Tutorial by Examples: re

The vast majority of Python memory management is handled with reference counting. Every time an object is referenced (e.g. assigned to a variable), its reference count is automatically increased. When it is dereferenced (e.g. variable goes out of scope), its reference count is automatically decreas...

The only time the garbage collector is needed is if you have a reference cycle. The simples example of a reference cycle is one in which A refers to B and B refers to A, while nothing else refers to either A or B. Neither A or B are accessible from anywhere in the program, so they can safely be dest...

use std::io::{Read, Result as IoResult}; use std::fs::File; struct Config(u8); fn read_config() -> IoResult<String> { let mut s = String::new(); let mut file = File::open(&get_local_config_path()) // or_else closure is invoked if Result is Err. .or_els...

This example creates a new file named "NewFile.txt", then writes "Hello World!" to its body. If the file already exists, CreateFile will fail and no data will be written. See the dwCreationDisposition parameter in the CreateFile documentation if you don't want the function to fa...

Using the timeit module from the command line: > python -m timeit 'for x in xrange(50000): b = x**3' 10 loops, best of 3: 51.2 msec per loop > python -m timeit 'from math import pow' 'for x in xrange(50000): b = pow(x,3)' 100 loops, best of 3: 9.15 msec per loop The built-in ** operato...

df = pd.DataFrame({'old_name_1': [1, 2, 3], 'old_name_2': [5, 6, 7]}) print(df) # Output: # old_name_1 old_name_2 # 0 1 5 # 1 2 6 # 2 3 7 To rename one or more columns, pass the old names and new names as a dictionary: df.r...

End a line with two or more spaces to create a line break. Ending a line with no spaces or with just one space doesn't create a line beak. Use two or more spaces to create a line break. Use an empty line to make a new paragraph. Ending a line with no spaces or with just one space...

In Fortran functions and subroutines need to be explicitly declared as recursive, if they are to call themselves again, directly or indirectly. Thus, a recursive implementation of the Fibonacci series could look like this: recursive function fibonacci(term) result(fibo) integer, intent(in) :: te...

It is possible to detect whether an operator or function can be called on a type. To test if a class has an overload of std::hash, one can do this: #include <functional> // for std::hash #include <type_traits> // for std::false_type and std::true_type #include <utility> // for s...

where clauses can be negated using the where.not syntax: class Person < ApplicationRecord #attribute :first_name, :string end people = Person.where.not(first_name: ['Mark', 'Mary']) # => SELECT "people".* FROM "people" WHERE "people"."first_name&quot...

Swift func createCollectionView() { let layout: UICollectionViewFlowLayout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout() let collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.frame.width, height: view.frame.height), collectionViewLayout: layout) collectionView.dataSource = sel...

As Rails follows the MVC pattern Views are where your "templates" are for your actions. Let's say you have a controller articles_controller.rb. For this controller you would have a folder in views called app/views/articles: app |-- controllers | '-- articles_controller.rb | '-- vie...

Examine the following strings: foobarfoo bar foobar barfoo the regular expression bar will match all four strings, \bbar\b will only match the 2nd, bar\b will be able to match the 2nd and 3rd strings, and \bbar will match the 2nd and 4th strings.

A recursive function is simply a function, that would call itself. function factorial (n) { if (n <= 1) { return 1; } return n * factorial(n - 1); } The above function shows a basic example of how to perform a recursive function to return a factorial. Another...

import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') Out[2]: 'English_United States.1252' locale.currency(762559748.49) Out[3]: '$762559748.49' locale.currency(762559748.49, grouping=True) Out[4]: '$762,559,748.49'

So let's suppose you want to iterate only between some specific lines of a file You can make use of itertools for that import itertools with open('myfile.txt', 'r') as f: for line in itertools.islice(f, 12, 30): # do something here This will read through the lines 13 to 20 as i...

sed -i s/"what to replace"/"with what to replace"/g $file We use -i to select in-place editing on the $file file. In some systems it is required to add suffix after -i flag which will be used to create backup of original file. You can add empty string like -i '' to omit the b...

Aggregate Applies an accumulator function over a sequence. int[] intList = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }; int sum = intList.Aggregate((prevSum, current) => prevSum + current); // sum = 55 At the first step prevSum = 1 At the second prevSum = prevSum(at the first step) + 2 At the i-t...

Let's say you have a vector like so: (def my-vec [1 2 3 4 5 6]) And you want to extract the first 3 elements and get the remaining elements as a sequence. This can be done as follows: (let [[x y z & remaining] my-vec] (println "first:" x ", second:" y "third:&quot...

Create a class inheriting from Exception: class FooException(Exception): pass try: raise FooException("insert description here") except FooException: print("A FooException was raised.") or another exception type: class NegativeError(ValueError): pass ...