I am working with a program that collects a lot of data then shows it to you in the program. Unfortunately, the program is poorly designed and requires you to “approve” each bit of data collected manually by clicking a checkbox to approve it. In order to automate this process, I wrote a small scri…
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How to pick a free port for a subprocess?
I am writing a Python wrapper around Appium server. Appium accepts command-line parameter for a local port to bind to. Unfortunately, Appium cannot autoselect a free port for itself, so it either binds to explicitly specified port, or fails with EADDRINUSE. Even when telling it to bind to port 0, it will star…
unbound method mainloop() must be called with Tk instance as first argument (got nothing instead)
The below code is a simple code which I tried to check if Tkinter worked… Acoording to https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_gui_programming.html this should open a blank window But the following error message was received Any suggestions… Answer Tkinter.Tk() creates an instance of Tk() obj…
Alternative for ‘enter’ key in python interpreter?
Recently my Enter key stopped working. For sure it’s a hardware problem!. However I managed so many days without Enter key by using the alternatives ctrl + j or ctrl + m .Running python programs was fine as I would run the script by saving it in a file. Now that I need to give commandline values I have …
First time using MySQLdb in Arch Linux (Manjaro) show error
it’s first time i using MySQLdb on python and i using Manjaro, when i tried to run my program. The error always show like : Many people suggest me to add file mysqld.sock ang yes i did it, but still error with the same error. And i get suggest to install mysql-client, python-mysql-connector, mysql-pytho…
In Python, how do I get user’s remote IP (their last hop) if they’re connected over SSH?
I want to detect if the user is connected over SSH. In a term, the “env” command shows SSH_CONNECTION line. Accessed in Python in one of two ways: But, if the user has ran my program using SUDO (as they will need to), env$ dooesn’t show SSH_CONNECTION. So Python can’t see it: The aim i…
How to exclude print commands of python script in variable of shell script
I have a python script called spark.py. This scipt will be invoked using a shell script in Linux. The spark.py is like below: The shell.sh is like below In this shell script I am collecting the output of the spark.py as a variable. When I do so I am unable to see any print commands of the spark.py in the
Why I have to “source vitrualenvwrapper.sh” every time I open a new Terminal?
I use Zsh as my shell and I want to use vitrualenvwrapper. But when I close a terminal then open a new one, I have to “source virtualenvwrapper.sh” again then I can use virtualenvwrapper. Answer You need to put your script source-ing in some shell session initialization file e.g. /etc/zsh/zshrc (g…
How to auto answer linux terminal
My code is But after question is “do you want install [y/n]”. How can I automaticaly answer to question? I want Whenever the terminal asks a question, my answer is be “y”. Answer Just add following to your command: It makes sure that confirmation is avoided.
Is it possible to pass regex strings as args to a Python CLI tool using argparse?
I’m writing a script to search a logfile for a given python regex pattern. Setting aside the fact that this would be much easier to do using a simple Bash script, can it be done in Python? Here’s what I’ve run into: Assumptions: I’m trying to analyze the file /var/log/auth.log (for the…