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    Thread: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi
Post: RE: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi

(Sep-16-2021, 08:32 PM)deanhystad Wrote: Take a look at this or related articles: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/r...oduct.html I tried to follow the instructions, "From the main menu, choo...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 3 1,958 Sep-17-2021, 04:04 PM
    Thread: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi
Post: RE: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi

So I figured out that even though the source script is on the Raspberry Pi, when I run the script from PyCharm the script is running on the PC. So I guess the question becomes how can I configure t...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 3 1,958 Sep-16-2021, 08:22 PM
    Thread: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi
Post: Help setting up Pycharm & Remote Pi

First, I am new to both PyCharm and the tornado web server. I am trying to setup a configuration to run the tornado web server with PyCharm and a remote raspberry Pi. The Pi home directory is connect...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 3 1,958 Sep-16-2021, 08:14 PM
    Thread: Trouble with global variables
Post: RE: Trouble with global variables

What a great place to learn. Now I understand the original issue with the variables not being global even though they appeared to be to me. Please note that I did take seriously the idea of passing t...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 8 5,152 May-17-2017, 04:36 PM
    Thread: Trouble with global variables
Post: RE: Trouble with global variables

Thank you. I learned that placing the variables after the if __name__ == __"main"__: makes it clear they will be executed.  You also demonstrated how to send the arguments to the function.  I also lea...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 8 5,152 May-17-2017, 04:15 PM
    Thread: Trouble with global variables
Post: RE: Trouble with global variables

I indented line 22, but the error still occurs.  I agree that most times I should provide the arguments but occasionally, it's hard to do that. This is a case where that would be easy to do, but I st...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 8 5,152 May-17-2017, 02:36 PM
    Thread: Trouble with global variables
Post: Trouble with global variables

In the simple code below, schedule_last_update in the function check_schedule_file() is seen as a local variable and generates an error at line 15 claiming it is referenced before being assigned a val...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 8 5,152 May-17-2017, 02:01 PM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: RE: Code doesn't seem to write anything

Playing with it again this morning, and figured out the problem. I just moved the sleep down the file AFTER the try block. It works now because the try doesn't close the file until the end of the try ...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-12-2017, 10:14 PM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: RE: Code doesn't seem to write anything

I'll go ahead and try that, but here is something I found on the difference between dump and dumps. "There isn't pretty much anything else to add other than what the docs say, if you want to dump th...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-11-2017, 12:07 AM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: RE: Code doesn't seem to write anything

Okay, thank you to all. Here is the corrected code with a call to main. The problem was I inadvertently left out the call to main when I posted my code, but it was actually in my code. I also remove t...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-10-2017, 11:17 PM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: RE: Code doesn't seem to write anything

I appreciate the comments that I am not calling main so nothing is running.   I need help understand that because the print to the console in main is working as expected. How is it possible to not ca...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-10-2017, 09:04 PM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: RE: Code doesn't seem to write anything

I am troubleshooting a problem between RPi and Windows. The problem is complex so I wrote the code in the original post to simplify troubleshooting.  The sketch runs on a RPi and all it does is write ...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-10-2017, 08:54 PM
    Thread: Code doesn't seem to write anything
Post: Code doesn't seem to write anything

Please help me understand why this doesn't write the count to the status.json file. import json import os import time import datetime # write the status file data def main(self):         string = {"...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 13 8,522 May-10-2017, 06:24 PM
    Thread: File access confusion python windows
Post: File access confusion python windows

This problem is difficult to explain, I hope I get the idea across ok.  There is a json file on a Raspberry Pi. I have a continuously running program (Visual Basic) on my windows laptop that is readi...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 0 3,365 May-08-2017, 05:36 PM
    Thread: Help with Try With
Post: RE: Help with Try With

Yes, That is exactly what was wrong. Thank you.
PickyBiker General Coding Help 2 3,804 May-04-2017, 01:49 AM
    Thread: Help with Try With
Post: Help with Try With

The code below is an attempt to catch an error opening and parsing a JSON file. When an error occurs, it does not print the text in the except block. Can someone explain this? Python 2.7 on raspberry...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 2 3,804 May-03-2017, 07:48 PM
    Thread: Python .json problem with UTF-8 file
Post: RE: Python .json problem with UTF-8 file

This one was actually resolved by the person who created the json file. He removed the UTF-8 BOM at the front of the file. However, the solutions above have been noted for the future. Thank you !
PickyBiker General Coding Help 5 12,759 Dec-28-2016, 04:56 PM
    Thread: datetime unexpected result
Post: RE: datetime unexpected result

This one is resolved by changing the /etc/localtime file. Deleted it and then copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central to /etc/localtime Everything works fine now.
PickyBiker General Coding Help 10 9,104 Dec-27-2016, 10:47 PM
    Thread: datetime unexpected result
Post: RE: datetime unexpected result

The problem has been isolated to the remote deployment from the PC to the RPI. I copied the program to the RPI and ran it there. The resultant local times are correct.  The incorrect times are only...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 10 9,104 Dec-27-2016, 09:10 PM
    Thread: datetime unexpected result
Post: RE: datetime unexpected result

When I originally posted, i was getting 17 instead of the 11 I would expect at 11 AM CST.  Yes, the code you posted was copied and pasted into the program and it comes up 6 hours off. Again, if I use...
PickyBiker General Coding Help 10 9,104 Dec-27-2016, 01:21 AM

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