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Python file data position

The problem I am facing is that I need to find the position of a string Code: file = open(‘data.txt’, ‘r’) print file.read data.txt contains “banana”, “mango”, “apple”, “pear”, “dragon fruit” For example how do I find the posi…

Use List Comprehension to get the top n items

I tried: but that won’t work because sort() doesn’t return the sorted list Answer .sort() sorts the list in-place list.sort() sorts the list in-place, mutating the list indices, and returns None (like all in-place operations) so you’d have to do this: Output: The difference between .sort() a…

Explain the logic of ‘Count of N-digit numbers with absolute difference of adjacent digits not exceeding K’ in Detail

Can someone please help me understand the logic of following Dynamic Programmming question Found this one at geeksforgeeks.com. I am unable to understand even after going through the answer provided. Question: Count of N-digit numbers with absolute difference of adjacent digits not exceeding K | Set 2 Given t…

Python 3.8: Escape non-ascii characters as unicode

I have input and output text files which can contain non-ascii characters. Sometimes I need to escape them and sometimes I need to write the non-ascii characters. Basically if I get “Bürgerhaus” I need to output “Bu00FCrgerhaus”. If I get “Bu00FCrgerhaus” I need to output &…

pip has problems with metadata

I’m trying to install the win32core module using pip, but it keeps displaying warnings about the package/wheel metadata not matching with the filename (inconsistent version). Here’s a snippet of the text displayed in the command prompt before it goes to download older versions: As I’ve encou…