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Remove Filter  | This is the message I get while trying to answer in a thread. Only, there is no clue of what I could do to prove that I'm actually a human, so that the robot would be satisfied. Can you help me ? (qupzilla/linux) edit: with firefox, it works. Only it's … |
| | Given a unicode string or file, what is the best way to find a short unicode string that is **not** a substring of the first one ? I want a working algorithm that avoids transforming the first string into a list of characters. My first idea is to choose a … |
| | My old hard drive with Linux Mint 15 Olivia refused to boot yesterday: kernel panic etc. I tried to repair the file system and now some shared libraries are missing. On this computer, I have a brand new second hard drive with Kubuntu 13.10 freshly installed. From this OS, I can … |
| | I thought users of the python forum could be interested in a seminar conference by Guido van Rossum about the design and implementation of the python language, so here is the link [url]http://irbseminars.intel-research.net/GuidoVanRossum.wmv[/url] (it may be easier to download the file first instead of reading it directly from your browser) |
| | How would you safely round a floating point number to the nearest integer ? Python has the built in function [icode]round[/icode], but it returns a floating point number [code=python] >>> round(4.9) 5.0 >>> help(round) Help on built-in function round in module __builtin__: round(...) round(number[, ndigits]) -> floating point number Round … |
| | Suppose that I have a program named myprog, and I type this in a shell [code] $ myprog -z hello -m "this is a message" [/code] The function main in myprog will receive a char** argv containing the following strings [code] "-z", "hello", "-m", "this is a message" [/code] So … |
| | Consider the following script [code=python] #!/usr/bin/env python # foo.py import sys print sys.argv [/code] When I run this in a terminal with arguments, here is the output [code] $ ./foo.py -h hello -m "this is a string" ['./foo.py', '-h', 'hello', '-m', 'this is a string'] [/code] My question is: is … |
| | What do you think would be the best way to write this structure [code=python] if testA: actionA() if testB: actionB() if textC: actionC() else: actionDefault() else: actionDefault() else: actionDefault() [/code] if I want to write only one call to actionDefault() ? |
| | In python, a "function object", that is to say an object which can be called as a function, is simply an instance of a class which has a [icode]__call__[/icode] method. An example is [code=python] class FuncObj(object): def __call__(self, *args): print("args were %s." % str(args)) func = FuncObj() func(1,2,3) # output … |
| | The following program is able to download the python programs contained in a thread of the python forum. Just start the program, it will prompt you for the thread number and create a directory with the code extracted from the thread. I used it to download all the wx examples. … |
| | In the Perl language, you can fork a child process with the following syntax [code=perl] open CHILD, " | programA | programB | program C"; print CHILD "this is an example input"; [/code] (at least, you can do this under linux). This statement starts 3 processes in fact; programA, B …  |
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