Any good debugger for Python that is like gdb so that the code can be executed step by step for debugging purpose? You might check pdb. You can debug a program such as prog.py by invoking it through pdb: python -m pdb prog.py Common gdb commands can be found in pdb: (Pdb) h Documented commands
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Checking Whether a String Starts with Another String in C++
Posted onIn many text processing tasks, we often need to check if a given string starts with a specific substring. In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve this using the std::string::compare() function from the C++ Standard Library. The compare() function has several overloads, but the one of interest for our purpose is: int compare(size_type
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How to split and iterate a string separated by a specific character in C++?
Posted onHow to split and iterate a string separated by a specific character in C++? For example, “a string separated by space” by ‘ ‘=> [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “space”] and “a,string,separated,by,comma” by ‘,’ => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “comma”] C++ standard library’s getline() function can be used to build a function. getline() can accept a
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How to iterate all dirs and files in a dir in C++?
Posted onHow to iterate all dirs and files in a dir in C++? To open a dir, we can use opendir() to open a directory stream. DIR *opendir(const char *name); Then we can use readdir() to iterate the directory stream. struct dirent *readdir(DIR *dirp); Here is an example C++ program using these 2 library functions. #include
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How to get a path’s mtime in C++ on Linux?
Posted onHow to get a path’s mtime in C++ on Linux? The path can be a file or a dir. You may call the standard library function lstat() for the file or dir under the path. int lstat(const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf); From the returned stat struct, there is a field st_mtim which is the
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How to split a string by string in Python?
Posted onHow to split a string by string in Python? For example, “a string separated by space” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “space”] and “a,string,separated,by,comma” => [“a”, “string”, “separated”, “by”, “comma”] Python’s string.split() standard library function, if provided a separator, will split the string by the separator, for example >>> str2 = “a,string,separated,by,,,comma” >>> str2.split(“,”) [‘a’,
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How to flush STDOUT buffer in Python?
Posted onHow to flush the STDOUT buffer in Python so that the content wrote to STDOUT is shown immediately? Call the flush library function on sys.stdout which is the STDOUT: import sys sys.stdout.flush() From python doc: flush() Flush the write buffers of the stream if applicable. This does nothing for read-only and non-blocking streams. If you
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What are the best academic citation tool
Posted onWhat is the best academic citation tool does anyone help? Here, we list 2 choices that are open source, or free, or have free plans. Zotero Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization. Zotero can help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. Zotero can automatically senses research on the web.
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How to get the running process’ parent process’ ID in C / C++?
Posted onHow to get the running process’ parent process’ ID in C / C++? In C and C++, you can call the getppid() library function which is a function from the POSIX library. #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t getppid(void); getppid() returns the process ID of the parent of the calling process. Example usage: getppid.c #include <stdio.h>
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Getting Process Own Pid in C and C++
Posted onHow to get the running process’ pid in C / C++? In C and C++, you can call the getpid() library function which is a function from the POSIX library. #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t getpid(void); getppid() returns the process ID of the calling process. An example C program to get self process ID getpid.c:
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C++?
Posted onIn C++, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C++, the common data structure for a sequence (“list”) of objects may be std::vector. A vector is a dynamically resizable array. It is “The most extensively used container in the C++ Standard Library …, offering a combination of dynamic memory
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What’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects in C?
Posted onIn C, what’s the standard or common data structure for a list of objects? In C, one common way to store a list/collection of objects of the same type is to use one-dimensional arrays. In C, an array is a collection of data objects of the same type. An array is in a contiguous memory
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How to get the hostname of the node in Python?
Posted onIn Python, how to get the hostname of the node? In Python, you can get the hostname by the socket.gethostname() library function in the socket module: import socket hostname = socket.gethostname() Example: $ python Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 6 2016, 00:28:07) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license”
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Getting Epoch Timestamp in C
Posted onIn C, how to get the epoch timestamp, the number of seconds passed since the epoch? In C, from man 7 time: UNIX systems represent time in seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). A program can determine the calendar time using gettimeofday(2), which returns time (in seconds and microseconds) that have elapsed since
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How to get an environment variable in Java?
Posted onIn Java, how to get the value (string) of an environment variable? You may call the System.getenv(name) library function in Java to get the environment variable value. public static String getenv(String name) Parameters: name – the name of the environment variable Returns: the string value of the variable, or null if the variable is not
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How to get hostname in Python on Linux?
Posted onIn Python, how to get hostname as the command hostname does on Linux? In Python, you can get the hostname by the socket.gethostname() library function in the socket module: import socket hostname = socket.gethostname() Reference: https://www.systutorials.com/dtivl/20/how-to-get-the-hostname-of-the-node?show=34#a34
Libvirt crash when upgrade from version 1.2.2 to version 2.5.0
Posted onIf you install libvirt from ubuntu software library like this sudo apt-get install libvirt-bin The default version is 1.2.2 for Ubuntu Trusty. However, after you upgrade it to version 2.5.0 from its source codes (restart the libvirtd service), you will see following error if you want to install vm with virt-install. # ./installkvm1.sh Starting install…
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How to detect whether a file is readable and writable in Python?
Posted onBefore reading or writing a file, access should be checked first. How to detect whether a file is readable and writable in Python? You can use the os.access(path, mode) library function https://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/os.html#os.access like the Linux access library function for C. It returns True if access is allowed, False if not. For readable and writable, you
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How to create a Reader from a string in Go?
Posted onIn Go, how to create a Reader from a string? Many APIs use a Reader as its input. In Go, the strings.NewReader(s) library function creates a Reader from a string. Check the doc at: https://golang.org/pkg/strings/#NewReader
How to send POST request in JavaScript?
Posted onHow to send POST request in JavaScript from the users’ browsers? One easy method I find is to use the jQuery library’s post() method. Here is one example that send POST request with data “file: filename” to the “/fileview” URL on the server and show the replied data: $.post(“/fileview”, {file: filename}, function (data) { //
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