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• #include statements that include a slash (header files made up of two parts)

  - by wpeters

  Sometimes I see header files of the form. #include <sys/sysinfo.h> // found in /usr/include/sys/sysinfo.h What is this called and why are these header files different from most others like #include <stdio.h> Maybe a group of related header files been grouped, but if I…

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• Searching for simple variable names like 'c' or 'x' in Emacs.

  - by wpeters

  I often wish to search for variables that are simply called 'c' or 'count'. For example int c, count; Unfortunately when I use an incremental search for 'c' or 'count' I get a lot of unnecessary hits like the 'c' in 'choice', or the 'count' in 'wordcount' which do not interest me. I know Emacs can do i-searches with regular expressions but I…

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• Copy and pasting code into the Python interpreter

  - by wpeters

  There is a snippet of code that I would like to copy and paste into my Python interpreter. Unfortunately due to Python's sensitivity to whitespace it is not straightforward to copy and paste it a way that makes sense. (I think the whitespace gets mangled) Is there a better way? Maybe I can load the snippet from a file. This is just an small…

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• Python help() function and the string.title function

  - by wpeters

  What doesn't import string;help(string.title) seem to work but help(string.strip) works just fine?

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• Python: Picking an element without replacement

  - by wpeters

  I would like to slice random letters from a string. Given s="howdy" I would like to pick elements from 's' without replacement but keep the index number. For example >>> random.sample(s,len(s)) ['w', 'h', 'o', 'd', 'y'] is close to what I want, but I would actually prefer something like [('w',2), ('h',0), ('o',1), ('d',3),…

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