Is a switch statement actually faster than an if statement? 12 Answers 12 ...

...downwards). So, t is the character of __TIME__ being output. a ends up equalling the following in binary, depending on the input t: 0 00111111 1 00101000 2 01110101 3 01111001 4 01101010 5 01011011 6 01011111 7 00101001 8 01111111 9 01111011 : 01000000 Each number is a bitmap describing the segm...

... had to make some modifications so it would work correctly under iOS5, but all those changes were done with iOS4-friendly code changes. We also added some iOS5-specific capabilities in a manner that allows the app to run without crashing under iOS4. Specifically, we tested for iOS5 capabilities bef...

I have a view that has a UIPanGestureRecognizer to drag the view vertically. So in the recognizer callback, I only update the y-coordinate to move it. The superview of this view, has a UIPanGestureRecognizer that will drag the view horizontally, just updating the x-coordinate. ...

... technically, they are exactly equal, you can send messages to both nil and to NULL. Idiomatically though nil is usually used to represent an object – cobbal Oct 14 '09 at 5:43 ...

...ist, value): getFromDict(dataDict, mapList[:-1])[mapList[-1]] = value All but the last element in mapList is needed to find the 'parent' dictionary to add the value to, then use the last element to set the value to the right key. Demo: >>> getFromDict(dataDict, ["a", "r"]) 1 >>&g...

... I made a few minor modifications to bcd's solution to allow for initialization from a Xib file, text wrapping, and to maintain background color. Hopefully it will save others the trouble. UIPlaceHolderTextView.h: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> IB_DESIGNABLE @interfac...

...hat on the particular Python implementation. To understand what this is all about, pay particular attention to the actual file object. In your code, that object is mentioned only once, in an expression, and becomes inaccessible immediately after the read() call returns. This means that the file...

... do this can be found on MSDN. The key extract is this: To programmatically add or modify system environment variables, add them to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key, then broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message with lParam set to the s...

...uildout I have following in .gitignore (along with *.pyo and *.pyc): .installed.cfg bin develop-eggs dist downloads eggs parts src/*.egg-info lib lib64 Thanks to Jacob Kaplan-Moss Also I tend to put .svn in since we use several SCM-s where I work. ...