get is in tags except the first instance, which is I guess just part of the tag. But if I try ...
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Compress data in Java and decompress in Python

So I am trying to compress (gzip or similar format) a JSON object before I throw it in my MySQL database. I am currently storing the data as BLOB. I have tried to use the following Java method to ...
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Trigram count print

I wanted to print the trigram frequency of a list of text files in a folder. This is my python code, it doesn't print anything. Any thoughts on what changes should made ? import nltk import os from ...
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Parse 'a' tags based on attribute using Python and BeautifulSoup

Using this bit of html: <td align="left"> <a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/2000032"> Russell, Addison </a> ...
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Pygame: Game Over Screen

Hello I am making a game in pygame and I am wondering how and what the best way is to add a game over screen. Here is the code up to where the players health is smaller or equal to 0: import pygame ...
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UnicodeDecodeError with xlwt

I'm using python with xlwt and have a problem My code: tickets = cursor.fetchall () largo = len(tickets) cursor.close () conn.close () row = 4 for t in tickets: hoja.write(row, 1, t[0]) ...
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Runtime error in python:lists

why is the following code giving runtime error please suggest the reason, cant the arrays be indexed like c++ t=input() dp1=[] dp3=[] dp5=[] dp7=[] dp1[0]=0 dp3[0]=0 dp5[0]=0 dp7[0]=0 dp1[1]=1 ...
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Python: Test a program

I want to test a python program which contains threads. I have searched for testing tools but I do not understand how to use them. For example I found the PyUnit which uses the unittest library but I ...
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Python generator expression Twitter [on hold]

I am kinda new to working with json and python and I am stuck on the parsing the data in js to generate an expression. I would really appreciate anyone suggestions on the best path to take. Here is ...
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How to use Beautiful Soup to select only one of multiple tables

I have an html document with 4 or 5 different tables. The one I want has an attribute class = "data". I can't figure out how to make BeautifulSoup return just that table. soup = ...
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How do I concatenate many objects into one object using inheritence in python? (during runtime)

I have the following classes: class hello(object): def __init__(self): pass class bye(object): def __init__(self): pass l = [hello, bye] If I do the following I get an ...
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Python script runs from IDE but fails on double click in windows 7

I wrote a gui script in python to start and stop the server. I can successfully run it from my IDE but it does not load when I double-click on it in the same directory. When I open up a cmd or far to ...
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Differences in re.findall and re.finditer — bug in Python 2.7 re module?

While demonstrating Python's regex functionality, I wrote a small program to compare the return values of re.search(), re.findall() and re.finditer(). I'm aware that re.search() will only find one ...
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How do i know python path on linux ubuntu?

In ubuntu linux if we want to set up python path we do something like this: export PYTHONPATH=/etc ... Now, how i would know what the current path I have?
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Why is b=(a+=1) an invalid syntax in python?

If I write the following in python, I get a syntax error, why so? a = 1 b = (a+=1) I am using python version 2.7 what I get when I run it, the following: >>> a = 1 >>> b = (a ...
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All slice operations return a new list?

In Python Tutorials, it is said "All slice operations return a new list containing the requested elements". >>>a = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234] >>>a[0:2] = [1, 12] >>> a [1, ...
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How to use handler404 view in django?

I want to display a 404 error page when user hits a url which is not in the urls.py. In settings.py I put DEBUG = False,and I have written a handler view like this def handler404(request): from ...
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How to assign IP address to interface in python?

I have python script that set the IP4 address for my wireless and wired interfaces. So far, I use subprocess command like : subprocess.call(["ip addr add local 192.168.1.2/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ...
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Encrypt communication between Qt application and Python service

I have a cross-platform application in Qt5 and QML that works with Python-2.7 service through HTTP using JSON format. I need the service to be used by my software only and no one else could use it. ...
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Using Python Requests to pass through a login/password

I have looked at related answers and I haven't found something that quite works. I'm trying to scrape some fantasy baseball information from my team's CBS Sportsline page. I want to post the login ...
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Twitter Python Json to CSV

I am new to Python and programing in general. I wrote this script and it runs with out error but is doesn't print any content in the .csv even though I know there is content to print. I have been ...
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Merge sort list index out of range

I'm trying to do a basic merge sort in python, but every time I run the code I get the error "... if x[0] < y[0]: IndexError: list index out of range " And I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. ...

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