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How do I add five numbers from user input in Python?

As a practice exercise, I am trying to get five numbers from a user and return the sum of all five number using a while loop. I managed to gather the five numbers, but the sum is not provided by my code (I get a number, but it is always double the last number). I believe the issue is with

Most recent previous business day in Python

I need to subtract business days from the current date. I currently have some code which needs always to be running on the most recent business day. So that may be today if we’re Monday thru Friday, but if it’s Saturday or Sunday then I need to set it back to the Friday before the weekend. I currently have some

How to use glob() to find files recursively?

This is what I have: but I want to search the subfolders of src. Something like this would work: But this is obviously limited and clunky. Answer pathlib.Path.rglob Use pathlib.Path.rglob from the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. If you don’t want to use pathlib, use can use glob.glob(‘**/*.c’), but don’t forget to pass in the recursive keyword

Can one use the Django database layer outside of Django?

I’ve got a nice database I’ve created in Django, and I’d like to interface with it through some python scripts outside of my website stuff. I’m curious if it’s possible to use the Django database API outside of a Django site, and if so does anyone have any info on how it can be done? Google hasn’t yielded many useful

Hiding axis text in matplotlib plots

I’m trying to plot a figure without tickmarks or numbers on either of the axes (I use axes in the traditional sense, not the matplotlib nomenclature!). An issue I have come across is where matplotlib adjusts the x(y)ticklabels by subtracting a value N, then adds N at the end of the axis. This may be vague, but the following simplified

Getting next element while cycling through a list

When this reaches the last element, an IndexError is raised (as is the case for any list, tuple, dictionary, or string that is iterated). I actually want at that point for nextelem to equal li[0]. My rather cumbersome solution to this was Is there a better way of doing this? Answer After thinking this through carefully, I think this is

django – inlineformset_factory with more than one ForeignKey

I’m trying to do a formset with the following models (boost is the primary): I want to display a form to add a Boost item, trying to do in this way : Here are my questions : 1 – When rendered, the combo box for “Creator” shows a list of “db.userInfo” (literally)! I want this to display db.userInfo.auth.username that is

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