... have the same results. Pre-increment is a little bit faster because it really increments the variable and after that 'returns' the result. Post-increment creates a special variable, copies there the value of the first variable and only after the first variable is used, replaces its value with seco...

... While gnuplot is powerful, it's also really irritating when you just want to pipe in a bunch of points and get a graph. Thankfully, someone created eplot (easy plot), which handles all the nonsense for you. It doesn't seem to have an option to force terminal gra...

...son for this is consistency: special methods like __init__() and __del__() all have double underscores (or "dunder" in the current vernacular), and .next() was one of the few exceptions to that rule. This was fixed in Python 3.0. [*] But instead of calling g.__next__(), use next(g). [*] There are ...

I moved a WordPress installation to a new folder on a Windows/ IIS server. I'm setting up 301 redirects in PHP, but it doesn't seem to be working. My post URLs have the following format: ...

...move the object creation now. The setup phase of the timeit loops is only called once (docs.python.org/2/library/timeit.html#timeit.Timer.timeit). – Ellis Percival Sep 30 '14 at 10:09 ...

... Ultimately, use whichever pattern you want to use and comes more naturally in the context. While for(... in ...) is quite convenient and syntactically brief, enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: has a number of features that may or may not prove interesting: enumerateObjectsUsingBlock: will be as fas...

... This bit of code allows you to create new classes with dynamic names and parameter names. The parameter verification in __init__ just does not allow unknown parameters, if you need other verifications, like type, or that they are mandatory...

... If you want to insert all the columns then insert into def select * from abc; here the number of columns in def should be equal to abc. if you want to insert the subsets of columns then insert into def (col1,col2, col3 ) select scol1,scol2,...

What is the best way to go about calling a function given a string with the function's name in a Python program. For example, let's say that I have a module foo , and I have a string whose content is "bar" . What is the best way to call foo.bar() ? ...

...ff using decimal numbers is A LOT more intuitive (we have 10 fingers after all - at least most of us), so declaring a number of something using hexadecimals seems like an unnecessary code obfuscation. – Andrew Cyrul Apr 13 '17 at 9:27 ...