Python 3 is the latest version of the Python programming language and was formally released on December 3rd, 2008.
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Script for saving top wallpapers from wallbase.cc into a directory
I am newish to Python and I am looking for some extra eyes on a script I wrote. I wrote this script to learn more about web-scraping and using requests and Beautiful Soup. I use it to connect to the ...
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Personal Project for managing Bookmarks - View Part
The code is the view part of my bookmarker - project for managing bookmarks by categories. It uses Python 3.4/Django 1.6. I have also included models.py for reference.
The code does the following
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The efficiency of looping over nested dictionaries in Python
How to make the following code more efficient?
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How to organize a paint cost calculator using functions?
This is the task I was given after completing my program. I don't have a clue what procedures and functions are to be honest. Therefore I have no clue on how to break down my program into different ...
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Second try at a Python game
I've posted this some time ago. Here is the new version that I made based on all the comments that were made. Another look and TIPs would be much appreciated, especially on:
Getting rid of the ...
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How could I make my simple Python maze game better?
The program is running fine but I was just wondering whether there was anything I could do to make it more user friendly or efficient. Please note that I have only been programming for a couple of ...
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Tapes, Trees, Trunks & Tallies
I've written these two command-line tools to be used to facilitate forestry surveys.
For a little background, the idea here is that often a landowner needs to know precisely how much wood is coming ...
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Making a list from user input - follow-up
I have made the changes that people have suggested from my previous question. I want to try and make it even tidier if possible. What can I change to make it more optimized? My ...
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Making a list from user input
I have wrote a program that lets the user open up there text file that would look something like this:
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It would then let the user enter a name for ...
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Adding, deleting elements as per autocomplete results
I am working on a bookmarker project for replacing storage of bookmarks in webbrowser. It will be storing bookmarks as per categories in a database. I have written some jQuery for the WIP search page. ...
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First try at a Python game
I've started coding about 3 weeks ago, just for fun and maybe practical uses later. My GF dared me to make a PGM that would replace this dice game where you roll two dice, one with body parts and one ...
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Social Media Hashtag Splitting
I decided to try out Python (3.x) two or so weeks ago, and this is my first real script using it. The program I've written below is slow, clunky, inefficient, inaccurate, and probably poorly coded! ...
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Is this Pygame projectile code efficient?
Just wanted a few opinions on whether this game's code is efficient, from looking at it, it does look a bit all over the place but I just don't know how to 'tidy' it up to say so. Would love to hear ...
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Calculating the point of intersection of two parabolas
I recently wrote a function to calculate the intersection point(s) of two parabolas. Working it out on paper was a nightmare, but I eventually did it (I think it's correct), and ended up with:
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Python script to find large folders
I wrote this script a few days ago to find all files which were taking up over a certain threshold of memory on the hard drive. A hard drive on one of my computers had just 6 GB left, so I needed to ...
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Python implementation of the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker Algorithm
I recently implemented the RDP polygon approximation algorithm in Python and I'm skeptical of whether or not I implemented it correctly of with the greatest efficiency. The algorithm runs in around ...
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Python Barcode Generator v2
This is a complete rewrite of the code posted for review in this question. The question is identical.
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How can I optimize this hash string function?
I'm writing a function which gets two strings and a number k as an input, and outputs a string with length k which is present in ...
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Class Vector with Python 3
Here is a class vector in python 3, for n-dimmensional vectors. Please suggest ways to improve the code as well as fix bugs and errors.
The only rule is not using: numpy, sympy, scipy and so on. Only ...
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Python Barcode Generator
I was asked to provide some example code for a job interview and didn't have anything to offer, so I wrote the following function.
A barcode generator may seem a bit basic, but there's some logic ...
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Python Back-Up Script
I wrote this script to backup some important files. It backs up the files to a local folder as well as to an external hard drive. It creates a new subdirectory which has its name constructed with ...
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ISBN Number Check
I’ve recently coded a way of checking a 10-digit ISBN.
I was wondering if the code works to check the numbers, and if there are any flaws in my code.
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Generating a random string of characters and symbols
After coding this, I was wondering if there are any ways in which I can improve upon it. It generates a random string of characters and symbols the same length as what is entered by the user. It uses ...
