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Unpickling a python 2 object with python 3
I'm wondering if there is a way to load an object that was pickled in Python 2.4, with Python 3.4.
I've been running 2to3 on a large amount of company legacy code to get it up to date.
Having done this, when running the file I get the following…
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How to safely open/close files in python 2.4
I'm currently writing a small script for use on one of our servers using Python. The server only has Python 2.4.4 installed.
I didn't start using Python until 2.5 was out, so I'm used to the form:
with open('file.txt', 'r') as f:
# do stuff…
TM.
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In Python 2.4, how can I strip out characters after ';'?
Let's say I'm parsing a file, which uses ; as the comment character. I don't want to parse comments. So if I a line looks like this:
example.com. 600 IN MX 8 s1b9.example.net ; hello!
Is there an easier/more-elegant way…
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How to make Python format floats with certain amount of significant digits?
I want my Python (2.4.3) output numbers to have a certain format. Specifically, if the number is a terminating decimal with <= 6 significant digits, show it all. However, if it has > 6 significant digits, then output only 6 significant digits.
"A"…
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How to unzip a file with Python 2.4?
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to unzip a zip file with 2.4. extract() is not included in 2.4. I'm restricted to using 2.4.4 on my server.
Can someone please provide a simple code example?
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Saving stdout from subprocess.Popen to file, plus writing more stuff to the file
I'm writing a python script that uses subprocess.Popen to execute two programs (from compiled C code) which each produce stdout. The script gets that output and saves it to a file. Because the output is sometimes large enough to overwhelm…
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JSON module for python 2.4?
I'm accustomed to doing import json in Python 2.6, however I now need to write some code for Python 2.4. Is there a JSON library with a similar interface that is available for Python 2.4?
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Avoiding accidentally catching KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit in Python 2.4
In Python scripts, there are many cases where a keyboard interrupt (Ctrl-C) fails to kill the process because of a bare except clause somewhere in the code:
try:
foo()
except:
bar()
The standard solution in Python 2.5 or higher is to catch…
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Python ConfigParser interpolation from foreign section
With Python ConfigParser, is it possible to use interpolation across foreign sections? My mind seems to tell me I've seen that it's possible somewhere, but I can't find it when searching.
This example doesn't work, but it's to give an idea of what…
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Evil in the python decimal / float
I have a large amount of python code that tries to handle numbers with 4 decimal precision and I am stuck with python 2.4 for many reasons. The code does very simplistic math (its a credit management code that takes or add credits mostly)
It has…
Ehsan Foroughi
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telnetlib python example
So I'm trying this really simple example given by the python docs:
import getpass
import sys
import telnetlib
HOST = ""
user = raw_input("Enter your remote account: ")
password = getpass.getpass()
tn =…
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Python try/except not working
Trying to get the try/except statement working but having problems. This code will take a txt file and copy the file that is in location row 0 to location of row 1. It works however if i change one of the paths to invalid one it generates an error…
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SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server in python 2.4
This is my normal code in my VPS hosting which provide python 2.4
def mail(receiver,Message):
import smtplib
try:
s=smtplib.SMTP()
s.connect("smtp.gmail.com",465)
s.login("email@gmail.com", "password")
…
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Python's foreach backwards
Does python have a means of doing foreach backwards? I'm hoping to do a filter() (or list comprehension) and reverse a list at the same time, so that I can avoid doing it separately (which I suspect will be slower). I'm using python 2.4 (I have to…
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How to signal alarm in python 2.4 after 0.5 seconds
I want to timeout a particular piece of python code after in runs for 0.5 seconds. So I intend to raise an exception/signal after 0.5 seconds, and handle it gracefully and continue with rest of code.
In python i know that signal.alarm() can set…
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