Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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Function to divide a string for seperate lines for output [on hold]
I'm a huge fan of command line programs. Most of my programs are command line ones, they're relatively easier to use and implement without any GUI overhead. The problem is, I want my output to be ...
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Speed up Pandas DataFrame expansion to include time-lagged information about events
Using pandas and Python 3, information about a simple timeseries data set is being processed. Within the span of .5 seconds, 3 names are being said. We record the onset of each utterance, the length ...
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Object Interaction in OOP (especially Python) [on hold]
Say you have a number of similar objects (e.g. instances of the class Person). Each of these instances can belong to a number of Groups, also represented by a class.
To stick with the examples of ...
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Repeat…Until Type a python code [on hold]
PrintedTotal 0
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IF BookType = “printed”
THEN PrintedTotal PrintedTotal + 1
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IF BookType = “audio-book”
THEN AudioBookTotal ...
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Format a number to include commas
This is my attempt to format a number and put commas where appropriate. I was wondering if this could be done in a simpler way.
It's used by calling ...
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Quicksort in Python
This is my first actual attempt at writing a Python program. I have a background in C++, so it was a big change (where's my iterators?), and I'm looking for criticism on my use of Python and its ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe game using the minimax algorithm
I have written a Tic-Tac-Toe game in Python that contains, among others, a player that uses the minimax algorithm. I am not exactly a beginner at Python, but I'm not very experienced with it - so I ...
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Index of letter removed to make string palindrome
This code finds the index in the string and removes the one which will make the string a palindrome. If the string is already a palindrome, it should return -1.
This code works correct, but I am ...
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Fuzzy matching dict keys
What do you think of this idea? It's supposed to be a dict that makes a reasonable guess at the key you were trying to access for getters and deleters. Setters should be untouched.
Similar to how ...
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Finding the largest repeating substring
Here's my code that takes a large string, and searches for the longest reoccurring substring. It compares the first letter with every other until it finds a match, then saves it. Then it compares the ...
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Calculating parsimonies using Python; performance is lacking
This program takes a very long time to do each and every step, even the very first print statement. Why is this, and what is the best way to diagnosing a problem like this in any language?
Also, I'd ...
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Short way to search text
Making an email program, I know that there has to be a better way to do this.
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Horridly Inefficient Project Euler #14 in Python - Collatz Sequences
I created this solution a while ago, and have been going back over my problems to try to make them all more efficient. I have been stuck on this one, and have tried a few different ideas. So far, my ...
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Check string(line) in a file and send email
I want to check some lines from a log file [check msyql replication slave status log] named "status.txt" (size is always about 3-4 KB):
Slave_IO_Running: Yes
Slave_SQL_Running: Yes
If any of ...
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Electricity Calculator
This is a calculator for Ohm's Law and Power Law. It works but I'd like some suggestions on making the code look a little cleaner, or run more efficiently.
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Python static blog generator
I want to put on review yet another static blog generator script. I don't have much Python experience and would be very thankful if you would explain how I can improve the code.
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Read CSV with 3 columns and group some elements
I have a csv with 3 columns (date, name, number) and it is about 20K rows long. I want to create a dictionary keyed by date whose value is a dictionary of ...
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Autocomplete Trie Optimization
I'm currently playing with the Typeahead problem on Talentbuddy. There are already 2 questions on this subject (Typeahead Talent Buddy and Typeahead autocomplete functionality challenge), but none of ...
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If Elif replacement for expandability
I am having the following problem. My code works, but it seems like it can improve a lot. I am fairly new to python and can't seem to get this block any better. The logic behind it goes like this.
I ...
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Putting all desktop items into a new folder
I'm quite a newbie with Python, but I wanted to try my own little project, so I made a small script that puts all the desktop icons/folders into a newly created folder (called "Desktop1") if there are ...
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Does this parse OS names correctly?
I am making a function to return a two-item tuple of ('os basename', 'os distro'). So for vista return should be ('Windows', 'Vista'), for Fedora it should be ...
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Lightweight Tic-Tac-Toe in Python
This is a completely functional python script of the Tic-Tac-Toe game. I've used python's set container for almost all data structure and operation. The code is ...
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Performance in Hackerrank challenge “Sherlock and Queries”
I translated the solution by the author to his challenge from C++ to Python.
It seems to be correct, but I get timeouts for the test cases 6, 9 and 12.
Here is the full challenge description:
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Creation of a temp file on Windows
I implemented a test that reads data from temp file on Windows.
