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How should I go about assigning a binary dummy variable for a bunch of times?

I have two spreadsheets. One of them is about 20000 rows of patients entering an emergency room. Each row has a date/time column, along with separate date and separate time columns. Clearly ...
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Changing Absolute paths for linked files in Adobe InDesign--Run a script? [on hold]

I’ve recently been asked to solve a situation with our marketing department. They have a lot of Adobe documents (InDesign, etc) that link to images and other files outside of the project folder ...
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Matching word boundaries with python re

I'm having trouble using the \b metacharacter in python re's. I think I'm just reading the docs wrong because I often have the same problem in other languages. Assume the following: import re ...
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In Python, how do I get the path and name of the file that is currently executing?

I have scripts calling other script files but I need to get the filepath of the file that is currently running within the process. For example, let's say I have three files. Using execfile, ...
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How to install python 2.7 through CMD [closed]

How to install python through command line? Can i create a batch file and run it? I tried searching over the internet but with no help.
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Translating Python to MEL, create curve on transform positions

This is my Python code. Very basic, it takes the transforms and passes the position to curve positions. How do I write that in MEL? I don't suppose I can drop lists of position in an overall list in ...
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scripting tool to modify configuration files

we are modifying the expected format for some configuration files and I want to create a script to convert files of the old format to the new one. However, my scripting skills are rusty, I have to ...
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Where can I use installed Python Packages

I'm currently using PowerShell to learn aspects of Python and have installed pip, nose and distribute, after some playing around I realised I could only use pip to install packages directly from ...
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Why the Global Interpreter Lock?

What is exactly the function of Python's Global Interpreter Lock? Do other languages that are compiled to bytecode employ a similar mechanism?
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Is there a new/updated Twill?

I've been trying to learn Twill Scripting on Python and I am using Python 3.4 and Twill 1.8.0. Been reading some posts here and I found it interesting to study. But, I do have a problem installing ...
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Why does the Python/C API crash on PyRun_SimpleFile?

I've been experimenting with embedding different scripting languages in a C++ application, currently I'm trying Stackless Python 3.1. I've tried several tutorials and examples, what few I can find, to ...
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Need for Performance in bash script

I have 50000 files and each one has 10000 lines. Each line is in the form: value_1 (TAB) value_2 (TAB) ... value_n I wanted to remove specific values from every line in every file (i used cut to ...
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Python - Change the textField after browsing - MAYA

I've got the most annoying problem with my GUI Exporter in Maya. I've made the textField etc. work, but I can't change the value of the textField after it's created, which is what I need to do. What ...
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Issues getting python 3 linux created script to run on Windows python 3

If anyone can help me, that would be great. I created a python server and client script on Linux with python version 2.6. To my understanding as long as I install the same version of python in ...
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Counting the number of character differences between two files

I have two somewhat large (~20 MB) txt files which are essentially just long strings of integers (only either 0,1,2). I would like to write a python script which iterates through the files and ...
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Python Script in an Android App [duplicate]

I have written an android app that needs some file format conversion using python. Currently i am able to run python on android using QPython console. But i need some help: Is it possible to run a ...
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Is Django what I am looking for? [closed]

I am a SDET for a company where my primary task is to automate test and validate data. Without boring, ill get to the point. I have been appointed to write Python scripts that validate data that ...
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Script for gzip-inflate of HTTP messages in file

One of the tools I'm using saves the HTTP data into log files per connection. I was wondering if there is some kind of script to inflate gzip compressed messages in the file. The data looks like ...
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Documentation for understanfing [closed]

I found this answer to a question I originally had and the answer is excellent can someone add documentation to the script so I can better understand each part of it and the variables or specific ...
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Increment all numbers in a file

I have a file which looks like: (890 1782 0) (8 9 56)(5 28 987) And I want to increment every number by one: (891 1783 1) (9 10 57)(6 29 988) I am sure there must be a simple way of doing this, ...
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I need to run a bash command if output has characters and other command if output is empty

I have a mount script and I need to run a command when Python command output has characters in it and if the output is empty then run something else. Example: ## define a function that launched the ...
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Using Python to match split-RAR extensions

I'm using a Python script in EventGhost to match certain file types in a directory and move them to certain places for other programs to perform actions on them. Here's the entire script: import ...
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Reading file from variable in Python [closed]

I am trying read the contents of file through a variable file = '/home/ec2-user/abc.txt' paths = open("file","r+") print paths.read() But this is not working. I need help; I don't want specify ...
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python chdir to dir the py script is in

How do i chdir to the directory that the python script is in? so far i figured out os.chdir and sys.argv[0]. I'm sure there is a better way then to write my own func to parse argv[0]
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checking/verifying python code

Python is a relatively new language for me and I already see some of the trouble areas of maintaining a scripting language based project. I am just wondering how the larger community , with a scenario ...
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Safe Python expression evaluation

I'm writing a totally non-blender related python script, and I noticed Blender has implemented a solution to a problem I was having. I'm trying to input a python expression to the program, ...
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i need to write a script for telnet automation .. so i wrote a program but i am unable to change the directory using telnet

according to my code ( it takes host from command line argument) #!usr/bin/python import sys import telnetlib import subprocess import os import commands user = "test" ...
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Python: checking if point is inside a polygon

I have a class describing a Point (has 2 coordinates x and y) and a class describing a Polygon which has a list of Points which correspond to corners (self.corners) I need to check if a Point is in a ...
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Running a Python Script on a server (Does it have to be in /cgi-bin/)?

