Just wondering if there is something like .= for adding text to the beginning of a string, e.g.: 5 Answers ...

I'm using R and ggplot to draw a scatterplot of some data, all is fine except that the numbers on the y-axis are coming out with computer style exponent formatting, i.e. 4e+05, 5e+05, etc. This is obviously unacceptable, so I want to get it to display them as 500,000, 400,000, and so on. Getting a p...

I'm wondering if there's any way to tell pip, specifically in a requirements file, to install a package with both a minimum version ( pip install package>=0.2 ) and a maximum version which should never be installed (theoretical api: pip install package<0.3 ). ...

In matplotlib , I can set the axis scaling using either pyplot.xscale() or Axes.set_xscale() . Both functions accept three different scales: 'linear' | 'log' | 'symlog' . ...

When iterating through the returned map in the code, returned by the topic function, the keys are not appearing in order. 6...

Is there a MySQL function to do this (of course instead of string_length )? 6 Answers ...

I need for testing purposes to populate few hundred email boxes with various messages, and was going to use smtplib for that. But among other things I need to be able to send messages not only TO specific mailboxes, but CC and BCC them as well. It does not look like smtplib supports CC-ing and B...

... If you're using Bash or zsh, use this: type -a lshw This will show whether the target is a builtin, a function, an alias or an external executable. If the latter, it will show each place it appears in your PATH. bash$ type -a lshw ls...

Could someone explain why this works in C#.NET 2.0: 5 Answers 5 ...

... @Thunder: Try select * into foo from bar where 1=0 – Andomar Jan 21 '11 at 12:32 29 ...