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Some API calls can succeed or fail in more than one way. The APIs commonly return additional information for both successful invocations as well as errors (e.g. CreateMutex). if ( CreateMutexW( NULL, TRUE, L"Global\\MyNamedMutex" ) == NULL ) { // Failure: get additional information. ...

Iterable can be anything for which items are received one by one, forward only. Built-in Python collections are iterable: [1, 2, 3] # list, iterate over items (1, 2, 3) # tuple {1, 2, 3} # set {1: 2, 3: 4} # dict, iterate over keys Generators return iterables: def foo(): # foo ...

When you create an argparse ArgumentParser() and run your program with '-h' you get an automated usage message explaining what arguments you can run your software with. By default, positional arguments and conditional arguments are separated into two categories, for example, here is a small script ...

Say you have implemented some logic to detect attempts to modify an object in the database while the client that submitted changes didn't have the latest modifications. If such case happens, you raise a custom exception ConfictError(detailed_message). Now you want to return an HTTP 409 (Confict) st...

In many other languages, if you run the following (Java example) if("asgdsrf" == 0) { //do stuff } ... you'll get an error. You can't just go comparing strings to integers like that. In Python, this is a perfectly legal statement - it'll just resolve to False. A common gotcha ...

hashlib.new requires the name of an algorithm when you call it to produce a generator. To find out what algorithms are available in the current Python interpreter, use hashlib.algorithms_available: import hashlib hashlib.algorithms_available # ==> {'sha256', 'DSA-SHA', 'SHA512', 'SHA224', 'dsa...

The PBKDF2 algorithm exposed by hashlib module can be used to perform secure password hashing. While this algorithm cannot prevent brute-force attacks in order to recover the original password from the stored hash, it makes such attacks very expensive. import hashlib import os salt = os.urandom...

A cons cell, also known as a dotted pair (because of its printed representation), is simply a pair of two objects. A cons cell is created by the function cons, and elements in the pair are extracted using the functions car and cdr. (cons "a" 4) For instance, this returns a pair whose ...

Following is most basic expression tree that is created by lambda. Expression<Func<int, bool>> lambda = num => num == 42; To create expression trees 'by hand', one should use Expression class. Expression above would be equivalent to: ParameterExpression parameter = Expression.Pa...

For example, if t1 is currently not an InnoDB table, this statement changes its storage engine to InnoDB: ALTER TABLE t1 ENGINE = InnoDB; If the table is already InnoDB, this will rebuild the table and its indexes and have an effect similar to OPTIMIZE TABLE. You may gain some disk space improv...

The PieChart class draws data in the form of circle which is divided into slices. Every slice represents a percentage (part) for a particular value. The pie chart data is wrapped in PieChart.Data objects. Each PieChart.Data object has two fields: the name of the pie slice and its corresponding valu...

Three methods are provided that offer the ability to strip leading and trailing characters from a string: str.strip, str.rstrip and str.lstrip. All three methods have the same signature and all three return a new string object with unwanted characters removed. str.strip([chars]) str.strip acts o...

trait HelloWorld { public function sayHello() { echo 'Hello World!'; } } // Change visibility of sayHello class MyClass1 { use HelloWorld { sayHello as protected; } } // Alias method with changed visibility // sayHello visibility not changed class MyClass2 { u...

A common task is to convert all columns of a data.frame to character class for ease of manipulation, such as in the cases of sending data.frames to a RDBMS or merging data.frames containing factors where levels may differ between input data.frames. The best time to do this is when the data is read ...

<!--- Define collection ---> <cfset attributes = { "name": "Sales", "type": "text", "value": "Connection" }> <!--- cfloop tag with attribute collection can be used to loop through the elements of a struc...

<cfscript> /*define collection*/ attributes = { "name": "Sales", "type": "text", "value": "Connection" }; for(attribute in attributes){ /* attribute variable will contain the key name of each key value ...

char literals are defined by wrapping the value with single-quotes ': char c = 'h'; Character literals may contain escape sequences. See String Escape Sequences A character literal must be exactly one character long (after all escape sequences have been evaluated). Empty character literals are ...

Basics Anonymous functions are a powerful tool of the MATLAB language. They are functions that exist locally, that is: in the current workspace. However, they do not exist on the MATLAB path like a regular function would, e.g. in an m-file. That is why they are called anonymous, although they can h...

What? : A fully supported and extensible framework for building HTTP based endpoints. In the world of HTML5, mobile devices, and modern development techniques HTTP have become the default option for building rich, scalable services. The ASP.NET Web API provides an easy to use set of default options...

Describes ranges of symbols You can enumerate symbols explicitly /[abc]/ # 'a' or 'b' or 'c' Or use ranges /[a-z]/ # from 'a' to 'z' It is possible to combine ranges and single symbols /[a-cz]/ # 'a' or 'b' or 'c' or 'z' Leading dash (-) is treated as charachter /[-a-c]/ # '-' or 'a' o...