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Cannot access localhost (unless it's port 80)

I am trying to access localhost:port for seeing Python documentation generated with pydoc. After pydoc -p 1234 I expected to find the python documentation at localhost:1234, but neither Firefox nor ...
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Can't find module six.py when reverse engineering python project?

I'm trying to reverse engineer this project: MPL on my ubuntu system. I'm using epydoc to do this. If I run it and target the main __init__.py file, I get an error saying module six.py can't be found. ...
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Install wicd on Slackware 14.1

I am trying to install wicd-1.7.2.4 on Slackware 14.1. I couldn't find configure or makefile in wicd-1.7.2.4.tar.gz. Running python setup.py configure (following the INSTALL guide) causes: sh: ...
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Count and merge consecutive patterns

I'm searching for a short snippet to find, count and merge consecutive duplicates using standard tools or a common scripting language. Say our input is: 1 2 2 2 7 22 a b b c c c c c d dd 2 2 c c ...
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FreeBSD Ports Broken — Python Issue? Portmaster -a

Upgraded FreeBSD from 8.2 >> 8.4 >> 10.0-RELEASE today. In the process, I believe I have mangled my ports tree quite badly and am having issues upgrading/reinstalling ports (as the upgrade asks me to ...
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How to restart python script after one second of going down using UPSTART?

I am running my Python script using upstart feature of Ubuntu so that if for whatever reason my Python script dies or gets killed, it can be restarted automatically and everything is working fine - ...
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How to do this just as elegantly in Python? [migrated]

I'm just learning Python. One thing I hope to use Python for is Linux shell scripting. I've been studying some examples and practicing by converting my bash scripts to Python. I just spent a few ...
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How to install the latest Python version on Debian separately or upgrade?

I'm still new to Linux, so I'm still trying to understand where executables and their libraries are and how to install packages, so I have Debian Wheezy 7.3 which has these Python versions: Python ...
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virtualenvwrapper install failure - “what would cause ImportError: No module named core” etc? [migrated]

I'm on osx 10.6.8, and trying to use bash to install virtualenvwrapper, and am getting back cryptic feedback (at least for me). I was able to install virtualenv. Perhaps someone can point me in the ...
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Running ipython notebook on Debian

I'm trying to get ipython notebook to run on my Debian machine without much success. I've installed ipython and ipython-notebook via apt-get, but when I try to start it up I get the following: $ ...
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Piping periodic data between Python scripts

How to receive data from the environment e.g. bash I am trying to launch two Python scripts in bash and pipe stdout from one of them to stdin of the other. The first script outputs a single ...
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upgrade Python to 2.7.2

I have an embedded system running on Python 2.6.5 and i want it to upgrade to 2.7.2 (I have a running system with different kernel that runs 2.7.2). I have copied the binary but then it told me: ...
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hashlib vs crypt.crypt() in Python. Why different results? [migrated]

I'm learning Python. I can't figure out why hashlib.sha512(salt + password).hexdigest() doesn't give the expected results. I'm looking for a pure Python implementation of the equivalent of Ulrich ...
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Python script run while screen is locked

I have a python script which seems to be failing to continue running its while True: ... sleep() loop my code is at http://github.com/xdaimon/xdaimonConky What happens is I autostart python on ...
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How to test UPSTART feature of ubuntu to see my script gets restarted automatically if it gets killed?

I am running my Python script using upstart feature of Ubuntu so that if for whatever reason my Python script dies or gets killed, it can be restarted automatically. So I decided to use UPSTART ...
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How to restart the Python script automatically if it is killed or dies

I am running my Python script in the background in my Ubuntu machine (12.04) like this - nohup python testing.py > test.out & Now, it might be possible that at some stage my above Python ...
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Cygwin DenyHosts daemon-control file: no such file or directory error

I have been trying to figure out this error and searched everywhere with no luck. I have installed DenyHosts on Cygwin and also the DenyHosts daemon but when I try to start the daemon by typing: ...
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listen a power-button event in Python (no ACPI)

I am using a Debian machine which does not include the acpid package. Is there a way that I can reboot the machine using Python language when the power-button is pressed, without installing that (or ...
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python3.3 build from source

When running make test while doing a build from source for python3.3 I had 25 tests skipped and 14 skips unexpected on linux. OS Debian 7.0 64 bit server. How can I figure out what packages are ...
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How to check the status of bash shell script while executing from Python script?

I have a simple Python script which will execute a shell script using subprocess module in Python. Below is my Python shell script which is calling testing.sh shell script and it works fine. import ...
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PiGlow not working

After following the steps specified in Boeeerb's PiGlow github repo, when I try to run the test.py file it gives me the following message: Traceback (most recent call last) : File "test.py" , line ...
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Install qtile 1.6 from the source

I try to install qtile from the source, you can see also this link: Install libxcb from source When I try to launch qtile I have this error, I do not understand why: Traceback (most recent call ...
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Install PIL/Pillow via pip in Debian testing (Jessie)

On Debian testing (Jessie), when I try to install PIL or Pillow (python imaging libs) in a virtualenv via pip I get the following error: running egg_info writing Pillow.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing ...
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mongodb “hijacking” port

I'm having some trouble with Python HTTP Server and MongoDB. In this case HTTP server represents a REST service providing data from MongoDB. MongoDB is running on default port (27017) at all times. ...
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What Ubiquity files should I change or interface with to make a change to Ubiquity?

