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How do I open a webpage with BeautifulSoup and output a text file?
How do I use BeautifulSoup to find all letters from yahoo.com containing the letter M and output it to a txt. file?
I have tried the script below:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
url = ...
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Hints for nested context managers in a Python 2.6- / Python 3-neutral way?
I have been using a lot of context managers as a clean way of composing various setup/teardown situations. Since my deployments target Python 2.6, this means using contextlib.nested.
Lately I've ...
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breaking up long path names
I am having trouble breaking the path into two lines in my python compiler.
It is simply a long path on the compiler screen and i have to stretch the window too wide. I know how to break a ...
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Combining eol characters with placeholders
I have to loop through some numbers in an array and output them nicely formatted. How can I combine the end of line character with a placeholder?
I have this:
for i in range(0,4):
print("%.2f", ...
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Why use setattr() and getattr() built-ins?
From reading the docs, I understand exactly what getattr() and setattr() do. But it also says explicitly that getattr(x, 'foobar') is equivalent to x.foobar and setattr(x, 'foobar', 123) is equivalent ...
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Repeat an action a specified amount of times
Just for the record I'm just starting to use python (you can tell by the username),and I want to make it multiply a variable (let's call it X) by 2 and then the next time it comes back to this line to ...
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Why is my code slow (does it even work)? [Project Euler 12][Python 3.3]
I wrote this code for Project Euler #12. It's very slow (or doesn't work) and I found another code that is very similar and gets the answer immediately.
My code:
import math
def get_triangular(nth):
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Event during an annimation tkinter python3
I'm programming a little game with tkinter and I need get events during main animation. My annimation is a kind of infinite loop like that :
def animation(self):
while 1:
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Generate zip stream without using temp files
I've got a python method which needs to collect lots of data from an API, format it into a CSV, compress it and stream the result back.
I've been Googling and every solution I can find either ...
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How do you make Python 3 always respond to a particular input? [on hold]
I'm new to programming and I'm trying to create a basic text based game, where a player can accumulate items, such as money. I wish to create some sort of way that the player can check their wealth ...
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python 3 open terminal and run program
I made a small script in sublime that will extract commands from a json file that is on the user's computer and then it will open the terminal and run the settings/command. This works, except that it ...
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stand alone application like Skype using django? [on hold]
Can I develop stand-alone application like Skype using django?
I am new in development and have not found any help. I need to create it from scratch.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Accessing list of list returned by itertools.product Python
Python Script, Looks like as below,
>>> a=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9,10]]
>>> b=itertools.product(*a)
>>> b
Now b will contain following elements ,
[(1,4,7),(1,4,9), ...
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Mastermind solver performance issues
I am creating a mastermind solver, but my guess choosing function is taking way too long.
How it works in plain English:
Compare a guess candidate to every other possible code in the list of ...
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Python 3 How to change a class 'str' to class 'int'?
I am using qpython3. The class not changed by int(). Here is sample code in qpython3 console.
>>> a = "8"
>>> a
'8'
>>> type(a)
<class 'str'>
>>> int(a)
8
...
