Knowledge Base Contributions

Below is a list of the knowledge base entries that Nathan Wallace has contributed to:

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• Does == use the Equals method?
  Does != use the Equals method?
  

• How do I escape quotes when building an SQL query?
  

• How can I get and set an object property by name?
  I have a property name in a variable, how can I get or set that property?
  

• Why do I keep getting "Invalid Resx Input" for my assembly resource file?
  What are all these fields in the assembly resource for?
  

• How can I call a breakpoint from my code?
  How can I call a breakpoint from my code?
  

• How can I get a unique temporary file name to use?
  

• Where can I get a class to compress / uncompress data?
  Is there an implementation of zip compression available?
  

• How do I get the Graphics object in an OnPaint() event?
  I need to define how to draw my control, where do I do that?
  Why does my control only paint properly sometimes?
  

• How do I debug an office add-in from VS.NET?
  How do I debug an office add-in from VS.NET?
  Why does a new instance of VS.NET start up when I run my office add-in?
  

• Is there a unit testing framework available?
  What is the easiest way to run unit tests?
  How do I install NUnit?
  

• How can I get the application object to start working with?
  I've generated the add-in code in VS, what do I do next?
  

• How are PHP, PWS and MySQL intergrated?
  

• What should I use as example URLs?
  

• Why does not "file exist"?
  

• Is this a test question?
  I don't see where the problem is! Can you?!
  

• How can I become a member of faqts?
  please send me file DW-P1.MDB, DW-P3.MDB, DW-P4.MDB
  Please send me files DW-P1.xls, DW-P2.xls
  Please send me files DW-P1.xls, DW-P2.xls
  

• How to auto detect the screen resolution?
  

• Removing duplicate elements from list
  

• 'du' in Python
  

• Uploading a binary file with ftplib
  

• Clean emacs Python shell output
  

• Scanning folders for new files
  

• Resizing a canvas
  

• Log file window (was: tail -f with Python/Tkinter)
  

• Increasing dict values
  

• Getting process ID
  

• Self Nanny
  

• whois client
  

• Fun with lazy streams
  

• Indent triple-quoted strings
  

• Rudimentary dict (RFC 2229) client library
  

• preapply
  

• papply (was: A little present)
  

• Smalltalk-like 'super' (was: Python aka. Smalltalk Lite?)
  

• getch()
  

• How to send binary file attachment?
  

• enumeration/iteration wrappers/idioms
  

• Checking suspicious functions
  

• Cutting off trailing zeroes
  

• const in Python
  

• checkappend.py -- search for multi-argument .append() calls
  

• Python poetry (why indentation?)
  

• Sorting tuples
  

• Converting two lists to dictionary
  Converting two lists to dictionary
  

• Sub last match
  

• Reval builtin
  

• Printing from Python on Windows
  

• Obfuscated hex dumper
  

• Nested dictionaries
  

• IEEE module
  

• Mixing HTML and Python
  

• Getting Windows version
  

• Reading plain text database tables
  

• Printing exception traceback to stdout
  

• Getting files in directory (was: Directories)
  

• Utilities for reading config files (was: Reval builtin)
  

• Encoding/decoding base X
  

• Assign a value to another variable through a method
  

• Displaying colors in X-Windows
  

• JPython-compatible re.findall
  

• JPython-compatible re.findall
  

• Converting data to little endian
  

• "Safe" dictionary
  

• Sorting dictionary keys
  

• Context information when error occurs
  

• Syntax checking & catching exceptions
  

• Iterator class
  

• Smarter assertions
  

• Proxy class (was: use UserDict for class __dict__)
  

• Generating combinations (was: Automatic "lotjes trekken")
  

• HTMLizing text
  

• Incrementing integers (was: Python complaints)
  

• HTMLizing text
  

• Removing null items from a list
  Why not just loop through the list, test for false, and if false remove from the list?
  

• Syntax checker
  

• Starting browser from Python (was: Need help with HTML files)
  

• Threading and timeouts
  

• Automatic "lotjes trekken"
  

• Simple module for formatting text into columns
  

• Binding instance variables to methods (was: Method objects question)
  

• Describing functions, methods, classes
  

• Getting all methods of a class (was: dir() and property list)
  

• How to put wxGrid into wxPanel?
  

