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Common imports between many scripts in Python project
I'm writing an automated installation script for a bunch of software, in Python. The purpose is for the script to fetch compressed files from a directory and install/configure each utility or ...
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Is it considered a bad practice to oversize an array so that negative indices behave well?
I have been practicing implementing some classic dynamic programming algorithms and was wondering if my implementation of the longest common subsequence search has a significant code smell.
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How to balance 'efficient' vs 'clean' code? [closed]
I have been coding in python for a little over a year, and I have learned a lot and developed quite a few applications, in the process.
I do not program for my profession, I simply program ...
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What is a good method/practice I can employ to keep identical code snippits in two places in sync? Also, help documenting functionals
If I could get some input on the design of this, I would be grateful as well.
Note that I'm programming in python.
There's a function F that takes lots of data, runs some analysis on it (taking ...
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