We are having some issues with our LDAP server dying. This is part of an IPA setup, and it seems slapd stops accepting connections after too many queries. To debug this, I constructed a Python script to repeatedly bind and unbind to the LDAP server. I used python-ldap to do …
more ...I was doing some programming today (no, really?) and had need of a data structure that would return a value based on the key falling within a given range. Kind of like a dict, but each key in the dict would be two values, between which the querying key would …
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So, I follow Planet Python and have seen Greg Wilson’s posts on the Basie project.
Basie is a web-based software project forge that integrates revision control, issue tracking, mailing lists, wikis, status dashboards, and other tools that …more ...
I am using Python to do some data file processing, converting data from a horrendously verbose, repetitive format to a nice, clean, CSV format. The date and time are in two different fields, and the date is in MM/DD/YYYY format, plus, the MM and DD might be one …
more ...I recently had the task of building Python Eggs on Windows that had C extensions. I did the usual googling, and found a few HOWTOs, but nothing I could find was very concise and straightforward. So, I present to you a very concise, very straightforward guide.