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How to reinstall [email protected] from Homebrew?

August 15, 2022 by Magenaut

I have been having issues with openssl and [email protected] with brew, which have explained here (unresolved). The documented workaround to reinstall Python and openssl was not working, so I decided I would uninstall and reinstall Python.

Categories [email protected], Python, Q&A Tags homebrew, macos, python, python-2.x Leave a comment

What is more ‘pythonic’ for ‘not’

August 15, 2022 by Magenaut

It is one operator, translating to one bytecode operand. The other line is really not (4 in a); two operators.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, python-2.x Leave a comment

How dangerous is setting self.__class__ to something else?

August 15, 2022 by Magenaut

Say I have a class, which has a number of subclasses.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, python-2.x, python-3.x Leave a comment

Uninstall python built from source?

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve installed python 2.6 from source, and somehow later mistakenly installed another python 2.6 from a package manager too.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags linux, python, python-2.x, ubuntu Leave a comment

write() versus writelines() and concatenated strings

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

So I’m learning Python. I am going through the lessons and ran into a problem where I had to condense a great many target.write() into a single write(), while having a "n" between each user input variable(the object of write()).

Categories Python, Q&A Tags file-io, python, python-2.x, string Leave a comment

Safest way to convert float to integer in python?

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

Python’s math module contain handy functions like floor & ceil. These functions take a floating point number and return the nearest integer below or above it. However these functions return the answer as a floating point number. For example:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags integer, math, python, python-2.x Leave a comment

Read Unicode characters from command-line arguments in Python 2.x on Windows

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

I want my Python script to be able to read Unicode command line arguments in Windows. But it appears that sys.argv is a string encoded in some local encoding, rather than Unicode. How can I read the command line in full Unicode?

Categories Python, Q&A Tags command-line, python, python-2.x, unicode, windows Leave a comment

Command-line input causes SyntaxError

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a simple Python question that I’m having brain freeze on. This code snippet works. But when I substitue “258 494-3929” with phoneNumber, I get the following error below:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags command-line, input, python, python-2.x Leave a comment

Why does input() give a SyntaxError when I just press enter?

August 13, 2022 by Magenaut

I have the following python code:

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Why does assigning to True/False not work as I expect?

August 13, 2022 by Magenaut

As part of answering another question, I wrote the following code whose behaviour seems bizarre at first glance:

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