There's a difference between the GTK and Qt/KDE versions of the Ubiquity installer. The GTK version doesn't take you to a manual disk partitioner if you choose the dual boot radio button. The Qt ...
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Missing Python.h in Arch

I use Arch Linux. I want to compile a C++ file that includes <Python.h>. But I can't do it. In Debian based systems this problem is resolved with sudo apt-get install python-dev. How I can ...
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Compiling python .py to .pyc doesn't happen

I have read that python will compile the source file .py by itself to produce .pyc, but this doesn't happen in my case. I have the source file inside /opt/osqa folder where I always have to use sudo ...
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How to install easy_install using non-default Python Interpreter on CentOS?

I have downloaded, compiled and installed Python 2.7 on CentOS. I would like to download and install easy_install (and pip) for it but I am a little bit confused as to how to do that. How can I ...
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Unable to install SciPy

I need to use the module skimage, which calls the module SciPy (I need to find contours) import numpy from sys import argv from PIL import Image from skimage import measure # Inicialization ...
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trac svn python bindings messed up rebuild python

My trac and svn used to work it still does if i click on the links many times. How ever it complaines of he followign and i am not sure what to do i have followed ...
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playonlinux crashing on Fedora 19

I installed playonlinux using the default repository and when I run the command 'playonlinux' its getting crash and prints this output Traceback (most recent call last): File "mainwindow.py", line ...
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Protected Execution Environment

I've been recently investigating for the best way to implement a Protected/Secured Execution Environment that would allow me to "upload" some code into that environment and block any kind of output ...
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Trying to install numpy, nltk to python 2.4 on CentOs 5.10 with multiple versions of python installed - python 2.4 and python 3.3

I've inherited a project on a hosted server and I'm trying to install and import numpy and nltk into the project. The OS is centOs 5.10 and the web app uses web.py. There are two version of python ...
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FreeBSD: How to start a python script as daemon?

I'm facing an issue with a python file that I'd like to start as a service. I named my service ocrserver and the script I want to start is in /home/administrator/ocr/ocrserver/init.py with some ...
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How can i fix the following gmp library dependency error while trying to install Charm?

I am trying to install Charm crypto python framework in ubuntu 11.04 with python 2.7. Requirements say that i should have gmp installed 5.*. I have successfully installed gmp lib and i have run all ...
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fail2ban log parsing too slow on Raspberry Pi - options?

I'm running fail2ban on a Raspberry Pi at 950MHz which I cannot overclock further. The Pi is occasionally subject to SYN floods on particular ports. I've set up iptables to throttle the rate of SYNs ...
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Python not recognizing LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

I am trying to install Python2.7 on cr-48 chromebook in developer mode, and face a weird issue that I am having hard time searching for a solution on google. First some background.. the root partition ...
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No module Found error in Linux but Works fine in Windows

I am trying to run a Program that I coded in Python in Windows environment When I am trying to copy the program and running it in Linux(Debian), It won't work, It is giving the following error, ...
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Python error after installing libboost-all-dev on debian

A friend of mine wanted the libboost libraries installed on our shared computer so after installing libboost-all-dev 1.49.0.1 (a Debian wheezy machine), I get this error when using the "pydoc modules" ...
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How can I make a switch accessible via the internet, that allows users to turn on or off a python script?

I have a python script running on a home laptop that runs Ubuntu 13.10. I want to give 2 or 3 people the ability to start or kill that script, but no other privileges. I don't want to give them access ...
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Making md5sum understand file names with spaces

I need to use md5sum in Python by using pipe to calculate checksum for a bunch of .mp3 files... is there a command which ignore whitespaces in filenames on the command line of md5sum program? For ...
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python3 traceback error

Whenever I mistype any command in terminal instead of getting Error:Command not found I get this python message error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line ...
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Different version of Python cannot find modules

In my Suse system I have these 2 versions of Python: # which python2.6 # /usr/bin/python2.6 # which python2.4 # /usr/local/bin/python2.4 2.6 is the system one, and 2.4 was compiled by me. If I ...
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Running python script from Linux Terminal

I have downloaded this script named, pyAES.py and put it in a folder name codes, inside a Desktop directory of my Linux, According to this example, ...
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API for panel applets on eOS Pantheon?

Is there any API (esp python or bash) to append new applets on eOS Pantheon's panel? I can't find proper documentation.
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Numpy module not found despite being in path

I am having trouble with the module on python. Here is my path variable, /opt/local/bin /opt/local/sbin /Developer/usr/bin /usr/local/git/bin /usr/X11/bin /Users/oskarniburski/.rvm/bin /usr/X11R6/bin ...
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Reading amount of tracks from an audio CD?

I'm writing a little script to analyze audio CDs. I'm specifically looking for a way to grab the track count from the CD, either from a shell-script or from Python. Is there an easy way to do this? ...
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Alsaaudio module, recording for specific amount of time

The below code records the audio for some time (I don't know how much) How to calculate the total time of its recording? For example, if I want to record for just one minute then how would I limit ...
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Adding ALSA module in Python in Linux

I have recently started working in linux, I wanted to to add ALSA module in my Python. I have used this, sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev After that I've installed pyalsa package, pyalsa ...
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Upgrading Python 2.6. libpython2.6.so.1.0 missing

I am upgrading python on an offline 64bit RHEL 6.4 box and am having to do it via RPM's rather than yum. I am trying to upgrade python from 2.4.3 to 2.6 so I can build nodejs from source. I am ...