• Sorted dictionary (was: Alphabetized dictionary listings)
  

• Visitor design pattern for Python objects
  

• Order of keyword arguments
  

• Rules system
  

• Converter space indentation -> tab indentation
  

• Find sublist with sum X (was: Online programming contest)
  

• Converter space indentation -> tab indentation
  

• Two lists -> dictionary
  Two lists -> dictionary
  

• Singleton pattern
  

• Singleton pattern
  

• Joining strings
  

• Singleton pattern
  

• Joining strings (was: string.join() vs % and operators)
  

• Caml-like functions in Python
  

• Circular references
  

• Pack, unpack format strings
  

• Refreshing windows in Tkinter
  

• Tensors
  

• Behavior injection
  

• Infinite lists
  

• Typed list
  

• TopSort in Python
  

• Read one key press
  

• Computing attributes on the fly (class properties)
  

• Matching multiline patterns
  

• Permutations
  

• Obfuscated signature (self-reproducing)
  

• Unmimify
  

• Weak references
  

• Function which knows who has called it
  

• Function which knows who has called it
  

• Determining which object was clicked
  

• Outlining numbers with zeroes
  

• ASCII delimited files
  

• Disabling Tkinter window manager
  

• list.without() (Removing element from list)
  

• Formatting text into columns
  

• Creating Windows shortcuts (.lnk)
  

• list.without()? (Removing element from list)
  

• urllib.getsize()
  

• Writing pixels / creating greyscale ramp
  

• ASCII delimited files
  

• ASCII delimited files
  

• .dll and .exe file version information
  

• Windows file version comparison
  

• ASCII delimited files
  

• Setting user priviliges (was: Running a program as another user on Win32)
  

• print "foo", without a space
  

• ASCII delimited files
  

• Printing on a Windows workstation
  

• Button with GIF image
  

• Pop up menu
  

• Template for CGI
  

• Reading comma/space-delimited files
  

• Telnet client for Win32
  

• Reading and writing .lnk files
  

• Getting the current line number
  

• Running a program in the background (was: os.popen() and (IDLE, PythonWin) ?)
  

• How can I make my assertions smarter?
  

• How can I make my assertions smarter?
  

• Simple xmgrace Python interface
  

• Self-registering objects
  

• Nice floating point number formatting
  

• New urlencode (was: urllib.urlencode small improvement)
  

• Bidirectional communication through pipes: read/write popen()
  

• Stack class
  

• Tkinter: Shrinking an empty frame
  

• Unloading modules (was: Developing and testing modules live)
  

• win32api -- long vs short filenames
  

• Zero-filling a number
  

• Roman numerals
  

• Catching signals/alarm (was: Problems with signals & exceptions...)
  

• Getting all class/instance methods (was: dir and java classes)
  

• from (some module) import *
  

• Search (match) backward
  

• IDList
  

• Getting platform information on Windows NT
  

• RSA Cryptosystem
  

• Requiring arguments to be passed as keyword arguments
  

• Static methods (was: Threading question)
  

• Unsorting (randomizing) a sequence
  

• Unsorting (randomizing) a sequence
  

• Choosing random numbers with weights/probability?
  

• Choosing random numbers with weights/probability
  

• JPython double buffered applet (was: JPython, getting started)
  

• Pretty-printing Python interactive output?
  

• Options class
  

• Getting time and date of OS
  

• Record separators in files
  

• Executing binaries...?
  

• Perl problem in Python
  

• Converting two lists into one dictionary
  Converting+two+lists+into+one+dictionary
  

• What is the name of the function/method that called me?
  

• Non-blocking I/O
  

• Distance algorithm for fuzzy string matching (Levenshtein distance)
  

• Converting file names with "%xx" in them
  

• Matrix class and functions
  

• Equivalent of enum
  

• Mutable function arguments (was: Interesting thread...)
  

• Utility for creating fonts.scale files from AFM files
  

• Merge / Reading from file / Assignment expression
  

• Python mimics Morphic
  

• Metric conversions
  

• Showing docstrings of modules
  

• Using win32com without registry (magic_import)
  

• Multi-node tree
  

• LongRan - Long random number generator
  

• Look up stock quotes
  

• Lambda calculus interpreter (was: Turing compliant?)
  

• "listable" functions
  

• Lazy sequences (was: Readlines(N))
  

• Left, right string functions
  

• Making list with predefined value
  

• Intersection of multiple lists/lists of lists
  

• Euclid's algoritm for greatest common denominator
  

• User class for connecting to MySQL database
  

• SQL class for connecting to MySQL database
  

• Python implementation of tar
  

• Set class
  

• Read one key press
  

• Connecting to Oracle database
  

• Connecting to gadfly database
  

• List changes algorithm [see snippet for explanation ;-]
  

• Opening URLs
  

• Cached class (was: Could an object delegate itself into another?)
  

• Any way to know when the program is exiting?
  

• Binary pickle replacement (was: pickle->zlib->shelve)
  

• *Not* matching strings ;-) (was: re help)
  

• Cached class (was: Could an object delegate itself into another?)
  

