Many modern regex implementations interpret the \w character class shorthand as "any letter, digit, or connecting punctuation" (usually: underscore). That way, a regex like \w+ matches words like hello , élève , GOÄ_432 or gefräßig . ...

I'm putting in some effort to learn Python, and I am paying close attention to common coding standards. This may seem like a pointlessly nit-picky question, but I am trying to focus on best-practices as I learn, so I don't have to unlearn any 'bad' habits. ...

...d of selecting a node like /path/to/x:somenode you can select all nodes and filter for the one with the correct local name: /path/to/*[local-name() = 'somenode'] share | improve this answer ...

...19.4 The instanceof operator The instanceof operator requires the left operand to be of type Any, an object type, or a type parameter type, and the right operand to be of type Any or a subtype of the 'Function' interface type. The result is always of the Boolean primitive type. So you could use myS...

I often see source code using types like uint32, uint64 and I wonder if they should be defined by the programmer in the application code or if they are defined in a standard lib header. ...

...'t have an implementation for the + operator. You can use | for set union and & for set intersection. Sets do implement - as set difference. You can also use ^ for symmetric set difference (i.e., it will return a new set with only the objects that appear in one set but do not appear in both se...

... npm view, npm show, npm info, and npm v all do the same thing. – Evan Hahn May 26 '14 at 8:36 4 ...

I'm trying to combine the slice [1, 2] and the slice [3, 4] . How can I do this in Go? 7 Answers ...

... For better understanding, I would replace the 65 with 'A' – Stef Heyenrath Nov 11 '11 at 11:12 11 ...

So Python has positive and negative infinity: 5 Answers 5 ...