I would like to split a string only where there are at least two or more whitespaces. For example Results: I would like it to look like this: Answer Where s matches any whitespace character, like tnrfv and more {2,} is a repetition, meaning “2 or more”
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Convert list to tuple in Python [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Why does code like `str = str(…)` cause a TypeError, but only the second time? (20 answers) Closed 7 days ago. I’m trying to convert a list to a tuple. Most solutions on Google offer the following code: However, the code results in an error message when I ru…
How to find out the words begin with vowels in a list?
My code doesn’t right, and it will print out all the words in the original list. Answer You can also use a list comprehension like this
Opening zipfile of unsupported compression-type silently returns empty filestream, instead of throwing exception
Seem to be knocking my head off a newbie error and I am not a newbie. I have a 1.2G known-good zipfile ‘train.zip’ containing a 3.5G file ‘train.csv’. I open the zipfile and file itself without any exceptions (no LargeZipFile), but the resulting filestream appears to be empty. (UNIX &#…
Sort dict in jinja2 loop
I’m still learning jinja2 and flask and I’m having a difficulty using dictsort in jinja2. So I’m passing this dict into a jinja2 template: What I want is create a table that is sorted by the value of the key ‘totalpts’. I tried all sort of things and it just doesn’t take to…
Python: How can I calculate the average word length in a sentence using the .split command?
new to python here. I am trying to write a program that calculate the average word length in a sentence and I have to do it using the .split command. btw im using python 3.2 this is what I’ve wrote so far So far i have the user enter a sentence and it successfully splits each individual word they enter,
Python Unit test with i18 but without webapp2
I encountered a problem with unit tests when use i18 in my project. My project uses framewoks i18 and webapp2 The function uses the translation by i18. But when I test, I get the error – missing global variable request. For example it is: and I have message: I have a solution to this problem, but I do n…
Why do function objects evaluate to True in python?
In python it is valid to make a construction like: I wish to ask what is the logic that a function pointer is evaluated to True. Why was this kind of construction inserted in the language? Answer A lot of things evaluate to True in Python. From the documentation on Boolean operators: In the context of Boolean…
Reason for globals() in Python?
What is the reason of having globals() function in Python? It only returns dictionary of global variables, which are already global, so they can be used anywhere… I’m asking only out of curiosity, trying to learn python. I can’t really see the point here? Only time I would need it, was if I …
How to copy directory recursively in python and overwrite all?
I’m trying to copy /home/myUser/dir1/ and all its contents (and their contents, etc.) to /home/myuser/dir2/ in python. Furthermore, I want the copy to overwrite everything in dir2/. It looks like distutils.dir_util.copy_tree might be the right tool for the job, but not sure if there’s anything eas…