Pho places near Laurel

In Laurel, we have Pho 54 and Pho 88. Lisa and I both prefer Pho 54. There's apparently one in Burtonsville called Pho Real. Many folks seem to think that Pho Nam in Catonsville/Ellicott City is good. All of this from the following foodblogger's post:

http://howchow.blogspot.com/2010/02/pho-89-in-laurel-and-plan-to-visit-pho.html

Extracting one value from logged ascii packet data

Here is my personal trending tool for work, producing three columns space delimited file that can be imported into Excel

find . -name "*.log" -exec grep Keyword -H {} \; | sed -e 's/: 10/:10/' | awk '{print $1 " " $2 " " $68}' | sed -e 's/.l
og:2/.log: 2/' > ~/output.txt

Using gnuwin32 find and grep

My issue is that I've just been too lazy to set up my $PATH correctly on my windows system, so I have to call out the full executable path thusly:

"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\find" . -name "filename.txt" -exec "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\grep" -H Keyword {} ;

Get UTC in python 2.5

This turns out to be quite native. Corresponding to functions like now() there is a utcnow(), etc. There is a function called strftime to convert a time value to a string with all the usual formatting. Sadly, for whatever version of python 2.5 that I have, the formatting option %f for milliseconds doesn't seem to work, even though if I just print() the time value it prints the milliseconds.

Here is a link that talks about utcnow(). It's in the question, but the rest of this thread is garbage:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1599060/how-can-i-get-an-accurate-utc-time-with-python

Here's a great review of the many possible ways to get the current time:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415511/how-to-get-current-time-in-python

Among my favorites are:

import datetime

datetime.now()
-or-
datetime.utcnow()

or:

import gmtime,strftime

strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%f", gmtime())

or:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now.().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%f")

see:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html

or apparently now can just be called on its own?

import datetime
now.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%f")

(not quite. See: http://effbot.org/librarybook/datetime.htm

So, here's some info about no %f:

This link for strftime doesn't show %f as a formatting option:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/time_strftime.htm

This link clears things up a bit, apparently time.strftime doesn't support milli-or-miro seconds, but other functions do. Also if the system doesn't support milliseconds, that is a cause of grief:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6677332/using-f-with-strftime-in-python-to-get-microseconds

Whenever I tried %f on my system, no result would be produced at all (silent failure). I got around that by using str() which does a conversion including milliseconds but doesn't seem to accept formatting and then just substituting out the characters I didn't want:

timeformatted= str(datetime.datetime.utcnow())

timeformatted = timeformatted.replace("-","")
timeformatted = timeformatted.replace(":","")
timeformatted = timeformatted.replace(" ","_")

This forum thread's commenters repeatedly urged the use of the funtion "translate", I'm not sure why I used replace instead:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10017147/python-replace-characters-in-string

Python spit array into equal parts

My need was to take some C code that read in n-byte chunks from a file, and instead take those chunks from an array instead. The problem was helped by the fact that the size of the source array was always fixed to the same size; it was a simple matter of setting up a loop of array size/chunk size and then setting a chunk-sized array to each chunk repeatedly and processing it. Here is the final code:

for row in range (0,[size/chunk]):
a = data[row*[chunk]:(row*[chunk])+[chunk]]

The little bit at the end is important; to subset arrays, the final element in [n:m] needs to be one larger than you would use in C, which would be [chunk-1].

Here's a really thorough discussion, using an unfamiliar keyword "yield" for several suggestions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python/312644