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Script to extract text from PDF files
by brad Nov. 6, 2015

Nov. 6, 2015

I have a very crude Python script that extracts text from some (and I emphasize some) PDF documents. On many PDF docs, I cannot extract text, but this is because I'm doing something wrong. The PDF spec is large and complex and there are various ways in which to store and encode text. I wanted to post here and ask if anyone is interested in helping make the script better which means it should accurately extract text from most any pdf file... not just some. I know the topic of reading/extracting the text from a PDF document natively in Python comes up every now and then on comp.lang.python... I've posted about it in the past myself. After searching for other solutions, I've resorted to attempting this on my own in my spare time. Using apps external to Python (pdftotext, etc.) is not really an option for me. If someone knows of a free native Python app that does this now, let me know and I'll use that instead! So, if other more experienced programmer are interested in helping make the script better, please let me know. I can host a website and the latest revision and do all of the grunt work. Thanks, Brad

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Einstein's Riddle
by Steve Graham Sept. 17, 2015

Sept. 17, 2015

Who would be interested in using his/her brain (and his computer) to solve the following? Steve Graham === Einstein's Riddle Albert Einstein wrote this riddle this century [ed. 20th century]. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage. The question is: "Who owns the fish?" Hints: The Brit lives in the red house. The Sweed keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green house's owner drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the center house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

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Python to C++ in a pickle
by Larry Whitley April 2, 2015

April 2, 2015

I'd like to pickle an object in python and unpickle it in C++. The object in question is a python dictionary so it will have to go into a C++ map. Has someone done this and is willing to share? Or, is the cPickle source available on the web somewhere? Larry

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Re: feature request: a better str.endswith
by Irmen de Jong Feb. 17, 2015

Feb. 17, 2015

Jp Calderone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:01:47AM -0700, Michele Simionato wrote: > >>I often feel the need to extend the string method ".endswith" to tuple >>arguments, in such a way to automatically check for multiple endings. >>For instance, here is a typical use case: >> >>if filename.endswith(('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.png')): >> print "This is a valid image file" >> >>Currently this is not valid Python and I must use the ugly >> >>if filename.endswith('.jpg') or filename.endswith('.jpeg') \ >> or filename.endswith('.gif') or filename.endswith('.png'): >> print "This is a valid image file" > > > extensions = ('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif', '.png') > if filter(filename.endswith, extensions): > print "This is a valid image file > > Jp > Using filter Michele's original statement becomes: if filter(filename.endswith, ('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.png')): print "This is a valid image file" IMHO this is simple enough to not require a change to the .endswith method... --Irmen

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Creating interactive command-line Python app?
by planetthoughtful Dec. 18, 2014

Dec. 18, 2014

Hello All, Newbie to Python, and I'm wondering if it's possible to create a Python console app that prompts for further input on the command line when run (in Windows XP, if that's important)? I've tried Googling, but the results are overwhelmingly about interactive Python environments (IPython etc etc), instead of how to achieve prompting at the command line when running your own Python app. Any help appreciated! Much warmth, planetthoughtful

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Need some help with NetGroupAddUser
by kcollins15＠cfl.rr.com Nov. 11, 2014

Nov. 11, 2014

New B question -- Need help with win32net.NetGroupAddUser. I used Mark Hammond sample code to create a new user from his book Python Programming on Win32. I then added one line to add the newuser to a group. def CreateUserAndShare(userName, fullName): homeDir = "%s\\%s" % (serverName, userName) # Create user data in information level 3 (PyUSER_INFO_3) format. userData = {} userData['name'] = userName userData['full_name'] = fullName userData['password'] = userName userData['flags'] = win32netcon.UF_NORMAL_ACCOUNT | win32netcon.UF_SCRIPT userData['priv'] = win32netcon.USER_PRIV_USER userData['home_dir'] = homeDir userData['home_dir_drive'] = "P:" userData['primary_group_id'] = ntsecuritycon.DOMAIN_GROUP_RID_USERS userData['password_expired'] = 1 # User must change password next logon. # Create the user win32net.NetUserAdd(serverName, 3, userData) win32net.NetGroupAddUser(serverName, "Administrator", userName) This is my error: pywintypes.api_error: (2220, 'NetGroupAddUser', 'The group name could not be found.') What should I be using for the groupname parameter, I've tried them all, Administrator, Guests, Users ext.... Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, kc

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President Bush Meets Pope Before Heading to Paris
by vaticans.org Nov. 2, 2014

Nov. 2, 2014

U.S. President George Bush has met with Pope Benedict at the Vatican, as he continues his week-long European trip. After his talks with the pontiff, Mr. Bush was traveling to Paris, France, where he is to give a speech later Friday on the strong relationship between the U.S. and Europe. U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said Mr. Bush will urge European leaders to work even more closely with the U.S. to help bring peace to the Middle East. Mr. Hadley said the trans-Atlantic relationship has been strengthened by the current leaders in Italy, Britain, Germany, and France. The White House says Mr. Bush's speech will also commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan - the U.S. aid program that helped rebuild Europe after the devastation caused by World War II. The president and Mrs. Bush are then scheduled to have dinner with the French president and Mrs. Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace. Mr. Bush and Mr. Sarkozy hold formal talks on Saturday. On Thursday President Bush met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the two leaders agreed to to work together on trying to convince Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program. Mr. Berlusconi said Italy has a trading relation with Iran and knows that country from the inside. President Bush said he will consider Italy's request to join the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany in working on the Iran nuclear issue. But Mr. Hadley said it is always a problem when a country's commercial ties clashes with its national security requirements. Mr. Bush's European trip will also take him to Britain and Northern Ireland. Earlier, he stopped in Germany and attended the annual U.S.- European Union summit in Slovenia. http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/1175-Pope-Benedict-XVI-hosted-U…

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Perl Template Toolkit: Now in spicy new Python flavor
by eefacm＠gmail.com Oct. 8, 2014

Oct. 8, 2014

I'd like to inform the Python community that the powerful and popular Template Toolkit system, previously available only in its original Perl implementation, is now also available in a beta Python implementation: http://tt2.org/python/index.html I created this port both as a fun programming project, and for use in environments where Perl is not available, for reasons technical, cultural, or otherwise. The extensive Perl test suites have also been ported, and most templates require no or very little modification. Discussion of the Python implementation should be conducted on the main Template Toolkit developer mailing list; see the site above for details.

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Re: print to screen and file with one print statement
by mmueller＠dgfz.de Aug. 27, 2014

Aug. 27, 2014

"Mark McEahern" <marklists(a)mceahern.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1045085143.24238.python-list(a)python.org>... > Same basic idea: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > import sys > > class MyWriter: > > def __init__(self, stdout, filename): > self.stdout = stdout > self.logfile = file(filename, 'a') > > def write(self, text): > self.stdout.write(text) > self.logfile.write(text) > > def close(self): > self.stdout.close() > self.logfile.close() > > writer = MyWriter(sys.stdout, 'log.txt') > sys.stdout = writer > > print 'test' > Hi Mark, works perfect. Just had to change ´file´ to ´open´ for my Python 2.1. Adding the method ´flush(self)´ to Writer helped to get my ´sys.stdout.flush()´ to work. Thanks also to two inches (previous post). Mike

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Python in Process Control?
by Wolfgang Keller March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014

Hello, is it that my know-how to use Google is insufficient or... ...does really noone use Python for industrial control applications? At least I didn't manage to find any publicly available modules for such things as OPC/fieldbus communication etc... TIA, best regards, Wolfgang Keller

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