Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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Linux - preventing an application from failing due to lack of disk space
Due to an unpredicted scenario I am currently in need of finding a solution to the fact that an application (which I do not wish to kill) is slowly hogging the entire disk space. To give more context
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Python3 error “no module named bluetooth” on Linux Mint
I am trying to connect my Lenovo S10E to a Nintendo Wiimote via bluetooth. I am using a simple Python script, reproduced below. I am calling it from the Linux Mint (version 16, "Petra") command line ...
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shell or python script to transpose rows to columns [duplicate]
I have a big file with numbers like:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 9 9 9
I want to tranpose it into
1 5 9
2 6 9
3 7 9
4 8 9
I have search on google for solutions,
but those solutions simply don't ...
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Uninstall a python software properly
I installed a little python software (pycarddav) before to notice there is a packaged version for Debian sid...
Now, I would like to uninstall properly this software and then, install the packaged ...
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Listing directories based on size from largest to smallest on single line
I can use the following command to get a list of directories and their sizes and sort them from largest to smallest (in the example I renamed the directories to numbers to make this easier to ...
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Python file issue from root path
I have a script that is well-tested and known to be working. I am running into an issue with it where when I try to run it from /root/backup/script.py or ~/backup/script.py I get a file not found ...
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Installing iPython3 Fedora 20
It was very easy to install ipython and upgrade it to the newest version (2.0) using pip. However, I want to set up ipython3, which uses Python 3, and found it more difficult. I finally installed it ...
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jinja2 template rendering [migrated]
Currently I have something like this, which uses jinja2 templating engine:
templateLoader = FileSystemLoader( [ 'templates', 'other/path' ] )
templateEnv = Environment( loader=templateLoader )
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install python module for particular python instance
I have 2 python instance on a CentOS machine, i.e. /usr/bin/python2.4 and /usr/bin/python2.7.
Modules for 2.4 are in /usr/lib/python2.4, and modules for 2.7 are in /usr/local/python27.
When I do ...
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beautifulsoup search attributes with namespace [migrated]
I want to search XML file for xlink:href attribute in all tags. I cannot get it done with beautifulsoup find_all and regular expression. Following is my XML file.
<body:document-content>
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Modoboa 1.1.1 Deployment Errors
I try to install modoboa follow this steps: http://modoboa.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/install.html
I installed modoboa with pip install modoboa
Traceback (most recent call last):
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python xml parsing
I have to delete particular tags from an xml file. Sample xml below.
<data>
<tag:action/>
</data>
I want to delete all contents between data and /data. ...
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How to install QGIS from source into user space?
I want to install QGIS from source on Ubuntu 13.10. (saucy). into ~/bin. There is Python 2.7.5+ installed. Therefore, I cloned the repository to my machine and checked out the master branch. First I ...
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Python: Move lines backward in a textfile
Imagine a text file which contains random text and two unique markers
01 text text text
02 text text text
03 __DELETE_THIS_FIRST__
04 text text text
05 text text text
06 text text text
07 text text ...
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How to grab the oldest unread message from `mail` in a script?
In a script I am trying to finish writing now, I need to get the oldest unread message from the current user's mailbox (specifically, I need the subject line for this project).
After extracting the ...
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How do I get 'realpath' to find my symbolic link?
I am on MacOSX using bash as my shell. I have symbolic link, created like this:
ln -s /usr/bin/python python2
I have a package that uses python2 and I want to create a symbol link in my current ...
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Why does PyCrypto require a C compiler?
Is there a python crypto library that does not rely on anything besides python? Or pre-complied bundles of PyCrypto for Linux?
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fail2ban permission denied on script
I've just upgraded from RHEL 5 to 6.5 and setup fail2ban anew. I can't seem to get my custom action to work now, supposedly because of a permission issue. I wan't to know what am I doing wrong, and ...
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makehuman gives “ImportError: No module named numpy”
I installed 1.0.0 on slackware 14.1 makehuman 64bit slackbuilds through the site, but the makehuman does not open, the program appears in the KDE menu but does not open.
I do not know why it happens, ...
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Installation location of python modules?
How does one get python modules working on a local machine?
I followed the doc here: https://docs.python.org/2/install/ to no avail.
I tried putting a known working module in the following locations ...
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1answer
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apt python error prevents me from resolving dependency problems for apt-get install
On Debian 6 servers dependency issues are preventing me from installing nis (or any package). When I try to resolve that issue I get a python error. How do I get past this issue and re-gain the ...
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Rescue value from second last line
After I run a script, I've got the following lines:
PyMOL(TM) Molecular Graphics System, Version 1.4.1.
Copyright (c) Schrodinger, LLC.
All Rights Reserved.
Created by Warren L. DeLano, ...
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Unexpected behavior from an “os.system”call in Python [closed]
I want to save the file type of the file sample in a text file called type.txt. I wrote the following for that in Python:
os.system('file sample > type.txt')
When I run this code, type.txt shows ...
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pipe function arguments to command line arguments in python
I have a python code (cmd.py) which accepts files as command line arguments and process using parse_args. I want to pass files from another code (files.py) to cmd.py, just like passing function ...
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why cpulimit makes process STOPPED?
I'm running a python script which uses networkx package to run some algorithms on graphs.
the script is
import networkx as nx
from networkx.algorithms.approximation import clique
G = ...
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Need a different header path for compiling
I'm trying to update numpy, a python package, on my fresh install of debian. I have installed from source the latest version of python in /usr/local
When trying to update numpy via pip, I get an ...
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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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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 ...
