WORD OF THE DAY DIDACTIC(Adjective) Meaning: Designed or intended to teach people something. Inclined to teach or lecture others too much. Morally instructive. Usage: Her “novels for children” are certainly didactic, and they are certainly moral. While the professor’s lectures were designed to be didactic, they only served to confuse the students. Even though my […]
Word Of The Day-10/9/14
WORD OF THE DAY RIGOROUS(Adjective) Meaning: Extremely thorough and careful. Very strict and demanding. Usage: A rigorous inspection of your tax records has revealed the government owes you money. We built a rigorous drug validation program and brought new standards of quality to our field. We subjected the data to a rigorous analysis. IDIOM/PHRASE OF […]
Word Of The Day – 9/9/14
WORD OF THE DAY ASTONISH(Verb) Meaning: Surprise or impress (someone) greatly. To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. Usage: Despite the hype, there was nothing in the book to astonish readers. The news astonished everyone. Everyone was absolutely astonished by the quality of their performance. IDIOM/PHRASE OF THE DAY THROW IN THE TOWEL Meaning: To […]
Executing bash commands via Python 3
In python, executing bash commands can be done using subprocess module. It’s pretty easy to use and it’s a powerful module. For simple commands, we can use subprocess.call Usage: Eg: total 4 -rw-rw-r– 1 tevin tevin 15 Sep 3 15:29 test.txt You can also use subprocess.check_call and subprocess.check_output Popen: For more flexibility, you can use […]
Word Of The Day – 4/9/14
WORD OF THE DAY JOVIAL(Adjective) Meaning: Cheerful and friendly Full of happiness and joy Usage: The audience was in a jovial mood. He was extremely kind and jovial, and we spent a long time talking. It was hard to believe this jovial man was the same angry man she had faced earlier that night. IDIOM/PHRASE […]