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The problem with Google is that they keep track of who is searching for what. Let's say you are looking for a brand of shoe, soon after you get shoe … -
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By the time a programmer removes the last bug, the software is obsolete. -
Replied To a Post in So. Does anyone have any good programming/computing jokes?
Programmers not only byte, the also nibble a bit. (nipple was wishful thinking, corrected, thanks RJ) -
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Your for loop should look like this ... #declares an empty array (list) called rainfall to #which you can append values with the append method rainfall = [] #for loop … -
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I have my mind set on some scramble with bacon and cheese, and plan to wash it down with dark roast coffee. -
Replied To a Post in So. Does anyone have any good programming/computing jokes?
Every bug you find is the last one. Oh my giddy aunt, computer language is more baffling than bloomin French!! -
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The European Central Bank has been printing money at such a fast rate that the price for the Euro has fallen from $1.40/Euro a year ago to $1.08/Euro. Parity is … -
Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!
According to Forbes there are a record 1,826 billionaires in the world, an increase of 181 in the past 12 months. Bill Gates (Microsoft) has now been top of the … -
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Counting days ... ''' datetime_diff_days103.py get the difference in days between 2 given dates ''' import datetime as dt # user enters dates in yyyy-mm-dd format dt_str1='2014-05-11' dt_str2='2014-09-11' date1 = … -
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`print("Oct{0:o} = Dec{0:d}".format(25))` -
Replied To a Post in So. Does anyone have any good programming/computing jokes?
I get errors when I try to compile this code ... typedef struct n{int a:3, b:29;struct n*c;}t;t* f();r(){}m(u)t*u;{t*w,*z; z=u->c,q(z),u->b=z->b*10, w=u->c=f(),w->a=1,w->c=z-> c;}t*k;g(u)t*u;{t*z,*v,*p, *x;z=u->c,q(z),u->b=z->b,v =z->c,z->a=2,x=z->c=f(),x ->a=3,x->b=2,p=x->c=f(),p ->c=f(),p->c->a=1,p->c->c= v;}int i;h(u)t*u;{t*z,*v,* w;int c,e;z=u->c,v=z->c,q( v),c=u->b,e=v->b,u->b=z->b … -
Revoked Solved Status for how to update this countdown program and it's labels every second
Hi friends! I want to create a countdown program. Here is my code: from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout from kivy.uix.label import Label import datetime class CountdownApp(App): def … -
Marked Solved Status for How can I take the results and auto copy to clipboard?
## solution 1: fast enough response, simple function, fail fast from time import clock def isanaword(k,s): """ goes through the letters of second word (s) and returns it if first … -
Marked Solved Status for set an image as a Tkinter window background
Hello. How can i set an image as a Tkinter window background? I mean the whole background of the window not a photo area. -
Marked Solved Status for What's the best Python GUI framework?
Hello friends :) I'm almost familiar with Tkinter and Kivy frameworks, but i'm looking for other python GUI frameworks, soething better than Tkinter. Kivy is also great but i need … -
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I have used module prettytable in the past this way ... ''' prettytable102.py explore module prettytable get prettytable-0.7.2.zip from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PrettyTable extract the zip file and copy prettytable.py to /Lib/side-packages ''' … -
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My evolution was machine language (front panel binary switches), Assembler, Basic, C, Delphi (Pascal), C++, Python (my love) and lately a little Go language. -
Marked Solved Status for How to print only the content of all <li> tags from a url page?
Hi. How i can ask my crawler to print only the text of all <li></li> tags in a url page? I want to save the text of all <li></li> tags … -
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Here is an example ... # use a Tkinter label as a panel/frame with a background image # (note that Tkinter reads only GIF and PGM/PPM images) # put a … -
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Bradley Horowitz, a longtime Google+ product VP, has taken over at Google+ from David Besbris. -
Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!
