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How can I read large text files line by line, without loading it into memory?

I need to read a large file, line by line. Lets say that file has more than 5GB and I need to read ...

May 17, 2022
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How to get string objects instead of Unicode from JSON?

I’m using Python 2 to parse JSON from ASCII encoded text files. When loading these files with either json or simplejson, all my ...

May 17, 2022
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How to send POST request?

I found this script online: import httplib, urllib params = urllib.urlencode({'number': 12524, 'type': 'issue', 'action': 'show'}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} conn ...

May 15, 2022
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Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python

When piping the output of a Python program, the Python interpreter gets confused about encoding and sets it to None. This means a ...

May 11, 2022
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How to pretty-print a numpy.array without scientific notation and with given precision?

I’m curious, whether there is any way to print formatted numpy.arrays, e.g., in a way similar to this: x = 1.23456 print '%.3f' ...

May 7, 2022
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No module named MySQLdb

I am using Python version 2.5.4 and install MySQL version 5.0 and Django. Django is working fine with Python, but not MySQL. I ...

May 4, 2022
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What is the best way to remove accents (normalize) in a Python unicode string?

I have a Unicode string in Python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics). I found on the web an ...

April 28, 2022
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What is the difference between dict.items() and dict.iteritems() in Python2?

Are there any applicable differences between dict.items() and dict.iteritems()? From the Python docs: dict.items(): Return a copy of the dictionary’s list of (key, ...

April 23, 2022
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How can I force division to be floating point? Division keeps rounding down to 0?

I have two integer values a and b, but I need their ratio in floating point. I know that a < b and ...

April 22, 2022
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What exactly do “u” and “r” string flags do, and what are raw string literals?

While asking this question, I realized I didn’t know much about raw strings. For somebody claiming to be a Django trainer, this sucks. ...

April 22, 2022
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