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class MultiIndexingList: def __init__(self, value): self.value = value def __repr__(self): return repr(self.value) def __getitem__(self, item): if isinstance(item, (int, slice)): return self.__class__(self.value[item]) r...

Import the ElementTree object, open the relevant .xml file and get the root tag: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse("yourXMLfile.xml") root = tree.getroot() There are a few ways to search through the tree. First is by iteration: for child in root: print(child.ta...

What is hoisting? Hoisting is a mechanism which moves all variable and function declarations to the top of their scope. However, variable assignments still happen where they originally were. For example, consider the following code: console.log(foo); // → undefined var foo = 42; console.log(fo...

Importing using base R Comma separated value files (CSVs) can be imported using read.csv, which wraps read.table, but uses sep = "," to set the delimiter to a comma. # get the file path of a CSV included in R's utils package csv_path <- system.file("misc", "exDIF.csv&q...

By default, a Date object is created as local time. This is not always desirable, for example when communicating a date between a server and a client that do not reside in the same timezone. In this scenario, one doesn't want to worry about timezones at all until the date needs to be displayed in lo...

A very simple way to import data from many common file formats is with rio. This package provides a function import() that wraps many commonly used data import functions, thereby providing a standard interface. It works simply by passing a file name or URL to import(): import("example.csv&quot...

Final classes When used in a class declaration, the final modifier prevents other classes from being declared that extend the class. A final class is a "leaf" class in the inheritance class hierarchy. // This declares a final class final class MyFinalClass { /* some code */ } ...

Convert to String var date1 = new Date(); date1.toString(); Returns: "Fri Apr 15 2016 07:48:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" Convert to Time String var date1 = new Date(); date1.toTimeString(); Returns: "07:48:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" Conve...

The and-operator (&&) and the or-operator (||) employ short-circuiting to prevent unnecessary work if the outcome of the operation does not change with the extra work. In x && y, y will not be evaluated if x evaluates to false, because the whole expression is guaranteed to be false....

Introduction Package is a term used by npm to denote tools that developers can use for their projects. This includes everything from libraries and frameworks such as jQuery and AngularJS to task runners such as Gulp.js. The packages will come in a folder typically called node_modules, which will a...

You will first need to create a directory, access it in your shell and install Express using npm by running npm install express --save Create a file and name it app.js and add the following code which creates a new Express server and adds one endpoint to it (/ping) with the app.get method: const e...

A dictionary is an example of a key value store also known as Mapping in Python. It allows you to store and retrieve elements by referencing a key. As dictionaries are referenced by key, they have very fast lookups. As they are primarily used for referencing items by key, they are not sorted. crea...

Python 3.2+ has support for %z format when parsing a string into a datetime object. UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM (empty string if the object is naive). Python 3.x3.2 import datetime dt = datetime.datetime.strptime("2016-04-15T08:27:18-0500", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"...

The $_SESSION variable is an array, and you can retrieve or manipulate it like a normal array. <?php // Starting the session session_start(); // Storing the value in session $_SESSION['id'] = 342; // conditional usage of session values that may have been set in a previous session if(!i...

Parameters can be used for returning one or more values; those parameters are required to be non-const pointers or references. References: void calculate(int a, int b, int& c, int& d, int& e, int& f) { c = a + b; d = a - b; e = a * b; f = a / b; } Pointers: ...

C++11 The type std::tuple can bundle any number of values, potentially including values of different types, into a single return object: std::tuple<int, int, int, int> foo(int a, int b) { // or auto (C++14) return std::make_tuple(a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b); } In C++17, a braced init...

C++11 The container std::array can bundle together a fixed number of return values. This number has to be known at compile-time and all return values have to be of the same type: std::array<int, 4> bar(int a, int b) { return { a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b }; } This replaces c style ar...

Use std::string::substr to split a string. There are two variants of this member function. The first takes a starting position from which the returned substring should begin. The starting position must be valid in the range (0, str.length()]: std::string str = "Hello foo, bar and world!"...

Replace by position To replace a portion of a std::string you can use the method replace from std::string. replace has a lot of useful overloads: //Define string std::string str = "Hello foo, bar and world!"; std::string alternate = "Hello foobar"; //1) str.replace(6, 3,...

There are several ways to extract characters from a std::string and each is subtly different. std::string str("Hello world!"); operator[](n) Returns a reference to the character at index n. std::string::operator[] is not bounds-checked and does not throw an exception. The caller is...