Over 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,500 YV stations and 2,400 publishers are owned by these six US corporations: GE, NEWSCORP, DISNEY, VIACOM, TIME WARNER, and CBS -
Marked Solved Status for how to update this countdown program and it's labels every second
Hi friends! I want to create a countdown program. Here is my code: from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout from kivy.uix.label import Label import datetime class CountdownApp(App): def … -
Marked Solved Status for error with a .py and .kv
Hello. I have copied these 2 files of code from a website. main.py: from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.label import Label from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout from kivy.clock import Clock from … -
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Hi everyone, I am a beginner in python, and I would really appreciate if someone could help me with this. Basically I am trying to write a program where I … -
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Most of the time strip() is used to remove whitespaces at either end of a string. rstrip() is handy for removing trailing (to the right) newline characters that might come … -
Marked Solved Status for strip() method with chars doesn't seem to work
This is Python 3.4.2 The documentation says that s2 = s1.strip('a') will strip out all the 'a' in s1. When I run it, only the leftmost character - and only … -
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Enter a phrase and scramble the word order. For instance "advice is easier to give than to receive" could turn into "to give to than advice is easier receive" Ask … -
Replied To a Post in Projects for the Beginner
Swap every two words in a text. For instance "is the zebra considered black or white" would turn into "the is considered zebra or black white" Important, make it work … -
Replied To a Post in Projects for the Beginner
Sort the characters in a word. eg. combine --> bceimno -
Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!
The Ford Motor company is gettting into the electric bicycle business with innovative foldable designs. The bike has a maximum speed of 25 miles/hr and the battery lasts about 9 … -
Replied To a Post in need help for finding special NAMES in a url page (homework)
A dictionary in this case would be a list of special names you expect to find. Simply create a text file with each name on its own line that you … -
Created Exploring Tkinter's ScrolledText Widget (Python)
The Tkinter GUI toolkit comes with a scrolled text widget that is called ScrolledText. To get access to it you have to import it separately. It allows you to display … -
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From the Python manual that ships with every installation: str.strip([chars]) Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying … -
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Another example ... http://rowinggolfer.blogspot.com/2010/05/qtreeview-and-qabractitemmodel-example.html -
Replied To a Post in Is Go a legacy language?
Schol-R-LEA is correct, it would be nice if we could go with the modern times and post some Go goodies here. I got the itch! Sooner or later Go will … -
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The modern day circus extravagance called the "NFL Super Bowl XLIX" (XLIX is 49 for the many non Roman citizens) will be played on Sunday, February 1, 3:30 PM at … -
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"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them." ... Spock, Star Trek -
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Roastbeef, mashers, peas and carrots. Some white tea. -
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A simplified version could be ... ''' text_analyze101.py a simple way to analyze text ''' text = '''\ A dad is on his way home a bit late from the … -
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import pygal data = [ ["Python", 30.3], ["Java", 22.2], ["C++", 13], ["Ruby", 10.6], ["Javascript", 5.2], ["C#", 5], ["C", 4.1], ["PHP", 3.3], ["Perl", 1.6], ["Go", 1.5], ["Haskell", 1.2], ["Scala", 1], ["Objective-C", … -
Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!
In the US you have to fill out your tax forms and pay any remaining taxes for last year by 15-april-2015. For those of us working for a living and … -
Marked Solved Status for any suggestion for tutorial to create web crawler with python urllib?
Hi again. I want to create a robot or spider or crawler with python urllib. Still couldn't find any good tutorial. Any suggestion?! -
Replied To a Post in Help needed sorting averages from highest to lowest
scores = [0, 8, 9, 1] # use slicing to get the last three scores print(scores[-3:]) # [8, 9, 1] -
Replied To a Post in Help needed sorting averages from highest to lowest
Make your life easier by creating a list of (average, name) tuples. That list can be sorted as is. Something like this (stick with the default dictionary as you did … -
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I have been trying to create a program which the teacher log in to view the scores of a test of a school class. The scores are stored in a … -
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I have been trying to create a program which the teacher log in to view the scores of a test of a school class. The scores are stored in a … -
Replied To a Post in Trouble sorting dictionary into highest to lowest
This might be a less complicated approach ... import collections as co # assume this is a string read from a file # showing name:score data on each line data_str … -
Marked Solved Status for What is the usage of urljoin?
Hi everybody. What is the usage of `urljoin`? An example: >>> from urlparse import urljoin >>> url = urljoin('http://python.org/','about.html') >>> url 'http://python.org/about.html' I think the answer is that when we … -
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I did some detective work using Python looking at some of the ordinal values. I found pairs of ascii values of 160 and 194 that seem to sneak in from … -
Replied To a Post in Raspberry Pi LED control (Python)
Hmmm, highligting the code by double clicking works, but I have no luck with copy and paste to an editor on Debian Linux (Windows works fine). I left a copy …
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