There are two ways to go about replacing \ with \ or unescaping backslash escaped strings in Python. First is using literal_eval to evaluate the string. Note that in this method you need to surround the string in another layer of quotes. For example:>>> import ast >>> a = '"Hello, ... Read More

This can be done by following codestry: x, y =7, 0 z = x/y except: passORtry: x, y =7, 0 z = x/y except Exception: passThese codes bypass the exception in the try statement and ignore the except clause and don’t raise any exception.The difference in the above codes is ... Read More

Setting up CookiesIt is very easy to send cookies to browser. These cookies are sent along with HTTP Header before to Content-type field. Assuming you want to set UserID and Password as cookies. Setting the cookies is done as follows −#!/usr/bin/python print "Set-Cookie:UserID = XYZ;\r" print "Set-Cookie:Password = XYZ123;\r" print ... Read More

Python code is organized in files called "modules" and groups of related modules called “packages".A module is a distinct unit that may have one or more closely-related classes. Modules need to be imported before they are read, used, maintained and extended if needed. So a module is a unit or ... Read More

I would recommend generateDS for converting a XSD file to a Python class . In my opinion, it is a good tool for the said purpose.It (generatS) generates the Python class with all methods (setters and getters, export to XML, import from XML). It does a good job and works ... Read More

By default, all .NET objects are reference types and their equality and hash code is determined by their memory address. Additionally, assigning a variable to an existing object just makes it point to that address in memory, so there is no costly copying occurring. It appears that this is true ... Read More

We need sometimes to compress Python objects (list, dictionary, string, etc) before saving them to cache and decompress after reading from cache.Firstly we need to be sure we need to compress the objects. We should check if  the data structures/objects are too big just to fit uncompressed in the cache. ... Read More

A character class followed by operators like '?', '*' or '+' are called repeating character classes.If you repeat a character class by using the '?', '*' or '+' operators, you will repeat the entire character class, and not just the character that it matched. The regex '[0-9]+' can match '579' ... Read More

If we run simple scripts like hello.py, its output is written on the STDOUT file, i.e., screen. There is one important and extra feature available which is the first line to be printed Content-type:text/html\r\r. This line is sent back to the browser and it specifies the content type to be displayed ... Read More

Using Cookies in CGIHTTP protocol is a stateless protocol. For a commercial website, it is required to maintain session information among different pages. For example, one user registration ends after completing many pages. How to maintain user's session information across all the web pages?In many situations, using cookies is the ... Read More