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Returns the list of items that exceed all previous items

I am new to Python, can anyone please point out the mistake, i have made in the code: numlist = [3,2,5,5,7,6,1,8,4] def peaks(numlist): exceed = [] for elem in numlist: for num in exceed: if elem not in exceed: if num in exceed < elem in numlist: exc

python indexing and affect by ndarray line

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list [-1:] returns the last value, but is not == last value?

I'm still very new to coding, as in I've been coding for a few days. I'm trying to teach myself python by working on a small personal project. I've been playing around with list slicing, and something doesn't add up to me, which is impeding a functio

to remove duplicate strings in a python list

This question already has an answer here: How do you remove duplicates from a list in whilst preserving order? 33 answers I have a problem in my code where I have the following: import random Probabilities={'AA':0.2,"TT":0.2, "GG":0.1,

How to modify the elements of a list in the list

I am very new to Python, trying to learn the basics. Have a doubt about the list. Have a list: L = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[3,4,6]] The output should be: [[2,4,6],[8,10,12],[6,8,12]] The code that works for me is the following for x in range(len(L)): for y

Regex to find suffixes in names

I'm having trouble writing a regular expression that would find and remove suffixes in names in strings. I had it working fine just looking for the suffix (e.g. 'III', 'IV'), until I had names with IV start appearing. I know the logic once I get the

Slow Python Search Loop

I am running a search on a list of ads (adscrape). Each ad is a dict within adscrape (e.g. ad below). It searches through a list of IDs (database_ids) which could be between 200,000 - 1,000,000 items long. I want to find any ads in adscrape that don'

Journaling children in a supervisor subprocess

My system is composed of a python application that is launched from supervisord. Let's call it A. A launches a subprocess B to do some of its task. Both A and B are coded in Python and use the standard logging module to output messages to the console

I want to write to a new file not add for each iteration

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a Django URLField set max_length to 200 characters

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How to broadcast an openCV video on an HTML webpage?

I am making a robot that will have a webcam on it to provide some simple object detection. For right now, I would like to simply stream the video to a webpage hosted on the robot and be able to view it from another device. I have written a simple tes

How to encode an integer in a base64 string in python 3

This question already has an answer here: Why do I need 'b' to encode a Python string with Base64? 5 answers I'm trying to encode an int in to base64, i'm doing that: foo = 1 base64.b64encode(bytes(foo)) expected output: 'MQ==' given output: b'AA=='

Python index error while trying to use list.insert

Here is a section (a large section) of my code. http://pastebin.com/KCZNkYNB What i have happening, by design, is to iterate through this sequence until the distance that i am calculating is minimized by 1cm. I don't want to move on to my next epoch

Problem with the evaluation of an input sentence in python

I am in a class teaching python and am a beginner at any sort of coding. I keep running into this problem and I can't find anything in my text book or additional handouts explaining what I'm doing wrong. Here is an example taken from one of the exerc

Python-mysql: When to explicitly cancel a transaction

Suppose, I have a modifying statement: cursor = conn.cursor() # some code affected_rows1 = cursor.execute(update_statement1, params1) # some code conn.commit() cursor.close() Should I wrap the block of code with a try ... except and explicitly rollba

Run the Python script as root (seteuid vs c-wrapper)

I have a quick one off task in a python script that I'd like to call from Django (www user), that's going to need to root privileges. At first I thought I would could use Python's os.seteuid() and set the setuid bit on the script, but then I realized

Interactive graphic visualization

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Python: Difference between add and __add__

In Python, what is the difference between add and __add__ methods?A method called add is just that - a method with that name. It has no special meaning whatsoever to the language or the interpreter. The only other thing that could be said about it is

How can I print only all three indexes in Perl or Python?

How can I do a for() or foreach() loop in Python and Perl, respectively, that only prints every third index? I need to move every third index to a new array.Python print list[::3] # print it newlist = list[::3] # copy it Perl for ($i = 0; $i < @list;