...g a dictionary may be best inserting strings by writing dict[str] = false; and enumerating through the keys as a list. Is that a good solution? ...

... such that cmp(x, y) returns -1 if x is less than y, 0 if x is equal to y, and 1 if x is greater than y. Of course, you can instead use the key parameter: xs.sort(key=lambda s: len(s)) This tells the sort method to order based on whatever the key function returns. EDIT: Thanks to balpha and Ruslan ...

...es are in a subdirectory - put an __init__.py in the subdirectory as well, and then use regular import statements, with dot notation. For each level of directory, you need to add to the import path. bin/ main.py classes/ user.py dir.py So if the directory was named "class...

I am planning to move away from "floaty" layouts and use CSS flexbox for future projects. I was delighted to see that all major browsers in their current versions seem to support (in one way or another) flexbox. ...

I am developing an Android application using Android 2.2, my application APK size is 22.5 MB, and I would like to create a new build for a Samsung tablet. I got the following error: ...

... mylist = ['nowplaying', 'PBS', 'PBS', 'nowplaying', 'job', 'debate', 'thenandnow'] myset = set(mylist) print(myset) If you use it further as a list, you should convert it back to a list by doing: mynewlist = list(myset) Another possibility, probably faster would be to use a set from the beginn...

...a foreign key with column name fk_table2_id, with constraint name fk_name and table2 is referred table with key t2 (something like below in my diagram). table1 [ fk_table2_id ] --> table2 [t2] First step, DROP old CONSTRAINT: (reference) ALTER TABLE `table1` DROP FOREIGN KEY `fk_name...

I have read about floating-point and I understand that NaN could result from operations. But I can't understand what these are concepts exactly. What is the difference between them? ...

...ou really should call browser.quit() as this method will close all windows and kills the process. You should still use browser.quit(). However: At my workplace, we've noticed a huge problem when trying to execute chromedriver tests in the Java platform, where the chromedriver.exe actually still...

...n Vim window open with the leftmost 80 columns using the normal background and anything past that using a slightly different background. The Vim window background should be a different color, not just text that goes over the 80 character point. This would indicate how close I am getting to the 80-ch...