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Specify a download path usig wget module in python

I'm trying to download files from a site using the wget module.
The code is really simple:
image = 'linkoftheimage'
wget.download(image)
This works fine, but it saves the file in the folder with the python script. My goal is to download it in a different folder, but I can't find a way to specify it.
I tried a different approach with os module .
os.system(f'wget -O {directory} {image}')
This metod gives me an error: sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
So I tried another method:
with open(f'{directory}/photo %s.jpg' %a,'wb') as handler:
handler.write(image)
This also didn't worked out.
Does anyone have an idea on how could I solve this?

the package you specified has not been updated since 2015, it's repository is gone and so should probably be avoided. you can download files using the built-in requests module like so:
import requests
image_url = 'https://www.fillmurray.com/200/300'
file_destination = 'desired/destination/file.jpg'
res = requests.get(image_url)
if res.status_code == 200: # http 200 means success
with open(file_destination, 'wb') as file_handle: # wb means Write Binary
file_handle.write(res.content)

ansible: local test new module with Error:Module unable to decode valid JSON on stdin. Unable to figure out what parameters were passed

I'm new to Python. This is my first Ansible module in order to delete the SimpleDB domain from ChaosMonkey deletion.
When tested in my local venv with my Mac OS X, it keeps saying
Module unable to decode valid JSON on stdin. Unable to figure out
what parameters were passed.
Here is the code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# Delete SimpleDB Domain
from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
import boto3
def delete_sdb_domain():
fields = dict(
sdb_domain_name=dict(required=True, type='str')
)
module = AnsibleModule(argument_spec=fields)
client = boto3.client('sdb')
response = client.delete_domain(DomainName='module.params['sdb_domain_name']')
module.exit_json(changed = False, meta = response)
def main():
delete_sdb_domain()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
And I'm trying to pass in parameters from this file: /tmp/args.json.
and run the following command to make the local test:
$ python ./delete_sdb_domain.py /tmp/args.json
please note I'm using venv test environment on my Mac.
If you find any syntax error in my module, please also point it out.

This is not how you should test your modules.
AnsibleModule expects to have specific JSON as stdin data.
So the closest thing you can try is:
python ./delete_sdb_domain.py < /tmp/args.json
But I bet you have your json file in wrong format (no ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS, etc.).
To debug your modules you can use test-module script from Ansible hacking pack:
./hacking/test-module -m delete_sdb_domain.py -a "sdb_domain_name=zzz"

LibraryLoader object is not callable typeerror - python cdll - ctypes package

I tried upload scenario with keyboard press simulation through ctypes package in python for selenium webdriver. It is working fine with my local machine installed with windows 8.1.
But when i run the same code in my development server which is a linux box, that will call a remote machine of windows 7 OS, i got error like windll not found in this part of my code
def SendInput(*inputs):
nInputs = len(inputs)
LPINPUT = INPUT * nInputs
pInputs = LPINPUT(*inputs)
cbSize = ctypes.c_int(ctypes.sizeof(INPUT))
return ctypes.windll.user32.SendInput(nInputs, pInputs, cbSize)
So I did change my code to a if else statement which prompts if the OS is windows got to above snippet of code else go to below snippet of code,
cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
Xtst = cdll("libXtst.so.6")
Xlib = cdll("libX11.so.6")
dpy = Xtst.XOpenDisplay(None)
def SendInput(txt):
for c in txt:
sym = Xlib.XStringToKeysym(c)
code = Xlib.XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, sym)
Xtst.XTestFakeKeyEvent(dpy, code, True, 0)
Xtst.XTestFakeKeyEvent(dpy, code, False, 0)
Xlib.XFlush(dpy)
But after adding this i am getting error in my linux box like
TypeError: 'LibraryLoader' object is not callable.
I did search for resources over internet, but i was not able to get them. Can someone help me to get it through.

