“Private” (implementation) class in Python
I am coding a small Python module composed of two parts:
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Change to sudo user within a python script
I have a problem. I am writing a piece of software, which is required to perform an operation which requires the user to be in sudo mode. running ‘sudo python filename.py’ isn’t an option, which leads me to my question. Is there a way of changing to sudo half way through a python script, security isn’t an issue as the user will know the sudo password the program should run in the following way to illustrate the issue
unexpected results converting timezones in python
I’m trying to understand why I’m getting these results when converting time zones to UTC:
Cannot redirect output when I run Python script on Windows using just script’s name
This is running on Windows 7 (64 bit), Python 2.6 with Win32 Extensions for Python.
Django REST Framework POST nested objects
I’m facing a little problem right now with Django Rest Framework. I’m trying to post an object with nested objects in it.
Wrapping around on a list when list index is out of range
I’m looking for some code improvement, or a pre-built version of what I’ve implemented myself as I think there might be, or should be, a cleaner way to achieve what I want.
Python load json file with UTF-8 BOM header
I needed to parse files generated by other tool, which unconditionally outputs json file with UTF-8 BOM header (EFBBBF). I soon found that this was the problem, as Python 2.7 module can’t seem to parse it:
How do I add a path to PYTHONPATH in virtualenv
I am trying to add a path to the PYTHONPATH environment variable, that would be only visible from a particular virtualenv environment.
python tracing a segmentation fault
I’m developing C extensions from python and I obtain some segfaults (inevitable during the development…).
Finding a substring within a list in Python
Background: Example list: mylist = [‘abc123’, ‘def456’, ‘ghi789’] I want to retrieve an element if there’s a match for a substring, like abc Code: sub = 'abc' print any(sub in mystring for mystring in mylist) above prints True if any of the elements in the list contain the pattern. I would like to print the … Read more