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Imagine if you could have computer programs that wrote your code for you. It is possible, but the machines will not write all your code for you! This technique, called metaprogramming, is popular with code framework developers. This is how you get code generation and smart features in many popular...
Tendai Mutunhire
In an earlier article I gave you an introduction into phonetic algorithms, and shows their variety. In more detail we had a look at the edit distance, which is also known as the Levenshtein Distance. This algorithm was developed in order to calculate the number of letter substitutions to get...
Frank Hofmann
Humans have an ability to identify patterns within the accessible information with an astonishingly high degree of accuracy. Whenever you see a car or a bicycle you can immediately recognize what they are. This is because we have learned over a period of time how a car and bicycle looks...
Scott Robinson
This article is going to highlight the features of CPython's C API which is used to build C extensions for Python. I will be going over the general workflow for taking a small library of fairly banal, toy example, C functions and exposing it to a Python wrapper. You might...
Adam McQuistan
One thing that Python developers enjoy is surely the huge number of resources developed by its big community. Python-built application programming interfaces (APIs) are a common thing for websites. It's hard to imagine that any popular web service will not have created a Python API library to facilitate the access...
Mihajlo Pavloski
Writing text is a creative process that is based on thoughts and ideas which come to our mind. The way that the text is written reflects our personality and is also very much influenced by the mood we are in, the way we organize our thoughts, the topic itself and...
Cron is a software utility that allows us to schedule tasks on Unix-like systems. The name is derived from the Greek word "Chronos", which means "time". The tasks in Cron are defined in a crontab, which is a text file containing the commands to be executed....
This tutorial will cover using SQLite in combination with Python's sqlite3 interface. SQLite is a single file relational database bundled with most standard Python installs. SQLite is often the technology of choice for small applications, particularly those of embedded systems and devices like phones and tablets, smart appliances, and instruments....
The Python zlib library provides a Python interface to the zlib C library, which is a higher-level abstraction for the DEFLATE lossless compression algorithm. The data format used by the library is specified in the RFC 1950 to 1952, which is available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt....
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