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How to create OS X app with Python on Windows

I need to automate a cross-platform application build. Entire build runs on Windows machine. Part of it is written in Python and compiles for OS X. Currently this part of build is done manually on OS X. I tried pyinstaller but it looks like it only building for the platform that it is running on. I also tried…

Accessing a structure element in Python

I’m having trouble accessing a structure element. Notice that I have read something into the structure using sscanf (to simulate my actual routine) but Python does not seem to realize that. So I added a statement to assign a value, then Python realizes there is something there. This only happens when I&…

Converting pandas.DataFrame to bytes

I need convert the data stored in a pandas.DataFrame into a byte string where each column can have a separate data type (integer or floating point). Here is a simple set of data: and df looks something like this: The DataFrame knows about the types of each column df.dtypes so I’d like to do something li…

Urwid: make cursor invisible

I’m using urwid, which is a Python “framework” for designing terminal user interfaces in ncurses. There’s one thing though that I’m not able to do in urwid that was easy in curses – make the cursor invisible. As it is now, the cursor is visible when selecting buttons, and i…

Is there a chain calling method in Python?

Is there a function in Python that would do this: by typing this (for example): I just figured, since python is (arguably) a functional language the function I’m looking for will make syntax brighter Answer Use the reduce() function to chain calls: I used the forward-compatible functools.reduce() functi…