Python 3 is the latest version of the Python programming language and was formally released on December 3rd, 2008.
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Disk Partition type lookup table
The following code I am using to lookup the description based on a "Partition Type" in either a string, an integer or hex value. By calling parttype(parttype) in ...
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Creating a questionnaire
Im making a Python program. It is basically a questionnaire and I was just wondering if there is a shorter way of doing this as at the moment I'm writing out all of the questions in separate functions....
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Renames file-name references inside files in a directory
The filenames.txt contains all the names of the files that you want to change in a given directory.
It is generated by:
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Python text game [on hold]
Im a complete noob and started today, i watched some videos about how to make a simple text game but doesnt seem to make it happen. When i run the shell it says missing paranthesis around print, i ...
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Points and segments solution
Task:
Given a set of points on a line and a set of segments on a line. The
goal is to compute, for each point, the number of segments that
contain this point.
Input Format
The first ...
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Encoding a list of frequencies as WAV audio
This code gets a list of signals with predefined frequency from struc.num
I need to encode it to wave format, so i use this code. This works, but i dont sure it is a correct decision to encode like ...
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“Guess the Number” game in Python
I have been using Python 3 to learn programming, and this is a very basic task, but I want to gain good programming patterns/habits at the very beginning.
The program will first randomly generate a ...
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__str__ method for a tic-tac-toe board
I am making my first object-oriented program in python and I am having trouble with the __str__ part of Board() class. I want it ...
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Exponential backoff generator
Exponential backoff in the context of various networking protocols looks something like this:
When a collision first occurs, send a “Jamming signal” to prevent further data being sent.
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Memoizing decorator with retries, part 2
A while ago I asked this question Memoizing decorator that can retry and then promptly forgot about it. I more recently saw Python decorator for retrying w/exponential backoff and wanted to add ...
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Reduce number of operations to get one array value
I can't wrap my head around that. There seem to be a lot of redundancy, and even if it is not called called more than ten times in the main loop, I still find it hard to swallow that it loops through ...
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Compare files by name in two folders A and B and delete duplicates from folder A
I wrote my very first Python program to answer a Super User question. I'm wondering how the application can be rewritten to make it as pythonic as possible.
Unit test
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Sum over selected numpy.ndarray column and write to a file
I am trying to write the sum of selected NumPy array column and write to a file.
The following code snippet is working fine:
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Prime number checker in Python 3 - follow-up
I have updated my code from the last time it got reviewed. If anyone has some more suggestions on how I can improve this and/or make it faster it would be appreciated!
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Invoicing Program Python
This is my invoicing program I made for myself to keep track of purchases people made from me. (Yes I know eBay does this for me but I wanted to see what I could make.) Basically it can search the ...
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can someone helpe me imporve my code or fix it? [closed]
I need to reach 1,000,000 and for some reason it doesn't give me the output for 1,000,000, it crashes. I don't know what i am doing wrong. Every time i put a small number like 500 it would take a ...
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HackerRank “Nested Lists” Code
I completed the "Nested Lists" challenge on HackerRank, and would love any feedback on my code.
My program is fed text with the number of students in a classroom, the name of a student, and their ...
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Caesar Cipher Python 3: IndentationError? [closed]
I am attempting to create a simple python script which will either encrypt or decrypt a phrase entered. Here is the source code:
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Prime number calculator in Python 3.4.1
I have only been coding for a short time and I have written these two functions and am looking to optimise them. If anyone could point out things that could be done better it would be much appreciated....
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First text-based adventure game
I'm sure there are better ways to code this. I spent a lot of time re-working the code to get it as clean as possible. I would appreciate any input on what I could change to have the program run ...
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Code to create and check a numeric password
I am very new to coding and I have created this relatively simple code to do with my basic knowledge of the language. However I have had to do with some unwanted code including shutting it down if ...
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Removing numbering gaps in a series of filenames
I've recently started programming and have been working through some problems such as the one below:
Write a program that finds all files with a given prefix, such as spam001.txt, spam002.txt, and so ...
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SOXXY: a daemon stated IRC client project
This script is basically a proxy service; except it doesn't require an active client connection. In fact it expects the client connection to connect before, and disconnect after every transaction. ...
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Basic GUI library for an LCD built (nearly) from scratch
I am working with an LCD screen and an RPi. The library I use sends 1-bit images to the screen, so I wrote this library based on Pillow to help developing the on-screen GUI. I am playing with the ...
