Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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Debian, virtualenv, IPython notebook and matplotlib inline plots
I have been using IPython notebook on both OSX and Windows 7 for a while. Now I'm trying to create a minimal system for me to work on Debian 7 (Wheezy). I installed:
LXDE
Python2.7
python-dev
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How to get name of Display Manager on Linux? [duplicate]
I want to see Display Manager name (Gnome, KDE etc.) via python or bash script. Is there any command for it as uname? (I try fedora and Debian)
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Recommended way of installing python packages on Arch
What's the recommended way of installing python packages on Arch? Searching for them on the AUR and installing them from there (or create a PKGBUILD file to make a package yourself) or using pip?
I ...
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Convert SVG to PDF in python [closed]
I am trying to convert an SVG file to PDF in python using the svglib and reportlab packages. Here is the SVG file.
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG ...
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Where are Python dist-packages stored in FreeBSD?
I am trying to find this path on FreeBSD but it is not working: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
This same path is working on Ubuntu.
Can please some tell me where I can find Python ...
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Clearing/modifying previous libnotify notifications?
I have written a script which generates notifications like this:
notify-send -i audio-card "Transferring audio playback to speakers." \
"Audio playback has been transferred to the analog output ...
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Wait for a X window to appear/disappear (in a sane way)
Inside a shell script, I need to wait for a window that has a string on its title to appear, do some action, and then wait for it to disappear, and do some other action.
Until yesterday, I had this ...
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process continous output of synclient
I am using synclient to track the position of finger on the touchpad.
I use the following command.
synclient -m 100 | awk '{print $2,$3}'
This command gives the 'x' and 'y' co-ordinate on the ...
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Mezzanine start up script
I am having a world of pain writing a simple start up script for Mezzanine. Running python manager.py runserver just refuses to demonize using start-stop-daemon. Does anyone know of a such a simple ...
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Hybrid code in shell scripts. Sharing variables
This answer discusses how to run a multi-line Python snippet from the command line in a terminal. I noticed that the answer works great within shell scripts, even with nested indentation, which is ...
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How can you change the process name of Wing IDE from python to something more descriptive
In my process list under Ubuntu (using top/System Monitor) one of the largest memory hogs (200+Mb) was python. I searched a bit for one of my programs to be the cause until I realised this was my ...
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Running 'make test' on an individual module for Python 2.7.4 build
I am working on building Python 2.7.4 on CentOS 6.4. When running the make test step, the test_gdb step fails, and I would like to get some more info as to why.
Build commands I'm running:
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Django not installing with pip because of mismatched hash
I have a virtual machine set up with a directory created with virtualenv (env2). I am inside this directory and have it activated and want to instal django 1.4. This is my command:
$ pip install ...
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Can't install python because of zypper conflict
I have a virtual machine I just set up. I'm running a completely fresh install of OpenSUSE (with online updates from yast). At the terminal I tried to run python:
$ python
bash: python: command not ...
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Gajim, gtalk, and logind
Since the Google talk outage earlier this month, I keep not being able to connect using gajim. I tried deleting all the configuration, updated to the latest development version, and tried in different ...
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Can't open Gajim
When I try to open Gajim using terminal on gnome I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gajim.py", line 106, in <module>
import common.configpaths
File ...
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Software Center not opening in Linux Mint
I'm a Linux Mint 14 user. I'm not able to open the software center.
$ software-center
ERROR:root:DebFileApplication import Traceback (most recent call last): File ...
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Safely convert unicode strings to printable characters
I have many HTML files containing mixed unicode strings like \303\243 and printable characters like %s. What I'd like to do is converting the unicode strings into printable characters in a safe way.
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Start Repl/CLI in Background and Feed Commands
Lets say the python repl takes a long time to start up, is there a way to start it up in the background so I can create an alias and feed it commands like python-current "command to run".
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Delete XML node containing certain element
I want to remove all Placemarks from a KML file that contain the element <tessellate>. The following block should be wholly removed:
<Placemark>
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Accidentally deleted python, python2, python2.7 files from /usr/bin/. Is it possible to recover them? [closed]
I accidentally deleted python, python2, python2.7 files from /usr/bin/. Now yum is also not working.
Is it possible to recover them?
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Can a GTK applet widget be instantiated through dbus?
I just posted this:
#274616: “Simple” gnome applets in Unity - stickynotes
... where I could instantiate a Gnome 2 bonobo applet in a standalone window,
... using ...
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Vim :fold of python code not different to C/C++ code
When I enter the command :fold inside my python code in .py files, Vim inserts the /*{{{*/ and /*}}}*/ tags. They, of course, cannot be parsed by python interpreter.
When I'm in python I would like ...
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avconv/ffmpeg output through /dev/ttyAMA0
I tried to pipe streaming video from video4linux2 webcam connected to a Raspberry Pi through /dev/ttyAMA0 to a computer using an Arduino as a intermediary. First of all, is it possible? Because I was ...
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How can I schedule a python program to run from another python program?
I'm running a Python program on my Linux server, and depending on some external data it has to run again at xx minutes or hours from now.
So let's say it runs at 6 AM, and then it has to run again at ...
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Backup to a synology NAS with bup
I am trying to make a remote backup to my Synology NAS (DSM 4.1) using bup.
