I recently needed to extract a numeric suffix from a string value in Python. Initially I did the following: import re def extractNumSuffix(value):     return (None if (search:=re.search(‘^\D*(\d+)$’, value, re.IGNORECASE)) is None else search.group(1)) Note that return has a single-line expression. So ...

Was just reading https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_rstrip.asp which says The rstrip() method removes any trailing characters (characters at the end a string), space is the default trailing character to remove. Notes: 1) the chars param was added at Python 2.2.3, can’t use it at older versions as noted at ...

Was just trying to make a Python 2 script work in Python 3 and at first it seemed I just needed a small change to add missing parentheses to the argument of a couple of print statements. But then another issue came up, it wasn’t understanding the command raw_input(somePrompt) that was occuring at various places […]

at http://www.mono-software.com/Mono/Pages/Discussion/dtopic/_YyUBIlx5kiqHaNqAQeltg/br-brake-bug-in-IE11-and-clipflair-text-editor/ one reads: We are using Telerik’s rich text editor (RadEditor), and it seems that RadEditor has specific behaviour regarding insertion of break tags. To circumvent this issue please try to add host header in ISS ...

Just noticed that the Java Calendar class breaks the least-user-expected rule (that is don’t make something behave in the least expected way) regarding the indexing of the month value it returns, compared to all other indexed variables it can return (like day of year, day of month, day of week etc.). The former is using […]

With Silverlight using a cut-down .NET API, some decisions have been at least ackward, causing Silverlight code to be sometimes unnecesserily more complex than its WPF counterpart and WPF code needing several changes to get ported for Silverlight. In ClipFlair I’ve implemented a WPFCompatibility layer to ease compiling WPF code for Silverlight ...

At ClipFlair I’m using a modified version of FloatingWindow control, where I try to make the WPF and Silverlight flavours of the original control share as much code as possible (this is work in progress currently, hoping to eventually have the WPF and Silverlight projects both link to the same source files [this is currently [...]

I’ve managed to combine http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/85603/A-WPF-custom-control-for-zooming-and-panning and a cut-down version of it for Silverlight that was out there: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/167453/A-Silverlight-custom-control-for-zooming-and-panni I did it in a way that the Silverlight version is source-code compatible ...

System.IO.IsolatedStorageSettings doesn’t exist in WPF (only in Silverlight) but can easily be ported from Mono project’s Moonlight implementation (the Moonlight project home is at http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight), as suggested at: http://groups.google.com/group/wpf-disciples/browse_thread/thread/4ed6c009f3fb7d69 I found that ...

For those who wonder what E-Slate is, it’s a componentized authoring environment for the creation of (interactive) educational microworlds, see my previous post for more info. As I mentioned at that post, the latest official version (ignoring any unofficial / experimental versions that you might find around at some educational research labs’ ...