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Python function always returns false when comparing to ints

from pip.backwardcompat import raw_input from PFD import * def getInput(): try: n = raw_input("Please enter the file size: ") int(n) print(str(n)) order = ...
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import in python on IntelliJ

I'm using IntelliJ platform to use python. When trying to use the import line such as "import bla" I get an error "No module named.." although I do have this file in my projsct and also have init.py ...
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Replacing words in a string- but with two different words: Python3

Trying to get it so that it takes input the same number of times the certain word appears in the original string and replaces it with each word that was the input. def replace_parts_of_speech ...
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Determine whether super().__new__ will be object.__new__ in Python 3?

Let's say I have some class that calls __new__, how do I play well with the mro and call up to super classes' __new__ (with arguments) as necessary, but not call object.__new__ with additional ...
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convert list of lists into a string

I have a list, in which is another list and I want to doc.write(a) a = [[1, 2, "hello"], [3, 5, "hi There"], [5,7,"I don't know"]] doc.write(''.join(a)) TypeError: sequence item 0: ...
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Trying to find a match in two strings - Python

I have a user inputting two strings and then I want to check if there are any similar characters and if there is, get the position where the first similarity occurs, without using the find or index ...
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Python3: StringIO and Elementree encoding

With migration to Python 3 xml.etree.ElementTree's write() doesn't work as expected. I need to make the following code work with Python3: tree = ET.ElementTree(root) fileobj = StringIO() ...
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homework: never ending loop 5**200000

I had an homework assignment: to find the maximal sum of 50,000 consecutive digits in the number 5**200,000. I know that if i make a for loop over this number it will not end in a feasible time. I ...
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Does Python have a cleaner way to express if x contains a|b|c|d…?

The Pythonic way to check if a string x is a substring of y is if x in y: Finding if x is equivalent to a,b,c,d,e,f, or g is also Pythonic if x in [a,b,c,d,e,f,g]: But checking if some string x ...
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python list tree indexing

I have this list where I want to store a name, and inside the name more itemlists with a name and amount, well you can see the rough outline below. varx = [ {"Name1": { ...
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Find a function that finds the difference between adjacent values in a list then test against a threshold

So basically I need a function that calculates the difference between each value in a list then tests against the threshold. If the difference between two adjacent numbers are greater than the given ...
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pandas dataframe to dictionary value

I have three column datagram intended to convert in dictionary in the format given: datagram: user_id item_id ratings 3 2 3 3 3 4 1 3 1 2 1 4 ...
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Unable to log in with a page, using credentials

Below is the code i am using to log into a page and scrape the data from it. import BeautifulSoup, urllib2 import mechanize br1=mechanize.Browser() br1.open('http://coned.com') ...
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wxpython image mouse area selection

I have create the follow image viewer in wxpython, and first i choose an image to open, then i want with mouse to select an area then i want to crop this area and save it, i know how to crop it and ...
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python 3x how to sum float numbers in lines? [on hold]

11 3.81 0.04 0.91 0.40 3.97 2.97 2.05 0.18 1.83 0.80 2.11 2 0.87 0.90 These are two lines in a file, how can I sum all the float numbers? So for the result the ...

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