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Highlighting sectors of Venn diagram in Python

I am trying to create a program that would highlight a part of the Venn diagram, depending on user's input. The user would input a set operation and it would highlight the section. Currently, I am ...
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Code to find unique elements among lists / sets

The above shaded area, according to Wolfram is supposed to represent: A XOR B XOR C XOR (A AND B AND C) How to translate this into python code? The code must closely correlate to the set ...
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Is there an XML-like language (or any language) which allows easy expression of overlapping data?

(This is PROBABLY in the wrong site but I am unsure of where the right site is to assign this question to. Mod(s), please forgive and assist me.) I have the following sequence: cdadbcdacdbcbc I ...
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Number of common letters in two strings

I have this code using collections Counter to find the number of common letters in two strings. from collections import Counter a = "abcc" b = "bcaa" answer = 0 ac = Counter(a) bc = Counter(b) ...
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How to get counts of intersections of six or more sets?

I am running an analysis of a number of sets and I have been using the package VennDiagram, which has been working just fine, but it only handles up to 5 sets, and now it turns out that I need to look ...
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What is a better algorithm than brute force to separate items in overlapping categories?

I have an arbitrary set of items (dots below), and some number of categories overlapping in an arbitrary way (A-C below). The test is to determine whether it's possible for each item to be assigned to ...
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