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Script to extract text from PDF files
by brad Nov. 7, 2015

Nov. 7, 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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Determining version of OpenSSL linked against python?
by Adam Mercer Sept. 18, 2015

Sept. 18, 2015

Hi I'm trying to write a script that determines the version of OpenSSL that python is linked against, using python-2.7 this is easy as I can use: import ssl ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION but unfortunately I need to support python-2.6, from an older script I used the following: import _ssl ssl_lib = _ssl.__file__ to get the path to the _ssl.so module and then I parsed the output of ldd (on linux) to get the path to the OpenSSL library and then parsed the version from the filename. In other words it's very messy. I had a little success using this approach but I have recently received a bug report that this doesn't seem to work on Debian Squeeze. When I try to query the __file__ attribute of the _ssl module I get the following error: >>> import _ssl >>> _ssl.__file__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__' >>> Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is going wrong with the above code or offer an alternative way of determining the OpenSSl version using python-2.6? Cheers Adam

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Einstein's Riddle
by Steve Graham Sept. 18, 2015

Sept. 18, 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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Re: ctypes for AIX
by Anssi Saari July 29, 2015

July 29, 2015

"Waddle, Jim" <jim.waddle(a)boeing.com> writes: > I do not have sufficient knowledge to know how to fix this. I would think that this error somehow is related to compiling on aix. If you have any suggestions on how to correct this problem , I would appreciate it I'd have to guess your main problem is not using gcc to compile. From a quick look, that's what the guys at the pware site did.

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Confessions of a Python fanboy
by r May 11, 2015

May 11, 2015

Hello fellow Pythonista's it's nice to be back after such a long hiatus. I have recently realized my blind love affair with Python was just that. I must admit there are better ways to program. Like your first lay, your first programing language can leave an indelible mark on you, but like all young chaps, the passion for programming has sweep me away into vast new orgies of programming bliss. (ig ,little head guides the big one.) My adventures in Ruby. an autobyography by rt8396 After breaking free from the wild love affair i had with Python, a new day had dawned. I dried my eyes and soon discovered the Ruby language (not by choice however) --now don't worry fellow Pythonistas, i am still on your side (mostly) -- but i now realize Ruby has some good things going for it. For instance... 1.) No need to use "()" to call a function with no arguments. Python --> "obj.m2().m3()" --ugly Ruby --> "obj.m1.m2.m3" -- sweeet! Man, i must admit i really like this, and your code will look so much cleaner. 2.) the .each method container.each{|localVar| block} This method can really cleanup some ugly for loops, although i really like the readability of for loops. 3.) true OOP Now before you go and get all "huffy" over this statement, hear me out. Python is the best language in the world. But it damn sure has some warts! "len(this)" instead of "obj.length" max(that) instead of [1,2,3,4,5].max(). You know what i am talking about here people. We all get complacent and It seems easier to just cope with these problems instead of fighting for change. But look at the French, WHAT THE HELL HAS THAT DONE FOR THEM, *NOTHING*!!!! As for the rest of Ruby, i am not impressed. The redundant usage of "end" over indention perplexes me. The Perlish feel of "require" and the horrifically cryptic idioms of Ruby regular expressions. The "puts" and "gets" seem childish and the math class does not even have a degrees or radians function! Anyway, i thought i would get this off my chest and catch up with old friends in the meantime. We can all make Python the perfect language it needs to be, but it ain't gonna be easy! Thank you all PS stay tuned for more from this series....

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Custom alphabetical sort
by Pander Musubi May 3, 2015

May 3, 2015

Hi all, I would like to sort according to this order: (' ', '.', '\'', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'A', 'ä', 'Ä', 'á', 'Á', 'â', 'Â', 'à', 'À', 'å', 'Å', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'C', 'ç', 'Ç', 'd', 'D', 'e', 'E', 'ë', 'Ë', 'é', 'É', 'ê', 'Ê', 'è', 'È', 'f', 'F', 'g', 'G', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'I', 'ï', 'Ï', 'í', 'Í', 'î', 'Î', 'ì', 'Ì', 'j', 'J', 'k', 'K', 'l', 'L', 'm', 'M', 'n', 'ñ', 'N', 'Ñ', 'o', 'O', 'ö', 'Ö', 'ó', 'Ó', 'ô', 'Ô', 'ò', 'Ò', 'ø', 'Ø', 'p', 'P', 'q', 'Q', 'r', 'R', 's', 'S', 't', 'T', 'u', 'U', 'ü', 'Ü', 'ú', 'Ú', 'û', 'Û', 'ù', 'Ù', 'v', 'V', 'w', 'W', 'x', 'X', 'y', 'Y', 'z', 'Z') How can I do this? The default sorted() does not give the desired result. Thanks, Pander

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How to receive a data file of unknown length using a python socket?
by twgray April 22, 2015

April 22, 2015

I am attempting to send a jpeg image file created on an embedded device over a wifi socket to a Python client running on a Linux pc (Ubuntu). All works well, except I don't know, on the pc client side, what the file size is? The following is a snippet: [code] f = open("frame.jpg",mode = 'wb') while True: data = self.s.recv(MAXPACKETLEN) if len(data) == 0: break recvd += len(data) f.write(data) f.close() [end] It appears to be locking up in 'data=self.s.recv(MAXPACKETLEN)' on the final packet, which will always be less than MAXPACKETLEN. I guess my question is, how do I detect end of data on the client side?

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Python newbie here! No module named settings
by Neeraj Agarwal April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015

Hello all, I'm a newbie to Python and its my 2nd day exploring it. I was trying to use Python wrapper for Google Charts API and was tweaking the examples. https://github.com/gak/pygooglechart/raw/master/examples/pie.py This is the script which I was trying. And the python interpreter gives the following error: import settings ImportError: No module named settings I installed Django as well before this (if its causing the problem, dunno) Please help me. Thanks, Neeraj

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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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