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I have some legacy code with a legacy function that takes a filename as an argument and processes the file contents. A working facsimile of the code is below. What I want to do is not have to write to disk with some content that I generate in order to use this legacy function, so I though I could use StringIO to create an object in place of the physical filename. However, this does not work, as you can see below. I thought StringIO was the way to go with this. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to use this legacy function and pass it something in the argument that isn't a file on disk but

Profiling shows this is the slowest segment of my code for a little word game I wrote: def distance(word1, word2): difference = 0 for i in range(len(word1)): if word1[i] != word2[i]: difference += 1 return difference def getchildren(word, wordlist): return [ w for w in wordlist if distance(word, w) == 1 ] Notes: distance() is called over 5 million times, majority of which is from getchildren, which is supposed to get all words in the wordlist that differ from word by exactly 1 letter. wordlist is pre-filtered to only have words containing the same number of letters as word so it's guaranteed

print "How old are you?", age = raw_input() print "How tall are you in inches?", height = raw_input() print "How much do you weigh in pounds", weight = raw_input() print "So, you are %r years old, %r inches tall, and %d kilograms." % ( age, height, weight / 2.2) So I am new to code and this is my code. When I use terminal to compile it, I get this: How old are you? 1 How tall are you in inches? 1 How much do you weigh in pounds 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "ex11.py", line 9, in <module> age, height, weight / 2.2) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'float' Can

I'm parsing a CSV as follows: with open(args.csv, 'rU') as csvfile: try: reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile, dialect=csv.QUOTE_NONE) for row in reader: ... where args.csv is the name of my file. One of the rows in my file is an e with two dots on top. My script breaks when it encounters this. I get the following stack trace: File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 244, in dumps return _default_encoder.encode(obj) File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py"

My code displays a button. When button is pressed, a filedialog appears to ask to user select a file (after a messagebox). No problem here. My problem occurs when I want update the progressbar and show the status of current task in execution. The GUI freezes, and the progressbar and task status are updated only after work was finished. Or, if anyone can give me a functional/similar example to do this, please. This is the actual file I'm working on (Python 2): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import Tkinter import ttk import tkMessageBox import tkFileDialog import base64 import threading

I am new to Python re, but I need help. I searched here, google, documentation, but nothing worked. So here is what I am trying to do. I have word (for example) "string" then I have word list: strings, string, str, ing, in, ins, rs, stress And I want to matches like: string, str, ing, in, ins, rs. I don't want to match: stress, strings (because there are 2x s, and in word string, there is only 1) Simply match only the letters which are in word string . Sorry for bad english and if I didnt explained good enough. YES, and also, some letters are unicode. In the spirit of the question, here's a