In Python, you deal with data in an abstract way and seldom increment through indices and such. The closest-in-spirit thing to ++ is the next method of iterators.

How do I determine: the current directory (where I was in the shell when I ran the Python script), and where the Python file I am executing is?

Since is for comparing objects and since in Python 3+ every variable such as string interpret as an object, let's see what happened in above paragraphs. In python there is id function that shows …

How do I call an external command within Python as if I had typed it in a shell or command prompt?

How do I check whether a file exists or not, without using the try statement?

When I type python into the command line, the command prompt says python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. What should I do? Note: I …

also sys.exit () will terminate all python scripts, but quit () only terminates the script which spawned it. David C. Over a year ago Do you know if this command works differently in python …

Jul 21, 2010 · Why is it 'better' to use my_dict.keys() over iterating directly over the dictionary? Iteration over a dictionary is clearly documented as yielding keys. It appears you had Python 2 …

The python cProfile and pstats modules offer great support for measuring time elapsed in certain functions without having to add any code around the existing functions.

Python 2.4 adds the command line switch -m to allow modules to be located using the Python module namespace for execution as scripts. The motivating examples were standard library …