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 I'm having a problem, where I wish to run several command line functions from a python program using a GUI. I don't know if my problem is specific to PyQt4 or if it has to do with my bad use of python code. 
What I wish to do is have a label on my GUI change its text value to inform the user which…
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 I'm embarrassed that I'm asking this question, but here I go:
Suppose you have the following function foo.  When I'm running a for loop, I'd like it to skip the remainder of foo when foo initially returns the value of 0.  However, break doesn't work when it's inside a function.  
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 I'm embarrassed that I'm asking this question, but here I go:
Suppose you have the following function foo.  When I'm running a for loop, I'd like it to skip the remainder of foo when foo initially returns the value of 0.  However, break doesn't work when it's inside a function.  
As it's currently…
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 I had learnt by reading your great answers here, that it is not good practice deleting items from within a foreach loop, as it is (and I quote) "Sawing off the branch you're sitting on".
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 The following article was published on a Sun Microsystems website a number of years ago by John Feo. It is still useful and worth preserving. So I'm republishing it here.   
  How I Got 15x Improvement Without Really Trying
  John Feo, Sun Microsystems 
  Taking ten "personal" program…
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