Invalid character in identifier

I am working on the letter distribution problem from HP code wars 2012. I keep getting an error message that says “invalid character in identifier”. What does this mean and how can it be fixed? Here is the page with the information.

What is mapDispatchToProps?

I feel like none of the answers have crystallized why mapDispatchToProps is useful. This can really only be answered in the context of the container-component pattern, which I found best understood by first reading:Container Components then Usage with React. In a nutshell, your components are supposed to be concerned only with displaying stuff. The only place they are supposed to get information from is … Read more

SQL SELECT WHERE field contains words

Rather slow, but working method to include any of words: If you need all words to be present, use this: If you want something faster, you need to look into full text search, and this is very specific for each database type.

How do I copy a file in Python?

shutil has many methods you can use. One of which is: Copy the contents of the file named src to a file named dst. Both src and dst need to be the entire filename of the files, including path. The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an IOError exception will be raised. If dst already exists, it will be replaced. Special files such as character or block … Read more

segmentation fault : 11

This declaration: would occupy 8 * 1000 * 1000000 bytes on a typical x86 system. This is about 7.45 GB. Chances are your system is running out of memory when trying to execute your code, which results in a segmentation fault.

error: ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)’ — Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

To find all socket files on your system run: My Mysql server system had the socket open at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Once you find where the socket is being opened, add or edit the line to your /etc/my.cnf file with the path to the socket file: Sometimes the system startup script that launched the command line executable specifies … Read more

Cannot find module cv2 when using OpenCV

I have installed OpenCV on the Occidentalis operating system (a variant of Raspbian) on a Raspberry Pi, using jayrambhia’s script found here. It installed version 2.4.5. When I try import cv2 in a Python program, I get the following message: The file cv2.so is stored in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/… There are also folders in /usr/local/lib called python3.2 and python2.6, which could be a problem but I’m not … Read more