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How to manage working directory in interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm having trouble with managing the working directory in Jupyter Notebook. For example, I have a .py script that requires me to change the working directory to its directory to run it properly. I've ...
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2answers
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How to Maintain Rarely Used Scripts
I come across the need to do a lot of one time scripts (related to API evaluations, data extraction, experiments etc.) that have the potential only to be used very rarely in the future. These could be ...
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1answer
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Can i be two places at once in python cycle
I'm doing this in python, in case that changes anything. I'm trying to make a lamp/bit go 1-0-1-0 until the user says "okay" the "okay" should indicate that the user has found the lamp/Bit IRL. Now ...
2votes
2answers
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What is the proper structure for maintaining single page python scripts
I am a self-taught programmer, and started my job as a PHP developer,in a small company. I then got some work to write python script. I didn't have any senior with proper Python experience. So I ...
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1answer
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What is the best approach to store and execute script from .NET application
I am making an application that will allow user to store and execute simple scripts using Web GUI. Web GUI is ASP.NET MVC and scripts can be of any kind (Python, Perl, AWK, CMD, PowerShell ect. User ...
8votes
1answer
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How are scripting languages compiled?
I know the term "scripting languages" is just a subset of programming languages, but I want to refer to programming languages such as Python and Ruby among others. First of all, why don't we need a ...
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1answer
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Move file into apropriate directory based upon first letter of second word, followed by the first two letters of the second word with Python [closed]
EDIT: Apparently the below question is too specific. Let me rephrase: I'm looking for a way to fit a letter into a list of specified ranges such that, if given the letter S and the ranges A-F, G-M, N-...
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4votes
0answers
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How to Use Python as a "Macro" runner for a C# Application
I am working on an application that the user may wish to automate some features of (but we don't know what at the moment) I would like to provide them some kind of scripting interface so they can play ...
9votes
3answers
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How to use multiple programming languages together in the same program? [closed]
Such a simple question, but I have not found a reasonable answer to this. I currently program in Python, an interpreted language. I always hear of people using multiple languages in the same program? ...
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1answer
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Python scripts link to GUI using an IDE [closed]
I am studying python. Now I can write python scripts(codes) to some extent. I am interested in making GUI to those written programs.I like to do it using an IDE rather than using PyGTK or Tkinter. Can ...
5votes
2answers
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Alternative Scripting Language to Lua? [closed]
I would like to add scripting support to an applications and with plenty scripting languages available I am a bit overwhelmed. At first I thought about Python but I guess Python is a little too big ...
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3answers
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How did Python become popular as a scripting language? [closed]
I looked at it in my field of work, which is film and pretty much every software we use comes with python as a scripting language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software That made me ...
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6votes
3answers
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Scripting language for filling out web form
I have a job as an intern at a technology company, I was given the unfortunate job of performing some data entry into our web management system. The information entered into the web form is stored in ...
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29votes
5answers
18kviews
Is programming in Python faster than in C, C++ or Java? [closed]
There's a widespread belief among programmers that the more dynamic and loosely typed the language, the more productive the programmer will be in it. Guido van Rossum wrote about programming ...
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58votes
3answers
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Why Python and not Lua? [closed]
Why has Python been backed by google and become so rapidly popular and Lua has not? Do you know why Lua has stayed in background?
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