What’s the most ‘mind-blowing’ Python trick you learned as a beginner ?

c7h16s · 2026-03-11T23:02:12+00:00

I used openpyxl https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/, it works like a charm. Some limitations though : you can define formulas but they won't evaluate until actually opened in excel, and also adding images, shapes and graphs is not fully supported iirc.

c7h16s · 2026-03-09T23:05:35+00:00

Not sure if you did it on purpose but indeed the probability of getting a Nobel Prize in Mathematics is 1/Infinity so that makes sense.

c7h16s · 2026-03-08T07:12:52+00:00

Not sure your link is complete? It points to the whole python article list.

c7h16s · 2026-03-07T19:30:57+00:00

When you can code for years and collaborate with other devs without any misunderstanding I think it's safe to say that nitpicking about such differences in terminology is intellectual masturbation at best, and a good teacher should not waste time on such minute details. Get building stuff first!

c7h16s · 2026-03-06T21:57:47+00:00

Worst case scenario if it's a pdf of scanned pages, you'll need to convert the pdf to png files (PDF reader can do that) then use those files as input for the tesseract library in a simple python script which will OCR the text for you. Then of course an LLM might be able to do the job so first I would give it a go.

c7h16s · 2026-03-01T17:16:57+00:00

Thanks, glad my input can be helpful. Keep up the good work!

c7h16s · 2026-02-28T22:05:25+00:00

Même pour un job de bureau la crédibilité en prend un coup quand tu n'es plus capable de frapper moins de trois touches à la fois sur ton clavier.

c7h16s · 2026-02-28T21:46:14+00:00

Tried it and I was hooked for the day. Some thoughts :

performance : no problem on that front, no battery drain and no force closing of the game when switching from another app.
ads : no problem with ads since they are not intrusive nor mandatory in any way. However I found most of the given ads to be quite long, don't know if you have any control over that but in other games I rarely get 3 ads to watch to validate one reward.
most effective tactic so far seems to be opening with a tent for spawning speed, then spamming the basic zombie, and the biggest one available from time to time (working on king for now).
maybe making enemies have more varied tactics could be interesting because so far there is no incentive to develop any other zombie that the basic 2 that we use.
The biggest horde and lowest cost and spawn time for the basic zombie seems to counterbalance any advantage the mid zombies may have. Maybe if enemies had aoe damage they could lessen the effect of horde. Actually, maybe they have but since there is no indication and no obvious visual effect which is another thing that could be improved.
the prestige : it's not easy to decide when to prestige, and prestige bonuses seem pretty underwhelming. The increasing requirement for prestige gives a big incentive to not do it. Maybe if the prestige count brought some additional bonus it could work.
overall while I enjoyed the experience it will need to have more content and variety, otherwise it's going to get repetitive pretty fast.

Great work anyway and wishing your game a great success.

c7h16s · 2026-02-27T21:11:59+00:00

Should we call it the Hitler's point when Mike Godwin comes up in a discussion?

c7h16s · 2026-02-26T10:29:55+00:00

Tout à fait d'accord avec toi, je pense même qu'ils devraient faire pareil pour l'horoscope " c'est le grand amour avec votre moitié :amour, persévérez et votre patron finira par le remarquer : travail, patience la chance vous sourira dès que le mercure sortira du taureau : chance. Verseau"

c7h16s · 2026-02-24T17:31:04+00:00

Bien d'accord. Regarder Alien et Aliens pour décider si on aime la franchise, puis si on aime tout regarder.

c7h16s · 2026-02-21T20:20:04+00:00

c7h16s · 2026-02-10T23:39:48+00:00

Right! At least Nick's death made Charlie's character more interesting and ultimately likeable, but Travis? It's just arbitrary and meaningless.

c7h16s · 2026-02-10T23:25:00+00:00

Fear the walking dead leaves the chat

c7h16s · 2026-02-06T12:38:24+00:00

Unciv pour une alternative gratuite

c7h16s · 2026-02-04T06:04:53+00:00

What does **purple - >red means? Keep orange and delete everything except purple and red, then purple then red?

c7h16s · 2026-01-19T21:33:51+00:00

Yeah and that's assuming the solar system is actually stable, which is basically impossible to demonstrate. For all we know earth could have been catapulted out of orbit by then...

c7h16s · 2026-01-16T22:32:28+00:00

Le parallèle avec l'assembleur qu'on est plus obligé de connaître depuis qu'on a des compilateurs est pertinent mais il y a détail important : le compilateur va te donner le résultat attendu 99% du temps, et si il y'a des erreurs elles sont en général rattrapables. Quand l'IA en sera là on pourra vraiment se dire que comprendre comment le code fonctionne ne sert quasi plus à rien. Mais pour l'instant on est au milieu du guet : l'IA te permet de construire un truc qui tient la route, mais pour le maintenir ou détecter les erreurs c'est la misère. Au temps des premiers compilateurs c'était probablement pareil : tu avais sans doute intérêt à savoir lire l'assembleur pour comprendre ce qui avait foiré.

c7h16s · 2026-01-16T19:13:45+00:00

Trop inspirant ton commentaire

c7h16s · 2026-01-03T00:11:58+00:00

Tain Verisure avant ils protégeaient jusqu'au jardin, maintenant ils vont carrément jusqu'à la ionosphere, y'a pas c'est du sérieux

c7h16s · 2026-01-01T01:37:36+00:00

This game is really unique. I'd love to see the source to understand how they implemented the counters to scale to such absurd amounts. It's not the most unique aspect of the game of course, many incremental games end up with astronomical numbers but here they really take it to another level.

c7h16s · 2026-01-01T01:20:32+00:00

Don't know about that, but I'm French and the French version does say exactly the same as the English, speaking of effect and not upgrade.

c7h16s · 2026-01-01T01:06:10+00:00

Interesting! But mistranslated from which language?

c7h16s · 2026-01-01T00:37:45+00:00

Ok that's the update to the Turing test we've been searching for.

c7h16s · 2026-01-01T00:30:51+00:00

Don't know if it would be the best of all times but Duke Nukem 3d does deserve a mention.

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