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If you ignore files by using a pattern but have exceptions, prefix an exclamation mark(!) to the exception. For example: *.txt !important.txt The above example instructs Git to ignore all files with the .txt extension except for files named important.txt. If the file is in an ignored folder, y...

struct Repository { let identifier: Int let name: String var description: String? } This defines a Repository struct with three stored properties, an integer identifier, a string name, and an optional string description. The identifier and name are constants, as they've been decla...

Getting the minimum of a sequence (iterable) is equivalent of accessing the first element of a sorted sequence: min([2, 7, 5]) # Output: 2 sorted([2, 7, 5])[0] # Output: 2 The maximum is a bit more complicated, because sorted keeps order and max returns the first encountered value. In case th...

For every infix operator, e.g. + there is a operator-function (operator.add for +): 1 + 1 # Output: 2 from operator import add add(1, 1) # Output: 2 even though the main documentation states that for the arithmetic operators only numerical input is allowed it is possible: from operator impo...

The Promise.all() static method accepts an iterable (e.g. an Array) of promises and returns a new promise, which resolves when all promises in the iterable have resolved, or rejects if at least one of the promises in the iterable have rejected. // wait "millis" ms, then resolve with &quot...

The Promise.race() static method accepts an iterable of Promises and returns a new Promise which resolves or rejects as soon as the first of the promises in the iterable has resolved or rejected. // wait "milliseconds" milliseconds, then resolve with "value" function resolve(va...

Use array_key_exists() or isset() or !empty(): $map = [ 'foo' => 1, 'bar' => null, 'foobar' => '', ]; array_key_exists('foo', $map); // true isset($map['foo']); // true !empty($map['foo']); // true array_key_exists('bar', $map); // true isset($map['bar']); // false...

Arguments are defined in parentheses after the function name: def divide(dividend, divisor): # The names of the function and its arguments # The arguments are available by name in the body of the function print(dividend / divisor) The function name and its list of arguments are called...

Optional arguments can be defined by assigning (using =) a default value to the argument-name: def make(action='nothing'): return action Calling this function is possible in 3 different ways: make("fun") # Out: fun make(action="sleep") # Out: sleep # The argumen...

One can give a function as many arguments as one wants, the only fixed rules are that each argument name must be unique and that optional arguments must be after the not-optional ones: def func(value1, value2, optionalvalue=10): return '{0} {1} {2}'.format(value1, value2, optionalvalue1) Wh...

Arbitrary number of positional arguments: Defining a function capable of taking an arbitrary number of arguments can be done by prefixing one of the arguments with a * def func(*args): # args will be a tuple containing all values that are passed in for i in args: print(i) fun...

A Left Outer Join (also known as a Left Join or Outer Join) is a Join that ensures all rows from the left table are represented; if no matching row from the right table exists, its corresponding fields are NULL. The following example will select all departments and the first name of employees that ...

A table may be joined to itself, with different rows matching each other by some condition. In this use case, aliases must be used in order to distinguish the two occurrences of the table. In the below example, for each Employee in the example database Employees table, a record is returned containi...

Functions may accept closures (or other functions) as parameters: func foo(value: Double, block: () -> Void) { ... } func foo(value: Double, block: Int -> Int) { ... } func foo(value: Double, block: (Int, Int) -> String) { ... } Trailing closure syntax If a function's last parameter ...

class MyClass { func sayHi() { print("Hello") } deinit { print("Goodbye") } } When a closure captures a reference type (a class instance), it holds a strong reference by default: let closure: () -> Void do { let obj = MyClass() // Captures a strong re...

There is a problem when using optional arguments with a mutable default type (described in Defining a function with optional arguments), which can potentially lead to unexpected behaviour. Explanation This problem arises because a function's default arguments are initialised once, at the point whe...

Python 3.x3.0 In Python 3, print functionality is in the form of a function: print("This string will be displayed in the output") # This string will be displayed in the output print("You can print \n escape characters too.") # You can print escape characters too. Pyth...

def input_number(msg, err_msg=None): while True: try: return float(raw_input(msg)) except ValueError: if err_msg is not None: print(err_msg) def input_number(msg, err_msg=None): while True: try: return ...

There are different modes you can open a file with, specified by the mode parameter. These include: 'r' - reading mode. The default. It allows you only to read the file, not to modify it. When using this mode the file must exist. 'w' - writing mode. It will create a new file if it does no...

The simplest way to iterate over a file line-by-line: with open('myfile.txt', 'r') as fp: for line in fp: print(line) readline() allows for more granular control over line-by-line iteration. The example below is equivalent to the one above: with open('myfile.txt', 'r') as fp: ...