I have a chicken-and-egg issue: I need to echo a dot in an if statement in a batch script, but the command prompt crashes, saying ‘. was unexpected at this time.’ Note that echoing treats everything as literal, but the if statement interprets it as incorrect due to the dot being a special character. Adding… Read More Escaping dot in if-statement with echo in Windows batch

In C++, is there any difference between assigning a bool to true and assigning it to 1(or any non-zero integer)? I have seen many competitive programmers use 1 instead of true even when the code is written in advance, so I want to know if there is any benefit besides simply being faster to type.… Read More Is there any difference between bool foo = true and bool foo = 1?

Processing clients input we often use the strip() method. If we wanna remove starting-ending symbols from some specific set we just place all it in the parameter. The code ".yes’ ".strip(". ‘") obviously gives ‘yes’ string as a result. When I try to remove set ‘ ". The result depends from this symbols order. Variant… Read More Why does the literal string """"""" (seven quotes) give an error?

I want to restrict the possible input arguments by using typing.Literal. The following code works just fine, however, mypy is complaining. from typing import Literal def literal_func(string_input: Literal["best", "worst"]) -> int: if string_input == "best": return 1 elif string_input == "worst": return 0 literal_func(string_input="best") # works just fine with mypy # The following call leads… Read More Python type hints: How to use Literal with strings to conform with mypy?