...Very elegant. Works like a charm. Thank you. – Ofeargall Jan 5 '11 at 18:43 12 Just to be clear, ...

... Example problem While the setting of defaultencoding to UTF-8 isn't the root cause in the following example, it shows how problems are masked and how, when the input encoding changes, the code breaks in an unobvious way: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 3131: i...

Basically I want to do this: 14 Answers 14 ...

... importantly, notice that there is no dynamic dispatch. When logSalary is called on the instance that is stored as a SoftwareEngineer it calls the overridden version of the method. When logSalary is called on the instance after it has been cast to an Employee, it calls the original implementation (i...

... __stdcall is the calling convention used for the function. This tells the compiler the rules that apply for setting up the stack, pushing arguments and getting a return value. There are a number of other calling conventions, __cd...

...olution below that applies Object.assign(..) recursively that can automatically resolve properties (with a bit of information provided in advance) – vir us Dec 8 '17 at 16:13 ...

...to declare it explicitly. When you create an instance of the A class and call its methods, it will be passed automatically, as in ... a = A() # We do not pass any argument to the __init__ method a.method_a('Sailor!') # We only pass a single argument The __init__ method is roughly w...

... This problem calls for a z-score or standard score, which will take into account the historical average, as other people have mention, but also the standard deviation of this historical data, making it more robust than just using the avera...

... A restrict-qualified pointer (or reference)... ! ...is basically a promise to the compiler that for the scope of the pointer, the target of the pointer will only be accessed through that pointer (and pointers copied from it). In C++ compilers that support it i...

...ain can become nested, and it quickly becomes unwieldy to wire them up manually. Even with factories, the duplication of your code is just not worth it. IoC containers can be complex, yes. But for this simple case I've shown it's incredibly easy. Okay, let's justify this even more. Let's say ...