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Unicode Chess PvP with Move Validation
Main Purpose
This script allows two players to play chess on a virtual chessboard
printed on the screen by making use of the Unicode chess characters.
Visual appearence
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Project hotel reservation in Python with OOP and multithreading
I have to create a project in Python 3 for a university exam. The project involves the use of object-oriented programming and the use of multithreading. My project is based on the simulation of ...
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Python console chat on Windows
I'm currently learning Python and I have to build a simple labyrinth game that we play in the console on the network. I dig a bit into Python basic network programming and I decided to build a simple ...
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Python lazy dict with iterator in constructor
This question began as an off-topic answer to this question, but the code here serves a different goal.
I wrote the following class for the purpose of populating a dict on demand from an iterator. ...
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HackerRank “Lists” code
I completed the following exercise on HackerRank. My program is fed a list of commands, such as:
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Year 0: Instruction Follower
Having played Human Resource Machine for over a day, and wanting to improve my interpreting / tokenizer skills, I made a Human Resource Machine interpreter.
For those that do not know, so if you do ...
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Youtube playlist saver with Google API
I have a problem with Youtube videos being deleted from my big playlist and not knowing which videos got removed. So, I decided to write a Python script to save certain information(title etc.) about ...
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Creating a simple 52-card data structure for Blackjack in Python
I am fairly new to Python so I am trying to learn more about its conventions and ways to make my codes more efficient.
I am making a Blackjack game and so far have this class that draws, organizes, ...
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Simple meter simulator
I've created a simple python meter simulator which connects to a serial port (in my case COM1) listens on the serial port and takes actions based on what it ...
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Income Simulation programifier
http://pastebin.com/7UqD0gwF
I'm looking for serious feedback on my first serious program.
This is a program to calculate PvZ income over time of sunflowers and sunshrooms on nighttime pool levels.
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HackerRank 'Bot Saves Princess 2'
I submitted the following Python 3 code for this HackerRank challenge. Given an n × n grid with an m and a p in random cells of ...
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Iteratively extending a list
Is there a way to collapse multiple_get into as few lines as possible?
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Optimizing the calculation of complex exponential numbers using OpenMP
I am trying to create a function that can either beat numexpr or perform comparably for the vectorized mathematical operation ...
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Reddit mirror encryption challenge
While reviewing Encryption using a mirror field, I decided to write my own solution from scratch. The challenge, from Reddit's /r/dailyprogrammer, is to implement a monoalphabetic substitution cipher ...
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Making a quiz in python and I need help making the code more concise when I add longer lists of questions
I'm a complete beginner at python and I know I'm probably approaching this the wrong way but I've tried making a quiz and can't work out how to make it more concise and work with longer lists of ...
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HackerRank “Bot Saves Princess” beginner code
I submitted the following Python 3 code for this HackerRank challenge. Given an n × n grid with an m in the center and a p in ...
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Sanitizing words extracted from text files and writing them to a database
This code reads text files from some path, tokenizes, removes stop words, lowercases, removes punctuation and numbers, then writes the result to a database.
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Script to print weather report from OpenWeatherMap API
This script prints the weather (fetching the information from a public API).
If anyone could review my code and answer my question about code structure and how should I code in the right way, I ...
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Project Euler 54: Winning Poker Hand
The problem can be found here.
The file, poker.txt, contains one-thousand random hands dealt to two
players. Each line of the file contains ten cards (separated by a
single space): the first ...
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War card game using classes
I would like some feedback to the code I wrote for the card game War. While programming it, I wanted to make classes that I could easily use for other card games too (hence why some functions are ...
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Project Euler Problem 11: largest product of 4 adjacent numbers
I am a fairly beginner-level programmer, and I have been working through the Project Euler Puzzles. I am currently on Problem #11, which asks to find the largest product of four consecutive numbers (...
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Hackerrank Funny String python solution
"Funny String" problem from Hackerrank
Suppose you have a String, \$S\$ of length \$N\$ indexed from \$0\$ to \$N-1\$. You also have some String, \$R\$, that is the reverse of \$S\$, where \$S\$ ...
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Settings Model to read multiple settings files and writes to one
I am writing a Model to read, write and store settings.
I think my code is pretty good, but I am not 100% sure.
Any advice on how I could possibly improve it is welcome.
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