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How to convert String to hexa byte [duplicate]

I want to convert an hexa string formated like "0xf7d64850" to little endian bytes. I want a string that gave the same result when printed as print("\x50\x48\xd6\xf7") So, at the moment I'm able to ...
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Python Stack Overflow with tkinter and threading

I have a problem about python stack overflow. I am writing an application with python using Tkinter and 4 other threads. but the problem is that after an hour of working, i get the stack overflow ...
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My quicksort hangs for list of size 2^13

I've written a quicksort function in python as follows. def quickSort1(A,p,q): if p < q: pivotIndex = partition(A,p,q) quickSort1(A,p,pivotIndex-1) quickSort1(A,...
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Diagnosing IronPython StackOverflowException

I have a program that essentially reads a temp sensor and writes the readings to a file in an infinite loop (i.e. keep running until I crash/exit the program). Worked great on first machine - Iron ...
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Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow. During Flood Fill

I've come to a dead end, and after excessive (and unsuccessful) Googling, I need help. I'm building a simple PyQt4 Widget where it lies out a grid of 60x80 squares, each initialized to None. If the ...
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Compare deeply nested lists safely?

The following simple comparison of pure lists explodes on me: a, b = [], [] for _ in range(1000): a, b = [a], [b] a == b Python 3.5.1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#17&...
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Why is my stack buffer overflow exploit not working?

So I have a really simple stackoverflow: #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char buf[256]; memcpy(buf, argv[1],strlen(argv[1])); printf(buf); } I'm trying to ...
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How to save data in a for loop by Python

I am new in Python programming. I want to save the field output request [mdb.models['Model-1'].fieldOutputRequests['F-Output-1'].setValues(variables=('S', 'U', 'SF'))] as a text file for each loop ...
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Quicksort: Non-in-place implementation works. In-place implementation exceeds maximum recursion depth. Why?

def quicksort_stable(l): if not l: return l else: pivot = l[0] return quicksort_stable([x for x in l if x < pivot]) \ + [x for x in l if x == pivot] \...
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Scrapy stack overflow of Requests

I have the following while loop to scrap pages def after_login(self, response): i=100000 while (i<2000000): yield scrapy.Request("https://www.example.com/foobar.php?nr="+str(i),...
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python pandas overflow error dataFrame

I am rather new to python and I am using the pandas library to work with data frames. I created a function "elevate_power" that reads in a data frame with one column of floating point values (example ...
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A way to run an infinite loop without the stackoverflowexception on ironpython?

I'm having a little problem when trying to run an infinite loop in ironpython 2.7 Here is my script: import urllib import urllib2 import json a=0 info = '' def getInfo(): url = 'https://api....
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How to stop the stack from overflowing when generating permutations in python

I'm trying to generate permutations in python without using itertools. This is my code thus far: def generatePermutations(minVal, maxVal, arrayLength, depth = -1, array = []): if(depth == -1): # ...
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How could you increase the maximum recursion depth in Python? [duplicate]

Interesting topic of recursion and stack overflow in class today and I wondered if there is any way of increasing the maximum recursion depth in Python? Wrote a quick function for finding the ...
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Python NLTK: parse string using conjoint structure, getting into infinite recursion

I am new in python and nltk. I am asked to create two different parse tree for the following sentence: Adam slept while Josh ate and the dog barked. Based on these two constructions: S-> S ...
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Stack overflow on logging python module

I'm having a problem with python 3, I'm trying to log the stdout and the stderr to a log file. I was able to figure it out using http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2011/08/14/redirect-stdout-and-stderr-to-...
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Save unsent message in Django

When I am about to write a question on Stackoverflow and suddently closes the window it wont delete my message. When I return to the question form it has saved what I wrote last time. Is it just a ...
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Trying to create a pause function using tkinter in python , but code crashing when restarting

This is my code. It's part of bigger code for creating a data subscription app. I am trying to add a pause and restart function to it. The pause function is working perfectly but whenever I am trying ...
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recursive stack overflow in fibonacci function

