How to test if one string is a subsequence of another?
A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without changing the order of the remaining elements
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Why can’t I end a raw string with a backslash?
First the tokenizer looks for the closing quote. It recognizes backslashes when it does this, but doesn’t interpret them – it just looks for a sequence of string elements followed by the closing quote mark, where “string elements” are either (a character that’s not a backslash, closing quote or a newline – except newlines are allowed in triple-quotes), or (a backslash, followed by any single character).
Element-wise string concatenation in numpy
Is this a bug?
Python: Using vars() to assign a string to a variable
I find it very useful to be able to create new variables during runtime and create a dictionary of the results for processing later, i.e. writing to a file:
Convert string to list. Python [string.split() acting weird]
Safely evaluate an expression node or a Unicode or Latin-1 encoded
string containing a Python expression. The string or node provided may
only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings,
numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, and None.
How is unicode represented internally in Python?
How is Unicode string literally represented in Python’s memory?
When to use %r instead of %s in Python?
On Learn Python the Hard Way page 21, I see this code example: x = "There are %d types of people." % 10 … print "I said: %r." % x Why is %r used here instead of %s? When would you use %r, and when would you use %s? Answers: Thank you for visiting the … Read more
How to generate random strings in Python?
How do you create a random string in Python?
efficiently checking that string consists of one character in Python
What is an efficient way to check that a string s in Python consists of just one character, say 'A'? Something like all_equal(s, 'A') which would behave like this:
How would I get everything before a : in a string Python
I am looking for a way to get all of the letters in a string before a : but I have no idea on where to start. Would I use regex? If so how?