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Short Integers in Python

Python allocates integers automatically based on the underlying system architecture. Unfortunately I have a huge dataset which needs to be fully loaded into memory. So, is there a way to force Python to use only 2 bytes for some integers (equivalent of C++ 'short')? ...

standard way to convert to short path in .net

looking for the standard bug-proofed way to convert "long names" such as "C:\Documents and settings" to their equivalent "short names" "C:\DOCUME~1" I need this to run an external process from withing my C# app. It fails if I feed it with paths in the "long name". ...

Primitive type 'short' - casting in Java

Hello, I have a question about the primitive type 'short' in Java. I am using JDK 1.6. If I have the following: short a = 2; short b = 3; short c = a + b; the compiler does not want to compile - it says that it "cannot convert from int to short" and suggests that I make a cast to short, so this: short c = (short) (a + b); real...

VBScript Compressor / Packer

I'm looking for a VbScript compressor / packer. Basically I want to shorten the VBScript code. Could you recommend a tool for this? ...

Java's L number (long) specification question

Hi all, It appears that when you type in a number in java, the compiler automatically reads it as an integer, which is why when you type in (long) 6000000000 (not in Integer's range) it will complain that 6000000000 is not an integer. To make it shut up, I had to specify 6000000000L. I just learned about this specification. Are there...

the shortest path in cycle directed Graph

i need an example of the shortest path of directed graph cycle bye one node (it should reach to all nodes of graph from anode will be the input) please if there is an example i need it in c++ or algorithm thanks very much......... ...

what are some good css shorthands you can think of?

some that i can think of are font: bold 20px Verdana, sans-serif /* one line for variant, size, and family */ color: #336 /* short color code */ height: 0 /* no need to specify unit when 0 */ border: 0 /* same effect as border: none but shorter */ background: #ffc /* no need to use background-color if all is wanted is color *...

How to get long URL from short URL?

Using Ruby, how do I convert the short URLs (tinyURL, bitly etc) to the corresponding long URLs? ...

Really simple short string compression

Does anyone know of a really simple compression technique for strings up to about 255 characters in length (yes I'm compressing urls)? Not concerned with strength of compression - I am looking for something that performs very well and is quick to implement. I would like something simpler than SharpZipLib: something that can be impleme...

short version of jsp mail?

Hey guys. I'm searching for an "one-liner" for mailing within jsp. I just wanna send the values of 5 parameters to the webmasters mail-address. Any ideas for a short solution? ...

Good way to convert between short and bytes?

I need to take pairs of bytes in, and output shorts, and take shorts in and output pairs of bytes. Here are the functions i've devised for such a purpose: static short ToShort(short byte1, short byte2) { short number = (short)byte2; number <<= 4; number += (short)byte1; return number; } static void FromShort(short number...

short enums on VC++ 6.0 (or VC++ 2008) ?

It would be very convenient to have "short enum" or "char enum" in VC++, as I have seen mentioned elsewhere for GCC etc. Is there some option in VC++ to allow this? ...

hex string to signed short int in c++

Hi, I could find the code to convert a hexadecimal string into a signed int (using strtol), but I can't find something for short int (2 bytes). Here' my piece of code : while (!sCurrentFile.eof() ) { getline (sCurrentFile,currentString); sOutputFile<<strtol(currentString.c_str(),NULL,16)<<endl; } My idea is to read a file with 2 byt...

strange malloc behavior in C

I am trying to create a matrix with dynamic proportions and to initialize it here is the code I am using to allocate memory and initialization: int **matrix; //mem allocation matrix=(int*)malloc(sizeof(int*)*mat_w); for (i=0;i<mat_w;i++) matrix[i]=(int)malloc(sizeof(int)*mat_h); //init for (i=0;i<mat_w;i++) for (j=0;j<mat_h;j++)...

unsigned short in java

Hi how can i declare an unsigned short value in Java? Thank you ...

C++ struct size: 2+4+2+2+4 = 16

Possible Duplicate: Why isnt sizeof for a struct equal to the sum of sizeof of each member? Why is the sizeof(); of this structure 16 bytes? I'm compiling in g++. struct bitmapfileheader { unsigned short bfType; unsigned int bfSize; unsigned short bfReserved1; unsigned short bfReserved2; unsigne...

Which is better? To use short or int?

In Java or C++: Which is better? To use short or int for numbers that go to the short Max value, from 0 to 65535 in the case of unsigned short in C++. I heard something about using int is better by the processor registers... ...

In VB 2008, why does manipulation of shorts take longer than integers?

In this example: Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim stopwatch1, stopwatch2 As New Stopwatch : Dim EndLoop As ULong = 10000 stopwatch1.Start() For cnt As ULong = 1 To EndLoop Dim Number1 As UInt32 For Number1 = 1 To 20000 Dim Number2 As UInt32 = 0 ...

How does the google short url works?

How can google short URL cater for so many URLs in web with just four character, even though alphabets are case sensitive? http://goo.gl/SUWp Say fn(some url)-> four letter for url, how can they suddenly use the same function which gives five letter for url after sometime?How will they know whether it is in four letter or five letter u...

Unary minus on a short becomes an int?

In the following: public class p { short? mID; short? dID; } short id = p.mID ?? -p.dID.Value; The compiler gives me the error: Error 21 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'short'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) I have to change the code to the following for it to work: short id = p.mID ?? (sh...