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| Comment | Post #291970 |
IMO it would be better to ask a separate question, like "how do you resolve incompatible changes when merging git branches?". (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291962 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Managing a dependency for a C application I see 3 common ways to distribute such software: 1. Statically linked binary 2. Dynamically linked binary 3. Source 1 means you compile everything into a standalone binary file. This bloats the file size, but you don't have to trust the user to have the dependencies (the libraries) installed ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291888 |
Sounds like you are asking about packaging, so I made an edit suggestion.
Might be worth adding `best-practices` as well, since you seem to be asking about "should" rather than "is". (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #291888 |
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helpful | 5 months ago |
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| Edit | Post #291941 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Use cases for raising a 'NotImplementedError' in Python This is in the docs. To paraphrase: Used for abstract methods that must be overridden in subclasses When the implementation is still WIP, but you want to leave a placeholder for the method name and signature It's a way to to "reserve namespace", but with the actual method body "coming soon" ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291940 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Closing self-answered question due to not being clear enough Closing questions should be a last resort. Closed question are wasted opportunities to get more interesting and useful content, and potentially wasted opportunities to gain a new contributing user. When someone takes a chance on a low activity site like CD currently is, they are doing you favor. If t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291898 |
Still 2 questions btw:
1. Self-join all values that are more than threshold.
2. Sum them (with a group by). (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291898 |
Oh, I see now. You're not taking a cumulative sum, you're taking a sum of all values below each threshold. So there's a self-join.
You're right, my Spark-less code won't work. The one you have in the question will.
You should remove mentions of "cumulative sum" because that's not what you are t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291898 |
Also, the following code is simpler:
```
# Part 1: Filter
filtered = [i for i in all_data if i["value"] > i["threshold"]]
# Part 2: Cumsum
s = 0
for i in filtered:
s += i["value"]
i["cumsum"] = s
```
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| Comment | Post #291898 |
It would be more useful to split this into two questions:
1. How to filter rows based on a condition
2. How to do a cumsum
Combining them makes things more confusing, especially to people who want to know only one and not the other. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291912 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Run Spark code without Spark? There's not always a Spark cluster on hand to test Spark code. Is there some simple program that you can install locally, which has the same behavior as Spark (can run normal Spark scripts) without the performance and complexity? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291858 |
Sounds like we should just swap places and we'd both be perfectly happy... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291858 |
I often search for this again and again, because I forget some details of the process like the exact path of the file. I've become frustrated with a pattern where I find answers on StackOverflow and elsewhere, that force me to scroll past a disclaimer (with which I am already familiar) on why I shoul... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291858 |
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| Edit | Post #291859 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Should beginner-oriented Q&A here include basic use of a terminal (command line) for developers? IMO we should expect questions to have a single main point. Answers should address only that point. If the answerer feels like they are introducing some new topic that the asker might not know - so what? People who read the answer (not just the OP!) can just search for that topic online or ask ano... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291858 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Why does Pip display "error: externally-managed-environment", and what can I do about it? tl;dr: There's a few ways to bypass this: For all users on the machine: Get rid of `/usr/lib/python3.foo/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED`. To prevent your package manager from adding it back, replace it with a dummy/empty file. (you'll have to do this again for every minor Python version) For your user only... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291618 |
IMO it wouldn't hurt to devote at least half a sentence to it. You are right, it is merely a tool. However, I feel like anyone interested in this will also be interested in a tool like pyenv. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291618 |
I don't want to write another answer since you've already written a comprehensive one. However, I feel like this topic *has* to mention pyenv at some point. To be fair, it doesn't do anything you couldn't do "manually", but also pretty much everybody is using pyenv for all of this stuff which makes t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291627 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Subfolders for package-less module imports It looks like I was confused, and the problem I am asking about does not actually exist. Perhaps it existed in an older version, or perhaps I am simply misremembering. Regardless, I've seen other people get stuck on this, so I think posting an answer is more useful than deleting the question. At l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291615 |
I forgot about pip freeze. That's probably the best way to accomplish this. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291611 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Subfolders for package-less module imports Is there some sane way to allow Python to import from subfolders in projects that don't have a package? I have many Python programs that I implemented as Python files inside a directory, without a `setup.py` file or other packaging boilerplate. I don't `pip install` these. Simply doing `cd` into t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291609 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Reinstall old Python libraries after update 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 run a program I'm used to, I get a bunch of import errors, and have to reinstall the dependencies. I... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291349 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: How and where does Python code start running? How can I control that? 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 when the end of the file is reached. In your example, the script is saying: 1. Create a functio... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291286 |
Is this how systemd does it? I think pamac also uses the same escalation method. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291284 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Privilege escalation from Python like from systemd When you try to do a privileged systemd operation without the privilege, you get an escalation prompt: ``` $ systemctl stop docker ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== Authentication is required to stop 'docker.service'. Authenticating as: [MY USER NAME] Password: ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291257 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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VS code - stop reopening old tabs When I open VS Code inside a project dir, it reopens all the tabs that were open last time, and re-expands all the folders that were unfolded last time. I find this annoying. Usually, when I close VS Code, it's because I'm done working with what I was doing. I don't want to manually "clean up" at ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291200 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |