Use this tag if you are specifically using Python 2.7. Such questions should be tagged with [python] as well.
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Relatively simple function that mainly performs arithmetic is called many times - naive optimization using Cython by defining types causes slowdowns
The basic idea of the code is to calculate the push or pull force at a vertex, given the number of "push causing molecules" and "pull causing molecules" at a polygon vertex.
The code thus mainly ...
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Code for showing installed python packages/modules
Any comments about style (especially any "non-pythonic" code), performance, readability, etc would be much appreciated! I've tested this on CentOS and OSX 10.9. Works for Python 2.7 and 3.
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Round division to two decimal places [on hold]
I'm working on a revision of my electrical calculator. I used string formatting to round the answers it gives to two decimal places. On the operations that require multiplication (voltage, wattage), ...
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Implementing graph search
I am very new in Python, I would like to know if the style presented below attends a good implementation in Python.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Basic value comparisons
I made a value comparison "programming language" similar to a previous one I made, except this one is based solely on value comparisons.
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Python code for detecting a single item moved in a list
I need to write a function that takes an original list of unique values and a resulting list:
[0,1,2,3]
[0,3,1,2]
and detect that only a single element was ...
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Increase the speed of this Caesar Cipher
Here's my attempt at a Caesar Cipher encoder/decoder.
If given a key, it will encrypt the given string. However, if you do not specify a key, it checks each of the 26 possible keys and returns the ...
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Optimizing “Poker hands” challenge solution
I'm trying to solve the project Euler problem 54.
In the card game poker, a hand consists of five cards and are ranked, from lowest to highest, in the following way:
High Card: Highest ...
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Light Python pubsub lib, but is it too light?
In attempting to decouple the object from the messaging I came up with the following short code for adding publish-subscribe functionality to a Python script.
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Validate parameters within a range
Function to use several blocks of if:elif:else: that all take slightly different conditional statements. I'm trying to format integers into a 2 digit string, ...
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Readable way to print a list of things in Python
I am trying to solve the common "print a character after every item in a list, except the last one" problem.
I do not want to use list indices. There are a couple of simple ways to do this in Python, ...
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Map reduce tester ported from bash to Python
My MapReduce tester is clearly ported from Shell, short of args=None for line in args or read_input(), what's a better way of ...
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Function that transforms input file based on a numpy poly1d function
I have written a function that gets a function as input (acquired from numpy.poly1d). The function has access to the GUI variables ...
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Random “programming language”
I decided to write my own programming language, of sorts. Essentially, you write code into a text file and the program will run the code inside the text file. The file is provided through a script ...
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Basic math interpreter
Essentially what I've done here is written an Interpreter that takes in Python math, such as this, 23 ** 374748, and prints out the result. This program relies on ...
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Content filtering of webpage
This is code for filtering the data of webpage, for the web crawler I made for my project. I know python scripts can lag than other languages, but this takes a lot of time when processing even a ...
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Upload and resize image
I have implemented following code to upload and resize image in Django. Please suggest ways to make it more pythonic.
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Encrypt texts, with saved password using pycrypto
I have the code bellow, which is supposed to be used inside a larger program.
Please see notes about the requirements below the code.
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Basic terrain generator
I've decided to try and start programming using Object-Oriented-Programming, so I built a small terrain generator that could be done using something as simple as this:
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Parse text file function
This method takes a text file of my work schedule and parses it. It works, but is kind of kludgey, and I'm looking for feedback and suggestions. My first attempt at a file parser, and my first look ...
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Basic Brainfuck interpreter (part 2)
I have this obsession with esoteric programming languages. So I decided to spiff up my previous Brainfuck interpreter.
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Microcast algorithm
Following is the main file in the project (executing tasks). It uses the mpi4py module, and multiple processes execute the same code. Please review the code and ...
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Try to implement comments tree for django
I tried to create implementation of tree for comments. I want use it in Django to store comments. Please tell me how to implement it much simpler, without recursion, to find child nodes.
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Wedding Photography Cost Calculator
This is my first code. I would really appreciate a critique for it, if anyone can spare the time.
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My second Python script: an Instagram bot
I'm very new to Python and would like some feedback on my script. I'm fairly clueless to best practices, code correctness etc. so if there's anything at all that looks wrong, isn't 'pythonic' or could ...
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Optimization/speed up of reduction function
I'm working on an implementation of Rainbow tables as part of a project. I understand the main principles behind it had have a working solution. Unfortunately the reduction function portion of my ...
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Update a field in a list of dictionaries
I have a piece of code which follows this form. Is this correct or is there a better way?
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A simple prompt-and-print program
I have accomplished what I wanted to do but I think this can be done better. I want my code to look professional.
What my code does is ask for your name and gives output in below form.
Input: ...
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Simple random number generator
I have been wanting to learn programming for some time now and decided to really give it a shot today. I have edited and read lots of things in Java to fix small issues but never written from scratch. ...
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Basic BrainFuck interpreter
I was bored, so I wrote a BrainFuck interpreter in Python. It essentially takes input for the amount of cells, then parses the inputted code through a series of if ...
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Python - Minesweeper
I'm new to Python (and generally to programming), and I have recently written this Minesweeper game:
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List Comprehension in Pythonic answer to LPTHW ex48
I'm not really seeing any use for a generator here, unless there's some way to hook a generator into a language dictionary.
But in the following code, the longhand version of the ...
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Getting the unique factors of a number recursively
I have written the below code to get the unique factors. Please offer suggestions for better results.
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Connected components algorithm does not scale past 10,000 nodes
I found a connected components algorithm posted here on SO and modified it for my own purposes. It runs well for small input sets, but doesn't scale as well as I would like.
The largest set I've ...
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Moving the player across an ASCII art “world”
Wow, this one is definitely going to need some improvement.
So, just for fun, I decided to make a program where the player moves across a 2-dimensional ASCII-art map. If the player types something ...
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Moving a rover and receiving current coordinates
I made a little text-based game where you move a rover and it gives you the current coordinates. You can essentially move around a 1000x1000 grid, and get output into ...
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Painting Fences - optimize for faster performance
I am attempting this problem at Codeforces. I'm stuck as it gives a time limit exceeded error for large inputs though the logic I followed is similar to that of the editorial.
I'd be grateful for any ...
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Using Comprehensions to Handle a Large Dataset in Python 2.7
I have a Python 2.7.6 script parsing large files (~60MB to ~2GB) containing lines of the following format:
componentA componentB < floating point value >
My goal is to sum the floating point ...
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