Popular recipes by Shashwat Anand http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172995/2011-02-24T00:33:07-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesConverts from decimal to any base ( between 2 and 26 ) (Python)
2011-02-24T00:33:07-08:00Shashwat Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172995/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577586-converts-from-decimal-to-any-base-between-2-and-26/
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Python
recipe 577586
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172995/">Shashwat Anand</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/base/">base</a>).
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<p>This function takes in any base-10 integer and returns the string representation of that number in its specified base-n form.
The code was inspired from <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65212-convert-from-decimal-to-any-base-number/" rel="nofollow">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65212-convert-from-decimal-to-any-base-number/</a> , thereby improving upon it.</p>
SPOJ backup script (Python)
2010-02-09T08:50:44-08:00Shashwat Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172995/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577036-spoj-backup-script/
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Python
recipe 577036
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172995/">Shashwat Anand</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/algorithm/">algorithm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/algorithms/">algorithms</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/spoj/">spoj</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tools/">tools</a>).
Revision 3.
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<h4>Introduction</h4>
<p>At Sphere Online Judge (<a href="http://www.spoj.pl" rel="nofollow">http://www.spoj.pl</a>) you are given the capability of trying out the
challenging problems given. It also gives you the capability of viewing
and downloading your own solution.</p>
<p>The tool spojbackup tends to automatically backup all your Accepted
submissions and save them on the desired location of your computer. The
basic idea is to automate the process which can be used as a backup and
an offline reference tool of your own codes.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><p>Resume downloads.
spojbackup currently supports resuming of the solutions if internet
connection is disrupted</p></li>
<li><p>Incremental backup facility
it'll not download the code already present on your machine. Only newer
code added in your signedlist will be downloaded</p></li>
<li><p>User-defined destination
all codes are saved at user-defined destination
if no option is given by user it saves in the folder from where command is
run</p></li>
<li><p>Proxy support
Proxy support is provided as SPOJ users are generally university students
and they are generally behind a proxy and university firewall.</p></li>
</ul>
<h4>Bugs</h4>
<p>In case of finding a bug please drop a mail to the authors. We will try to sort
out the problems.</p>
partitionall() - partition until the end (Python)
2010-03-01T15:27:07-08:00Shashwat Anandhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172995/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577060-partitionall-partition-until-the-end/
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Python
recipe 577060
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172995/">Shashwat Anand</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/string/">string</a>).
Revision 4.
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<p>Search for the separator sep in string s, and return the part before it, the separator itself, and the part after it continuously untill all the seperator finishes. If the separator is not found, return string s. It works like split() combined with partition()</p>