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Short Integers in Python
120,250
<p>Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. </p> <p>So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')?</p>
10
2008-09-23T10:35:09Z
120,449
<p>Thanks to Armin for pointing out the 'array' module. I also found the 'struct' module that packs c-style structs in a string:</p> <p>From the documentation (<a href="https://docs.python.org/library/struct.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.python.org/library/struct.html</a>):</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from struct...
5
2008-09-23T11:34:37Z
[ "python", "memory-management", "short" ]
Short Integers in Python
120,250
<p>Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. </p> <p>So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')?</p>
10
2008-09-23T10:35:09Z
120,454
<p>Armin's suggestion of the array module is probably best. Two possible alternatives:</p> <ul> <li>You can create an extension module yourself that provides the data structure that you're after. If it's really just something like a collection of shorts, then that's pretty simple to do.</li> <li>You can cheat and ma...
2
2008-09-23T11:35:15Z
[ "python", "memory-management", "short" ]
Short Integers in Python
120,250
<p>Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. </p> <p>So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')?</p>
10
2008-09-23T10:35:09Z
120,469
<p>@<a href="#120256" rel="nofollow">Armin</a>: how come? The Python documentation said the minimum size for that array of short integer is 2 bytes and </p> <blockquote> <p>The actual representation of values is determined by the machine architecture (strictly speaking, by the C implementation). The actual siz...
0
2008-09-23T11:38:59Z
[ "python", "memory-management", "short" ]
Short Integers in Python
120,250
<p>Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. </p> <p>So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')?</p>
10
2008-09-23T10:35:09Z
120,924
<p>If you're doing any sort of manipulation of this huge dataset, you'll probably want to use <a href="http://numpy.scipy.org/" rel="nofollow" title="Numpy Home Page">Numpy</a>, which has support for a wide variety of numeric types, and efficient operations on arrays of them.</p>
4
2008-09-23T13:20:30Z
[ "python", "memory-management", "short" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
120,794
<p>You can use <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/" rel="nofollow">Cairo</a> (with PyCairo), which has support for rendering SVGs. The PyGame webpage has a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CairoPygame" rel="nofollow">HOWTO</a> for rendering into a buffer with a Cairo, and using that buffer directly with PyGame.</...
3
2008-09-23T12:52:32Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
121,651
<p>I realise this doesn't exactly answer your question, but there's a library called <a href="http://www.supereffective.org/?p=14" rel="nofollow">Squirtle</a> that will render SVG files using either Pyglet or PyOpenGL.</p>
3
2008-09-23T15:16:51Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
121,653
<p>Cairo cannot render SVG out of the box. It seems we have to use librsvg.</p> <p>Just found those two pages:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.cairographics.org/cookbook/librsvgpython/" rel="nofollow">Rendering SVG with libRSVG,Python and c-types</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.cairographics.org/pyrsvg/" rel="nofo...
2
2008-09-23T15:17:06Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
152,222
<p><a href="http://paul.giannaros.org/sandbox_pygamesvg" rel="nofollow">pygamesvg</a> seems to do what you want (though I haven't tried it).</p>
3
2008-09-30T08:24:24Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
341,742
<p>This is a complete example which combines hints by other people here. It should render a file called test.svg from the current directory. It was tested on Ubuntu 10.10, python-cairo 1.8.8, python-pygame 1.9.1, python-rsvg 2.30.0.</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python import array import math import cairo import pygam...
11
2008-12-04T19:23:54Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
4,950,448
<p>The last comment crashed when I ran it because svg.render_cairo() is expecting a cairo context and not a cairo surface. I created and tested the following function and it seems to run fine on my system.</p> <pre><code>import array,cairo, pygame,rsvg def loadsvg(filename,surface,position): WIDTH = surface.get_w...
1
2011-02-09T21:06:29Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
SVG rendering in a PyGame application
120,584
<p>In a <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">pyGame</a> application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.</p> <p>What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?</p> <p>(I like the <a href="http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/gui.html">OCEMP GUI</a> toolkit but it seems to be bitmap depend...
17
2008-09-23T12:13:14Z
26,188,526
<p>Based on other answers, here's a function to read a SVG file into a pygame image - including correcting color channel order and scaling:</p> <pre><code>def pygame_svg( svg_file, scale=1 ): svg = rsvg.Handle(file=svg_file) width, height= map(svg.get_property, ("width", "height")) width*=scale; height*=sc...
