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Configuration file with Python functionality
I'm working on quite complicated scientific project.
I decided to use a configuration file for model description. However it was quite complicated to parse all strings after ...
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Processing C++ comments
Here's the first functional version of my Python 2 script for processing comments in C++ source files. It's a personal project, I expect to expand it later with more advanced options (mainly about ...
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Extracting changesets (or commits) between last two tags in Mercurial with Python
I have written the following script:
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Critiques on a trivially easy to use Python CSV class
I have been working on a project where I needed to analyze multiple, large datasets contained inside many CSV files at the same time. I am not a programmer but an engineer so I did a lot of searching ...
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Social Media Hashtag Splitting
I decided to try out Python (3.x) two or so weeks ago, and this is my first real script using it. The program I've written below is slow, clunky, inefficient, inaccurate, and probably poorly coded! ...
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First program with scraping, lists, string manipulation
I wanted to find out which states and cities the USA hockey team was from, but I didn't want to manually count from the roster site here.
I'm really interested to see if someone has a more elegant ...
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Review Simple Logparser
This is my first try with Python. I wanted to parse some Log4J so I thought it a good opportunity to write my first Python program.
The format of the logs I deal ...
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Parsing Wikipedia data in Python
I'm new to python and would like some advice or guidance moving forward. I'm trying to parse Wikipedia data into something uniform that I can put into a database. I've looked at wiki parsers but from ...
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Packaging a single-file Python copy-tool
I'm currently working on a very simple one-file project:
Lumix provides the possibility for the camera TZ41 (and others) to load GPS data and tourist information from a DVD to a SD-card so that you ...
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Using pycparser to parse C header files
I have a small program which makes uses of pycparser to parse C header files. The code, unfortunately, kinda sprawls out everywhere to handle the different cases (example below).
What's the best way ...
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Python wrapper for the Help Scout API
I started porting an API wrapper from Java to Python for practice. I am looking for ways to improve the readability/maintainability this code.
I have done some reading about "pythonic" style and I am ...
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Efficient parsing of FASTQ
FASTQ is a notoriously bad format. This is because it uses the same @ character for the id line as it does for quality scores. Deciding what is a quality score and ...
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Better way to parse XML in Python
I'm sure there must be a better / simpler way of doing this....
The aim of this code is to return an object which contains all of the movies. Where attributes are not found, they need to return ...
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Python Script to Search PirateBay
I've written a very basic Python 3 script to search ThePirateBay. Since the tracker doesn't have an API, I had to parse the HTML using BeautifulSoup. I'd like to get some reviews, I'm pretty sure the ...
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Speeding up a Cython program
I wrote the following piece of Python as a part of a larger system. Profiling reveals that a large amount of time is spent in DocumentFeature.from_string. So far ...
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String parsing with multiple delimeters
My data is in this format:
龍舟 龙舟 [long2 zhou1] /dragon boat/imperial boat/\n
And I want to return:
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Parse XML using Python XML eTree
I am a high school intern, and I am trying to parse my mentor's code so that he can read in an XML file and call simple methods to edit or get information from his XML file.
I was hoping someone ...
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download an image from a webpage
I originally posted this on stackoverflow and was recommended that I post here, so I apologize if you see this twice:)
I am trying to write a python script that download an image from a webpage.on ...
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Parsing HTTP server logs
I have a relatively simple project to parse some HTTP server logs using Python and SQLite. I wrote up the code but I'm always looking for tips on being a better Python scripter. Though this is a ...
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Text parser implemented as a generator
I often need to parse tab-separated text (usually from a huge file) into records. I wrote a generator to do that for me; is there anything that could be improved in it, in terms of performance, ...
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Reading a large XML file and parsing necessary elements into MySQLdb
I have fair concept in a programming (learner) but not an expert to refactor code at the highest level. I am trying to read a huge (100MB-2GB) XML file and parse necessary element (attributes) from a ...
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Substitution of different occurrences of a string with changing patterns
I need to parse an invalid JSON string in which I find many repetitions of the same key, like the following snippet:
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Joining url path components intelligently
I'm a little frustrated with the state of url parsing in python, although I sympathize with the challenges. Today I just needed a tool to join path parts and normalize slashes without accidentally ...
