I have a function taking float arguments (generally integers or decimals with one significant digit), and I need to output the values in a string with two decimal places (5 -> 5.00, 5.5 -> 5.50, etc). How can I do this in Python? ...

...S to send the SQL statements between each GO in individual batches sequentially. The ; is a SQL statement delimiter, but for the most part the engine can interpret where your statements are broken up. The main exception, and place where the ; is used most often is before a Common Table Expression ...

...ontext of the current shell using the source or . command and then simply call the function. See help source for more information. share | improve this answer | follow ...

... (PartlyStolen from ServerFault) I think that both are functionally the same, but they simply have different authors, and the one is simply named more appropriately than the other. Here is a quick backgrounder in naming conventions (for those unfamiliar), which explains the frustratio...

It seems to me these two views are virtually identical, especially since Galileo. Is this true, or am I missing out on some features of one or the other? ...

...the computer will have a service account that has permissions to do practically anything (more specifically the superset of all of the different additional privileges granted to that account). It is always preferable from a security perspective to run as your own service account that has precisely ...

...dent encoding who value is derived from user's default language and potentially other factors. The use of this encoding might sometimes be needed when interpreting user documents with unknown encodings, in the absence of other hints. This encoding should be used rarely, if at all. Note that some po...

...ion in the same way it would change the scope of a variable. This is especially important for use with closures to reduce total global namespace pollution. The functions defined within another function won't be accessible outside the function unless they have been attached to an object that is acce...

...ed. If f always uses its first argument, this means Haskell has to recurse all the way down to the innermost term, then work backwards computing each application of f. This is obviously a far cry from the efficient tail-recursion most functional programmers know and love! In fact, even though fold...

...d the clearpage. It appears, in order for \includeonly to work one has to call the package immediately after \documentclass{...}. In the complex environment of my dissertation I also ran into problems with broken references. A good workaround, when includeonly is not needed for a final version, is ...