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    Thread: Generating accounting transactions data
Post: Generating accounting transactions data

I was attempting to generate accounting transactions data for three years. I tried to use Faker but I got stuck at line 68: "Date": fake.date_between(start_date=datetime.date(f'{year}-{month}-1'), end...
Emekadavid General Coding Help 0 431 Sep-22-2023, 09:00 AM
    Thread: multiple number format conversion
Post: RE: multiple number format conversion

In case you need to know, the numpy function has limits. It can only convert between bases 2-36. I checked it out. But one liners are good and beautiful.
Emekadavid General Coding Help 4 2,613 Aug-10-2020, 11:02 AM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: RE: Can someone help me optimize this game for lar...

(Jun-27-2020, 11:13 PM)deanhystad Wrote: In your program a letter is either a vowel or it isn't (no confusion about Y) you certainly don't have to test twice. Why are you making a substring? You k...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-28-2020, 07:37 PM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: RE: Can someone help me optimize this game for lar...

(Jun-27-2020, 07:56 PM)GOTO10 Wrote: From your test case using "BANANA", you know that Stuart's score (count of substrings beginning with a consonant) is 12. Note that there are 6 substrings that b...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-27-2020, 08:43 PM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: RE: Can someone help me optimize this game for lar...

(Jun-27-2020, 04:25 PM)deanhystad Wrote: This is a really expensive way to do very simple math for j in range(i, len(text)): countConsonants += 1 This is a logic probl...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-27-2020, 06:58 PM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: RE: Can someone help me optimize this game for lar...

I don't think it is a logic problem. I have modeled that loop several ways. The loop is counting substrings in string that is why it was designed that way. If you can help me I would be grateful. I ha...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-27-2020, 05:25 PM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: RE: Can someone help me optimize this game for lar...

I will try out counting directly and see how it goes. Thanks for the idea. (Jun-26-2020, 05:54 PM)GOTO10 Wrote: I can think of one other hint to share, but it might make the solution too obvious. ...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-26-2020, 06:15 PM
    Thread: Please, how do I call the method inside this class
Post: Please, how do I call the method inside this class

I understand about methods and variables in classes but I was reading this book on data structures and understand what the author was saying until he wrote a utility function inside a class, a progres...
Emekadavid Homework 1 1,684 Jun-26-2020, 12:58 PM
    Thread: Tools for black box and glass box (white box) testing
Post: RE: Tools for black box and glass box (white box) ...

Thanks everyone. Now I have to start doing the tests. I think I have something to start with.
Emekadavid News and Discussions 3 55,402 Jun-25-2020, 03:29 PM
    Thread: Can someone help me optimize this game for large number of strings
Post: Can someone help me optimize this game for large n...

I was given an assignment to create a game that takes a string as input and then evaluate the substrings starting with a consonant and the substrings starting with a vowel and print out which side, th...
Emekadavid Homework 13 5,001 Jun-25-2020, 11:30 AM
    Thread: Tools for black box and glass box (white box) testing
Post: Tools for black box and glass box (white box) test...

Please can someone recommend a tool for black box testing and white box (or glass box) testing. I need to do testing on some code and need them.or maybe unit and regression tests for python code. Than...
Emekadavid News and Discussions 3 55,402 Jun-25-2020, 07:21 AM
    Thread: Problem with regex
Post: Problem with regex

I want to take: s = '1 w 2 r 3g'And format it to: s = '1 W 2 R 3g'Based on the concept that the first letter after any space is converted to upper including the first letter. I tried: s.title() but...
Emekadavid Homework 1 1,580 Jun-22-2020, 10:52 PM
    Thread: Constraints in for loop
Post: Constraints in for loop

I am doing a challenge in hackerrank and was given this stub code: for _ in range(int(input)) name = input() score = float(input())The constraints code to add is that make sure the loop goes ...
Emekadavid Homework 2 1,916 Jun-13-2020, 06:23 AM
    Thread: Which database should I learn
Post: RE: Which database should I learn

I have already downloaded mysql after the previous post. I will look into it and add it to one of my programmer skills. I hope it does not have a steep learning curve?
Emekadavid News and Discussions 5 2,466 Jun-11-2020, 03:32 PM
    Thread: Is this code pythonic
Post: RE: Is this code pythonic

Your implementation was wonderful. Now I have learned new tricks. I will go an read up on assert expression. I have not encountered assert in my readings. Thanks
Emekadavid Homework 2 2,007 Jun-10-2020, 03:41 PM
    Thread: Is this code pythonic
Post: Is this code pythonic

As a beginner, I aim to write pythonic code because that would get me motivated into doing python the pythonic way. I was doing this challenge on 2d lists (or arrays) from hackerrank, and got the answ...
Emekadavid Homework 2 2,007 Jun-10-2020, 02:42 PM
    Thread: Why is one duplicate not removed?
Post: RE: Why is one duplicate not removed?

Ok. Iterate over the copy and then remove the duplicate in the original list. Got it. I changed the code to: for i in L1[:]:and it worked. Thanks. solved.
Emekadavid General Coding Help 4 2,386 Jun-09-2020, 02:35 PM
    Thread: question about for loop
Post: RE: question about for loop

As you can go forwards, you can also go backwards. That makes your programming flexible and convenient. Here is a code that moves through the above number line backwards. Just make the stop a negative...
Emekadavid General Coding Help 5 2,524 Jun-09-2020, 02:16 PM
    Thread: Why is one duplicate not removed?
Post: Why is one duplicate not removed?

This code removes the duplicates in two lists. But when I run it, one of the duplicates is not removed. It beats me. Can someone explain to me why. def removeDups(L1, L2): """Assumes that L1 and...
Emekadavid General Coding Help 4 2,386 Jun-09-2020, 02:11 PM
    Thread: Question about my code
Post: RE: Question about my code

In fact you have to understand range as a reference to the number line. If you try: dlist = list(range(-1, 3) print(dlist)The output will show you that range is just moving along the number line. I...
Emekadavid Homework 5 2,672 Jun-08-2020, 06:28 PM

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