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An empty Array ([]) can be created with Array's class method, Array::new: Array.new To set the length of the array, pass a numerical argument: Array.new 3 #=> [nil, nil, nil] There are two ways to populate an array with default values: Pass an immutable value as second argument. P...

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...

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 for loop iterates over a sequence, so altering this sequence inside the loop could lead to unexpected results (especially when adding or removing elements): alist = [0, 1, 2] for index, value in enumerate(alist): alist.pop(index) print(alist) # Out: [1] Note: list.pop() is being used t...

Python's string type provides many functions that act on the capitalization of a string. These include : str.casefold str.upper str.lower str.capitalize str.title str.swapcase With unicode strings (the default in Python 3), these operations are not 1:1 mappings or reversible. Most of thes...

Python's str type also has a method for replacing occurences of one sub-string with another sub-string in a given string. For more demanding cases, one can use re.sub. str.replace(old, new[, count]): str.replace takes two arguments old and new containing the old sub-string which is to be replace...

Functions in Swift may return values, throw errors, or both: func reticulateSplines() // no return value and no error func reticulateSplines() -> Int // always returns a value func reticulateSplines() throws // no return value, but may throw an error func reticulat...

A hash in Ruby is an object that implements a hash table, mapping keys to values. Ruby supports a specific literal syntax for defining hashes using {}: my_hash = {} # an empty hash grades = { 'Mark' => 15, 'Jimmy' => 10, 'Jack' => 10 } A hash can also be created using the standard new...

A quick way to make a copy of an array (as opposed to assigning a variable with another reference to the original array) is: arr[:] Let's examine the syntax. [:] means that start, end, and slice are all omitted. They default to 0, len(arr), and 1, respectively, meaning that subarray that we are ...

When you clone a repository that uses submodules, you'll need to initialize and update them. $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/username/repo.git This will clone the referenced submodules and place them in the appropriate folders (including submodules within submodules). This is equivale...

String literals in Swift are delimited with double quotes ("): let greeting = "Hello!" // greeting's type is String Characters can be initialized from string literals, as long as the literal contains only one grapheme cluster: let chr: Character = "H" // valid let chr...

Publish and Subscribe for Node.JS Install PubNub NPM Package. npm install [email protected] Example Publish Subscribe with Node.JS var channel = "hello_world"; var pubnub = require("pubnub")({ publish_key : "your_pub_key" , subscribe_key : "your_sub_ke...

When it comes to adding/removing channels to/from your channel groups, you need to have must have the manage permission for those channel groups. But you should never grant clients the permission to manage the channel groups that they will subscribe to. If they did, then they could add any channel t...

In addition to .done, .fail and .always promise callbacks, which are triggered based on whether the request was successful or not, there is the option to trigger a function when a specific HTTP Status Code is returned from the server. This can be done using the statusCode parameter. $.ajax({ t...

Extensions are used to extend the functionality of existing types in Swift. Extensions can add subscripts, functions, initializers, and computed properties. They can also make types conform to protocols. Suppose you want to be able to compute the factorial of an Int. You can add a computed property...

[0-9] and \d are equivalent patterns (unless your Regex engine is unicode-aware and \d also matches things like ②). They will both match a single digit character so you can use whichever notation you find more readable. Create a string of the pattern you wish to match. If using the \d notation, you...

With the syntax: element { font: [font-style] [font-variant] [font-weight] [font-size/line-height] [font-family]; } You can have all your font-related styles in one declaration with the font shorthand. Simply use the font property, and put your values in the correct order. For example, ...

Supposing you have a class that stores purely integer values: class Integer(object): def __init__(self, value): self.value = int(value) # Cast to an integer def __repr__(self): return '{cls}({val})'.format(cls=self.__class__.__name__, ...

Sometimes the number of types you are mapping exceeds the 7 provided by the Func<> that does the construction. Instead of using the Query<> with the generic type argument inputs, we will provide the types to map to as an array, followed by the mapping function. Other than the initial ma...

int i = 42; i = i++; /* Assignment changes variable, post-increment as well */ int a = i++ + i--; Code like this often leads to speculations about the "resulting value" of i. Rather than specifying an outcome, however, the C standards specify that evaluating such an expression produc...