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Use for questions about the Python programming language. Python is a multi-paradigm, dynamically typed, multipurpose programming language.

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Q&A Docutils rst2pseudoxml.py reported error: No role entry for "meth"

docutils's rst2pseudoxml.py is reporting this error: Unknown interpreted text role "meth". even though the build command: sphinx-build -b html -d build/doctrees source build/html runs fine and pro...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by J-hen‭

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Q&A Python looping 300 000 rows

Based on my last question comes new one. How to loop over 300 000 rows and edit each row string one by one? I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to s...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by sfrow‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by NoahTheDuke‭

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Q&A Separate digits of a number in groups with different sizes

I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to separate the digits according to this pattern: 2-2-1-3-3. Example: 00002451018 becomes 00 00 2 451 018. How c...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by sfrow‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How do I support tab completion in a python CLI program?

I spend a lot of time writing CLI tools in Python, and I would like to support tab-completion in a style similar to Git. For example, subcommands should be tab-completable, options should expand ba...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A What is the purpose of `if __name__ == '__main__'`?

I often see the construct if __name__ == '__main__' in Python code. For example, the queens.py demo in the Python repository ends with these two lines: if __name__ == "__main__": main() Ho...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by J-hen‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Is it dangerous to use json.loads on untrusted data?

I manage a wsgi application that accepts JSON data via POST from potentially untrusted sources. Normally it is treated as a text blob and never parsed, but there is a value in the expected input th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question python json security
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Q&A Objection CLI - SVM Conception - Freezing prompt

Now I build a Python script to execute automaticaly a dynamic analysis on apk and I block because I use this library and call objection. When I run my script, the objection command creates an inst...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Link213‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Adding support on mathematical expressions

MarkFuncs has really gotten huge progress, at least in my eyes, and now, I want to make math possible in the language. Background MarkFuncs is a programming language that I have been working on f...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Code Reviews A simple game with pygame

I've just started playing around with pygame and have written a small game in it, of which I'd like a review. Note that I'm not only a complete beginner in pygame, but I also have very little exper...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Python Regex to parse multiple "word. word. word."

I'm trying to parse lines like "THIS. THAT..OTHER " so that "THIS. THAT." is found. There can be more than one <word><dot> separated by a space except no space after the last one. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question python regex
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Q&A How to initialize variable assignment in a non-OOP interpreter?

I'm still in the process of making MarkFuncs and having given up from copy-pasting open-source interpreters, them using OOP too, I decided to make one without OOP and with scratch alongside with th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Where did my proper divisor sum program went wrong?

Here in Python, I created a program for this challenge and I'm having trouble debugging it. I already fixed most errors I have on my program but here's what I have left: x=y=z=[];i=0.0;a=int(input...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question python debugging
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Q&A Freeing sub-process resources?

I'm using Python to invoke another program in a sub-process. I've noticed my memory sometimes gets so large as to crash the system, and I'm wondering if I'm not correctly cleaning up the memory som...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Hyperlynx‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Patol75‭

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Q&A Convert .npy files in a directory to images (.png)

I have around 20,000 .npy files in a directory. That main directory has no subfolders:- Main_dir | |--1.npy |--2.npy |--3.npy |--........ The absolute file paths are stored ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Neel_Gupta‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hoverhell‭

Question python numpy
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Q&A How do I get the error message out of a requests exception?

I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example: try: make_web_request() except RequestException as ex: logging.error(ex) Example output: ERROR : ('Connection abo...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hoverhell‭

Question python http-request
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Q&A How to prompt a user for an expanded variable in Bash?

I work with CentOS operating system and my only shell is Bash. I want to create a script which prompts a user with a question like "What is your web application root?" The user should answer dire...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Someone‭

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Q&A Help me understand why python3 string.format() raises Attribute error [closed]

I'd like some help understanding why the third call to print() raises AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'format' from os import path import inspect def myfunction(): pri...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Greg‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to override default string formatter?

It is possible to create a new formatter class by subclassing string.Formatter class and then to use it like myformatter.format("{foo:customformat}", foo=foo). It's not super-convenient though, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by luser‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Does the location of an import statement affect performance in Python?

When writing Python-based apps (e.g. Django, Flask, etc.), it's often the case that import statements can be found all over the place, often more than once for the same module. For example, you can...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

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Q&A What do the number entries mean in the sympy poly.diff(...) tuple syntax?

I am looking to take a partial derivative of a sympy polynomial with respect to a symbol in the polynomial. In the sympy documentation for poly.diff(...) it gives sample code like this: from sympy ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by jrh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

Question python sympy
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Q&A Why don't format specifiers work with lists, dictionaries and other objects?

When I want to print a number or a string, I can use f-strings (Python >= 3.6) or str.format, and I can use just the variable between braces, or use format specifiers. Ex: num, text = 10, 'abc' ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sth‭

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Q&A Different behavior with relative imports when using flask vs py

I have a small new Python 3.8 Flask project with some relative import quirks. For the DB I use SQLAlchemy with Flask-Migrate. My project has the following general structure: controllers/ static/ te...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ajv‭