What’s the difference between __builtin__ and __builtins__?
I was coding today and noticed something. If I open a new interpreter session (IDLE) and check what’s defined with the dir function I get this:
python-2.7
Remove text between () and []
I have a very long string of text with () and [] in it. I’m trying to remove the characters between the parentheses and brackets but I cannot figure out how.
Why does this not work as an array membership test?
>>> 5 in [1, 2, 3, 4] == False False I get that this is a bizarre way to test membership, and that >>> 5 not in [1, 2, 3, 4] True is the “correct” way. What confuses me is that its behavior is different from both >>> (5 in [1, 2, 3, 4]) == … Read more
What is the difference between len() and sys.getsizeof() methods in python?
When I ran the below code I got 3 and 36 as the answers respectively.
“OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted” when installing Scrapy in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) (System Integrity Protection)
I’m trying to install Scrapy Python framework in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) via pip. The installation script downloads the required modules and at some point returns the following error:
Convert list to tuple in Python
I’m trying to convert a list to a tuple.
How to convert a string to utf-8 in Python
I have a browser which sends utf-8 characters to my Python server, but when I retrieve it from the query string, the encoding that Python returns is ASCII. How can I convert the plain string to utf-8?
Scrollbar on Matplotlib showing page
I want to know if there is a manner to put a scrollbar (horizontal or vertical) on a matplotlib showing page (plt.show) that contains several sublots (sublot2grid). At the moment, the only solution I find is to make the subplots very small, which isn’t very elegant at all.
How To Get All The Contiguous Substrings Of A String In Python?
Here is my code, but I want a better solution, how do you think about the problem?