I originally had an issue that I solved with the help of this answer
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Shift\Transform characters in a grid
I wrote this program for a code test on some website. This program do some predefined transformations (transformation can be horizontally, vertically or by shifting to given number of keys) for every ...
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Using datetime in order to name files
I have a script that makes use of datetime in order to name files.
Only business days (Mon - Fri) are used.
Here is my part of the code that finds the last ...
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Simple QGraphicsScene program
At the documentation for QGraphicsScene, there is a simple example that does not work. I've written a fix that works, and am curious if it could be improved.
From the docs (does not work):
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Popping and appending on a list
I am learning Python and would like to know if there's a better way to rewrite it.
What I am trying to do is to match list A that is passed to a method against a predefined list B. If an item in list ...
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Create virtual host + MySQL tool
This tool adds a new OS user, create directories and configuration files for Apache + NGINX, MySQL (MariaDB) database and user.
I tried to take into account the comments from my previous post. Hope - ...
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String to (Multidimensional) List Conversion
Some background:
I'm writing a number of classes that ensure user input is properly validated, and is rejected if it does not conform to expected types (there's also some extra options such as ...
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Comparing data to model and returning a chi squared value
This is quite basic but useful to test various (9) different models using one set of data. I have tried to make it clear and use the PEP8 formatting.
I am currently creating a version that can read ...
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Python small brute-forcer
I have 20+ key set. Keyset is like:
Key[0] = { "PossibleKey0", "PossibleKey0Another", "AnotherPossibleKey0" }
Key[1] = { ....
There is an encryption which needs ...
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Espresso Queue simulation
I was asked to do a technical test with the following specification, but my solution was rejected and I was not selected for the available position (Junior to "normal" level, with 4 days of time to ...
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Histogram of length of words in text
This my first real program in python. I welcome harsh criticism. I tried to make it as efficient as possible. Trying to balance speed and readability as well. My program takes a file of text and ...
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Correct practice for Python properties that depend on other attributes
When a property is essentially a boolean value for whether or not an attribute exists or is set a certain way, is it more appropriate to create an object that does not list the option attribute in its ...
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Using URLs and RegEx for web scraper from a dictionary [closed]
I have dozens of functions which GET/POST to some URLs and extract data using RegEx. The URLs and regular expressions were hard-coded earlier but now I moved all of them to a dictionary. I then saw ...
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Comparing different string-matching functions
Here is a problem came from codingbat:
Given 2 strings, a and b, return the number of the positions where
they contain the same length 2 substring. So "xxcaazz" and "xxbaaz"
yields 3, since ...
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A function for parsing words from a string without using whitespace
I'm trying to parse words from a badly garbled text file that contains many repeats. It's about 100k characters in length and was formed from joining many substrings in alphabetical order.
I'm ...
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Editing /etc/network/interfaces
I am trying to change static to dhcp in the /etc/network/interfaces file and vice versa ...
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Robustly dealing with malformed Unicode files
I'm writing a script that deals reads UTF-8-encoded XML files and writes parts of those files into a tempfile for further processing.
Sometimes, the input files will have a few malformed characters. ...
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Reduce and condense a non standard SessionWizardView
As I'm slowly getting the hang of Python and Django I'm becoming increasingly worried about the volume/quality of code I have. This is my first time building a Python/Django Application and I'm ...
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Answer to an implementation of Project Euler #8
I saw that there was a previous question asking to review an answer to the Project Euler question #8. My answer didn't look anything like the answer in that question and as a beginner, I was wondering ...
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Madlibs Program
I just started to learn Python, and wrote this Madlib program that works the way I intended it to, so I do not need help debugging, just some advice on tips to improve the code or make it simpler.
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Functional Knapsack Problem in Python
This is the knapsack problem from rosettacode.org:
A tourist wants to make a good trip at the weekend with his friends. They will go to the mountains to see the wonders of nature, so he needs to ...
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Implementation of *nix ipcalc
I posted a JS subnetting calc before, but I wanted to try a CLI version, so I made this.
The parts I'm most worried about are:
structure (could I refactor the layout better?)
Did I goof any math?
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Number of maximal PAIRS-values
I had an interview question like this:
In a company there are different people. One can measure how well they
suits for pair coding as follows:
First, let us compute the PAIRS-value which ...
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Rock-Paper-Scissors in procedural and object-oriented
I am comfortable with the procedural style, and learning the object oriented, so I have done a small Rock Paper Scissors game in both styles.
This script is in procedural style and this one is in ...
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