Python slicing is a computationally fast way to methodically access parts of your data. In my opinion, to be even an intermediate Python programmer, it's one aspect of the language that it …

Jun 16, 2012 · There are two operators in Python for the "not equal" condition - a.) != If values of the two operands are not equal, then the condition becomes true. (a != b) is true.

In Python, you deal with data in an abstract way and seldom increment through indices and such. The closest-in-spirit thing to ++ is the next method of iterators.

Python 2.4 adds the command line switch -m to allow modules to be located using the Python module namespace for execution as scripts. The motivating examples were standard library …

Jun 17, 2011 · 96 What does the “at” (@) symbol do in Python? @ symbol is a syntactic sugar python provides to utilize decorator, to paraphrase the question, It's exactly about what does …

I want to put output information of my program to a folder. if given folder does not exist, then the program should create a new folder with folder name as given in the program. Is this possible? I...

Mar 20, 2013 · Working on a python assignment and was curious as to what [:-1] means in the context of the following code: instructions = f.readline()[:-1] Have searched on here on S.O. …

I have this folder structure: application ├── app │ └── folder │ └── file.py └── app2 └── some_folder └── some_file.py How can I import a function from file.py, from within som...

Jul 21, 2010 · Why is it 'better' to use my_dict.keys() over iterating directly over the dictionary? Iteration over a dictionary is clearly documented as yielding keys. It appears you had Python 2 …

To get only the command line arguments (not including the name of the Python file) import sys sys.argv[1:] The [1:] is a slice starting from the second element (index 1) and going to the end …