0
2014-10-04T00:43:37Z
[ "python", "svg", "widget", "pygame" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
120,676
<p>You can use</p> <pre><code>os.listdir(path) </code></pre> <p>For reference and more os functions look here:</p> <ul> <li>Python 2 docs: <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.listdir">https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.listdir</a></li> <li>Python 3 docs: <a href="https://docs.python.org/3...
370
2008-09-23T12:32:00Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
120,692
<pre><code>import os for filename in os.listdir("C:\\temp"): print filename </code></pre>
74
2008-09-23T12:34:07Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
120,695
<p>Try this:</p> <pre><code>import os for top, dirs, files in os.walk('./'): for nm in files: print os.path.join(top, nm) </code></pre>
9
2008-09-23T12:34:34Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
120,701
<p>This is a way to traverse every file and directory in a directory tree:</p> <pre><code>import os for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'): # print path to all subdirectories first. for subdirname in dirnames: print(os.path.join(dirname, subdirname)) # print path to all filenames. f...
503
2008-09-23T12:35:46Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
120,948
<p>Here's a helper function I use quite often:</p> <pre><code>import os def listdir_fullpath(d): return [os.path.join(d, f) for f in os.listdir(d)] </code></pre>
63
2008-09-23T13:23:29Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
11,753,937
<p>I wrote a long version, with all the options I might need: <a href="http://sam.nipl.net/code/python/find.py" rel="nofollow">http://sam.nipl.net/code/python/find.py</a></p> <p>I guess it will fit here too:</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys def ls(dir, hidden=False, relative=True): node...
2
2012-08-01T06:47:52Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
12,572,822
<p>If you need globbing abilities, there's a module for that as well. For example:</p> <pre><code>import glob glob.glob('./[0-9].*') </code></pre> <p>will return something like:</p> <pre><code>['./1.gif', './2.txt'] </code></pre> <p>See the documentation <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html">here</a>.<...
10
2012-09-24T20:58:14Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
13,528,334
<pre><code>#import modules import os _CURRENT_DIR = '.' def rec_tree_traverse(curr_dir, indent): "recurcive function to traverse the directory" #print "[traverse_tree]" try : dfList = [os.path.join(curr_dir, f_or_d) for f_or_d in os.listdir(curr_dir)] except: print "wrong path name/d...
0
2012-11-23T11:38:05Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
25,390,299
<p>FYI Add a filter of extension or ext file import os</p> <pre><code>path = '.' for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(path): # print path to all filenames with extension py. for filename in filenames: fname_path = os.path.join(dirname, filename) fext = os.path.splitext(fname_path)[1]...
0
2014-08-19T18:17:06Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
27,713,560
<p>A nice one liner to list only the files recursively. I used this in my setup.py package_data directive:</p> <pre><code>import os [os.path.join(x[0],y) for x in os.walk('&lt;some_directory&gt;') for y in x[2]] </code></pre> <p>I know it's not the answer to the question, but may come in handy</p>
1
2014-12-30T22:35:24Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
30,471,791
<p>A recursive implementation</p> <pre><code>import os def scan_dir(dir): for name in os.listdir(dir): path = os.path.join(dir, name) if os.path.isfile(path): print path else: scan_dir(path) </code></pre>
3
2015-05-27T01:45:10Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
30,878,347
<pre><code>import os, sys #open files in directory path = "My Documents" dirs = os.listdir( path ) # print the files in given directory for file in dirs: print (file) </code></pre>
0
2015-06-16T21:15:27Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
35,628,738
<p>If figured I'd throw this in. Simple and dirty way to do wildcard searches.</p> <pre><code>import re import os [a for a in os.listdir(".") if re.search("^.*\.py$",a)] </code></pre>
0
2016-02-25T13:31:56Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
38,609,425
<p>For files in current working directory without specifying a path:</p> <pre><code>import os os.listdir(os.getcwd()) </code></pre> <p>I still think this is quite clumsy, if anyone knows a shorter equivalent please comment</p>
2
2016-07-27T09:47:07Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Directory listing in Python
120,656
<p>How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?</p>
413
2008-09-23T12:28:19Z
38,941,184
<h1>For Python 2</h1> <pre><code>#!/bin/python2 import os def scan_dir(path): print map(os.path.abspath, os.listdir(pwd)) </code></pre> <h1>For Python 3</h1> <p>For filter and map, you need wrap them with list()</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/python3 import os def scan_dir(path): print(list(map(os.path.abspath, ...
