Extract file name from path, no matter what the os/path format

Using os.path.split or os.path.basename as others suggest won’t work in all cases: if you’re running the script on Linux and attempt to process a classic windows-style path, it will fail. Windows paths can use either backslash or forward slash as path separator. Therefore, the ntpath module (which is equivalent to os.path when running on windows) … Read more

How to use Python to execute a cURL command?

I want to execute a curl command in Python. Usually, I just need to enter the command in the terminal and press the return key. However, I don’t know how it works in Python. The command shows below: There is a request.json file to be sent to get a response. I searched a lot and … Read more

Postfix Calculator Java

Ok so I have to read in a postfix expression from a file. The postfix expression must have spaces to separate each operator or operand. What I have so far works only if there is no spaces between the operators or operands in the input file. (i.e. if the file has 12+ the result I … Read more

How to use MySQL DECIMAL?

I can’t quite get a grasp of MySQL’s DECIMAL. I need the row to be able to contain a number anywhere from 00.0001 to 99.9999. How would I structure it to work like so?

assignment operator overloading in c++

There are no problems with the second version of the assignment operator. In fact, that is the standard way for an assignment operator. Edit: Note that I am referring to the return type of the assignment operator, not to the implementation itself. As has been pointed out in comments, the implementation itself is another issue. … Read more

What is a Key-Value Pair?

At the simplest level, a key-value pair is just two values, one of which you have designated to be a “key” and the other you have designated to be the “value”. However, it is more common to talk about key-value pairs in the context of a mapping, i.e. a (mathematical) function which maps from a … Read more