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I've been working on a RADIUS client in Python that can send a disconnect message (packet of disconnect) to a Cisco router. I'm using pyrad 1.2 for the project.
I ran into this problem pretty quickly:
POD: 192.168.9.9 request queued
POD: Illegal authenticator in POD from …Posted on in Programming
>>> print "".join(" hello world ".split())
helloworld
The key to the above is that split() separates the string on
any amount of whitespace when no separator is specified.
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If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the
following PHP to your theme:
<?php
foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) {
echo "$query[0]<br />";
}
?>
For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php:
define('SAVEQUERIES', true);
After that …
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This is one of those annoying little things I have to do ever so often. There are two different commands to accomplish this task depending on the specific situation.
If you've made a lot of changes to a file and need to back all of those changes out, you can …
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If you get this error when trying to save something in the Django admin, it's probably because you forgot to synchronize the database after adding the admin application. If you are using a pre-1.2 version of Django, you can simply:
$ ./managy.py syncdb
Django 1.2 (which is currently …
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For some reason, sorting a dictionary by its keys seems to be one of the most frequently asked Python questions. I'm not sure if this is because it's just much easier to do in other languages, or if the semantics of the language just confuse new Python developers. I guess …
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For me, fixing this problem just meant reading more carefully!
I am updating some shared contacts via the Google Apps Shared Contacts API and curl. I was able to create new shared contacts with no problem, but unable to update an existing contact. The answer to the problem was to …
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For the last couple of years, I've used the Tag Suggest Thing WordPress plugin to recommend tags for my posts based on the post content. Beginning with WordPress 2.5, that plugin started to have problems interacting with the WordPress administration pages. In August 2009, Yahoo! announced that they would …
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In the early stages of an organization, it is common for most data to be stored in spreadsheets. Spreadsheet applications are common and easily understood by most small business people. Unfortunately, spreadsheets become burdensome when tasks move beyond calculations and into querying (Churcher, 2007). Fortunately, databases are designed with querying …
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Having built an entire application, the time has come to consider the possibility of redistributing the application for a wider audience. Since the original application was designed to meet the needs of a specific business, one of the primary considerations will be how the application must be modified to meet …
