How can I calculate the next day from a string like 20110531 in the same YYYYMMDD format? In this particular case, I like to have 20110601 as the result. Calculating "tomorrow" or next day in stati...

Is there a way I can calculate a SHA256 hash in Python 2.4? (I emphasize: Python 2.4) I know how to do it in Python 2.5 but unfortunately it's not available on my server and an upgrade will not be ...

In Python scripts, there are many cases where a keyboard interrupt (Ctrl-C) fails to kill the process because of a bare except clause somewhere in the code: try: foo() except: bar() The standa...

I've got some tests that need to count the number of warnings raised by a function. In Python 2.6 this is simple, using with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as warn: ... self.assertEquals(l...

Let's say I'm parsing a file, which uses ; as the comment character. I don't want to parse comments. So if I a line looks like this: example.com. 600 IN MX 8 s1b9.example.net ; hello! Is there a...