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Is there something similar to a LIKE function in python? What I'm trying to accomplish is to search inside a string, if it finds specific criteria it sets another variable to a specific value. In other scripting languages I have used a LIKE function to do this but I can't …

I need to convert .docx files to .doc (on Linux and Windows). I'm planning to use the zip mod to access all of the internal XML documents. Then I'll the /word/document.xml and I need to parse it so that it will read all of the text in the tags, place …

So I have a pyGTK app going on nicely, but it requires sudo permission (under Linux) to perform a BASH operation. If I prompt for a password using a GUI, is there any way I can do my BASH stuff without sudo asking the user for a password in the …

I would like some advice as to how to write my wc program. Program should accept a file name as input and then print three numbers showing the count of lines, words and characters in the file. Chapter 4 question 15 of zelles introduction to python

Hi, I just joined today and i need some help with python. I just started using python not to long ago in my intro programming class. We have an assignment coming up and i need some help. How do you get the sum of an integer. ie: you put in …

I'm working on writing a small program that jumbles up a word an allows the user to move letters around in a string until the word us un-jumbled. For Example: If the given word is "movie" The program might jumble it to say "vmioe" In which case "v" would be …