0
2016-08-14T10:11:03Z
[ "python", "filesystems" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
120,705
<p>A proper answer will need more information than that. What are you actually doing? How does it fail? Are you using the subprocess module? Are you passing a list of arguments and shell=False (or no shell argument) or are you actually invoking the shell?</p>
1
2008-09-23T12:36:18Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
120,706
<p>Make sure you are using lists and no shell expansion:</p> <pre><code>subprocess.Popen(['command', 'argument1', 'argument2'], shell=False) </code></pre>
5
2008-09-23T12:36:19Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
120,708
<p>Try quoting the argument that contains the &amp;</p> <pre><code>wget "http://foo.com/?bar=baz&amp;amp;baz=bar" </code></pre> <p>Is usually what has to be done in a Linux shell</p>
1
2008-09-23T12:36:32Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
120,782
<p>To answer my own question:</p> <p>Quoting the actual command when passing the parameters as a list doesn't work correctly (command is first item of list) so to solve the issue I turned the list into a space separated string and passed that into subprocess instead.</p> <p>Better solutions still welcomed.</p>
0
2008-09-23T12:49:55Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
120,992
<p>"escaping the ampersand with ^"</p> <p>Are you sure <code>^</code> is an escape character to Windows? Shouldn't you use <code>\</code>?</p>
1
2008-09-23T13:29:31Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Python subprocess issue with ampersands
120,657
<p>I'm currently having a major issue with a python script. The script runs arbitrary commands through a handler to convert incorrect error reporting into correct error reporting.</p> <p>The issue I'm having is getting the script to work correctly on windows with a command that contains ampersands in it's path. I've a...
3
2008-09-23T12:28:39Z
20,922,266
<p>I try a situation as following:</p> <pre><code>exe = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/VideoLAN/VLC/VLC.exe' url = 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&amp;q=hello+world' subprocess.Popen([exe, url.replace("&amp;","^&amp;")],shell=True) </code></pre> <p>This does work.</p>
0
2014-01-04T14:36:14Z
[ "python", "windows", "subprocess", "command-line-arguments" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
120,956
<p>The problem with tabs is that they are invisible, and people can never agree on the width of tabs. When you mix tabs and spaces, and you set tabstops at something other than Python (which uses tabstops every 8 spaces) you will be seeing the code in a different layout than Python sees it. And because the layout deter...
25
2008-09-23T13:24:26Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
120,969
<p>The universal problem with tabs is that they can be represented differently in different environment.<br /> In a given editor, a tab might be 8 spaces or it might be 2.<br /> In some editors, you can control this, while in others you can't.</p> <p>Another issue with tabs is how they are represented in printed outpu...
-2
2008-09-23T13:25:57Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
120,996
<p>The most significant advantage I can tell of spaces over tabs is that a lot of programmers and projects use a set number of columns for the source code, and if someone commits a change with their tabstop set to 2 spaces and the project uses 4 spaces as the tabstop the long lines are going to be too long for other pe...
0
2008-09-23T13:30:23Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
121,036
<p>Since python relies on indentation in order to recognize program structure, a clear way to identify identation is required. This is the reason to pick either spaces or tabs.</p> <p>However, python also has a strong philosophy of only having one way to do things, therefore there should be an official recommendation ...
1
2008-09-23T13:35:42Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
121,126
<p>You can have your cake and eat it to. Set your editor to expand tabs into spaces automatically.</p> <p>(That would be <code>:set expandtab</code> in Vim.)</p>
0
2008-09-23T13:52:25Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
121,481
<p>The reason for spaces is that tabs are optional. Spaces are the actual lowest-common denominator in punctuation.</p> <p>Every decent text editor has a "replace tabs with spaces" and many people use this. But not always.</p> <p>While some text editors might replace a run of spaces with a tab, this is really rare....
28
2008-09-23T14:45:39Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
121,671
<p>The answer was given right there in the PEP [ed: this passage has been edited out in <a href="https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb#l1.75">2013</a>]. I quote:</p> <blockquote> <p>The <strong>most popular</strong> way of indenting Python is with spaces only.</p> </blockquote> <p>What other underlying reason...
74
2008-09-23T15:19:27Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
143,995
<p>The answer to the question is: PEP-8 wants to make a recommendation and has decided that since spaces are more popular it will strongly recommend spaces over tabs.</p> <p><hr /></p> <p>Notes on PEP-8</p> <p>PEP-8 says <em>'Use 4 spaces per indentation level.'</em><br /> Its clear that this is the standard recomme...
7
2008-09-27T16:56:59Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
144,096
<p>The main problems with indentation occur when you mix tabs and spaces. Obviously this doesn't tell you which you should choose, but it is a good reason to to recommend one, even if you pick it by flipping a coin.</p> <p>However, IMHO there are a few minor reasons to favour spaces over tabs:</p> <ul> <li><p>Differ...
