... In Python 2: mylist = ['x', 3, 'b'] print '[%s]' % ', '.join(map(str, mylist)) In Python 3 (where print is a builtin function and not a syntax feature anymore): mylist = ['x', 3, 'b'] print('[%s]' % ', '.join(map(str, mylist...

I need to know if a variable in Python is a string or a dict. Is there anything wrong with the following code? 10 Answers ...

...ming exercise and to compare my (surely not optimal) implementations in C, Python, Erlang and Haskell. In order to get some higher execution times, I search for the first triangle number with more than 1000 divisors instead of 500 as stated in the original problem. ...

I am having problems understanding how to email an attachment using Python. I have successfully emailed simple messages with the smtplib . Could someone please explain how to send an attachment in an email. I know there are other posts online but as a Python beginner I find them hard to understand....

...als in the result, even though your input values are integers. By default, Python does integer division: it discards the remainder. To divide things through all the way, we need to use floating-point numbers. Fortunately, dividing an int by a float will produce a float, so we just use 2.0 for our di...

I'm calling a function in Python which I know may stall and force me to restart the script. 18 Answers ...

Say I have a Python function that returns multiple values in a tuple: 11 Answers 11 ...

I am writing a python package with modules that need to open data files in a ./data/ subdirectory. Right now I have the paths to the files hardcoded into my classes and functions. I would like to write more robust code that can access the subdirectory regardless of where it is installed on the use...

...me intensive numerical solver after all), the re module is in the standard Python library and it doesn't hurt to load it. – Ioannis Filippidis Apr 22 '14 at 7:27 24 ...

If one wants to develop a user interface in Python, which one to go for: TkInter or PyQt? 6 Answers ...