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I am writing a Python package where I have two classes in different files that (indirectly) depend on each other. If I wouldn't care about type-hints, there would be no problem, but unfortunately,...
I have a very simple source file -- HelloWorld.java public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("hello world"); } } I have th...
So far, existing Meta discussion seems to have at least hinted at the possibility of using separate categories here: To shuffle closed questions out of the way (globally for Codidact) (also) Fo...
Use at to schedule the command, using subprocess from Python to invoke at. It doesn't even require shell=True. For example: import shlex, subprocess subprocess.run( # `at` command to run n...
It's not clear where this stack trace comes from (either from an exception or the current thread), but it doesn't matter, the way to do it is the same. Both Exception's and Thread's have the getSt...
When looking at this, we might pretty soon note that storing strings in the same buffer by using null terminators as separator is quite clunky. It blocks us from using handy functions like strtok, ...
A lot of people who maintain FOSS projects would like to get more contributions. What can the maintainer do to ensure that potential contributors are converted into actual contributors? There are...
How to delete a branch from a remote in git? E.g. maybe you had this branch locally too, but you deleted it already according to this question. Now you want to get rid of the corresponding remote ...
NotImplementedError should generally be viewed as indicating some design problem. You should not be reaching for it as a matter of course. Here are some potential times you might feel a desire to ...
This is my solution to the first task of the Advent of Code 2023. The task description is: On each line, the calibration value can be found by combining the first digit and the last digit (in t...
A question should be closed when it cannot be meaningfully answered by someone who knows the topic. Which might indeed mean that the one(s) casting the close vote(s) would need domain knowledge. T...
Where should I ask questions about Git?
I have a site hosted through GitHub and I'm using footers for special links and it also serves as my main navigation bar for now. I find it a little frustrating to manually copy-paste the footer's ...
It depends. Pure Python is usually forward-compatible with newer minor versions, but this is not always the case. Features/modules that were available in a previous minor version may no longer be ...
Recently, Python updated from 3.11 to 3.12 and now all my libraries are gone. Actually they're in the old 3.11 site-packages, but now that python points to 3.12 those are not active. Every time I r...
First: What is an opaque pointer in C? Now when it comes to testing such a type, I know of 3 ways: Include the source file (the one containing the definition of the type and the functions tha...
This is my first try at automating building and testing some C code for these platforms: Linux Windows MacOS OpenBSD (arm64 and x86-64) FreeBSD (arm64 and x86-64) NetBSD Oracle Solaris Om...
Files with .py extension are scripts. You run them with python myscript.py. Python is an imperative language, so executing a file will run each line one by one, starting from the top, and exit whe...
If you block proxies and VPNs it will stop real users. reCAPTCHA also stops real users, often blocks proxies and VPNs, and isn't very good at stopping bots. You can try a custom CAPTCHA. It can b...
Until recently, I'd yet to come across a situation in which I'd had any reason to qualify a DNS namespace further than its TLD. Then, I authored softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/revisions/456...
As part of a general effort to produce basic Q&As for Python, recently I've been focused on issues related to starting up an interpreter and running the code - so, questions about setting up an...
I found a strange expression in some Python code: from library import HOME_DIRECTORY file = HOME_DIRECTORY / "file.json" It seems to be dividing a string by another string in order to do som...
I'm the author of this question: What is the advantage of creating instances from a method rather than constructor? A user provides an answer and I want to open a comment thread. I get this respons...
Occasionally I run into some strange pre-processor code with a list like this: #define LIST \ X(1) \ X(2) \ X(3) \ And then code followed by other obscure macros and ...
I came across the following code snippet on the SEI CERT C Coding Standard wiki: Compliant Solution Any valid pointer to void can be converted to intptr_t or uintptr_t and back with no change i...
