    import os, sys
    os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno())

 or

    sys.stdout.isatty()

How can I go about finding out the rect (CGRect) of the content of a displayed view that is actually visible on screen.

    myScrollView.bounds

The code above works when there&#39;s no zooming, but as soon as you allow zooming, it breaks at zoom scales other than 1.

To clarify, I want a CGRect that contains the visible area of the scroll view&#39;s content, relative to the content. (ie. if it&#39;s a zoom scale 2, the rect&#39;s size will be half of the scroll view&#39;s size, if it&#39;s at zoom scale 0.5, it&#39;ll be double.)

Getting the visible rect of an UIScrollView&#39;s content

I need to find the last index of a string (e.g. `-`) within another string (e.g. `JD-EQ-0001` in Oracle&#39;s SQL (*version 8i*).  Is there a way to do this with `INSTR()` or another function?

Finding last index of a string in Oracle

I would like my script to act differently in an interactive shell session and when running with redirected stdout (for example when piped to some other command).

How do I recognize which of these two happen in a Python script?

Example of such behavior in existing program: grep --color=auto highlights matches when running in interactive shell, but doesn&#39;t when piped to something else.

How to recognize whether a script is running on a tty?

I would like my script to act differently in an interactive shell session and when running with redirected stdout (for example when piped to some other command).
How do I recognize which of these two happen in a Python script?
Example of such behavior in existing program: grep --color=auto highlights matches when running in interactive shell, but doesn't when piped to something else.

I need to download several files via http in Python.

The most obvious way to do it is just using urllib2:

    import urllib2
    u = urllib2.urlopen(&#39;http://server.com/file.html&#39;)
    localFile = open(&#39;file.html&#39;, &#39;w&#39;)
    localFile.write(u.read())
    localFile.close()

But I&#39;ll have to deal with the URLs that are nasty in some way, say like this: `http://server.com/!Run.aspx/someoddtext/somemore?id=121&amp;m=pdf`. When downloaded via the browser, the file has a human-readable name, ie. `accounts.pdf`. 

Is there any way to handle that in python, so I don&#39;t need to know the file names and hardcode them into my script?



How to download a file using python in a &#39;smarter&#39; way?

I am a python newbie trying to achieve the following:

I have a list of lists:

    lst = [[567,345,234],[253,465,756, 2345],[333,777,111, 555]]

I want map lst into another list containing only the second smallest number from each sublist. So the result should be:

    [345, 465, 333]

For example if I were just interested in the smallest number, I could do:

    map(lambda x: min(x),lst)

I wish I could do this:

    map(lambda x: sort(x)[1],lst)

but sort does not chain. (returns None)

neither is something like this allowed:

    map(lambda x: sort(x); x[1],lst) #hence the multiple statement question

Is there a way to do this with map in python but *without defining a named function*? (it is easy with anonymous blocks in ruby, for example)

Is it possible to have multiple statements in a python lambda expression?

    class Package:
        def __init__(self):
            self.files = []

        # ...

        def __del__(self):
            for file in self.files:
                os.unlink(file)

`__del__(self)` above fails with an AttributeError exception.  I understand [Python doesn&#39;t guarantee](http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#customization) the existence of &quot;global variables&quot; (member data in this context?) when `__del__()` is invoked.  If that is the case and this is the reason for the exception, how do I make sure the object destructs properly?

How do I correctly clean up a Python object?

I read on another Stack Overflow question that Python was just like Ruby, as it relates to &quot;everything&#39;s an object,&quot; and everything in Python was an object, just like Ruby. 

Is this true? Is everything an object in Python like Ruby?

How are the two different in this respect or are they really the same? For example, can you take a number and do the Ruby stuff I&#39;ve seen like:

    y = 5.plus 6

Can that be done the same way in Python?

Is everything an object in Python like Ruby?

I&#39;m trying to get the elements in an HTML doc that contain the following pattern of text: #\S{11}

    &lt;h2&gt; this is cool #12345678901 &lt;/h2&gt;

So, the previous would match by using:

    soup(&#39;h2&#39;,text=re.compile(r&#39; #\S{11}&#39;))

And the results would be something like:

    [u&#39;blahblah #223409823523&#39;, u&#39;thisisinteresting #293845023984&#39;]

I&#39;m able to get all the text that matches (see line above). But I want the parent element of the text to match, so I can use that as a starting point for traversing the document tree. In this case, I&#39;d want all the h2 elements to return, not the text matches.

Ideas?

Using BeautifulSoup to find a HTML tag that contains certain text

Does crontab have an argument for creating cron jobs without using the editor (crontab -e). If so, What would be the code create a cronjob from a Bash script?

How to create a cron job using Bash automatically without the interactive editor?

When experiencing networking problems on client machines, I&#39;d like to be able to run a few command lines and email the results of them to myself.

I&#39;ve found Runtime.exec will allow me to execute arbitrary commands, but Collecting the results in a String is more interesting.

I realize I could redirect output to a file, and then read from the file, but my spidey sense is telling me there&#39;s a more elegant way of doing it.

Suggestions?

Capturing stdout when calling Runtime.exec

In shells like the interactive python shell, you can usually use the arrow keys to move around in the current line or get previous commands (with arrow-up) etc.

But after I ssh into another machine and start `python` there, I get sessions like:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; import os 
    &gt;&gt;&gt; ^[[A    

where the last character comes from arrow-up. Or, using arrow-left:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; impor^[[D

How can I fix this?

In the regular bash, arrow keys work fine. The weird behavior is just in the interactive python (or perl etc.) shell.

Seeing escape characters when pressing the arrow keys in python shell

Ideally, what I would like to be able to do is:

    cat xhtmlfile.xhtml |
    getElementViaXPath --path=&#39;/html/head/title&#39; |
    sed -e &#39;s%(^&lt;title&gt;|&lt;/title&gt;$)%%g&#39; &gt; titleOfXHTMLPage.txt


How to parse XML in Bash?

I&#39;m on a server running a Linux shell. 
I need to mail a simple file to a recipient. 
How to do this, prefereably using only the **mail** command? 

**UPDATE**: got a good solution, using mutt instead:

    $ echo | mutt -a syslogs.tar.gz admin@domain.org



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Question	Paweł Hajdan	View Question on Stackoverflow
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