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Accepting user input for tickets and tips
I've done tutorials as well as searches. I need assistance in simplifying this code. Please don't do it for me- instead inform me of what, where and why you are trying to simplify or write less code. ...
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Read n lines, and count the lines that do not contain the string "CD"
I would like to know how to improve the execution speed of the code below.
The context : n is an integer read from the stdin, and represents the number of cases. Each case is represented by a ...
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A python default dictionary which seamlessly saves to disk
I sometimes do experiments at work and separate the computation and the analysis so I can do the computation on a cluster and the analysis locally and sometimes in a Jupyter notebook. I wrote a class ...
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subprocess with logging module: tee with StringIO
I've got a long-running process. Once it finishes I need the output. But the user should be informed while it's running. With the logging module I get timestamps ...
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Read file into list when class is instantiated in Python 2.7
I would like to read a file into a list when I create the class below. Once the list is ready, I would like to access it outside the class in order to process more code based on the list which now ...
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Testing third parth software performance [closed]
This is a simple example of script to run the test write/read performance of third party software of the drive in Windows environment.
Please let me know if you find any place can be better improved, ...
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Reading and Writing in same script
I just finished working through Exercise 16 of Learn Python The Hard Way.
To further study, I wanted to create a script that will read and display a file's contents on screen, and then have the user ...
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XOR of a list of a numbers
In preparing a solution for the CodeChef "Will India Win" challenge, I am trying to find out the xor of list of numbers.
The first line of input contains the number of test cases, 1 ≤ T ≤ 106.
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Python code to write simple VPK archive files
I'm new to Python, but have a lot of experience with C and C++. I would appreciate some feedback on my implementation of a packer for this archive format. Specifically, any feedback on how idiomatic ...
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Processing large file in Python
I have some code that calculates the "sentiment" of a Tweet.
The task starts with an AFINN file, that is a tab-separated list of around 2500 key-value pairs. I read this into a ...
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Saving player name throughout script-launches
I would like to use this in a program to save users' names even after they relaunch the script. I was just wondering if there were some ways I could clean up this code.
Note: this currently was made ...
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Reading a large XML file and parsing necessary elements into MySQLdb
I have fair concept in a programming (learner) but not an expert to refactor code at the highest level. I am trying to read a huge (100MB-2GB) XML file and parse necessary element (attributes) from a ...
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