I compiled bup on my NAS from source, did there:
BUP_DIR=/volume1/public/Backups/bup bup init
Initialized empty Git ...
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Can't use peewee on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I am getting an error when I run Python programs that imports peewee:
ImportError: No module named peewee
The same program works fine under Ubuntu 12.04.
I used pip to install peewee, and it ...
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Use tabs for indentation in Python mode
I am using Emacs for Python developement. My team is using Tab indentation, so I must do the same. The problem is that I can't figure out how to make python-mode use tabs instead of spaces. I want ...
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Installing a plugin for quodlibet as a patch
I'm trying to update a plugin for quodlibet. I fetched a .patch file from here.
I navigate into the directory where the plugin is placed
/usr/share/pyshared/quodlibet/plugins/events
and copy in ...
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I want to install a library which requires a python version and, having two installed, finds the wrong one
I want to install a library on my debian machine and it requires a python version above 2.6.6-7. The machine had installed the version 2.5.2-3, so I installed python 2.7.
When I run python -V, the ...
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A simple script to make a desktop version of Nimbuzz WebChat? [closed]
There is a nice little script which uses python-webkit called "RGB/HEX Color Picker" here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=128317
I tried if I can use it to make a ...
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Is shebang always the same as the interpreter's installation directory?
Must the shebang header always match the interpreter's installation directory? If so, then why do both #!/usr/bin/python and #!/usr/local/bin/python work for me?
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How can I have more than one possibility in a script's shebang line?
I'm in a bit of an interesting situation where I have a Python script that can theoretically be run by a variety of users with a variety of environments (and PATHs) and on a variety of Linux systems. ...
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How to resume the ?WATCH command when a USB GPS is reconnected
I have some hacks to ensure that my USB GPS devices continues spitting data if disconnected, then reconnected. The devices are so flaky that they need restarting so as to continue transmitting data.
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Doing regex in python [closed]
I had a directory "/pcap_test" which contains several log files. Each file has a pattern like:
Pkt: 1 (358 bytes), LIFE: 1, App: itunes (INTO), State: TERMINATED, Stack: /ETH/IP/UDP/itunes, Error: ...
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Aliasing 'python' to 'ipython' only when 'python' is run without args
I thought it would be nice to have an alias (in ~/.zshrc) to have 'python' aliased to 'ipython' ONLY when 'python' is run without args (otherwise, programs won't launch).
First of all, how to express ...
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Upgrade matplotlib to 1.2 or 1.3
I am trying to upgrade my python matplotlib but for some reason I can't get it to upgrade.
I originally installed matplotlib with:
apt-get install python-matplotlib
which was fine. However it ...
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Managing the output streams of many subprocesses with deadlocks
I have a Python script that does more or less this
current_tasks = TaskManager()
MAXPROCS = 8
while len(outstanding_tasks) > 0:
if len(current_tasks.running) < MAXPROCS:
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apt-get install packages for python2.7
Whenever I install a package for python it only installs for Python2.6 which came with the Debian 6. I am wondering how do I install for python2.7 with apt-get. Presently I am downloading the tarballs ...
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What is the source of truth for currently active tty/pts connections?
I'm looking for a simple way to determine the number of currently logged in users, using only the filesystem and basic bash functions (instead of using binaries).
The uptime binary appears to be ...
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Lots of 'python-console' entries in top
24377 me 20 0 128m 34m 3856 S 0 0.9 0:00.83 python-console
I have about 40 odd entries like this when I run top. I have no python console windows open and rebooted my machine since I ...
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CUPS - check if print successful (either python or in system)
EDIT: I forgot to make it clear I'm using python and pycups. The code is python but I shouldn't have thought that was enough.
I've dug through the cups documentation a few times and couldn't find ...
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Correct handling of Python2 and Python3
What is the correct way running scripts that depend on python2.x but on a system where python3.x is aliased with python.
The solution should take into account the following things :
Python2 ...
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Losing sound after installing wine 1.5 (+python 2.7)?
I have a desktop and a laptop computer. Since I wanted to run IrfanView (that works great now!), I installed wine 1.5.22, which involved installing 1 GB of dependencies. The desktop continues to work ...
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how to install ast python package
I'm using django constance in my project. This app used a python package ast. When I try to install that package using command pip-2.7 install ast, it results as "Could not find any downloads that ...
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Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar are not working on debian
I'm running Debian 6.0.6
I've downloaded latest version of libtorrent-rasterbar from here: http://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/downloads/detail?name=libtorrent-rasterbar-0.16.6.tar.gz&can=2 and ...
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Problems running python script from motion
I'm trying to set up the raspberry pi with my webcam as a motion detecting cctv that uploads the videos to google drive using Jeremy Blythe's script
I have motion working correctly and the python ...
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What to include in an RPM created from python packages
I'm looking to create a rpm for this tarball and couldn't figure out which files needed to be included in the package after the install. I am used to compiling some code and including the binary ...
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Virtual Python installation not allowing ez_setup?
I don't have root on my system, so I'm trying to create a virtual Python installation. I ran virtual-python.py, and it told me to run ez_setup.py. I found it online and ran it with the command ...
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I want to run commands like make, make install, python setup install without changing directories
I have written a script which will download software from the internet to the current user's home directory and then untar it. And then I have to make and make install it and in some software I have ...