19
2008-09-27T17:32:09Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
144,133
<p><a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html" rel="nofollow">JWZ says it best</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>When [people are] reading code, and when they're done writing new code, they care about how many screen columns by which the code tends to indent when a new scope (or sexpr, or whatever) opens...</p> ...
2
2008-09-27T17:50:59Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
872,883
<p>I personally don't agree with spaces over tabs. To me, tabs are a document layout character/mechanism while spaces are for content or delineation between commands in the case of code.</p> <p>I have to agree with Jim's comments that tabs aren't really the issue, it is people and how they want to mix tabs and spaces...
23
2009-05-16T17:41:35Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
5,048,130
<p>Well well, seems like everybody is strongly biased towards spaces. I use tabs exclusively. I know very well why.</p> <p>Tabs are actually a cool invention, that came <strong>after</strong> spaces. It allows you to indent without pushing space millions of times or using a fake tab (that produces spaces).</p> <p>I ...
34
2011-02-19T00:56:16Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
6,965,294
<p>On the discussion between <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120926/why-does-python-pep-8-strongly-recommend-spaces-over-tabs-for-indentation/120956#120956">Jim and Thomas Wouters</a> in the comments.</p> <p>The issue was... since the width of tabs and spaces both can vary -- and since programmers can't ag...
-2
2011-08-06T06:53:51Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
8,747,788
<p>I've always used tabs in my code. That said, I've recently found a reason to use spaces: When developing on my Nokia N900 internet tablet, I now had a keyboard without a tab key. This forced me to either copy and paste tabs or re-write my code with spaces. I've run into the same problem with other phones. Granted, t...
2
2012-01-05T18:31:35Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
15,076,562
<p>Besides all the other reasons already named (consistency, never mixing spaces and tabs etc) I believe there are a few more reasons for the 4 spaces convention to note. These only apply to Python (and maybe other languages where indentation has meaning). Tabs may be nicer in other languages, depending on individual p...
-1
2013-02-25T21:11:22Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?
120,926
<p>I see on Stack Overflow and <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">PEP 8</a> that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain.</p> <p>Is there an underlying reason for spaces to be preferred?...
90
2008-09-23T13:20:34Z
18,034,554
<p>Note that the use of tabs confuses another aspect of PEP 8:</p> <blockquote> <p>Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.</p> </blockquote> <p>Let's say, hypothetically, that you use a tab width of 2 and I use a tab width of 8. You write all your code so your longest lines reach 79 characters, then I start ...
7
2013-08-03T15:49:14Z
[ "python", "indentation" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
120,959
<pre><code>import urlparse, urllib def myquote(url): parts= urlparse.urlparse(url) return urlparse.urlunparse(parts[:2] + urllib.quote(parts[2]) + parts[3:]) </code></pre> <p>This quotes only the path component.</p> <p>Otherwise, you could do: <code>urllib.quote(url, safe=":/")</code></p>
9
2008-09-23T13:25:01Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
120,971
<p>use <code>urllib.quote</code> or <code>urllib.quote_plus</code></p> <p>From the <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html">urllib documentation</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>quote(string[, safe])</strong></p> <p>Replace special characters in string using the "%xx" escape. Letters, digits...
18
2008-09-23T13:26:16Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
121,017
<p>Have a look at this module: <a href="https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug/blob/master/werkzeug/urls.py">werkzeug.utils</a>. (now in <code>werkzeug.urls</code>)</p> <p>The function you are looking for is called "url_fix" and works like this:</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; url_fix(u'http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf (B...
60
2008-09-23T13:33:06Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
845,595
<p><a href="http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/urllib.py?r1=71780&amp;r2=71779&amp;pathrev=71780">Real fix in Python 2.7 for that problem</a></p> <p>Right solution was:</p> <pre><code> # percent encode url, fixing lame server errors for e.g, like space # within url paths. fullurl = quote(fullurl, safe="%/:...
46
2009-05-10T16:15:40Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
962,248
<p>Because this page is a top result for Google searches on the topic, I think it's worth mentioning some work that has been done on URL normalization with Python that goes beyond urlencoding space characters. For example, dealing with default ports, character case, lack of trailing slashes, etc.</p> <p>When the Atom...
