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Let’s say you have a directory with files matching a certain pattern (and others that don’t), and you want to find all the files that match that pattern in R. It’s pretty easy to do this, but it’s not super straightforward to figure it out from the help. Below is the simple answer. But you [...] Read more »

In Python 2.5, there is a built-in function that tells you the maximum allowable int value:

import sys
print sys.maxint

But there is no corresponding function to do this for float values. Part of the reason may be that it can vary from system to system. But actually, I believe they added this in version 2.6. So this [...] Read more »