... function definition’s argument list allows that function to accept an arbitrary number of arguments and/or keyword arguments. For example, if you wanted to write a function that returned the sum of all its arguments, no matter how many you supply, you could write it like this: def my_sum(*args)...

This is probably a very simple question, but I'm having trouble with it. Basically, I am trying to write a Batch File and I need it to list all the files in a certain directory. The dir command will do this, but it also gives a bunch of other information; I want it to list ONLY the file names an...

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I would like to grep for a string, but also show the preceding five lines and the following five lines as well as the matched line. How would I be able to do this? ...

... Apart from tuples being immutable there is also a semantic distinction that should guide their usage. Tuples are heterogeneous data structures (i.e., their entries have different meanings), while lists are homogeneous sequences. Tuples have st...

...use df -m , then it shows the size of all the directory at the top level, but, for the directories and files inside the directory, how do I check the size? ...

So I've been brushing up on my Java skills as of late and have found a few bits of functionality that I didn't know about previously. Static and Instance Initializers are two such techniques. ...

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... Because the equality operator == coerces, or converts, the data type temporarily to see if it’s equal to the other operand, whereas === (the identity operator) doesn’t need to do any converting whatsoever and thus less w...

... I don't buy the previously-accepted answer. SIGPIPE is generated exactly when the write fails with EPIPE, not beforehand - in fact one safe way to avoid SIGPIPE without changing global signal dispositions is to temporarily mask it wi...