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Making a collatz program automate the boring stuff

I’m trying to write a Collatz program using the guidelines from a project found at the end of chapter 3 of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I’m using python 3.4.0. Following is the project outline: Write a function named collatz() that has one parameter named number. If the number is even, t…

Viewing .npy images

How can I view images stored with a .npy extension and save my own files in that format? Answer .npy is the file extension for numpy arrays – you can read them using numpy.load: One of the easiest ways to view them is using matplotlib’s imshow function: You could also use PIL or pillow: These func…

Launch program with python on a specific core

there is any way to launch program by its API using python and run it on a specified core? i need to launch a cpu-expensive application about 5 times and run it on different core in order to save time. i’m using windows Answer The process can set its own affinity, here is what I do (you can change the

Django change database field from integer to CharField

I have a Django app with a populated (Postgres) database that has an integer field that I need to change to a CharField. I need to start storing data with leading zeros in this field. If I run migrate (Django 1.8.4), I get the following error: I tried searching Google, but didn’t really find much help. …

Django Model Field Uniqueness Validation

I have a django user model that has fields ID, PW and DeviceID. The database I’m using is MySQL. In this model a user can have many different devices, so there can be many identical ID & PW (same user), with different DeviceIDs in the table. But if all the 3 fields are the same, then it is considere…