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Comment on Advanced sorting: sorting by key by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:43:36 +0000

Re:How would you sort by second letter and then the third letter

a better way would do it by
def key(x):
return (x[1:])

putting the ‘:’ will return the string from the 2nd character on

Comment on Convert images into a movie with mencoder by software to plot .dat file in linux platform

software to plot .dat file in linux platform — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:38:41 +0000

[...] you want to make movies from a sequence of image files, you can use mencoder. See, e.g. this. I'm not sure what your ".dat" files are. Are they just binary files containing your [...]

Comment on Minimal Sphinx setup for autodocumenting Python modules by Derek

Derek — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:02:53 +0000

Hi – a very nice overview… only problem is that when I run:
make html

I get:
make: *** No rule to make target `html’. Stop.

Any ideas or pointers as to how to solve this? Thanks!

Comment on Creating a custom bar plot in matplotlib by Philipp

Philipp — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:27:41 +0000

Thanks, exactely what I was looking for! Great you’ve commented it. :)

Comment on Minimal Sphinx setup for autodocumenting Python modules by Rohit Agarwal

Rohit Agarwal — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:16:25 +0000

Thanks a lot! For django this was also hepful – http://task3.cc/53/document-your-django-project-using-sphinx-documentation-tool-and-restructuredtext/

Comment on Foreign keys in MySQL by Cupidvogel

Cupidvogel — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:35:49 +0000

This is a pretty incomplete tutorial. A tutorial on foreign keys without detailed mention of referencing action?

Comment on Creating a custom bar plot in matplotlib by Liam

Liam — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:41:14 +0000

Thanks, great intro!

Comment on Write Excel files with Python using xlwt by Crear, Leer y Modificar una Hoja Excel con Python « Ubuntu Life

Crear, Leer y Modificar una Hoja Excel con Python « Ubuntu Life — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:15:27 +0000

Comment on RPy: statistics in R from Python by Drew Anderson

Drew Anderson — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:34:12 +0000

Dude. Thank you. Seriously helpful.

Comment on Creating a custom bar plot in matplotlib by Kelley

Kelley — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:27:00 +0000

Thank you for this!

One question – how do you get the axis labels to “slant”?