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Measuring Execution Times
I was wondering which time.time() of from datetime import timedelta was the quickest and best way to find how long a programme ...
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Does this code actually give a valid representation of how quick a system is?
So I wrote this code a while ago as a way of seeing how many times it could compute a simple sum in a second (one tick). I was wondering if this gives me valid results or is in fact giving me bogus ...
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Are there any bugs or ways to make my divisor code better?
After coding my divisor code which I did as a practice for my GCSE stuff which I have to take soon, I have decided to ask the community if there are any bugs or ways I can improve my code.
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We'll be counting stars
Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,
Said, no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be ...
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Geometry table for use in regexes
I have been teaching myself Python 3. I watched a video on YouTube entitled "stop writing classes". The Gtable class doesn't even have an init function, so I can't help but wonder if I should have ...
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Write and control Perlin noise for 1D
I'm reading this tutorial and it's the first time I try something this new.
Here is my attempt:
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ASN.1 BER Encoding and Decoding
I have a project (ldaplib) I am working on that needs to do ASN1-BER decoding and encoding. The function I have for the decoding portion is slightly more complex but neither are all that complicated. ...
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Determining the least-accurately known physical constants
So, I thought I'd do this using scipy.constants:
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Searching for files in a specified directory
I am currently writing a program that allows me to search for files in a user-specified directory. My current code is as follows:
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Installing Mods With Python (v 2.0)
My original code is here. I made some changes to it based on your suggestions, but then I lost my flash drive and had to redo it. I have a suspicion that my second version was better than this one, so ...
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Ways of speeding up this python implementation of SAT (Separating axis theorem)
A project I was working on required the usage of the Separating Axis Theorem to detect collisions between two convex polygons in real time. So I implemented a basic class (...
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Python Port Scanner 2.1
I made lots of changes to the script presented in my previous question. I was tempted to edit that one with the new code, but it would invalidate @200_success's helpful answer. It was also ...
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Python Port Scanner 2.0
A few months ago I put up a port scanner for review. Now, I've updated it with some new Python knowledge and integraing the feedback I got.
Some things I specifically think might be wrong with it or ...
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Python script to test music sight reading
I decided to write a program to test music theory, and, while it would've been much easier for me to make it elegant and perfect in Java, I thought I'd take the opportunity to get more familiar with ...
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Bank ATM program in Python
For homework, I have to code a program in Python that effectively simulates a bank ATM.
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Should I put python3 argparse filetype objects in a contextlib stack?
I just read the Lib/argparse.py code (class FileType) on http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/argparse.py. File objects are opened without the with statement. For safe file opening/closing, ...
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Wrapping my head around generators
I am going on with refactoring my code base while migrating from Python 2 to Python 3. I am using generators to make reusable components this time as I am more comfortable with them this time then ...
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Increasing readability of maximum path sum algorithm
I had written a solution for Project Euler problem 18 in Python 3. It is good in its efficiency but the problem is the readability and I think reuse.
The algorithm used is that at every iteration ...
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Calculator for Mass
I've been trying to create a calculator to find mass using any and all known equations, the program will also return the steps used to find mass so the user can 'check their work' on physics ...
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Pythonic way to dynamically generate Strings (or other variables)?
I've got a Python script which is meant to launch several other shell scripts with the appropriate setup and parameters. I construct the file paths from other variables so that it's easier to change ...
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Suggestions for a Dungeons and Dragons-like game
This game is similar to a Dungeons and Dragons game. How could I improve the efficiency of the program? For example, where can I add functions, records etc? This is for a school Controlled ...
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Simple OpenID server that always returns “allow”
I have an application that uses OpenID for authentication. To test that application I've come up with the following:
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Drink order program
I'm looking to improve my code to make it more efficient, such as shortening it but continuing to gain the same output, or to add some more complex functions into the code.
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Time optimization of counting shifts in insertion sort
Is there any way of counting how many shifts would it take to count shifts while doing insertion sort? This is a Hackerrank problem. Here's my solution, but it takes more than 16 seconds.
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Sherlock and The Beast
I have recently written the program for the Sherlock and The Beast' HackerRank challenge. That's working fine, but the problem is that it takes too much time if a big number is given as a input. I ...
