Jean-François Fabre

Toulouse, France

http://jotd.pagesperso-orange.fr/

BY DAY: coding python/windows stuff, optimize C/C++/Ada build chains, trying to coerce my managers into giving me interesting projects, help people on all the company's projects where I can, answering questions on SO

BY NIGHT: managing the kids, coding python & C++ & 68k asm stuff, retrogaming, retrocoding, playing the piano, answering questions on SO

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Should I avoid converting to a string if a value is already a string?

python string asked Feb 14, 2017 at 10:03

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29 votes

Printing without parentheses varying error message using Python 3

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24 votes

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15 votes

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14 votes

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12 votes

how to get Ada exception message when catching from C++ handler?

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11 votes

ImportError on python 3, worked fine on python 2.7

python python-3.x python-2.7 import module asked Jul 25, 2016 at 9:41

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10 votes

portable way to write csv file in python 2 or python 3

python python-3.x windows python-2.7 csv asked Aug 6, 2016 at 20:06

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10 votes

How to detect when subprocess asks for input in Windows

python windows subprocess io-redirection asked Mar 21, 2018 at 13:56

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9 votes

how to create a forward declaration of a typedef struct

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