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the standard libraries that come with python I also use selenium. I'm not sure
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> > nothing with it for the rest of the function; it will be discarded
> > without being used.
> Hmm, I’
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> Don't bind anything else to it!
By which I mean, don't bind that name to anything else in the function
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> Tkinter, that is http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/>.
My apologies; there's a broken link in the documentat
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> > telling you to use that, it's incorrect; please help us
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Hello,
So I thought it would be cool to read a sequence at three different frames,
which I have pasted below. However, I've come across a conundrum: how to
make a list of lists. See, I'd like a final output that displays data of
the type of frame with a + or a - to signify the direction of the rea
Whats a more pythony way to do this? I have a dict with a few dozen
elements, and I want to pull a few out. I've already shortened it with
itemgetter, but it still seems redundant. I feel like I can do something
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> > That va
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Hi, Can anyone help explain why you can keep hitting the Mole even when
hittable should be False?
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
#root.state('zoomed')
sec = 0
points=0
pic=PhotoImage(file='Dirt.gif')
pic2=PhotoImage(file='Mole.gif')
hittable=False
def HIT():
if hittable==True:
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