...h under some circumstances." plus "dirname() operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such as '..'. – rik Jan 10 '11 at 9:49 ...

...licy, but luckily Oracle bought Berkeley DB. We also had to write a lot of extra tools - we couldn't just use Crystal Reports for example. The other disadvantage of our graph database was that we built it ourselves, which meant when we hit a problem (usually with scalability) we had to solve it our...

...ion has the merit to avoid another warning caused when you declare self.my_string:str = None => "Expected type 'str' got None instead. Am curious if str() takes more memory than None, and why this solution is less pythonic if it avoids an IDE warning... – Nono London ...

... element will introduce margin-like spacing. Alternatively, you could add extra (empty) columns where you want extra space. And you could also add padding inside the table-cells; that padding will be included in the background however, so that may not be what you want. But you're right that it's ...

...ass something other than integers? what if I need to pass an object like a string? – user102008 Apr 6 '11 at 22:55 @us...

... to remember when accessing properties this way they are evaluated so use strings unless you are doing something with a counter or using dynamic method names. this means obj[method] would give you an undefined error while obj["method"] would not You must use this notation if you are using characte...

... For example: List(1,3,5).foldLeft(0) { _ + _ } List(1,3,5).foldLeft(List[String]()) { (a, b) => b.toString :: a } The foldLeft will apply the closure with the last folded result (first time using initial value) and the next value. reduceLeft on the other hand will first combine two values f...

...n a cellular automaton (CA) that follows rule 2, then whenever a three-bit string matches rule 2's configuration, the center bit becomes (or stays, in this case) true on the next iteration. A CA's rules are described as a bitstring. Say it's rule 110 (my favorite). In binary, 110 is 01101110. The d...

... students are not trained for it. It's easy when you are writing your own string class. When you are testing a real-life product, you run into challenges that nobody told you about in the powerpoint slides: User interaction. Half of your application is the user interface logic. How do you test it...

...turally it makes little sense to have it afterwards), one can just store a string and try to call the function later. share | improve this answer | follow | ...