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What is “Pure Python?”

Many questions on Stack Overflow refer to “Pure Python” (some random examples from the “similar questions” list: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). I also encounter the concept elsewhere on the web, e.g. in the package documentation for imageio and in tutorials such as “An intro…

Python pandas cumsum with reset everytime there is a 0

I have a matrix with 0s and 1s, and want to do a cumsum on each column that resets to 0 whenever a zero is observed. For example, if we have the following: The result I desire is: However, when I try df.cumsum() * df, I am able to correctly identify the 0 elements, but the counter does not reset:

How to remove or change the default help command?

How do you remove or at least change the format of the default help command in discord.py? I think changing the format would be nice, I don’t really like the format at all. Answer Try this: Put this at the top of your code, after your imports. Then create your own. Or to format it check this out: Click …

How to compare signs of two numbers without using ?

I need to compare 2 numbers, if they have the same sign (positive or negative), print “same sign”. If they have a different sign, print “different sign” The catch is, I need to do it without the use of < or > (greater than or less than) and only using addition and subtraction of …

What’s preventing python from being compiled?

I understand that Python is an interpreted language, but the performance would be much higher if it was compiled. What exactly is preventing python from being compiled? Why was python designed as an interpreted language and not a compiled one in the first place? Note: I know about .pyc files, but those are by…

SQLAlchemy nested model creation one-liner

I’m looking to create a new object from q2, which fails because the Question class is expecting options to be a dictionary of Options, and it’s receiving a dict of dicts instead. So, unpacking obviously fails with a nested model. What is the best approach to handle this? Is there something that&#8…