While using jenkins API, getting a failure on reconfig_job

I am using jenkins rest API to recurse through jobs and then reconfigure this one. All methods work except one. He's is my code :
def get_server_instance():
jenkins_url = 'xxxx'
#server = Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
# Connect to instance - username and password are optional
server = jenkins.Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
return server
def get_job_details():
# Refer Example #1 for definition of function 'get_server_instance'
server = get_server_instance()
for job in server.get_jobs_list():
if job == "GithubMigration":
configuration = server.get_job(job).get_config().encode('utf-8')
#server.reconfig_job(job, configuration)
if server.has_job("GithubMigration"):
server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml)
It gets my configuration.xml, find the job as well but fails on server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml) with the error , AttributeError: 'Jenkins' object has no attribute 'reconfig_job'
when obviously this functions exists in the jenkins rest API and yes I'm importing jenkins, from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins .
Edit 1 - I uninstalled Jenkinsapi and have only python-jenkins module and now it fails even before saying
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins' for line : AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins'
Any ideas?
Edit 2 :
I tries solely python-jenkins API and tried their own example as you see here http://python-jenkins.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example.html
import jenkins
j = jenkins.Jenkins('http://your_url_here', 'username', 'password')
j.get_jobs()
j.create_job('empty', jenkins.EMPTY_CONFIG_XML)
j.disable_job('empty')
j.copy_job('empty', 'empty_copy')
j.enable_job('empty_copy')
j.reconfig_job('empty_copy', jenkins.RECONFIG_XML)
Even this fails at jenkins.Jenkins with attribute error at Jenkins - No module.
I am pretty sure the API is broken.

Your script is probably importing wrong module. You can check it as follows:
import jenkins
print jenkins.__file__
If printed path is other than installation path of jenkins module (eg. C:\Python27_32\lib\site-packages\jenkins\__init__.pyc), then you should check pythonpath:
import sys
print sys.path
Common problem is existence of python script with same name as imported module in current directory, which is at the first place in search path ''.
For more info on import order see module search path

Following #Chemik answer, I realized that the script I wrote was named jenkins.py and it was conflicting with python-jenkins import.
The library isn't broken. Check your script name.

had to add another solution, while running the same command
server = jenkins.Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
i got the error:
'jenkins' has no attribute 'Jenkins'
my mistake was when installing the package, i installed package "jenkins" and the package i was needed is "python-jenkins".
docs can be found:
python-jenkins docs
so what i had to do is just
pip install python-jenkins

Executable out of script containing serial_for_url

I have developed a python script for making a serial communication to a digital pump. I now need to make an executable out of it. However even though it works perfectly well when running it with python and py2exe does produce the .exe properly when I run the executable the following error occurs:
File: pump_model.pyc in line 96 in connect_new
File: serial\__init__.pyc in line 71 in serial_for_url
ValueError: invalid URL protocol 'loop' not known
The relevant piece of my code is the following:
# New serial connection
def connect_new(self, port_name):
"""Function for configuring a new serial connection."""
try:
self.ser = serial.Serial(port = port_name,\
baudrate = 9600,\
parity = 'N',\
stopbits = 1,\
bytesize = 8,\
timeout = self.timeout_time)
except serial.SerialException:
self.ser = serial.serial_for_url('loop://',\
timeout = self.timeout_time) # This line BLOWS!
except:
print sys.exc_info()[0]
finally:
self.initialize_pump()
I should note that the application was written in OSX and was tested on Windows with the Canopy Python Distribution.

I had the exact same problem with "socket://" rather than "loop://"
I wasn't able to get the accepted answer to work however the following seems to succeed:
1) Add an explicit import of the offending urlhandler.* module
import serial
# explicit import for py2exe - to fix "socket://" url issue
import serial.urlhandler.protocol_socket
# explicit import for py2exe - to fix "loop://" url issue (OP's particular prob)
import serial.urlhandler.protocol_loop
# use serial_for_url in normal manner
self._serial = serial.serial_for_url('socket://192.168.1.99:12000')
2) Generate a setup script for py2exe (see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2exe/) -- I've installed py2exe to a virtualenv:
path\to\env\Scripts\python.exe -m py2exe myscript.py -W mysetup.py
3) edit mysetup.py to include option
zipfile="library.zip" # default generated value is None
(see also http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/ListOfOptions)
3) build it:
path\to\env\Scripts\python.exe mysetup.py py2exe
4) run it
dist\myscript.exe

Found it!
It seems that for some reason the 'loop://' arguement can't be recognised after the .exe production.
I figured out by studying the pyserial/init.py script that when issuing the command serial.serial_for_url(‘loop://') you essentially call:
sys.modules['serial.urlhandler.protocol_loop’].Serial(“loop://“)
So you have to first import the serial.urlhandler.protocol_loop
and then issue that command in place of the one malfunctioning.
So you can now type:
__import__('serial.urlhandler.protocol_loop')
sys.modules[‘serial.urlhandler.protocol_loop’].Serial("loop://")
After this minor workaround it worked fine.