Python 3 is the latest version of the Python programming language and was formally released on December 3rd, 2008.
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Singleton base class
I just wrote a singleton base class for a hobby project I'm currently working on. Python is not my first language, which is why I am not sure if everything is done the pythonic way.
I also used ...
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Recursive Tic-Tac-Toe Solver in Python
I'm implementing a Tic-Tac-Toe solver in Python. It contains two functions: assess to determine whether a given board position is a win for either side, and ...
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Try-except decorator for classmethods
This question is related to the Cactus Text Game Engine.
For easy error handling in Cactus, we've put together this small decorator. Essentially, the decorator wraps any class method in a ...
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INTEST on Codechef in Python 3
I have written a program in Python 3 for the INTEST problem on Codechef (included in question). The program is taking a lot of time (55.76s) in Python 3. The same code takes almost 1/10 of the time ...
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Calculate sales tax from tabular data
This is a Python 3 solution to the problem stated in Sales Tax Problem, rejected for not being up to their standards. It also seems like the same thing as the problem stated in Sales tax calculator, ...
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Monoalphabetic Substitution Cipher
In light of this months Community Challenge, I've taken a stab at building something related. Keep in mind, this isn't a submission for the challenge, just a utility to help in the later process of ...
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Handling variables in pyqt - globals vs signals vs container object vs?
While coding a medium to large scale program for the first time I tried different ways of handling a lot of variables. As I find that examples on this are quite rare on the interwebs I will try to ...
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Simple 2048 AI in Python
A few weeks ago, I wrote a Python implementation of 2048. Since then, I've been working on a simple AI to play the game for me. The code uses expectimax search to evaluate each move, and chooses the ...
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Weaving elements into a list
I have the following problem statement:
Modify a given list such that one specific element is "weaved" into that list.
Examples if the element is 'module':
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Maze BFS in Python
The program below was made for a game named CheckIO, and it works. I'm just wondering if there is any way to make the code more readable.
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Article start exercise
I've used encountered this exercise from a tutorial:
Create a function that takes a string as a parameter and returns True if the initial word of the string ...
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Script for a Civil War game
I'm new to Python, and pretty much programming/scripting. I'm just looking for someone to critique my methods and tell me if there are more efficient ways to do things.
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Functional programming in Python: 2048 merge functions
I've written the core functions for a basic 2048 game. I know Python isn't a functional programming language, but I like the "functional style" (easier to maintain, simple to understand, more ...
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The mood of the nation - Twitter trend
This assignment is taken from here.
Introduction
In this project, you will develop a geographic visualization of twitter data across the USA. You will need to use dictionaries, lists, and ...
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Denormalizing an OrderedDict to CSV
Cross post from stackoverflow, as suggested.
I have an ordereddict, and I need to store it in CSV file.
Input:
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OOP TictacToe with Tkinter
This is my implementation of a Tic Tac Toe game with Tkinter GUI. So far I've set up the game to play with another player. For an interview coming up, I am suppose to build additional feature such ...
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The Geometry of Maps - Twitter Trend
Below assignment is taken from here.
Introduction
In this project, you will develop a geographic visualization of
twitter data across the USA. You will need to use dictionaries, lists,
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Move through a basic roguelike text map
I have a basic outline for the best way I can come up with to move a character through a basic text map. I want to implement this module in my simple text RPG. I know there has to be a better way to ...
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Assigning sentiment to each tweet - Twitter trend
Below assignment is taken from here.
Introduction
In this project, you will develop a geographic visualization of
twitter data across the USA. You will need to use dictionaries, lists,
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Temporary file utility class in Python
I decided to write a tiny class to automatically write and delete a file given filename and content. It is intended to make testing IO less verbose. I include a small example usage.
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Covering Array Sorter
A covering array is a N x k array in which each element is a from a set of v symbols, and ...
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Simple text RPG in Python
I am trying to teach myself to code using Python. The following is the first real program I have written from scratch. I feel that it is messy and in need of improvement, but I am either unsure of ...
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BeautifulSoup web spider for driver links
The following spider will grab some driver links, OS version, and the name.
All the info is in a table class, but some pages might be a little different in the location and Number of cells in each ...
