Shebang doesn’t work with python3

Generally, take care of some pitfalls: set the executable flag on the script: chmod u+x test.py try to execute with a preceding dot “./”, so call ./test.py otherwise it might execute some other script from within your PATH also make sure you don’t have windows line endings, this seems to prevent the shebang evaluation, too. There are some suggestions around, e.g. in this answer, on … Read more

Using __add__ operator with multiple arguments in Python

No, you can’t use multiple arguments. Python executes each + operator separately, the two + operators are distinct expressions. For your example, object + 1 + 2 really is (object + 1) + 2. If (object + 1) produces an object that has an __add__ method, then Python will call that method for the second operator. You could, for example, return another instance of A here:

Parsing HTML using Python

So that I can ask it to get me the content/text in the div tag with class=’container’ contained within the body tag, Or something similar. You don’t need performance descriptions I guess – just read how BeautifulSoup works. Look at its official documentation.

What can lead to “IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor” during os.system()?

You get this error message if a Python file was closed from “the outside”, i.e. not from the file object’s close() method: The line del f deletes the last reference to the file object, causing its destructor file.__del__ to be called. The internal state of the file object indicates the file is still open since f.close() was never called, so the destructor tries … Read more

How can I create a text input box with Pygame?

You can define a rect as the area of the input box. If a pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN event occurs, use the colliderect method of the input_box rect to check if it collides with the event.pos and then activate it by setting a active variable to True. If the box is active you can type something and Pygame will generate pygame.KEYDOWN events which have a unicode attribute that you can simply add to a string, … Read more