python-2.7

Securely storing environment variables in GAE with app.yaml

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I need to store API keys and other sensitive information in app.yaml as environment variables for deployment on GAE. The issue with this is that if I push app.yaml to GitHub, this information becomes public (not good). I don’t want to store the info in a datastore as it does not suit the project. Rather, I’d like to swap out the values from a file that is listed in .gitignore on each deployment of the app.

operator.itemgetter or lambda

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I was curious if there was any indication of which of operator.itemgetter(0) or lambda x:x[0] is better to use, specifically in sorted() as the key keyword argument as that’s the use that springs to mind first. Are there any known performance differences? Are there any PEP related preferences or guidance on the matter?

Assigning string with boolean expression

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I am trying to understand this code from someone else’s project. If you want the context it’s here: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns/blob/master/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py#L501 IS_PY2 is just a boolean variable, True if the Python major version is 2. I know that a non-empty string is True, but for some reason I don’t understand openmode is assigned either ‘w’ or ‘wt’ … Read more

Add an image in a specific position in the document (.docx)?

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I use Python-docx to generate Microsoft Word document.The user want that when he write for eg: “Good Morning every body,This is my %(profile_img)s do you like it?”
in a HTML field, i create a word document and i recuper the picture of the user from the database and i replace the key word %(profile_img)s by the picture of the user NOT at the END OF THE DOCUMENT. With Python-docx we use this instruction to add a picture: