N Kaushik

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Joined: Jun 25, 2018

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Converting Strings to datetime in Python

Data can be represented in various forms - and a convenient way to represent dates and times are strings. However, to work with these dates and times in an arithmetic fashion (such as calculating time differences, adding or removing time, etc.) - we need to convert them to a datetime...

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Dec 21, 2022·19 min read

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The Python Requests Module

Dealing with HTTP requests is not an easy task in any programming language. If we talk about Python, it comes with two built-in modules, urllib and urllib2, to handle HTTP related operation. Both modules come with a different set of functionalities and many times they need to be used together....

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Aug 02, 2018·12 min read

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The Python tempfile Module

Temporary files, or "temp files", are mainly used to store intermediate information on disk for an application. These files are normally created for different purposes such as temporary backup or if the application is dealing with a large dataset bigger than the system's memory, etc. Ideally, these files...

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Jun 25, 2018·14 min read