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Fast recursive folder deletion - calling the right rmdir
This question is not tied directly to python, but I need working implementation under python32 under windows.
Starting from this answer I assume that using shutil.rmtree() is really slow (I need to ...
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1answer
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How to open a file for browsing (as if one opened it manually)
I am trying to use Python to open a file for visual browsing, i.e. as if one double clicked a file to view it. I have tried numerous searches but because the words are very similar with doing file ...
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“ImportError: DLL load failed” SciPy and cx_freeze don't work together
It seems that SciPy and cx_freeze don't work together and is a known issue (https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_freeze/issue/43/import-errors-when-using-cx_freeze-with). When I remove the import ...
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Create a task that takes up a specific amount of CPU and RAM
I'm testing my company software project and would like to see how it works under heavy load conditions.
Is there anyway to create a task that takes up a big amount of CPU and only stops if I tell it ...
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python: handling stderr stream when using createprocessasuser api in windows
Need some help debugging this issue. I tried searching online and stackoverflow but could not find a solution for this. I am fairly new to the windows api so please pardon my ignorance.
Basically, I ...
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How to make Anaconda python work in Emacs on Windows
So I installed Anaconda on my Windows 7 computer. Now how to get it up and running in Emacs? I tried calling M-x run-python. I get the wonderful error message:
apply: Spawning child process: ...
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Python print screen on windows 8 screen testing software
The testing software seems to be preventing the ImageGrabber's grab(), probably just general print screen. How can I bypass this prevention in python? I need this to happen while the program is ...
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Windows 7 Python installation: Works with full command, but “file.py --version” returns “Could not load Python dll”
This is a followup to this question: The *only* way to successfully execute Django python command is with "python ...PATH...django-admin.py [options]". Why can't it be reduced?
I can ...
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The *only* way to successfully execute Django python command is with “python …PATH…django-admin.py [options]”. Why can't it be reduced?
This is a followup to this question.
The first step in the Django tutorial says to call
django-admin.py startproject mysite
But here is the result:
R:\jeffy\programming\sandbox>django-admin.py ...
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Python EXE Windows: Error 5?
I have compiled a small rename program using py2exe. Whenever I run the executable I receive the following error: "Line 17, in WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied". The program runs fine in the ...
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os.walk doesn't work correctly with unicode characters in path
I want to walk through directory where subdirectories can contain non-ascii characters in names. In this case os.walk considers the subdirectory as a file. The examples below:
I have directory test ...
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Including Freetype in Python Portable
I'm building a Python tool on Windows using https://github.com/rougier/freetype-py as an API for freetype. Of course, it is dependent on the freetype fonts.
The tool has to be portable, so I'd like ...
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Python33, Flask: Lot of Errors starting Hello World
I just have installed with pip flask and HTML5 on my window-sytem. When I start the Hello World!-program with IDLE I get the text correct in a new tab of Firefox. But also a lot of error-messages in ...
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Pyserial can't read 'large' data in multiple threads
I've been trying to port a script to Windows from Linux that records data from a mic array via the serial port. The Linux version uses the termios module which isn't supported on Windows so I'm using ...
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pip install UnicodeDecodeError
When I'm trying to install beautifulsoup4 on my new notebook (Win 7 64) using pip, I get this error:
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ...
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1answer
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Python not printing all the sys.argv
I'm getting a list out of range error from sys.argv[1] and I tried making a simple script with this code.
import sys
print sys.argv
I get this on cmd:
C:\...\...\...\py>back.py exampleargv
...
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Implementing a “screen” command for windows machine using python
So I am trying to do following:
I have Cygwin enabled with screen and ssh daemon in Windows 7.
I create a new screen using the command screen -dmS "my_screen" on my Windows machine.
I ssh to the ...
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WxPython - How to hide the X and expand button on window
Im making a python program and in some functions it needs to hide the X and expand window buttons, how would i do it? Im using WxPython, how would I put this in?
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syncdb error with Django under Windows (OpenKey error?)
I'm trying to follow the Django Tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial01/)
I tried to run:
python manage.py syncdb
Which resulted in the error:
Traceback (most recent call ...
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3answers
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Window closes immediately after running program
I am new to all programming and I just started to get interested in learning how to program. So to do so I started with what most people consider the easiest language: Python.
The problem I am having ...
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How to start reading from x line in a text file with python
I am dealing with a large text file on my windows machine, and I want a script that can print out lines from said text fill starting with a given line index.
with open('big_file.txt', 'r') as f:
...
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What is causing this Windows runtime error (R6034)?
I have a Windows Python script which was compiled to an exe and it worked perfectly but when I embedded a manifest file (requesting admin privileges) into it and then ran it I got two errors and the ...
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Subtime Text 2 - can't run windows command with spaces and quotes
I have a small Python script generating a Windows command:
def quoted(s):
return '"' + s + '"'
import os
path = 'C:\\Program Files\\SumatraPDF\\SumatraPDF.exe'
params = ' -page 5 '
arg = ...
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Cython + Windows 8.1 + VS express 2013
So, that's another Windows + cython question... Cython does succeed in compiling some simple scripts (although not all), and gcc exits with an error code on most. I have configured Setup.py to use ...
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Pass variable into Batch file
I have a script that works that requires me to pass variable to batch file, test.bat
script
pst = subprocess.Popen(
["test.bat", userIP],
stdout = subprocess.PIPE,
stderr = ...