12
2009-06-07T16:35:25Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
1,912,115
<p>Just FYI, urlnorm has moved to github: <a href="http://gist.github.com/246089" rel="nofollow">http://gist.github.com/246089</a></p>
3
2009-12-16T03:43:51Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
How can I normalize a URL in python
120,951
<p>I'd like to know do I normalize a URL in python. </p> <p>For example, If I have a url string like : "http://www.example.com/foo goo/bar.html"</p> <p>I need a library in python that will transform the extra space (or any other non normalized character) to a proper URL.</p>
55
2008-09-23T13:23:50Z
24,203,504
<p>I encounter such an problem: need to quote the space only.</p> <p><code>fullurl = quote(fullurl, safe="%/:=&amp;?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")</code> do help, but it's too complicated.</p> <p>So I used a simple way: <code>url = url.replace(' ', '%20')</code>, it's not perfect, but it's the simplest way and it works for this si...
1
2014-06-13T10:45:33Z
[ "python", "url", "normalization", "normalize" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
121,422
<p>Just use </p> <pre><code>id(object) </code></pre>
32
2008-09-23T14:37:24Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
121,426
<p>You can get something suitable for that purpose with:</p> <pre><code>id(self) </code></pre>
2
2008-09-23T14:38:01Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
121,452
<p>The <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#id">Python manual</a> has this to say about id():</p> <blockquote> <p>Return the ``identity'' of an object. This is an integer (or long integer) which is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during its lifetime. Two objects with...
116
2008-09-23T14:41:30Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
121,508
<p>You could reimplement the default repr this way:</p> <pre><code>def __repr__(self): return '&lt;%s.%s object at %s&gt;' % ( self.__class__.__module__, self.__class__.__name__, hex(id(self)) ) </code></pre>
46
2008-09-23T14:49:57Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
121,572
<p>With <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html">ctypes</a>, you can achieve the same thing with</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import ctypes &gt;&gt;&gt; a = (1,2,3) &gt;&gt;&gt; ctypes.addressof(a) 3077760748L </code></pre> <p>Documentation:</p> <blockquote> <p><code>addressof(C instance) -&gt; integ...
6
2008-09-23T15:00:58Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
122,032
<p>While it's true that <code>id(object)</code> gets the object's address in the default CPython implementation, this is generally useless... you can't <i>do</i> anything with the address from pure Python code.</p> <p>The only time you would actually be able to use the address is from a C extension library... in which...
0
2008-09-23T16:10:37Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
4,628,230
<p>Just in response to Torsten, I wasn't able to call <code>addressof()</code> on a regular python object. Furthermore, <code>id(a) != addressof(a)</code>. This is in CPython, don't know about anything else.</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from ctypes import c_int, addressof &gt;&gt;&gt; a = 69 &gt;&gt;&gt; addressof(a) T...
11
2011-01-07T17:14:04Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
Accessing object memory address
121,396
<p>When you call the <code>object.__repr__()</code> method in python you get something like this back: <code>&lt;__main__.Test object at 0x2aba1c0cf890&gt;</code>, is there any way to get a hold of the memory address if you overload <code>__repr__()</code>, other then calling <code>super(Class, obj).__repr__()</code> a...
89
2008-09-23T14:35:00Z
26,285,749
<p>There are a few issues here that aren't covered by any of the other answers.</p> <p>First, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#id"><code>id</code></a> only returns:</p> <blockquote> <p>the “identity” of an object. This is an integer (or long integer) which is guaranteed to be unique and...
9
2014-10-09T18:41:51Z
[ "python", "object", "tostring", "memory-address", "repr" ]
How do I include a stacktrace in my Django 500.html page?
121,439
<p>I'm running <code>Django 1.0</code> and I'm close to deploying my app. As such, I'll be changing the DEBUG setting to False.</p> <p>With that being said, I'd still like to include the stacktrace on my 500.html page when errors occur. By doing so, users can copy-and-paste the errors and easily email them to the de...
18
2008-09-23T14:39:35Z
121,474
<p>Automatically log your 500s, that way:</p> <ul> <li>You know when they occur.</li> <li>You don't need to rely on users sending you stacktraces.</li> </ul> <p>Joel recommends even going so far as automatically creating tickets in your bug tracker when your application experiences a failure. Personally, I create a (...
14
2008-09-23T14:44:50Z
[ "python", "django", "templates", "stack-trace" ]
How do I include a stacktrace in my Django 500.html page?
121,439
<p>I'm running <code>Django 1.0</code> and I'm close to deploying my app. As such, I'll be changing the DEBUG setting to False.</p> <p>With that being said, I'd still like to include the stacktrace on my 500.html page when errors occur. By doing so, users can copy-and-paste the errors and easily email them to the de...
