“import datetime” v.s. “from datetime import datetime”
I have a script that needs to execute the following at different lines in the script:
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BeautifulSoup: just get inside of a tag, no matter how many enclosing tags there are
I’m trying to scrape all the inner html from the <p> elements in a web page using BeautifulSoup. There are internal tags, but I don’t care, I just want to get the internal text.
How do I detect whether sys.stdout is attached to terminal or not?
Is there a way to detect whether sys.stdout is attached to a console terminal or not? For example, I want to be able to detect if foo.py is run via: $ python foo.py # user types this on console OR $ python foo.py > output.txt # redirection $ python foo.py | grep …. # pipe … Read more
Show matplotlib plots (and other GUI) in Ubuntu (WSL1 & WSL2)
So it seems on ubuntu for windows (windows subsystem for linux) people are suggesting we need to use Agg backend and just save images, not show plots.
How can I render a tree structure (recursive) using a django template?
I have a tree structure in memory that I would like to render in HTML using a Django template.
How to set up custom middleware in Django
I am trying to create middleware to optionally pass a kwarg to every view that meets a condition.
Parsing SQL with Python
I want to create a SQL interface on top of a non-relational data store. Non-relational data store, but it makes sense to access the data in a relational manner.
Getting “global name ‘foo’ is not defined” with Python’s timeit
I’m trying to find out how much time it takes to execute a Python statement, so I looked online and found that the standard library provides a module called timeit that purports to do exactly that:
scrapy: Call a function when a spider quits
Is there a way to trigger a method in a Spider class just before it terminates?
Convert png to jpeg using Pillow
I am trying to convert png to jpeg using pillow. I’ve tried several scrips without success. These 2 seemed to work on small png images like this one.