Brain Goo

In Python, as with most languages, STDIN is treated like a file. You can read from it any time, but knowing what kind of file it is lets us know if someone passed us something via STDIN or if we are going to prompt them for it. import os, sys if os.isatty(file.fileno(sys.stdin)):     print “Reading list [...]

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One of my more popular posts is How to Push a Hash on to an Array in PERL, but how do you push a dict on to a list in Python? Lists are one-dimensional arrays and dicts are associative arrays or hash arrays.  This means we can do the same thing we do in other [...]

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