Simple Python script to access Excel file meta-data/data
Recently I got interested in Python programming actually this was my first scripting language and its really a handy tool. I would like to share a small code which can access Excel(*.xls) file. I am...
View ArticlePython package/library source code browsing.
Recently I moved to new project where the programming language was Python. I often get confused about what module do I need to import ? what is the signature of the method/function? etc. I also tried...
View ArticleA simple Python program to find and replace text string
A little while ago I was trying to port my blogs from Blogger.com to code4reference.com. But when I tried to port the blog, I noticed that the code section of my blog contained <br/> HTML tags...
View ArticleHow to read environment variable in 5 different languages?
In code development, be it one or the other requirement, we need to access the environment variable. In this post, the environment variable will be read/set in 5 different programming languages. C...
View ArticlePython MySQLdb cursor error.
I had used MySQLdb in past to interface with MySQL database. Most of the time I had used cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor for getting the result as dictionary but today I wanted to get the...
View ArticleHow to install Python2.7 on Ubuntu 10.04
Sometimes it’s require to install python2.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 which has python2.6 pre-installed, because some of the libraries are not compatible with python2.6 and they can work well if system has...
View ArticleSimple Python script to send an email.
Programmatically sending an email is really a good tool for developer’s paraphernalia. This is really handy when one automates task and wants to get notified by an email for success or failure. Lately...
View ArticleCommand to recursively delete files
We often need command to recursively delete files from the current and sub-directories. Most of us execute the following command to do so. But to our utter surprise we find that it does not delete...
View ArticleTutorial on Python virtual environment
As the name suggests, it is a Python environment which is isolated from other python environments. This kind of environment is really handy when you are working on multiple projects but you don’t want...
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