Getting distance between two points based on latitude/longitude
I tried implementing this formula: http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/haversine/
The aplet does good for the two points I am testing:
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Adding days to a date in Python
I have a date "10/10/11(m-d-y)" and I want to add 5 days to it using a Python script. Please consider a general solution that works on the month ends also.
Find a file in python
I have a file that may be in a different place on each user’s machine. Is there a way to implement a search for the file? A way that I can pass the file’s name and the directory tree to search in?
Convert Python sequence to NumPy array, filling missing values
The implicit conversion of a Python sequence of variable-length lists into a NumPy array cause the array to be of type object.
Threading in a PyQt application: Use Qt threads or Python threads?
I’m writing a GUI application that regularly retrieves data through a web connection. Since this retrieval takes a while, this causes the UI to be unresponsive during the retrieval process (it cannot be split into smaller parts). This is why I’d like to outsource the web connection to a separate worker thread.
How to do exponential and logarithmic curve fitting in Python? I found only polynomial fitting
I have a set of data and I want to compare which line describes it best (polynomials of different orders, exponential or logarithmic).
How can I capitalize the first letter of each word in a string?
The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word boundaries, which may not be the desired result:
Printing all instances of a class
With a class in Python, how do I define a function to print every single instance of the class in a format defined in the function?
About Python’s built in sort() method
What algorithm is the built in sort() method in Python using? Is it possible to have a look at the code for that method?
How do I read text from the clipboard?
How do I read text from the (windows) clipboard with python?