I'm triying to understand the stack overflow mecanism of a recursive function. So i used this fibonacci function : def fib(n): if n==1 or n==2: return 1 return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2) print (fib(555))...
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s_push: parser stack overflow solution

I am having a problem with Spyder Python, trying to send data to a method. The only thing that Spyder is returning is a short message: s_push: parser stack overflow Which does not help too much... ...
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Python, Numpy Stack overflow

I'm trying to do some image manipulation in python but I was having some trouble with the stack overflowing. After reading a little, I edited the np.array to take an extra parameter dtype='int64'. (It ...
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pydoc modules causing stack smashing

In order to see if a python module is installed, I ran the following on a terminal: match=$(pydoc modules | grep $aModule) Something went wrong, and now it always outputs this: $ pydoc modules ...
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Restricting floating point values to avoid overflow in python

I'm writing a program that utilizes Euler's Method to calculate whether or not an asteroid's orbit will result in a collision with Earth. At the end of each iteration of the main loop, there is an if ...
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Stack Overflow when Pyparsing Ada 2005 Scoped Identifiers using Reference Manual Grammar

I'm currently implementing an Ada 2005 parser using Pyparsing and the reference manual grammar rules. We need this in order to analyze and transform parts of our aging Ada-codebase to C/C++. Most ...
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Ways to avoid Stack Overflow error in threads in Python

As a native Java developer, I think I have reached a situation which is what I am used to. I am developing a multi-threaded Python 2.7 application using PyDev and running from Eclipse on Windows 7 64 ...
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Does Python optimize tail recursion?

I have the following piece of code which fails with the following error: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded I attempted to rewrite this to allow for tail recursion optimization (TCO). ...
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Eclipse + Python: Stack overflow during debug - not run

I have the following Python code in Eclipse which causes stack overflow when debugging: v = ogr.Feature(layer.GetLayerDefn()) The method calls are part of the GDAL/OGR library and the Error message ...
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Python: nested lambdas — `s_push: parser stack overflow Memory Error`

I recently stumbled across this article which describes how to code FizzBuzz using only Procs in Ruby, and since I was bored, thought it would be neat to try and implement the same thing in Python ...
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How to cause stack overflow and heap overflow in python

I am trying to understand how python manages stack and heap. So I wanted to do some "bad" programming and cause a stack overflow and heap overflow. What I don't understand is why strings for example ...
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How to optimize a generic flood fill algorithm to prevent stack overflow?

The generic implementation of flood-fill algorithm runs into stack overflow, is there any way to optimize this? I am using this algorithm to find distinct void zones within building models. I voxelize ...
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Why does Tkinter stack overflow on Windows?

This short Python script debugwin.py works great on my Linux machine: >>> import debugwin >>> l = [] >>> debuwin.watch(l) 0 >>> l.append(1) However, people have ...
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Why does this Python script create an infinite loop? (recursion)

Why/how does this create a seemingly infinite loop? Incorrectly, I assumed this would cause some form of a stack overflow type error. i = 0 def foo () : global i i += 1 try : ...
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“TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable” sometimes appears, sometimes - not

I have 2 functions for reading data from file and putting it to dictionary. def read_input(): f = open(r"D:\data.txt","r") g = {} for ln in f.readlines(): ...g = ... f.close() return g ...
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Python ValueError: not allowed to raise maximum limit

I'm using python 2.7.2 on mac os 10.7.3 I'm doing a recursive algorithm in python with more than 50 000 recursion levels. I tried to increase the maximum recursion level to 1 000 000 but my python ...
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IndexError from calling an Integer

I'm working on an infix to prefix program utilizing a stack class. However, the push() method is raising an IndexError whenever I call an integer, even though I have an Exception Handler and I'm ...
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Reducing capabilities of markdown in python

I'm writing a comment system. It has to be have formatting system like stackoverflow's. Users can use some inline markdown syntax like bold or italic. I thought that i can solve that need with using ...
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Handling memory usage for big calculation in python

I am trying to do some calculations with python, where I ran out of memory. Therefore, I want to read/write a file in order to free memory. I need a something like a very big list object, so I thought ...