... If you're really just annoyed at using try/excepts all over the place, please just write a helper function: def RepresentsInt(s): try: int(s) return True except ValueError: return False >>> pri...

... The use of zero to start counting is actually an optimization trick from Assembly programmers. Instead of assigning 1 to the count register, they XOR'ed the register with itself, which was slightly faster in CPU cycles. This meant that counting would start with 0 an...

...me with its kind (using Joel's example: safe string or unsafe string), so called Apps Hungarian has its uses and is still valuable. share edited Sep 26 '08 at 19:56 ...

...nough to brew install Imagemagick. You have to also PECL install it so the PHP module is loaded. From this SO answer: brew install php brew install imagemagick brew install pkg-config pecl install imagick And you may need to sudo apachectl restart. Then check your phpinfo() within a simple php s...

..., StackOverflow has grown quite a bit in terms of quality. This "answer" really does not address the question at all. In fact, few of the top-voted answers do. Here are two answers that will work as of git v2.28.0: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4754797/430062 https://stackoverflow.com/a/7216269/43006...

... I would basically recommend using it only when the resulting statement is extremely short and represents a significant increase in conciseness over the if/else equivalent without sacrificing readability. Good example: int result = Check...

... Since PHP 7.1, array_rand() uses the Mersenne Twister generator: rand() aliased to mt_rand() and srand() aliased to mt_srand(). In practice it should now be good enough. – Gras Double Jun 29 '...

...= s.get('https://localhost/profile_data.json', ...) #cookies sent automatically! #do whatever, s will keep your cookies intact :) For more about sessions: https://requests.kennethreitz.org/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects ...

...s, set the redirect_uri in your login url request like so: (using Facebook php-sdk) $facebook->getLoginUrl(array('redirect_uri' => $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'],'scope' => 'user_about_me')); UPDATE The above is exactly as the documentation says to fix this. However, Facebook's documented solu...

...ous ways: POSIX standard tr $ echo "$a" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' hi all AWK $ echo "$a" | awk '{print tolower($0)}' hi all Non-POSIX You may run into portability issues with the following examples: Bash 4.0 $ echo "${a,,}" hi all sed $ echo "$a" | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\L\1/' hi all # t...