Best way to abstract season/show/episode data *

Question Basically, I've written an API to www.thetvdb.com in Python. The current code can be found here . It grabs data from the A...

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Get size of a file before downloading in Python *

Question I'm downloading an entire directory from a web server. It works OK, but I can't figure how to get the file size before down...

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Python, Unicode, and the Windows console *

Question When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get a UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode cha...

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Convert Bytes to Floating Point Numbers in Python *

Question I have a binary file that I have to parse and I'm using Python. Is there a way to take 4 bytes and convert it to a single preci...

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Does anyone have experience creating a shared library in MATLAB? *

Question A researcher has created a small simulation in MATLAB, and we want to make it accessible to others. My plan is to take the simulati...

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How to sell Python to a client/boss/person with lots of cash *

Question When asked to create system XYZ and you ask to do it in Python over PHP or Ruby, what are the main features you can mention when th...

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Calling a function from a string with the function's name in Python *

Question What is the best way to go about calling a function given a string with the function's name in a Python program. For example, ...

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An executable Python app *

Question Python works on multiple platforms and can be used for desktop and web applications, thus I conclude that there is some way to comp...

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File size differences after copying a file to a server vía FTP *

Question I have created a PHP-script to update a webserver that is live inside a local directory. I'm migrating the script into Python. ...

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Python: what is the difference between (1,2,3) and [1,2,3], and when should I use each? *

Question In many places,(1,2,3) and [1,2,3] can be used interchangably. When should I use one or the other, and why? Answer From the P...

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What is the best way to avoid SQL injection attacks? *

Question I've provided a solution for Python... please flesh this out with examples for other languages. Answer Oracle has got an exte...

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Python: What OS am I running on? *

Question What do I need to look at to see if I'm on Windows, Unix, etc? Answer >>> import os >>> print os.name posix...

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How do I make a menu that does not require the user to press [enter] to make a selection? *

Question I've got a menu in Python. That part was easy. I'm using raw_input() to get the selection from the user. The problem is...

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Any experiences with Protocol Buffers? *

Question I was just looking through some information about Google's protocol buffers data interchange format. Has anyone played around...

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How do you express binary literals in Python? *

Question How do you express an integer as a binary number with Python literals? I was easily able to find the answer for hex: >...

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What is the most efficient graph data structure in Python? *

Question I need to be able to manipulate a large (10^7 nodes) graph in python. The data corresponding to each node/edge is minimal, say, a s...

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Adding a Method to an Existing Object *

Question I've read that it is possible to add a method to an existing object (e.g. not in the class definition) in python , I think this...

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How to learn Python: Good Example Code? *

Question I have been dabbling in Python for a couple months now, read the online docs/tutorial and started playing with Django a bit as we...

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How do I use Python's itertools.groupby()? *

Question I haven't been able to find an understandable explanation of how to actually use Python's itertools.groupby() function. W...

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Python and MySQL *

Question I can get Python to work with Postgresql but I cannot get it to work with MySQL. The main problem is that on the shared hosting acc...

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