I have a piece of code here that is supposed to return the least common element in a list of elements, ordered by commonality: def getSingle(arr): from collections import Counter c = …

The first way works for a list or a string; the second way only works for a list, because slice assignment isn't allowed for strings. Other than that I think the only difference is speed: it looks …

May 30, 2013 · For example list and start of containers are now subcommands of docker container and history is a subcommand of docker image. These changes let us clean up the …

Feb 2, 2014 · Best in what way, and is this remove elements based on their position or their value?

Nov 29, 2016 · (List<Customer>)(Object)list; you must be sure that at runtime the list contains nothing but Customer objects. Critics say that such casting indicates something wrong with …

Oct 5, 2017 · @Sandy Chapman: List.of does return some ImmutableList type, its actual name is just a non-public implementation detail. If it was public and someone cast it to List again, …

Sep 17, 2016 · Possible Duplicate: Get difference from two lists in Python What is a simplified way of doing this? I have been trying on my own, and I can't figure it out. list a and list b, the …

Stephane: Let me rephrase it: if x in list is not the thing that people complain not being a built-in function. They complain about the fact that there is not explicit way to find the first occurrence …

Feb 25, 2015 · A list of lists would essentially represent a tree structure, where each branch would constitute the same type as its parent, and its leaf nodes would represent values.

Don't use quotes on the command line 1 Don't use type=list, as it will return a list of lists This happens because under the hood argparse uses the value of type to coerce each individual …