...tor that allows me to repeat some String n times. I know I could write this using a for loop, but I wish to avoid for loops whenever necessary and a simple direct method should exist somewhere. ...

I'm trying to determine if a particular item in an Array of strings is an integer or not. 9 Answers ...

I am new to this kind of stuff, but lately I've been hearing a lot about how good Node.js is. Considering how much I love working with jQuery and JavaScript in general, I can't help but wonder how to decide when to use Node.js. The web application I have in mind is something like Bitly - takes s...

... The problem is that multiprocessing must pickle things to sling them among processes, and bound methods are not picklable. The workaround (whether you consider it "easy" or not;-) is to add the infrastructure to your program to allow su...

How can I check if a Python object is a string (either regular or Unicode)? 15 Answers ...

I know questions with this title have been answered before, but please do read on. I've read thoroughly all the other questions/answers on this error before posting. ...

...uples are compared position by position: the first item of the first tuple is compared to the first item of the second tuple; if they are not equal (i.e. the first is greater or smaller than the second) then that's the result of the comparison, else the second item is considered, then the third and ...

I'm gathering statistics on a list of websites and I'm using requests for it for simplicity. Here is my code: 19 Answers ...

... UPDATE: This question was the subject of my blog in May of 2015. Thanks for the great question! See the blog for a long list of falsehoods that people commonly believe about finalization. When should I manually create a destructor...

There is no built in reverse function for Python's str object. What is the best way of implementing this method? 28 Ans...