...od for implementing a fallback for missing attributes, and is probably the one of two you want. __getattribute__ is invoked before looking at the actual attributes on the object, and so can be tricky to implement correctly. You can end up in infinite recursions very easily. New-style classes deri...

... Have you bridged the gap with any design patterns, e.g. to translate from one to the other? I'm not sure that's feasible. It's more of a complete redesign, like translating a functional style program to an object-oriented style. In general, there are far fewer document types than there are SQL tab...

.... If you accidentally get a cookie set on your site with the same name as one of your form parameters, then the forms that rely on that parameter will mysteriously stop working properly due to cookie values overriding the expected parameters. This is very easy to do if you have multiple apps on the...

...'s notation for "the commit before" - that's the commit before the current one. (If the current is a merge, it uses the first parent.) – Cascabel Mar 27 '10 at 16:41 1 ...

... pad rather than scale, to add a black row/column. Scaling an image up by one pixel will blur it. – Glenn Maynard Nov 14 '15 at 22:20 5 ...

...ey care how many platforms the app can run on when they they don't use but one platform. They just care if the app does what they need it to on the hardware they need to run it on. Unless they have a specific need to run the app on many different platforms, the fact that it does brings them no val...

...his just creating the new branch but cannot able to copy the contents from one branch to another branch. When i try this commands it just showing "The branch named **** already exist". – anoop Sep 27 '13 at 14:45 ...

I have two divs that are not nested, one below the other. They are both within one parent div, and this parent div repeats itself. So essentially: ...

... W3 guideline is reasonable. It simply states that one shouldn't make an assumption on how the server handles the URL you are submitting. It is up to the server how to handle the request URL. Most of web servers are unix/linux and that means most of web servers are case sensi...

...ith this method, passing a null value means you want the default value for one parameter when you want to override the default value for a parameter that comes after it. As stated in other answers, default parameters only work as the last arguments to the function. If you want to declare th...