The title basically says it all. I need to calculate the area inside a polygon on the Earth’s surface using Python. Calculating area enclosed by arbitrary polygon on Earth’s surface says something about it, but remains vague on the technical details:
This is my first question and I started to learn Python.
Is there a difference between:
I have created a script that moves files from one folder to another.
But since the original folder is the Downloads folder I need it to always run in the background.
How do you convert a string into a list?
I want to create a plot consisting of several subplots with shared x/y axes.
It should look something like this from the documentation (though my subplots will be scatterblots): (code here)
I would like my script to act differently in an interactive shell session and when running with redirected stdout (for example when piped to some other command).
I’m using sns.lmplot to plot a linear regression, dividing my dataset into two groups with a categorical variable.
Using NLTK and WordNet, how do I convert simple tense verb into its present, past or past participle form?
I am a long time user of Python and really like the way that the dictionaries are used. They are very intuitive and easy to use. Is there a good Java equivalent to python’s dictionaries? I have heard of people using hashmaps and hashtables. Could someone explain the similarities and differences of using hashtables and hashmaps versus python’s dictionaries?