How can I use the nifty JavaScript date and time widgets that the default admin uses with my custom view? I have looked through the Django forms documentation, and it briefly mentions django.contrib.admin.widgets, but I don’t know how to use it? Here is my template that I want it applied on. Also, I thi…
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Validate (X)HTML in Python
What’s the best way to go about validating that a document follows some version of HTML (prefereably that I can specify)? I’d like to be able to know where the failures occur, as in a web-based validator, except in a native Python app. Answer XHTML is easy, use lxml. HTML is harder, since there…
How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?
I am sketching the architecture for a set of programs that share various interrelated objects stored in a database. I want one of the programs to act as a service which provides a higher level interface for operations on these objects, and the other programs to access the objects through that service. I am cu…
Python Sound (“Bell”)
I’d like to have a python program alert me when it has completed its task by making a beep noise. Currently, I use import os and then use a command line speech program to say “Process complete”. I much rather it be a simple “bell.” I know that there’s a function that can be…
Python, Unicode, and the Windows console
When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get an error . UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character …. I assume this is because the Windows console does not accept Unicode-only characters. What’s the best way around this? Is there any way I can …