... Now you can do: c = C(fd) # or: c = C.fromfilename('a filename') Notice all those classmethods still go through the same __init__, but using classmethods can be much more convenient than having to remember what combinations of keyword arguments to __init__ work. isinstance is best avoided becaus...

Is there a way in python to programmatically determine the width of the console? I mean the number of characters that fits in one line without wrapping, not the pixel width of the window. ...

... The type of a lambda expression is unspecified. But they are generally mere syntactic sugar for functors. A lambda is translated directly into a functor. Anything inside the [] are turned into constructor parameters and members of the functor object, and the parameters inside () are turned ...

...SS=2 GIT_TRACE_PACKET=2 GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE=2 GIT_TRACE_SETUP=2 GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW=2 git pull origin master -v -v; set +x – Paul Irish Jan 9 '16 at 21:22 2 ...

...(x)) and then save the document again. If you need to do this programmatically and entirely from the shell, you can use the find(...).forEach(function(x) {}) syntax. In response to the second comment below. Change the field bad from a number to a string in collection foo. db.foo.find( { 'bad' :...

... the memory management rules for declared properties, too — more specifically, for declared properties’ accessors: You take ownership of an object if you create it using a method whose name begins with “alloc”, “new”, “copy”, or “mutableCopy”. A property named newTitle, whe...

Is there a way to get all attributes/methods/fields/etc. of an object in Python? 4 Answers ...

... of Sun's symbol versioning scheme described here. One option is to statically link your binary. This is probably the easiest option. You could also build your binary in a chroot build environment, or using a glibc-new => glibc-old cross-compiler. According to the http://www.trevorpounds.com...

...eads per block should be a round multiple of the warp size, which is 32 on all current hardware. Each streaming multiprocessor unit on the GPU must have enough active warps to sufficiently hide all of the different memory and instruction pipeline latency of the architecture and achieve maximum throu...

... With new_list = my_list, you don't actually have two lists. The assignment just copies the reference to the list, not the actual list, so both new_list and my_list refer to the same list after the assignment. To actually copy the list, you have various possibilit...