Using an HTTP PROXY – Python

I familiar with the fact that I should set the HTTP_RPOXY environment variable to the proxy address. Generally urllib works fine, the problem is dealing with urllib2. >>> urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com").read() returns urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> or urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed> … Read more

Python iterator is empty after performing some action on it

I was trying to do a challenge on codeeval in python3 and got stuck trying to improve my solution. Every time i tried to iterate (or print, or some other action) two times consecutively over the same iterator, the second loop came up empty. Here is a minimal example that produces this behavior, although I tried several different combinations with lists etc. that gave me the same result:

thread starts running before calling Thread.start

t1=threading.Thread(target=self.read()) print("something") t2=threading.Thread(target=self.runChecks(), args=(self,)) self.read runs indefinitely, so the program won’t ever reach the print line. How is this possible without calling t1.start()? (Even if I call that, it shold start running and go on to the next line, shouldn’t it?) Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all … Read more