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Setting Camera Parameters in OpenCV/Python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11420748/setting-camera-parameters-in-opencv-python

camera does not support your request most USB cams are cheap and simple. Maybe that parameter is just not available for modifications...

How to solve the “Mastermind” guessing game?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185634/how-to-solve-the-mastermind-guessing-game

is like a set except values can occur multiple times. My cheap implementation simply uses a dict mapping keys to the number.. some possible optimizations in favour of clear code. One cheap optimization is to observe that on the first move most guesses..

Is switching from PHP to Python worth the trouble [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486608/is-switching-from-php-to-python-worth-the-trouble

of Python can be learned in an afternoon. So it's easy and cheap to train new developers Getting to know the frameworks and the..

Checking for member existence in Python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204308/checking-for-member-existence-in-python

setting up exception managers the try keyword is very cheap in CPython while creating an exception the raise keyword and..

when does Python allocate new memory for identical strings?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2123925/when-does-python-allocate-new-memory-for-identical-strings

a suitable existing object when locating such an object is cheap and easy just make a new object if the task of locating a suitable..

Cost of exception handlers in Python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2522005/cost-of-exception-handlers-in-python

question the accepted answer suggested replacing a very cheap if statement in Python code with a try except block to improve..

Why does Python print unicode characters when the default encoding is ASCII?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2596714/why-does-python-print-unicode-characters-when-the-default-encoding-is-ascii

they require more bytes than necessary even for common cheap characters. UTF 16 for instance uses a minimum of 2 bytes per..

Why “is” keyword has different behavior when there is dot in the string?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858603/why-is-keyword-has-different-behavior-when-there-is-dot-in-the-string

constant immutable objects where one suffices is pretty cheap and fast and may offer good performance returns since the function..

Data Modelling Advice for Blog Tagging system on Google App Engine

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304117/data-modelling-advice-for-blog-tagging-system-on-google-app-engine

my understanding that a basic principal is that storage is cheap don't worry about data duplication as you might in a normalized..

in-memory database in Python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3047412/in-memory-database-in-python

memory to create a database in RAM. It's also relatively cheap with transactions depending on what you are doing. To get going..

How can I use the python HTMLParser library to extract data from a specific div tag?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3276040/how-can-i-use-the-python-htmlparser-library-to-extract-data-from-a-specific-div

set by __init__ from arguments passed to it I avoided that cheap generalization step in the code above to avoid obscuring the..

How to center a Window on the screen in Tkinter?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3352918/how-to-center-a-window-on-the-screen-in-tkinter

win.show Basically Tkinter is good for a cheap and easy GUI but it won't look that pretty without some serious..

convert a string of bytes into an int (python)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/444591/convert-a-string-of-bytes-into-an-int-python

another module. Well importing a module isn't necessarily cheap take a look Timer import struct nstruct.unpack L y xcc xa6 xbb..

itertools product speed up

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4709510/itertools-product-speed-up

the order of the indices you can just omit it but it is cheap anyway as long as you don't have any follow up operations that..

Counting collisions in a Python dictionary

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4865325/counting-collisions-in-a-python-dictionary

2 3 full. The cost of multiple probes is mitigated by the cheap cost of calculating the slot for the first and subsequent probes...

Python-specific antipatterns and bad practices [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576988/python-specific-antipatterns-and-bad-practices

preconditional checking exception handling in Python is cheap YES def safe_divide_2 x y try return x y except ZeroDivisionError..

Programming with hardware in python [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/919857/programming-with-hardware-in-python

so I would have to buy a kit or something. What are some cheap options for this python hardware share improve this question..