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Extracting the text of a specific XML node
I have to extract friendlyName from the XML document.
Here's my current solution:
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Python Game Log Parser [closed]
Please review my Log parser for general problems. I am planning to move all of the log reading code into a class and rearrange things on the OO side to make it easier to understand. I hobbled the ...
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Parsing Solr log files - version 2
This post is in reference to: Parsing Solr log files
I re-wrote most of the code and split it up into a couple of classes. Currently, the class functionality is pretty limited, but I can see that I ...
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Parse emails and create HTML markup from attachments
I am developing a script that will act as a surrogate of sorts for a web portal and an email blast program. The web portal is used to create web-to-print files and is very good at creating print-ready ...
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Logic for an init function in email parser
I am writing an email parser and cannot decide how much logic should be included in the __init__ function. I know that a constructor should make the object ready ...
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Pair Programming matrix: room for improvement?
At work, we have a "pair programming ladder" where you can keep track of who is pairing with whom (based on check-ins). The idea is to promote "promiscuous pairing" where each developer eventually ...
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Retrieving the first occurrence of every unique value from a CSV column
A large .csv file I was given has a large table of flight data. A function I wrote to help parse it iterates over the column of Flight IDs, and then returns a dictionary containing the index and value ...
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Help fix up my Python XML Schema parsing code
I've been working on a lightweight xml schema parser, and have what I think is a moderately clean solution (some parts helped out by previous questions I posted here) so far for obtaining all schema ...
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Python Twitter parser
In the interests of improving my Python coding skills, I wanted to post a program I recently built and get it critiqued by you fine folks. Please let me know where you think I might improve this ...
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PEG parser in Python
Any suggestions to make this code clearer, more Pythonic, or otherwise better? I'm open to changes to the design as well as the code (but probably won't drop features or error checking since ...
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Python xml schema parsing and xml creation from flat files - code review
I am new to python and had to create a schema parser to pull information on attributes and complex types, etc. and then convert data from flat files into the proper xml format. We are processing a lot ...
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Parsing Solr log files
I am kind of new to programming. Picked up some Perl about a year ago and now learning some Python. I am pretty confident in Perl, but Python seems un-natural to me.
I wrote a little script that ...
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New book parser
I know that this is a complete mess and does not even come close to fitting PEP8. That's why I'm posting it here. I need help making it better.
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Get metadata from an Icecast radio stream
I am new to Python and not very familiar with advanced Python data structures.
I have written a function to receive data from a socket in Python and perform string manipulations on it. The basic ...
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Parse a text file in python
I would like to refactor a large python method I wrote to have better practices. I wrote a method that parses a design file from the FSL neuroimaging library. Design files are text files with settings ...
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Parsing time ranges with PyParsing
The following code is intended to parse a string of the following format and return whether the current time falls in that window:
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Parsing a website
Following is the code I wrote to download the information of different items in a page.
I have one main website which has links to different items. I parse this main page to get the list. This is ...
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How parse nicely a string into three (or more) pieces?
See, I have a file which consists of a bunch of lines like
NAME:0001;some text
ANOTHERNAME:000103;some more text
NEWNAME:42; blah blah
So what I need to do ...
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A (comprehensive) URI parser for Python
For a code challenge, I'm trying to write a comprehensive URI parser in Python that handles both URIs with authority paths (ex: URLs such as ...
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Opening a list of URLs and splitting the queries into different files
I recently made a program in Python to open a list of URLs and split the queries into different files. I want to make this code more generic and simple. I am open to suggestions.
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NLTK language detection code in Python
I need to write some code that checks thousands of websites, to determine if they are in English or not.
Below is the source code. Any improvements would be appreciated.
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Parsing XML file containing some events
I'm a beginner and have written my first Python module that parses a XML file containing some events and prints them out to stdout as JSON. I would appreciate some ...
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Reversi text board parsing to bitfield
This Python code parses string representations of Reversi boards and converts them into bit string suitable for use by a bitstring module: b = BitArray('0b110') or ...
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Improve my python file parsing and duplicate removal code?
I am running through a file and inserting elements one by one. The counties all contain specific county codes which are duplicated many times throughout the file. I am looking for a way to assign ...
