The request was murky. It evolved over time to this:

Create a function file_record_selection(train.csv, 2, 100, train_2_100.csv)

First parameter: input file name (train.csv)

Second parameter: first record to include (2)

Third parameter: last record to include (100)

Fourth parameter: output file name (train_2_100.csv)

Fundamentally, this …

Real Question:

One of the standard problems that keeps coming up over and over is the parsing of url's. A sub-problem is the parsing of domain and sub-domains and getting a count.

For example

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/374880/living-alone-on-a-sailboat/

It would be nice to parse the received …

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Recently, I watched a video and it stated that OO is about nouns and Functional programming is about the verbs. Also, ... Aspect-Oriented Programming with the e Verification Language by David Robinson

It would be nice to have a blog post which summarized …

Here's the code: https://github.com/slott56/NMEA-Tools. This is Python code to do some Internet of Things (IoT) stuff. Oddly, even when things connected by a point-to-point serial interface, it's still often called IoT. Even though there's no "Internetworking."

Some IoT projects have a common arc: exploration, modeling, filtering …

https://opensource.com/tags/python Red Hat was an early adopter, putting Python-based tools into their distros. Sadly, they've also lagged behind. They haven't gotten much beyond Python 2.6 or maybe 2.7. RHEL is really good. Except for the Python problem.

This: https://darkf.github.io/posts/problems-i-have-with-python.html

Summary.

1. Slow.
2. Threads.
3. Legacy Python 2 Code.
4. Some Inconsistencies.
5. Functional Programming.
6. Class Definitions Don't Have Enough Features.
7. Switch Statement.

Responses.

1. Find the 20% that needs a speedup and write that in C. Most of the time that's already available in numpy. The …

Several things:

Generating 64 bit hash collisions to DOS Python by Robert Grosse

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"Running Python in Xcode: Step by Step" ericasadun.com/2016/12/04/run…

Thanks for the link. There's a fair amount of "this doesn't seem to be what Xcode was designed to do." But it does seem to work. I'll …

I received the worst code example ever. The. Worst.

Here's the email.

I have hurriedly created a blog post titled [omitted] at the url below [also omitted] ... Unfortunately, I am neither an algorithm expert or a Python expert. However, I am willing to jump in.

Please review the Python code …

The question is a deep one. What is the Literate Programming Life Cycle? Why is it so difficult? What are the three barriers and how do we cross them?

Here's most of the original question.

"Last week I threw together an F# script to parse markdown-style text into one or …