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Creating a Bitarray in python 1 Jul 2012 | 05:37 pm
This code shows an implementation of bitarray in python using the bytearray built-in function, it can set/unset and fetch a bit from a given array index location, in the below example we create a bita...
A quick reference to HTML/URL escape/unescape methods in python 1 Jul 2012 | 05:33 pm
This code briefs about some of the escape/unescape methods in python available for HTML special characters and also ways to quote/unquote characters using urllib methods, though obvious, this is one o...
Finding a missing number in an array using XOR logic 1 Jul 2012 | 05:27 pm
This python program illustrates the way to find a missing number in an array (list) using XOR logic. .hll { background-color: #ffffcc } .c { color: #408080; font-style: italic } /* Comment */ .err { ...
How to create a dictionary/list/tuple from a string in python 1 Jul 2012 | 05:22 pm
I often wondered about the easiest way to create a dictionary, tuple or a list from it's string representation in python, found out that the eval built-in function can be used to do the same, in the b...
Towers of Hanoi explained in python 1 Jul 2012 | 05:13 pm
This code illustrates the Towers of Hanoi problem solution with it's simple logic - to move 'n' number of discs from source(A) to destination(B) using an intermediate rod (B), recursively move n-1 dis...
MS&E 252 Decision Analysis I course in Stanford - an organized approach to decision analysis 1 Jul 2012 | 05:01 pm
An year before I took the MS&E 252 Decision Analysis course in Stanford, thought it would be worthwhile to share how important a formal decision analysis process is in making better decisions and how ...
Comparing the type of two objects in python 1 Jul 2012 | 04:56 pm
This code illustrates how to compare the type of any two objects in python with a simple example. .hll { background-color: #ffffcc } .c { color: #408080; font-style: italic } /* Comment */ .err { bor...
An easy to understand solution to the eight queens problem in python 1 Jul 2012 | 04:50 pm
This is a simplified version of the famous eight queens problem, often I wondered on how I could I write recursive code for this which would exactly simulate the way one would place the queens on the ...
Textwrangler Connection unexpectedly lost error - Solution 1 Jul 2012 | 04:30 pm
When I was using TextWrangler text editor for MAC to connect to a remote Linux system to edit some text files there, once I got an error like the one shown below "The server operation couldn't be com...
How to avoid automatic windows reboots after updates 1 Jul 2012 | 04:07 pm
Many a times it may be not be a pleasant experience when Windows 7 automatically reboots after installing updates without the user explicitly wanting to do it, to avoid automatic reboots after install...