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Function for shuffling cards
Assignment from here
Q6. Define a function shuffle that takes a list with an even number of elements (cards) and creates a new list that interleaves the elements of the first half with the ...
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Drawing circles with triangles
As pyglet has no in-built method to return a vertex list of circle, I had to build one myself. This is a critical piece of code that I will use very frequently. I need it to be of very fine ...
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Sum of all arguments ever passed to counter
Q4. Define a function make_counter that returns a counter function,
which takes an immutable key and a numerical value argument and
returns the sum of all ...
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Sum of all arguments ever passed to accumulator
Q2. Define a function make_accumulator that returns an accumulator
function, which takes one numerical argument and returns the sum of
all arguments ever ...
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Reversing the elements in the list
Q1. Define a function reverse_list that takes a list as an argument
and returns None, but reverses the elements in the list ...
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Add 100 to all values in nested dictionary
I want to change all values in a multidimensional dictionary. I have written this line of code, which does what I want it to do and I am trying to find out if this is the optimal way or just some ...
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Multiple longest common subsequence (another algorithm)
Here is the algorithm:
Input: a set of \$M\$ strings \$S=\{s_i\}\$ of length \$N\$ with alphabet \$\Sigma\$
Make an index of each string by chars.
Maintain a position \$p=(p_i)\$ where \$p_i\$ is an ...
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Inverse mapping of a dictionary
For the below question picked from here:
Write make_inverse_dict(d) that returns a new dictionary with the
'inverse' mapping. The 'inverse' mapping of a ...
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Python Trig Calculator
It's big, it's ugly, but it should work. My question is: how could I have implemented the "typeselection" function so it is less repetitive? Any tips on other improvements in coding style are welcomed ...
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Filter a list with given predicate - python [closed]
For the following question, the function
• should mutate the original list
• should NOT create any new lists
• should NOT return anything
Function that do not create new lists ...
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Project Euler #12 runs very slowly
The problem is :
The sequence of triangle numbers is generated by adding the natural numbers. So the 7th triangle number would be 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28. The first ten terms would be:
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Shift elements left by n indices in a list
For the following question, the function
• should mutate the original list
• should NOT create any new lists
• should NOT return anything
Functions that do not create new lists ...
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Accessing argparse arguments from the class
I have the following sample code running unit tests:
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Mutating the list
For the following question, the function
• should mutate the original list
• should NOT create any new lists
• should NOT return anything
Functions that do not create new lists ...
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Sum of squares of each interval
Q. Write three similar functions, each of which takes as an argument a sequence of intervals and returns the sum of the square of each interval that does not contain 0.
Using a for ...
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Simulating a river ecosystem
I'm currently working my way through a textbook to enhance my beginner Python skills (Goodrich, Data Structures and Algorithms in Python). The first, somewhat in-depth problem involving OOP was the ...
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PyDOS Version 3.0
This is a follow up to the questions: PyDOS shell simulation and PyDOS: Version 2.0
Introducing PyDOS 3.0! With brand new features and improved code, this will blow your mind!
New Features (This ...
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General purpose input validation GUI
I decided to build a GUI that would seemlessly create user interfaces for validation functions, functions that check if a string satisfies given rules.
An example ...
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Pickling cars with simple management system in Python
This is my first Python program (before that I've been just poking around with the interpreter itself). I took this opportunity to do some user input and play around with ...
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Newborn pythonic calculator
Let me start off by saying that I have several years of experience in Java, but now I need to learn Python, so I decided to make a calculator as it also is a community challenge.
Please review the ...
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Math game with 'hard' and easy questions
In my competition, I was to create a game that asked at least 5 easy questions, and up to ten hard questions, summing fifteen questions. Please review my code, especially how I formatted it with the ...
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Interval multiplication - faster version
For the below given problem from this assignment:
Q4. In passing, Ben also cryptically comments, "By testing the signs of the endpoints of the intervals, it is possible to break ...
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Pyglet: scene manager
This is my brief summary of Pyglet: it's a powerful, efficient, high-tech cage. But once you're in there, once you call pyglet.app.run(), it's all over - you can't ...