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Compile Cython extensions from the command line with gcc (mingw32) on windows
I'm trying to test a small cython module on win32, and I'm having trouble building it.
The file is called linalg_cython.pyx and has these contents:
from __future__ import absolute_import, ...
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1answer
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Python OS-dependent libraries: Windows 7 SUA
When reading the Python docs, many libraries/functions indicate they work differently, or not at all, depending on the operating system.
Most of the libraries depend on whether the OS is POSIX ...
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Using Python, how do you remove files given a filespec such as “*.obj” on Windows? [duplicate]
How do you remove files given a filespec such as "*.obj" on Windows? I'm using Windows 7 and 8.1 at the moment.
Evidently os.remove does not take filespecs ("filespec" being a crude ...
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1answer
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Python syntax error with subprocess.poll
I ran into this issue today, and managed to repeat it with this small stub of script, running with python 2.7.6 on a win7x64 machine, but the issue came up using portable python on various windows ...
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1answer
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py2exe error: “Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:Error in sys.exitfunc:”
I am trying to wrap my pyqt application into a windows executable using py2exe. I was able to generate the exe just fine but on running it, it gives an error which I have no clue about.
Here's my ...
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PyInstaller-built Windows EXE fails with multiprocessing
In my project I'm using Python's multiprocessing library to create multiple processes in __main__. The project is being packaged into a single Windows EXE using PyInstaller 2.1.1.
I create new ...
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Exception starting IPython notebook
When I start an ipython notebook as follows:
C:\Python27\python.exe "C:\Python27\scripts\ipython-script.py" notebook
I get the following errors:
2014-07-24 14:22:24.584 [NotebookApp] Using ...
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Retrieve printer URI in Windows with Python
I have a Python script to detect whether a USB printer is plugged in, which at first finds the URI of the printer (given its name). In OSX I've managed to get this working using pycups (using ...
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Windows can't verify source of a program opened with python
I created a python program to open a .exe file for me. However when it tries to open it I get a security message saying "Windows cannot verify the creator of this file" and asks me if I would like to ...
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run python scripts in batch and wait for return from their executions
How do I write a batch script in windows that starts 2 python scripts and waits for both of them to return? and also terminates both of them if I terminate the batch script?
Already asked this and ...
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How to emulate socket.socketpair on Windows
The standard Python function socket.socketpair is unfortunately not available on Windows (as of Python 3.4.1), how can I write a replacement that works on both Unix and Windows?
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Identify if power state change is caused by user or by power policy
I am writing a windows service in Python and this service needs to know, when a power state event occurs, what caused it. This could be the user or a power policy.
Right now, I successfully detect the ...
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1answer
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Use python to call a batch script that sets env variables and run another program that uses them
I need to call a batch script from Python that sets environment variables and then use those environment variables to complete the execution of other programs. I am in a windows environment running ...
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How can I get signaled by QSocketNotifier that a pipe is ready for reading?
Using Python 3.4, on Windows as well as Unix, I mean to use QSocketNotifier to discover that a pipe is ready to read from. It's a kind of contrived example, since the pipe is used within a single ...
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run python scripts in batch and wait for return from both executions in windows
How do I write a batch script in windows that starts 2 python scripts and waits for both of them to return? and also terminates both of them if I terminate the batch script?
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How to send a web page to the default printer from within a Python script?
I'm working with a proprietary Windows application with a broken print executable - it needs Internet Explorer 8 or below to behave correctly. Sticking with Internet Explorer 8 isn't an option as the ...
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0answers
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How to get folder owner from a network drive using Python standard library on Windows?
I'm trying to use Python 2.7.5 to determine the owners of a few folders. I can't install any additional modules (like PyWin32) to make it easier on myself, so I have to parse command line output ...
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Make python virtualenv ignore “outside enviroment” packages
I have an unusual situation:
I am developing on a machine that is also used for tests. As such, I cannot uninstall packages from the "main" (outside any virtualenvs) python installation. But the ...
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Windows STDERR redirection happening only on application exit
I have a c++ console application for which I am redirecting the output and the error streams to the file mentioned.
myapp.exe > stdout.log 2> stderr.log
The c++ application uses python module ...
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Why os.rename sometimes returns error access is denied python
I used os.rename() method to rename the directory in my python script. This script called automatically by the scheduler every day. Sometimes the os.rename() function returns the error,
[Error 5] ...
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How to create a shortcut in startmenu using setuptools windows installer
I want to create a start menu or Desktop shortcut for my Python windows installer package. I am trying to follow https://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/builtdist.html#the-postinstallation-script
Here ...
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2answers
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How can I run my python scripts on a windows machine without installing extra libraries?
I'm working on a python script but it uses a library called Selenium to perform most of its tasks. This script needs to be able to run in a windows environment and I can't go through the trouble of ...
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Is something like this possible in Python?
I have an executable file (hello.exe) that was given to me by a friend. This executable file creates another exe file (test.exe) and runs the executable through another command line window. I wanted ...
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Unable to kill process started by Python
After start.exe is executed by Python, the output of start.exe is displayed in the python stdout. However 5 seconds later, we do not see Quitting printed and the task is not killed.
Is there an ...
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celery log shows “Permission Denied”
I'm running celery on Windows, and there's a task that writes a file on a network drive. Looks like it's having issue to write due to permission. Here's part of celery log that shows the error:
File ...