Right now I have a script thats http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/foo?var1=A&var2=B Is there a way that I can have it run outside of the cgi-bin directory? Like could I have ...
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Use Powershell to retrieve number from a sequence using web request

I have a very specific problem I have been trying to work out. I'm using a PowerShell script to name newly imaged computers during the imaging proceess, and I need to grab a newly generated number ...
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Python interpreter's relationship with scripts

In my current directory, I have a foo1.py script and a directory named other with a foo2.py script inside. Now: I launch the interpreter, and using execfile I can launch both scripts. The thing is, ...
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Pros and cons of 'script' vs. 'entry_point' in Python command line scripts

Python's setuptool has two ways of adding command line scripts to a Python package: script and entry_point. This tutorial outlines these ways: scripts Add a Python script (funniest-joke) to the ...
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Execute multiple .py files at the same time

I have three .py files that I want to run at the same time in a Python script file. I initially called subprocess.call() three times (once for each .py file) but remembered that it blocks until the ...
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Python Scripting Question

I have a question about writing a small tool that would provide the headers for any website. I am new to python but wanted to know if there is anything else other than encoding that I would have to ...
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renaming pdfs in python

Don't know much python, working on someones code who's since left the company. I have two text boxes that a user fills out, hits rename and it should rename the pdf files in the folder with the two ...
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python - parse text between two strings and write each match to separate files

I would like to parse block of text between two strings and send each match to separate file. For example: I want parse each block of text between "start" and "end" strings and send each match into ...
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file and string manipulation in TCL (or python)

what I want to do is : I have a file( let's call it a.txt) with variables: name.gender.age and I want to extract the name and based on gender and age add a certain text and save everything in another ...
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Writing and documenting a Python script with variable number of arguments

I am new to Python and I would like to run a script by passing a variable number of arguments. That is, from my terminal window I would like to run the same command as-like the followings: // Case1 ...
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Duplicates in a string in Python

I realize this question has been asked an infinite number of number of times, but I have spin on it. I am attempting to check a list of elements for duplicates and print either of two responses ...
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Making xml query in Python script

module_rm = "resource-mgr" def get_data_name(self, path): dataClass = "logicalRouterInterface" dataProp = "dn" msg = """<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> ...
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Python script setting breakpoints and the encounter of a comment

I am trying to build a script that sets breakpoints in winidea (this ide will run a prjoect, that has different comments) . The breakpoints must be set in winidea after a specific comment was ...
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Exit to command line in Python

I have a script that I want to exit early under some condition: if not "id" in dir(): print "id not set, cannot continue" # exit here! # otherwise continue with the rest of the script... ...
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arcpy.env module being interpreted as 'str' object?

Basically, I have a small script that executes some geoprocessing tasks and saves the work in a user specified directory. It has been running fine for months, when all of a sudden i start seeing this ...
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Python in Nuke: except StopIteration

Basically what I'm trying to do currently is set up a script in Nuke using python that takes nodes selected by the user and adds shuffle nodes to them for an easy compositing workflow. However I'm ...
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(Solved) Bulk renaming .jpg files from “Firstname Lastname”.JPG to “username.jpg” script

I've been trying to google and search for my answer, but most solutions has a pre-determed algorithm to change the filenames. My script has to be kind of dynamic, and I'm not too good at Powershell ...
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Automating requests on a website

I basically need to send testimonial requests to all my friends in class on this site. This is what the page looks like(after logging in): I need to enter the roll number in the textbox one by one ...
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Getting pid of the program just started in Python

So I need to create startup and stop scripts for a python program. I don't have much experience with writing script files so please bare with me. So far my temporary solution was to have the ...
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Is there anything that I can do with Perl/Python but C# would not do? [closed]

I have done some development in C# and I love the language and the environment. I am taking a Perl class, and yes it sounds like easy learning curve, but there are some questions which I think need to ...
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Start and stop multiple processes at once (Ubuntu)

so I have a bunch of mixed scripts on my Ubuntu server which I would like to run all at once, keep the PID so i can kill them all at once. They are mixed ruby and python scripts, which shouldn't ...
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Concatenation of 3 columns (total number of possible combinations) using DataNitro

I am new to DataNitro and I am also a Python beginner, and currently exploring the endless possibilities of Excel spreadsheet programming using DataNitro. I would like to concatenate 3 different ...

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