18
2008-09-23T14:39:35Z
121,487
<p>You could call <code>sys.exc_info()</code> in a custom exception handler. But I don't recommend that. Django can send you emails for exceptions.</p>
1
2008-09-23T14:46:22Z
[ "python", "django", "templates", "stack-trace" ]
How do I include a stacktrace in my Django 500.html page?
121,439
<p>I'm running <code>Django 1.0</code> and I'm close to deploying my app. As such, I'll be changing the DEBUG setting to False.</p> <p>With that being said, I'd still like to include the stacktrace on my 500.html page when errors occur. By doing so, users can copy-and-paste the errors and easily email them to the de...
18
2008-09-23T14:39:35Z
122,482
<p>As @zacherates says, you really don't want to display a stacktrace to your users. The easiest approach to this problem is what Django does by default if you have yourself and your developers listed in the ADMINS setting with email addresses; it sends an email to everyone in that list with the full stack trace (and ...
11
2008-09-23T17:32:19Z
[ "python", "django", "templates", "stack-trace" ]
How do I include a stacktrace in my Django 500.html page?
121,439
<p>I'm running <code>Django 1.0</code> and I'm close to deploying my app. As such, I'll be changing the DEBUG setting to False.</p> <p>With that being said, I'd still like to include the stacktrace on my 500.html page when errors occur. By doing so, users can copy-and-paste the errors and easily email them to the de...
18
2008-09-23T14:39:35Z
17,483,769
<p>If we want to show exceptions which are generated , on ur template(500.html) then we could write your own 500 view, grabbing the exception and passing it to your 500 template.</p> <h2>Steps:</h2> <h2>#.In views.py:</h2> <pre><code>import sys,traceback def custom_500(request): t = loader.get_template('500.html') ...
0
2013-07-05T07:50:53Z
[ "python", "django", "templates", "stack-trace" ]
How do I include a stacktrace in my Django 500.html page?
121,439
<p>I'm running <code>Django 1.0</code> and I'm close to deploying my app. As such, I'll be changing the DEBUG setting to False.</p> <p>With that being said, I'd still like to include the stacktrace on my 500.html page when errors occur. By doing so, users can copy-and-paste the errors and easily email them to the de...
18
2008-09-23T14:39:35Z
35,889,521
<p>I know this is an old question, but these days I would recommend using a service such as <a href="https://getsentry.com/welcome/" rel="nofollow">Sentry</a> to capture your errors.</p> <p>On Django, the steps to set this up are incredibly simple. From <a href="https://docs.getsentry.com/hosted/clients/python/integra...
0
2016-03-09T10:53:22Z
[ "python", "django", "templates", "stack-trace" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
122,047
<p>Python with Numeric Python:</p> <pre><code>from numpy import * a = random.random_integers(0, 100, 5) b = unique(a) </code></pre> <p>Voilà! Sure you could do something similar in a functional programming style but... why?</p>
0
2008-09-23T16:13:51Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
122,062
<p>I will forgo the simplest solutions using the 'random' module since I take it that's not really what you are after. Here's what I think you are looking for in Python:</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import random &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; def getUniqueRandomNumbers(num, highest): ... seen = set() ... while len...
2
2008-09-23T16:17:48Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
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2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import random &gt;&gt;&gt; print random.sample(xrange(100), 5) [61, 54, 91, 72, 85] </code></pre> <p>This should yield 5 unique values in the range <code>0 — 99</code>. The <code>xrange</code> object generates values as requested so no memory is used for values that aren't sampled.</p>
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2008-09-23T16:18:19Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>I can't really read your LINQ, but I think you're trying to get 5 random numbers up to 100 and then remove duplicates.</p> <p>Here's a solution for that:</p> <pre><code>def random(max) (rand * max).to_i end # Get 5 random numbers between 0 and 100 a = (1..5).inject([]){|acc,i| acc &lt;&lt; random( 100)} # Rem...
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2008-09-23T16:23:30Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Hmm... How about (Python):</p> <pre><code>s = set() while len(s) &lt;= N: s.update((random.random(),)) </code></pre>
3
2008-09-23T16:24:18Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>In Ruby:</p> <pre><code>a = (0..100).entries.sort_by {rand}.slice! 0, 5 </code></pre> <p><strong>Update</strong>: Here is a slightly different way: a = (0...100).entries.sort_by{rand}[0...5]</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>and In Ruby 1.9 you can do this:</p> <pre><code>Array(0..100).sample(5) </code>...
