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Iteratively copy wildcard named folder and files [on hold]
I'm new to Python. I'm running version 3.3. I'd like to iteratively copy all wildcard named folders and files from the C drive to a network share. Wildcard named folders are called "Test_1", ...
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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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Editing Surfaces Removing Color
So I have recently tried to load an image and save it, but remove all of a certain color. I'm running the program and it is running really slow, is there a more efficient way to edit an image? My code ...
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Optimizimg ugly if else loop in python [closed]
So, I`m getting some values from large nested dictionary.
s_copy['productStyleVariantSizeInfo']['sizeDimension2SizeOptions'] and f_copy['productStyleVariantSizeInfo']['sizeDimension2SizeOptions'] ...
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For and if loops in Python math game [closed]
I'm trying to get my program to iterate through a loop after a person gets the correct answers to the first question. I feel like there is a better way to do things syntactically.
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Making a nested loop structure more pythonic
I'm looking for a review on my code. I am also looking for ways to transform this function into something more Pythonic. I'm fairly new to Python, so any advice would be appreciated.
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Loop cleanly through different classes
If I have a number of different classes which manage certain tests. At the moment I have to launch each test individually which results in a lot of if statements.
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Compute stats on two class vectors
Below is a full working code example of code which is used to compute stats on two class vectors (partitions).
There are two functions:
pairwise_indication and
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Repetitive For Loops in 2048 Game
I have the following function defined in a program that implements the 2048 game. I tried condensing the repeating part of the code into one loop containing +1 offset variables for the indices, which ...
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Optimizing Python code for Project Euler #5 (LCM of all numbers from 1 to 20)
This is my solution for the 5th problem of Project Euler, which asks for the least common multiples of the numbers from 1 to 20 (inclusive). Is there any way to improve the while loop conditional ...
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List iteration, creation, or comprehension
I suspect that this can be done in a much neater way using list comprehension in python:
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Do-While loop in Python, with limit on the amount of 'do's
I'm in a location with poor Internet access. In order to ensure that a call to an external service succeeds, I am wrapping the call in a pseudo-do-while in Python. ...
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Removing redundant lines from script
Context: I've been learning Python for a few months and I'm able to write codes which do work, but they normally look very ugly and contain a lot of unnecessary code. But I normally struggle to find ...
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Drawing a table in Python3
I have created a module to draw text tables. The relevant parts are below and here's the full code for txtable).
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How to refract a while loop with a necessary initial setting?
I put the readable version into the gist file -> link
Please ignore the print and comment in the following code.
I often have ...
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Which loop code is better practice?
def minval(xs):
minum = xs[0]
for i in range(len(xs)):
if xs[i] < minum: #difference in code: xs[i]
minum = xs[i]
return minum
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Pythonic loop logic for Tic-Tac-Toe game board
I have a while loop below, but I'm not quite sure if it's the most 'pythonic' thing. I've omitted most of the code, and have the skeletal structure below (but have ...
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Filtering a long list of files through a set of ignore patterns using iterators
I have a backup job that walks across a huge directory with potentially millions of files. Python's os.walk() works just fine.
Now, I have implemented a feature to ignore files based in a black list ...
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Looping over a list [closed]
I'm new to Python, and I have a small section of code which works fine when outside of a function:
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Optimising If statement and for loops
I have two solutions (in jython) to take two pictures and copy and paste alternate sections of one picture to the other, like so:
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Is there a better, more efficient way to write this loop?
While working with someone else's code I've isolated a time-killer in the (very large) script. Basically this program runs through a list of thousands and thousands of objects to find matches to an ...
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I'm practicing turning for loops into recursive functions. what do you think?
I am trying to turn this function:
collection = ['hey', 5, 'd']
for x in collection:
print(x)
Into this one:
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Making a 2D dict readable
I am building a 2d dictionary with an altered list at the end Afterwords I want to find the min of each list. Is there a better way to do it? Better being faster or at least less of an eyesore.
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Leaving an APScheduler in a while True loop
I want to run a background job on my web server to do some database maintenance. I am looking at using APScheduler to do this.
I am planning on running the below ...
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Improvment of and looping in a regular expression pattern
My implemented regex pattern contains two repeating symbols: \d{2}\. and <p>(.*)</p>. I want to get rid of this ...
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Running over a log file to extract log times
I need to run over a log file with plenty of entries (25+GB) in Python to extract some log times.
The snippet below works. On my test file, I'm ending up with roughly ...
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Removing the massive amount of for-loops in this code
Are there ways to avoid this triply nested for-loop?
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Retrieving lists of consecutive capitalised words from a list
Ok, so given the string:
s = "Born in Honolulu Hawaii Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School"
I want to retrieve:
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Improvement on these horrible nested for loops?
This does the job, but is not especially elegant.
What is the preferred Pythonic idiom to my childish nests?
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Optimizing Python / Numpy Code
So I'm implementing a version of the mean shift image processing algorithm for color segmentation in python/numpy.
I've written a pure numpy version of the actual mean shifting per pixel (which I ...
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How to improve this Python code (complicated looping)
Basically, I have a list, newtry of blocks and I want to find a value of catchtype that makes them all return true for ...
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Optimize beginner Python loop
I'm a rank beginner in Python, and I am working my way through various relevant OpenCourseware modules. In response to the prompt
Write a procedure that takes a list of numbers, nums, and a ...
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Generic pass_many(vals, pass_one) to unroll and call pass_one(val)?
I'm trying to create a generic function that takes a data-structure as input and then sends each non-empty item—e.g.: str, int—individually:
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Reading a controll character in a loop in Python
I have a code snippet bellow and because of habit from other programming languages I wanted to use rather do-while loop. But Python offers only the construct which I show as a second code snippet ...
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I want to create a photo changer loop in python. Can someone check my code?
I just started python a few days ago, and I haven't programmed much before. I know my code is terrible; however, I would like someone to look it over. What I'm trying to do is create a photo "loop" ...
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Splitting an array of numbers into all possible combinations
This takes an array of numbers then splits it into all possible combinations of the number array of size 4 then in another array puts the leftovers. As I want to take the difference in averages of ...
