2017-01-27

(lviii) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-27 17:06:06 GMT

  1. Generate function with arguments filled in when creating it? - [7/5]
  2. Was the year 1000 (and others) a leap year? - [7/1]
  3. Python MRO order - [7/1]
  4. Create duplicates in the list - [6/9]
  5. What is the best algorithm to solve this puzzle? - [6/8]
  6. How to handle variable length sublist unpacking in Python2? - [6/4]
  7. Using Loops to decorate multiple imported functions in Python - [6/3]
  8. Iterative function generation in Python - [6/1]
  9. Converting an array of integers to a "vector" - [5/6]
  10. Optimizing assignment into an array from various arrays - NumPy - [5/4]

(lvii) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2017-01-27 17:04:52 GMT

  1. OrderedDict Isn't Ordered? - [16/5]
  2. Why are addition and multiplication faster than comparisons? - [15/6]
  3. Is it safe to combine 'with' and 'yield' in python? - [13/2]
  4. Python match text sucessfully even when there are 1, 2 and 3 backslash at front of the same regex pattern - [12/0]
  5. What determines the size of int in numpy? - [9/2]
  6. Python not interning strings when in interactive mode? - [9/2]
  7. how to calculate coskew and cokurtosis - [9/1]
  8. Python3.6: How to dynamically import a module given the full file path (in the presence of implicit sibling imports)? - [8/2]
  9. Why does .loc behave differently depending on whether values are printed or assigned? - [8/1]
  10. Checking if a list has duplicate lists - [7/5]

2017-01-02

20 best Python questions at stackoverflow in 2016

These are the 20 most rated questions at 2016 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2017/01/02 19:55:22 GMT

  1. Pythonic way to avoid "if x: return x" statements - [203/16]
  2. How can I make sense of the `else` statement in Python loops? - [174/13]
  3. How do I avoid the "self.x = x; self.y = y; self.z = z" pattern in __init__? - [160/9]
  4. Why does the floating-point value of 4*0.1 look nice in Python 3 but 3*0.1 doesn't? - [150/4]
  5. Can a line of Python code know its indentation nesting level? - [139/5]
  6. Why are Python's arrays slow? - [130/2]
  7. Times two faster than bit shift? - [120/1]
  8. Why a comparison with a comma at the end "(1,) == 1," gives a tuple "(False,)" in Python? - [106/3]
  9. When is hash(n) == n in Python? - [94/4]
  10. Why do 3 backslashes equal 4 in a Python string? - [87/5]
  11. Why is max slower than sort in Python? - [89/3]
  12. What does x[x < 2] = 0 mean in Python? - [83/5]
  13. Dictionaries are ordered in Python 3.6 - [86/2]
  14. Difference between a -= b and a = a - b in Python - [87/3]
  15. Is there special significance to 16331239353195370.0? - [82/1]
  16. Most pythonic way to interleave two strings - [98/13]
  17. Counterintuitive behaviour of int() in python - [81/4]
  18. Pairwise circular Python 'for' loop - [75/17]
  19. Why does Python allow function calls with wrong number of arguments? - [75/2]
  20. How do I reliably split a string in Python? - [71/5]