• Drag & drop example
  

• Language detection module
  

• Dictionary lookup over the web
  

• WindowMaker menu classes
  

• COM interface to Word (was: Stuck on ~)
  

• Detecting own computer's IP
  How do I go about getting my dynamic IP address?
  

• YAS to the "Reading line-by-line" problem
  

• Bi-directional dictionary
  

• Scripting MS-Access from PythonCom
  

• Emulating C++ coding style
  

• Non-file-based web server?
  

• re question
  

• JaPy - Just another Python hacker
  

• How do I shell-out on Win32 systems with Python?
  

• RFC compliant mimetools...
  

• Pathnames on Windows
  

• Opening more than one file
  

• Lineno and filename in exceptions
  

• Choosing random numbers with weights/probability?
  

• Sorting a dictionary by its values
  

• Hello world in Tkinter (was: GUI's)
  

• Can I get the output of the uuencode() function into a string, instead of a file or stdout?
  

• Getting memory information under NT
  

• Resuming with ftplib/httplib?
  

• Writeable dictionary
  

• Variable 'superclass'es?
  

• Printing longs
  

• [Tk] ScrolledText example
  

• A sorted list
  How can I create a list which is maintained in sorted order?
  

• Recursive "touch"
  

• List of pids running a program
  

• Opening more than 1 file
  

• New use for __ names (calling methods only from specific class)
  

• Memoized function (was: Lesser evil hack? (static data))
  

• Source line number for log purpose
  

• Identifying callback button?
  

• Handling backspace chars in a string...
  

• Look up stock quotes
  

• File handles and streams
  

• Expanding a filename
  

• DirectoryList class
  

• CRC-16 function
  

• bitcount
  

• Timed events in Tkinter (using after)
  Where does 'after' come from???
  

• RGB-color class
  

• Exit code of executed program (was: Newbie question...)
  

• IntVar - to detect a change in it
  

• Variable superclasses?
  

• Weak dictionary
  

• XML beautifier
  

• Accessing RPM files
  

• Delegation
  

• Passing keyword arguments from one method to another
  

• Calling a function with arguments in a tuple
  

• Decimal precision (rounding)
  

• Query system date
  

• Fully qualified hostname
  

• Getting the module name from a method
  

• Getting tables from HTML
  

• Restricted list
  

• Grid (possibly scrollable) in Tkinter?
  

• Enumerations (was: Parsing chemical formula)
  

• Enumerations (was: parsing chemical formula)
  

• Getting doc strings from module
  

• Two-dimensional arrays
  

• Pivot class
  

• Examing file using COM/PythonWin
  

• Display time as English sentence
  

• Delayed command class
  

• Taking input from HTML form (CGI)
  

• Approximating elliptical arc
  

• Approximating x in function
  

• Reversing long integers
  

• Translating text file into preformatted HTML
  

• Process and replace file contents
  

• Process text in and around regular expressions
  

• Translate text into HTML
  

• Extracting data from HTML documents
  

• Preprocessor (with Python as macro language)
  

• Turning indented text into a list of tree structures
  

• Perl-like variable substitutions in a string
  

• Handling backspace chars in a string...
  

• How fast can we multiply?
  

• Enum (was: Parsing chemical formula)
  

• Directory of current file
  

• Changing instance methods
  

• Bresenham Line Algorithm
  

• How can I count the number bits in a number?
  

• How do you make clickable Python/Win9x scripts?
  

• TopSort in Python?
  

• How to obtain an instance's name at runtime?
  

• Parsing FTP directory
  

• How do I hide my key typing while entering a password?
  

• Time complexity of dictionary insertions
  

• string.join() vs % and operators
  

• Efficient list subtraction
  

• Simple color class example
  

• How do you keep track of elements of "ravel"ed Numeric arrays
  

• Opening more than one file
  

• Cascading IFs for re.match
  

• Reversing long integers
  

• Python and the Singleton Pattern
  

• Tk: Binding to the pressing of modifier keys *by themselves*
  

• Looking for URLs in HTML text
  

• Matching informal URLs in plain text
  

• Directory of current file
  

• Boolean type
  

• Docstring-driven testing [LONG]
  

• How can I define a 2-dimensional array of integer values?
  

• Cloning and destroying windows in Tkinter
  

• Finding directory of script
  

• print non-symmetry?
  

• Finding nested expressions in regexs
  

• Python, Tkinter and Tcl (newbie alert)
  

• Python, Tkinter and Tcl (newbie alert)
  

• Reducing redundant answers (was: strings in lists)
  

• String split
  

• Little examples of OO code in Python
  

• Trouble with complexes
  

• Extracting tuple values from a dictionary
  

• UserFile module
  

• Special behavior when reading files
  
  
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