I've been going through a course and trying to find ways to shorten my code. I had this assignment to open a text file, split it, then add all of the unique values to a list, then finally sort it. I passed the assignment, but I have been trying to shorten it to learn some ways to apply any shortening concepts to future codes. The main issues I keep running into is trying to make the opened file into strings to turn them into lists to append and such without read(). If I don't used read() I get back TextIO errors. I tried looking into it but what I found involved importing os and doing some other funky stuff, which seems like it would take more time.
So if anyone would mind giving me tips to more effectively code this that are beginner friendly I would be appreciative.
romeo = open('romeo').read()
mylist = list()
for line in romeo.split() :
if line not in mylist:
mylist.append(line)
mylist.sort()
print(mylist)
I saw that set() is pretty good for unique values, but then I don't think I can sort it. Then trying flip flop between a list and set would seem wacky. I tried those swanky one line for loop boys, but couldn't get it to work. like for line not in mylist : mylist.append(line) I know that's not how to do it or even close, but I don't know how to convey what I mean.
So to iterate:
1. How to get the same result without read() / getting around textIO
2. How to write this code in a more stream lined way.
I'm new to the site and coding, so hopefully I didn't trigger anyone.
This is driving me mad at the moment, if anyone can help it would be much appreciated!! This is simple enough in Java, but when called from groovy I cannot get multiple gbc properties defined in a single constraint.
I have read on a couple of old posts on the net that GridBagConstraints properties such as gridx etc can be added as follows from here.
code snippet of interest:
label(text:'Username', constraints:gbc(gridx:0,gridy:0,gridwidth:2))
However this won't work for me and I didn't expect it to as the syntax appears to be from years ago so I assume an old API. (error message below when I try the above)
Caught: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: cannot add to layout: constraint must be a string (or null)
I can't see how this could work as as surely the format needs to be:
GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints()
label("Username: ", constraints:gbc.gridx=0)
The two lines of code above run, but then I have the problem that I can't add more than one entry in the 'constraints:' section, and obviously I need to add 'gridy=0' etc.
Has anybody got any solution on how this should work?
Thanks
Taylor.
I'm very new to Python and programming overall, so if I seem to struggle to understand you, please bear with me.
I'm reading "Learn Python 3 the Hard Way", and I'm having trouble with exercise 23.
I copied the code to my text editor and ended up with this:
import sys
script, input_encoding, error = sys.argv
def main(language_file, encoding, errors):
line = language_file.readline()
if line:
print_line(line, encoding, errors)
return main(language_file, encoding, errors)
def print_line(line, encoding, errors):
next_lang = line.strip()
raw_bytes = next_lang.encode(encoding, errors=errors)
cooked_string = raw_bytes.decode(encoding, errors=errors)
print(raw_bytes, "<====>", cooked_string)
languages = open("languages.txt", encoding = "utf-8")
main(languages, input_encoding, error)
When I tried to run it I got the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pag78.py", line 3, in <module>
script, input_encoding, error = sys.argv
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 1)
which I am having difficulties understanding in this context.
I googled the exercise, to compare it something other than the book page and, if I'm not missing something, I copied it correctly. For example, see this code here for the same exercise.
Obviously something is wrong with this code, and I'm not capable to identify what it is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When you run the program, you have to enter your arguments into the command line. So run the program like this:
python ex23.py utf-8 strict
Copy and paste all of that into your terminal to run the code. This exercise uses argv like others do. It says this in the chapter, just a little bit later. I think you jumped the gun on running the code before you got to the explanation.
Let's record this in an answer for sake of posterity. In short, the immediate problem described lies not as much in the script itself, but rather in how it's being called. No positional argument was given, but two were expected to be assigned to input_encoding and error.
This line:
script, input_encoding, error = sys.argv
Takes (list) of arguments passed to the script. (sys.argv) and unpacks it, that is asigns its items' values to the variables on the left. This assumes number of variables to unpack to corresponds to items count in the list on the right.
sys.argv contains name of the script called and additional arguments passed to it one item each.
This construct is actually very simple way to ensure correct number of expected arguments is provided, even though as such the resulting error is perhaps not the most obvious.
Later on, you certainly should check out argparse for handling of passed arguments. It is comfortable and quite powerful.
I started reading LPTHW a couple of weeks ago. I got the same error as 'micaldras'. The error arises because you have probably clicked the file-link and opened an IEExplorer window. From there, (I guess), you have copied the text into a notepad file and saved. it.
I did that as well and got the same errors. I then downloaded the file directly from the indicated link (right click on the file and choose Save Target As). The saves the file literally as Zed intended and the program now runs.
so I would like to ask you for help.
I was scooping and sweeping the internet so long for that and I did not find how to do it. What I just produced is totally wrong and my professor did bad time with formulating the task. it is entry level task on university I have already finished the hardest ones, but this one I just dont get what he wants
Translation is made by me so it might be little bit off, but bear with me, please.
"Create file "linewriter.py". This file will have function writeTextToFile, that will accept one parameter and on end is also one parameter. Function will take the parameter on input and chain it with variable STATIC_TEXT (stated bellow). Queue of chaining will be as follows: 1st static text and then argument of function. This way chained input will write to file of any given name and a the name of this file will be returned as input parameter of function.
STATIC_TEXT: “This is my static text which must be added to file. It is very long text and I do not know what they want to do with this terrible text. ”
...
What? I really don't get what he want's from me. Can you help? Thank you all :)
STATICKY_TEXT = "This is my static text which must be added to file. It is very long text and I do not know what they want to do with this terrible text.\nNew Line! "
saveFile = open ("exampleFile.txt","w")
saveFile.write(STATICKY_TEXT)
saveFile.close()
solved it :) but I COULD not figure it out for days haha ... silly me
I'm using HUnit-Plus via stack test, which I believe makes use of Distribution.TestSuite.
When I get compilation errors, I get file paths and line numbers in the error. This is great because I can just click on the error in my editor and jump straight to the relevant code.
Other times there is no compilation error and instead I get output like this:
### Failure in testFoo: expected: 8
This isn't so great, because every time I have to navigate to the relevant test by hand. Also, it is sometimes ambiguous which assertion has failed, and I have to add a string to label the assertion, which becomes repetitious because the string merely repeats in some form the content of the assertion (or else is meaningless). With a line number that wouldn't be a problem.
Is there a way to get this setup to print line numbers and file paths for test failures?
Compilation errors are generated by GHC itself which gives you line numbers, to my knowledge no test suite has this feature, which would be a really nice thing to have though. What I found quite helpful is hspec-expectations-pretty-diff which is a nice diffing output but with no line numbers, I checked it also provides file path and line number!
Also I see some space for improvement for your test cases - usually a test case in my project has a string describing the test - therefore it is rarely ambiguous what test case failed. Also you can use the whole power of haskell to generate this String!