5
2008-09-23T16:27:31Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Here's another Ruby solution:</p> <pre><code>a = (1..5).collect { rand(100) } a &amp; a </code></pre> <p>I think, with your LINQ statement, the Distinct will remove duplicates after 5 have already been taken, so you aren't guaranteed to get 5 back. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, though.</p>
2
2008-09-23T16:28:02Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<pre><code>import random def makeRand(n): rand = random.Random() while 1: yield rand.randint(0,n) yield rand.randint(0,n) gen = makeRand(100) terms = [ gen.next() for n in range(5) ] print "raw list" print terms print "de-duped list" print list(set(terms)) # produces output similar to thi...
0
2008-09-23T16:31:02Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Well, first you rewrite LINQ in Python. Then your solution is a one-liner :)</p> <pre><code>from random import randrange def Distinct(items): set = {} for i in items: if not set.has_key(i): yield i set[i] = 1 def Take(num, items): for i in items: if num &gt; 0:...
0
2008-09-23T16:32:42Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>EDIT : Ok, just for fun, a shorter and faster one (and still using iterators).</p> <pre><code>def getRandomNumbers(max, size) : pool = set() return ((lambda x : pool.add(x) or x)(random.randrange(max)) for x in xrange(size) if len(a) &lt; size) print [x for x in gen(100, 5)] [0, 10, 19, 51, 18] </code></p...
2
2008-09-23T16:38:45Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Here's a transliteration from your solution to Python.</p> <p>First, a generator that creates Random numbers. This isn't very Pythonic, but it's a good match with your sample code. </p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import random &gt;&gt;&gt; def getRandomNumbers( max ): ... while True: ... yield random...
0
2008-09-23T16:42:27Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Maybe this will suit your needs and look a bit more linqish:</p> <pre><code>from numpy import random,unique def GetRandomNumbers(total=5): while True: yield unique(random.random(total*2))[:total] randomGenerator = GetRandomNumbers() myRandomNumbers = randomGenerator.next() </code></pre>
0
2008-09-23T16:57:09Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>Here's another python version, more closely matching the structure of your C# code. There isn't a builtin for giving distinct results, so I've added a function to do this.</p> <pre><code>import itertools, random def distinct(seq): seen=set() for item in seq: if item not in seen: seen.a...
0
2008-09-23T19:33:19Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do I write this in Ruby/Python? Or, can you translate my LINQ to Ruby/Python?
122,033
<p>Yesterday, I asked <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119107/how-do-i-generate-a-list-of-n-unique-random-numbers-in-ruby">this</a> question and never really got an answer I was really happy with. I really would like to know how to generate a list of N unique random numbers using a functional language such a...
7
2008-09-23T16:10:42Z
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<p>In Ruby 1.9:</p> <pre><code>Array(0..100).sample(5) </code></pre>
1
2010-09-25T09:17:24Z
[ "python", "ruby", "linq", "functional-programming" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
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2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
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<p>Using named groups and a dispatch table:</p> <pre><code>r = re.compile(r'(?P&lt;cmd&gt;foo|bar|baz)(?P&lt;data&gt;.+)') def do_foo(data): ... def do_bar(data): ... def do_baz(data): ... dispatch = { 'foo': do_foo, 'bar': do_bar, 'baz': do_baz, } m = r.match(var) if m: dispatch[m.gr...
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2008-09-23T16:58:53Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
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2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
122,345
<p>Alternatively, something not using regular expressions at all:</p> <pre><code>prefix, data = var[:3], var[3:] if prefix == 'foo': # do something with data elif prefix == 'bar': # do something with data elif prefix == 'baz': # do something with data else: # do something with var </code></pre> <p>Whe...
4
2008-09-23T17:07:16Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
122,364
<pre><code>def find_first_match(string, *regexes): for regex, handler in regexes: m = re.search(regex, string): if m: handler(m) return else: raise ValueError find_first_match( foo, (r'foo(.+)', handle_foo), (r'bar(.+)', handle_bar), (r'baz(.+)...
4
2008-09-23T17:11:09Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
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2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
123,083
<p>Yeah, it's kind of annoying. Perhaps this will work for your case. </p> <pre><code> import re class ReCheck(object): def __init__(self): self.result = None def check(self, pattern, text): self.result = re.search(pattern, text) return self.result var = 'bar stuff' m = ReCheck() if...
10
2008-09-23T19:04:53Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
124,128
<p>I'd suggest this, as it uses the least regex to accomplish your goal. It is still functional code, but no worse then your old Perl.</p> <pre><code>import re var = "barbazfoo" m = re.search(r'(foo|bar|baz)(.+)', var) if m.group(1) == 'foo': print m.group(1) # do something with m.group(1) elif m.group(1) ==...
