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    Thread: Problem with cx_freeze app only on one pc
Post: Problem with cx_freeze app only on one pc

I have made a python app and used cx_freeze to distrubute it to my colleagues as a windows exe. It is currently working on 16 machines using windows 7,8 and 10 Today I tried to install it on a windows...
floatingshed General Coding Help 0 1,818 Mar-19-2021, 05:19 PM
    Thread: python-vlc error
Post: python-vlc error

I have the latest VLC 64bit installed in the default location. I am running python 3.6 64bit I have python-vlc installed. I am simply trying to run the mediaplayer demo script included with python-vl...
floatingshed General Coding Help 1 1,714 Nov-17-2020, 11:08 AM
    Thread: Basic regex
Post: Basic regex

I have never used the re module before. I have many text files that need a phrase replacing, the following works fine: for file in directory: open_file = open(file,'r') read_file = open_file...
floatingshed General Coding Help 1 1,605 Nov-09-2020, 11:48 AM
    Thread: Just learning sockets etc...
Post: RE: Just learning sockets etc...

Thanks, I'll take a look. Interesting tutorial, and helpful overall but no mention of basic p/w protection...
floatingshed Networking 2 2,405 May-06-2020, 09:37 PM
    Thread: Just learning sockets etc...
Post: Just learning sockets etc...

I am not finding it easy to understand networking in Python, but with this code I have found I am getting the results I want but I would like to add some basic security to it, Username and Password. A...
floatingshed Networking 2 2,405 May-06-2020, 04:11 PM
    Thread: stream audio from pc to pc
Post: RE: stream audio from pc to pc

Yes, I need a server, the point is a simple http server is not the right server! I have experimented with a tool made for the job called "edna" but it doesn't allow seeking, which is necessary.
floatingshed General Coding Help 2 2,024 Sep-16-2019, 03:45 PM
    Thread: stream audio from pc to pc
Post: stream audio from pc to pc

I have googled this for days on end and can't find a satisfactory answer. I have a library of audio files on a pc. I want to play one of them across a network/internet on another pc. So far the only w...
floatingshed General Coding Help 2 2,024 Sep-16-2019, 02:10 PM
    Thread: Converting web server from python 2 to python 3
Post: RE: Converting web server from python 2 to python ...

I fixed it by changing the line: Quote:encoded = binascii.b2a_base64(s, newline=False) to: Quote:encoded = binascii.b2a_base64(bytes(s, "utf-8"), newline=False) in base64.py (which makes me nervous!)...
floatingshed Networking 5 7,060 Jul-14-2018, 03:28 PM
    Thread: Converting web server from python 2 to python 3
Post: RE: Converting web server from python 2 to python ...

Usage: py3-server.py 2727 user:password sys.argv[2] = user:password b'user:password' produces the same error.
floatingshed Networking 5 7,060 Jul-14-2018, 01:52 PM
    Thread: Converting web server from python 2 to python 3
Post: RE: Converting web server from python 2 to python ...

Apologies. Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\py3-server.py", line 52, in <module> key = base64.b64encode(sys.argv[2]) File "C:\Python36\lib\base64.py", line 58, in b64encode ...
floatingshed Networking 5 7,060 Jul-14-2018, 12:30 PM
    Thread: Converting web server from python 2 to python 3
Post: Converting web server from python 2 to python 3

I have been using this script, found online not my work! In python2 it works perfectly, but in python3 (using 2to3) we get the "a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'" error. I can't figure out h...
floatingshed Networking 5 7,060 Jul-14-2018, 07:49 AM
    Thread: FTP, HTTP or.....?
Post: RE: FTP, HTTP or.....?

I looked at this but it doesn't do all that I need. It is one way file transfer and doesn't allow streaming of audio...
floatingshed Networking 3 3,029 Jun-29-2018, 04:21 PM
    Thread: Analyse audio files, not sure where to start
Post: RE: Analyse audio files, not sure where to start

I figured this out... thought I'd reply to my own post in case anyone else asks a similar question. I used VLC bindings for Python to play the files and pydub/AudioSegment to get the info.
floatingshed General Coding Help 1 2,238 Jun-29-2018, 02:58 PM
    Thread: FTP, HTTP or.....?
Post: FTP, HTTP or.....?

I need to setup a server that can be used to exchange files in both directions (ftp style), and serve mp3 audio to a player such as VLC. I have done both quite successfully using Python's ftp module ...
floatingshed Networking 3 3,029 Jun-29-2018, 02:54 PM
    Thread: Analyse audio files, not sure where to start
Post: Analyse audio files, not sure where to start

I have a tool at my on-line radio station that analyses audio files (wav, mp3, m4a) and returns information about the file such as: number of milliseconds between the start of the file and the start o...
floatingshed General Coding Help 1 2,238 Jun-08-2018, 11:59 AM
    Thread: Help with tomorrow's date please
Post: RE: Help with tomorrow's date please

Sorted, thanks.
floatingshed General Coding Help 3 4,644 Apr-01-2018, 09:22 PM
    Thread: Help with tomorrow's date please
Post: Help with tomorrow's date please

I am using this: localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )It returns this: Sun Apr 1 10:52:03 2018 How do I return tomorrow's day, month and date (the time and year aren't used) in t...
floatingshed General Coding Help 3 4,644 Apr-01-2018, 09:55 AM
    Thread: Create a new list dynamically
Post: RE: Create a new list dynamically

Oh, now I get it, sorry. That'll work. I'll have a play. Thanks.
floatingshed General Coding Help 6 14,362 Nov-20-2017, 01:25 PM
    Thread: Create a new list dynamically
Post: RE: Create a new list dynamically

I have a list that contains 13,000 entries. I want to create several new lists from it that contain only the proportion of the first list that contains specific data. When a search is performed it wou...
floatingshed General Coding Help 6 14,362 Nov-19-2017, 09:48 PM
    Thread: Create a new list dynamically
Post: RE: Create a new list dynamically

How would that help? I would still have to go through the dict to find all the entries that contain a particular value. I could just iterate over the original list with it's 13,000 items. The point of...
floatingshed General Coding Help 6 14,362 Nov-19-2017, 07:05 PM

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