The reason gives you a syntax error near unexpected token newline is that the arrow brackets in whatever documentation you were following were not intended to be taken literally. A < indicates that the thing that follows is a filename to be used as input on stdin, and a > indicates that the thing that follows is a filename to be … Read more
It’s an assignment operator shorthand for / and =. Example: If you use help(‘/=’), you can get the full amount of symbols supported by this style of syntax (including but not limited to +=, -=, and *=), which I would strongly encourage.
I believe that all the previously proposed solutions (apart from those that require specific implementations) result in the comments being included in the output HTML, even if they are not displayed. If you want a comment that is strictly for yourself (readers of the converted document should not be able to see it, even with … Read more
edit: I prefer seq over the other methods because I can actually remember it 😉
Microsoft Excel’s “.xlsx” files are zip files that each contain a set of files. Could someone please provide a link that concisely describes the full structure/syntax/markup/format of the embedded .xml files (the headers are less interesting)? For example, it’s hard to find online explanations on what the c, t, and s elements represent.
Parameters in calls to functions in PowerShell (all versions) are space-separated, not comma separated. Also, the parentheses are entirely unneccessary and will cause a parse error in PowerShell 2.0 (or later) if Set-StrictMode -Version 2 or higher is active. Parenthesised arguments are used in .NET methods only.
The == operator tests for equality. For example: And, in your example: x is true (1) if y is equal to z. If y is not equal to z, x is false (0). A common mistake made by novice C programmers (and a typo made by some very experienced ones as well) is: In this case, b is assigned … Read more
What is the line? You can just have arguments on the next line without any problems: Otherwise you can do something like this: or with explicit line break: Check the style guide for more information. Using parentheses, your example can be written over multiple lines: The same effect can be obtained using explicit line break: Note that … Read more
Replace exit with break. Exit isn’t a way to exit loops in Python. break statement docs
It’s a list of public objects of that module, as interpreted by import *. It overrides the default of hiding everything that begins with an underscore.