9
2008-09-23T21:50:45Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
135,720
<pre><code>r""" This is an extension of the re module. It stores the last successful match object and lets you access it's methods and attributes via this module. This module exports the following additional functions: expand Return the string obtained by doing backslash substitution on a template str...
9
2008-09-25T20:10:55Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
1,806,345
<p>With thanks to <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663995/python-variable-assignment-and-if-statement">this other SO question</a>:</p> <pre><code>import re class DataHolder: def __init__(self, value=None, attr_name='value'): self._attr_name = attr_name self.set(value) def __call__(...
6
2009-11-27T01:05:41Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
2,021,009
<p>Here's the way I solved this issue:</p> <pre><code>matched = False; m = re.match("regex1"); if not matched and m: #do something matched = True; m = re.match("regex2"); if not matched and m: #do something else matched = True; m = re.match("regex3"); if not matched and m: #do yet something else...
3
2010-01-07T14:42:19Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
4,195,819
<p>how about using a dictionary?</p> <pre><code>match_objects = {} if match_objects.setdefault( 'mo_foo', re_foo.search( text ) ): # do something with match_objects[ 'mo_foo' ] elif match_objects.setdefault( 'mo_bar', re_bar.search( text ) ): # do something with match_objects[ 'mo_bar' ] elif match_objects.setd...
1
2010-11-16T15:33:00Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
30,799,800
<p>My solution would be:</p> <pre><code>import re class Found(Exception): pass try: for m in re.finditer('bar(.+)', var): # Do something raise Found for m in re.finditer('foo(.+)', var): # Do something else raise Found except Found: pass </code></pre>
0
2015-06-12T09:33:08Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?
122,277
<p>I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven't looked back. There is only <i>one</i> idiom that I've ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:</p> <pre><code>if ($var =~ /foo(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /bar(.+)/) { # do something with $1 } elsif ($var =~ /baz(.+)...
35
2008-09-23T16:55:18Z
38,849,153
<p>Expanding on the solution by Pat Notz a bit, I found it even the more elegant to:<br>   - name the methods the same as <code>re</code> provides (e.g. <code>search</code> vs. <code>check</code>) and<br>   - implement the necessary methods like <code>group()</code> on the holder object itself:</p> <pre><code>class...
0
2016-08-09T11:11:22Z
[ "python", "regex", "perl" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
122,340
<p>From <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/#remove-any-old-versions-of-django">"How to Install Django" documentation</a> (though this is useful to more than just Django installation) - execute the following from the shell:</p> <pre><code>python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_l...
240
2008-09-23T17:06:59Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
122,360
<pre><code>from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib print get_python_lib() </code></pre>
5
2008-09-23T17:09:54Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
122,377
<p>As others have noted, <code>distutils.sysconfig</code> has the relevant settings:</p> <pre><code>import distutils.sysconfig print distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() </code></pre> <p>...though the default <code>site.py</code> does something a bit more crude, paraphrased below:</p> <pre><code>import sys, os print...
19
2008-09-23T17:14:02Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
122,387
<p>An additional note to the <code>get_python_lib</code> function mentioned already: on some platforms different directories are used for platform specific modules (eg: modules that require compilation). If you pass <code>plat_specific=True</code> to the function you get the site packages for platform specific package...
7
2008-09-23T17:16:22Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
1,711,808
<p>A side-note: The proposed solution (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()) does not work when there is more than one site-packages directory (as <a href="http://pythonsimple.noucleus.net/python-install/python-site-packages-what-they-are-and-where-to-put-them">recommended by this article</a>). It will only return the ...
11
2009-11-10T22:49:28Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
4,611,382
<p><em>For Ubuntu</em>,</p> <pre><code>python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()" </code></pre> <p>...is not correct.</p> <p>It will point you to <code>/usr/lib/pythonX.X/dist-packages</code></p> <p>This folder only contains packages your operating system has automatically in...
85
2011-01-06T03:08:09Z
[ "python", "installation" ]
How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?
122,327
<p>How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?</p>
396
2008-09-23T17:04:43Z
5,095,375
<p>Let's say you have installed the package 'django'. import it and type in dir(django). It will show you, all the functions and attributes with that module. Type in the python interpreter - </p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import django &gt;&gt;&gt; dir(django) ['VERSION', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__...
16
2011-02-23T18:32:10Z
[ "python", "installation" ]