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Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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Why is the Debian package I've created for a single Python script empty?
I have a quite simple Python project that might be very useful for some people. So I thought about packaging it. The project is called maptool and is a tool that allows people who have Panasonic ...
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E: python-setuptools upgrade fails, apt-get broken
I wanted to install gnome-maps with apt-get, and then I got this error:
Preparing to unpack .../python-setuptools_3.4.1-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python-setuptools (3.4.1-1) over (3.3-1) ...
dpkg: ...
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Most accurate disk usage report? [duplicate]
Since disk space is allocated in blocks, is it a more accurate representation of the actual space consumed by a directory to report it in blocks vs bytes?
If a file of size 1,025 bytes resides on a ...
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What should someone know about using Python scripts in the shell?
I'm wondering what should someone generally know about Python(the interpreter) when using it in the shell in Linux? This is what I have on Gentoo:
# ls -al /usr/bin/python*; file /usr/bin/python; ...
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Application lags if started from init.d?
I have a program (pre-compiled binary) that, when started manually on linux, runs fine. It has a CLI that I use to enter commands. This program is a software router, I can connect to it's CLI to ...
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Multicast UDP not working
Multicast UDP on raspberry pi
I haven't narrowed things down enough to know if my issue is because of debian, raspbian specifically, or if I am just missing a something completely.
I have a python ...
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How can I disable the new history feature in Python 3.4?
Since upgrading to Python 3.4, all interactive commands are logged to ~/.python_history. I don't want Python to create or write to this file.
Creating a symlink to /dev/null does not work, Python ...
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Bare-bones linux? [closed]
I am working on a homemade OS and I was originally going to write it myself in Assembly and Python, but I decided that doing this would just be easier, faster, and more Linux-y. I have the Python part ...
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How to exit out of the shell script successfully so that python subprocess think it is successfull exit? [closed]
Below is my shell script which simply execute a url like this http://example.com:8080/beat and parse the response and verify certain conditions on it. If that condition is met, then exit successfully ...
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Better approach to generating and adding contents to files
I have an input file like below.
1 First one
2 First two
3 First three
3 Second three
I am generating 2 output files like below.
#FILE1
1 First one
2 First two
3 First three
#FILE2
1 ...
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Make a script in python that lists adjacent words through Unix? [migrated]
How can I write a script in python through nested dictionaries that takes a txt file written as,
a,c,f,g,hi,lw:1
f,g,j,ew,f,h,a,w:3
fd,s,f,g,s:4
and make it print for each entry before the : ...
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case sensitive substitution; same target ids
I am struggled myself to make a case sensitive replacement in a text file. Please find below a segment of my sed file that I am running as
sed -f file.sed < input.txt > output.txt
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Pattern Matching and Delete the whole line
I want to delete all the Lines of File 1, if Column1 of File1 matches exactly with Column 1 File2.
File 1:
r001:21:10 21 AAAAAATTTGC * = XM:21
r002:21:10 21 YAAAATTTGC * ...
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Replicate a column in a one-line CSV file
I have a file that consists of a single line:
a,x,b,c,d,e
I want to convert this into
a,x,b,x,c,x,d,x,e,x
Which is the easiest way to achieve this? A solution based on Python will be most ...
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How to compile c, c++ and python code as “Released/Final” version? [closed]
I want to know if there are ways to compile C, C++ and Python code in order to not be able to reverse engineering it over Linux or not?
I have heard there are some ways over Windows to do it, but I ...
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python vs bc in evaluating 6^6^6
I am evaluating the expression 6^6^6 using python and bc separately.
The content of the python file is print 6**6**6. When I execute time python test.py, I get the output as
real 0m0.067s
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parse json using python
I have a JSON file members.json as below.
{
"took": 670,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 8,
"successful": 8,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 74,
...
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How to import screenlets on Python
(I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686)
For some reason I had updated some Python files (I'm not able to tell which ones, but it was ...
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How can I rejoin a process running
I am very new to using Linux. I have a 'machine' on Amazon and I was trying to learn how to use Python on this machine. I started running Python—had to step away for a few minutes and the connection ...
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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 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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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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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 ...
