jQuery appending an array of elements

You could use an empty jQuery object instead of an array: var elements = $(); for(x = 0; x < 1000; x++) { elements = elements.add(‘<div>’+x+'</div>’); // or // var element = $(‘<div>’+x+'</div>’); // elements = elements.add(element); } $(‘body’).append(elements); This might be useful if you want to do stuff with newly generated element inside the … Read more

Appending to one list in a list of lists appends to all other lists, too [duplicate]

Python lists are mutable objects and here: plot_data = [[]] * len(positions) you are repeating the same list len(positions) times. >>> plot_data = [[]] * 3 >>> plot_data [[], [], []] >>> plot_data[0].append(1) >>> plot_data [[1], [1], [1]] >>> Each list in your list is a reference to the same object. You modify one, you … Read more

Is there a way to circumvent Python list.append() becoming progressively slower in a loop as the list grows?

The poor performance you observe is caused by a bug in the Python garbage collector in the version you are using. Upgrade to Python 2.7, or 3.1 or above to regain the amoritized 0(1) behavior expected of list appending in Python. If you cannot upgrade, disable garbage collection as you build the list and turn … Read more

Append existing excel sheet with new dataframe using python pandas

UPDATE [2022-01-08]: starting from version 1.4.0 Pandas supports appending to existing Excel sheet, preserving the old contents, “out of the box”! Good job Pandas Team! Excerpt from the ExcelWriter documentation: if_sheet_exists : {‘error’, ‘new’, ‘replace’, ‘overlay’}, default ‘error’ How to behave when trying to write to a sheet that already exists (append mode only). … … Read more

Append date to filename in linux

Info/Summary With bash scripting you can enclose commands in back ticks or parantheses. This works great for labling files, the following wil create a file name with the date appended to it. Methods Backticks – $ echo myfilename-“`date +”%d-%m-%Y”`” $(parantheses) – : $ echo myfilename-$(date +”%d-%m-%Y”) Example Usage: echo “Hello World” > “/tmp/hello-$(date +”%d-%m-%Y”).txt” (creates … Read more