You might want to convert a really long string in a single line into multiple lines with specified width. For example, if you have string like 12345678912345678912345678912345678912345678910 and want to split the long text to multi-line text, where each line is of length w, like w=9 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 10 In the above […]
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How to Run a Shell Command from Python and Get The Output?
In Python, often you may want to execute linux command and get the output of the command as string variable. There are multiple ways to execute shell command and get output using Python. A naive way to do that is to execeute the linux command, save the output in file and parse the file. Get […]
How To Paste Code in Python Interpreter? Hint: Use ipython
If you have formatted code block with proper indentation and want to test it by copying and pasting on a python interpreter, you will be frustrated at Python for complaining at you. iPython offers great solutions coding with Python and for copying and pasting the code on the terminal. One useful command in iPython to […]
3 Ways to Write Text to a File in Python
If you are interested in writing text to a file in Python, there is probably many ways to do it. Here is three ways to write text to a output file in Python. The first step in writing to a file is create the file object by using the built-in Python command “open”. To create and […]
How to Sort Lists in-place in Python?
Let us starting simple and start with easy sort. Python has two sort functions; one function that sorts a list in-place and the other sort function “sorted” that creates a new sorted list. In this post, we will see examples of “in-place” sorting. Python’s in-place sorting As the name suggests the in-place sorting replaces the […]