Usage of break statement in Python
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What does a resistor do? OK, very basic question here.  I read lots of books, searched quite a bit, and every description I read seemed to talk about the flow of electrons and right away go too deep in theory for me to grasp the basic principle of their use.  I understand a resistor limits the "flow", so that an LED doesn't blow up for example. But I fail to understand exactly what a resistor does to current and voltage...  Do resistors affect both current and voltage? In what manner? I'm playing around with height maps (bitmaps), trying to create some of my own in my game, and for that I need to implement some basic drawing methods. I've quickly realized that drawing straight lines isn't as basic as I thought.  It simple's if your points share an X or Y coordinate, or if they are aligned so you can draw a perfectly diagonal line. But in all other cases its trickier.  What algorithm do you use to determine what pixels need to be coloured for it to become a "straight" line ? Tips and resources for beginning designers How to show $\lim_{n \to \infty} a_n = \frac{ [x] + [2x] + [3x] + \dotsb + [nx] }{n^2} = x/2$? Is there proof that the DSA construction, also used by ECDSA, is secure assuming that discrete logarithms in the relevant group representation are difficult? In Windows 8, when Alt+Tab, the desktop would appear as an option to switch to at the end of the list of open programs (thus Alt-Shift-Tab helpfully took you right to the desktop).  In Windows 10 that desktop option is gone. Is there any way to get it back?  I know about Windows+D but Alt+Tab is just more convenient in my opinion. And  also has no desktop and is uglier. How to prove that Fibonacci number is integer? Case insensitive regular expression without re.compile? In Python, I can compile a regular expression to be case-insensitive using re.compile:  &gt;&gt;&gt; s = 'TeSt' &gt;&gt;&gt; casesensitive = re.compile('test') &gt;&gt;&gt; ignorecase = re.compile('test', re.IGNORECASE) &gt;&gt;&gt;  &gt;&gt;&gt; print casesensitive.match(s) None &gt;&gt;&gt; print ignorecase.match(s) &lt;_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x02F0B608&gt;   Is there a way to do the same, but without using re.compile. I can't find anything like Perl's i suffix (e.g. m/test/i) in the documentation. Does driving an microcontroller's GPIO when it is powered off weaken the chip? We are using the  in a project. The way our design is now, the IC's GPIO pins will sometimes be driven high (to 3.3V) or low when it is powered-off. Will this weaken the chip? The absolute maximum ratings state the voltage on any digital I/O pin is -0.3V to VSupply+0.3V. If the answer is no, could the IC be weakened during power up?  The LTC5800-IPM does not have the most detailed datasheet. If it is not clear for that device in particular, I'd be interested to know for CMOS microcontroller GPIOs in general. How to find the sum of this series?  $$\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\cfrac{{2}^{k}}{\binom{2k+1}{k}}$$  It seems very easy. But I still can not work it out, can anyone help? Extract, convert, store and reuse (x,y) coordinate components Can Europeans reset their "time in Canada" clock by visiting the US? If a Swiss citizen comes to Canada and stays for 6 months, can they travel to USA for example, for a short period of time, and then return to Canada for another 6 months?  How long must they stay out of Canada before returning? This happens pretty much every time I try to bake normal maps. It's quite a broad error message and I still don't know exactly what the problems I'm having are, only that if I keep clicking things for half an hour eventually it sometimes just works.  My understanding of the things needed:   A "Generated" blender Image that the normals are written to (In UV/Image Editor, click Image->New)   Tell blender that this is the bake output, below (this is the really confusing bit which blender seems to try to guess and fails)  A UV Map for the low poly model (you only need the geometry of the high poly and it doesn't need a UV map) Under Bake, in the rendering tab:   Bake Mode = Normals Normal Space = Tangent Selected to Active = ✓ (for the next bit)  Select the high rez object first, then the low poly object With the two objects selected, click Bake (you may have to move the mouse to see the error pops up)   Now, from what I can tell the only  (with regard to the setup and apart from the internals of baking) is how blender finds the output image:   Cycles  Have a material using an ImageTexture node which points to your normal map output. Then  says the node must be selected, but  doesn't mention selecting. Blender Render  Have a texture attached to the material that uses the image.  is pretty vague on assigning the output image. Sometimes I've found hitting tab to go to edit mode and selecting the normal map image in the UV editor to help, or at least it seemed to.   I would like to know the exact details of what blender goes looking for when you hit Bake, rather than have to guess by following tutorials. For example, it seems to look for the high and low poly objects in your selection and based off the order you select them. How does it find the normal map/image to write to for both cycles and blender render? Does the Texture need to Influence Normals or does it just need to reference the Image? etc... bibtex and genitive / possessive 's: the proper way to obtain "Kuran's (1989) model" What are the primary differences between the rules of D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder? What are some of the rule changes that Pathfinder brings in comparison to D&amp;D 3.5?  I am curious what changes were made so I can explain to my group what it has to offer. Can a multi-core processor run multiple processes at the same time? I understand that a multi-core processor can run multiple threads of the same process at the same time using its different cores. Can it also run multiple processes at the same time(each core running a different process)? Question 1: Why are irrational numbers uncountable and rationals countable?  I really struggle to understand this. I initially thought it had something to with the fact that between any two numbers there will always be a irrational number. But now it has come to my attention that the same holds for rational numbers. So I can't really see the difference between them. What is it that makes the difference? Why can we line up all rational numbers one-to-one with the natural numbers, but not the irrationals with the naturals?  Sorry for a perhaps basic question, but I really, really struggle with it. Thanks. What happens to waves when they hit smaller apertures than their wavelenghts? Setting environment variables on OS X What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS&nbsp;X?  I've looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit:   /etc/paths ~/.profile ~/.tcshrc   I don't even have some of these files, and I'm pretty sure that .tcshrc is wrong, since OS&nbsp;X uses bash now. Where are these variables, especially PATH, defined?  I'm running  (Leopard). nodejs vs node on ubuntu 12.04