I'm looking for something like Tcl's [clock scan] command which parses human-readable time strings such as: % clock scan "5 minutes ago" 1246925569 % clock scan "tomorrow 12:00" 1246993200 % clock scan "today + 1 fortnight" 1248135628 Does any such package exist for Python? Many TIA!... more »
[link] simple_markup2.py [link] util2.py The two above files are from chapter 20 of the Apress book "Beginning Python ...the book "simple_markup2.py < test_input.txt > test_output.html i get the following error every time.... more »
I am trying to write a simple little program to do some elementary stock market analysis. I read lines, send each line to a function and then the function returns a date which serves as a key to a dictionary. Each time a date is returned I want to increment the value associated with that date. The function seems to be working properly.... more »
HI, Im trying to parse a bands myspace page and get the total number of plays for their songs. e.g. [link] The problem is that I cannot use urllib2 as the "Total plays" string does not appear in the page source. Any idea of ways around this? Thanks, O
Hello! I have been thinking about how write exception safe constructors in Python. By exception safe I mean a constructor that does not leak resources when an exception is raised within it. The following is an example of one possible way to do it: class Foo(object): def __init__(self, name, fail=False):... more »
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