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I prefer to work with Python because it is a very flexible programming language, and allows me to interact with the operating system easily. This also includes file system functions. To simply list files in a directory the modules os, subprocess, fnmatch, and pathlib come into play. The following solutions...
Frank Hofmann
A Python generator is a function that produces a sequence of results. It works by maintaining its local state, so that the function can resume again exactly where it left off when called subsequent times. Thus, you can think of a generator as something like a powerful iterator. The state...
Scott Robinson
On many occasions, while working with the scikit-learn library, you'll need to save your prediction models to file, and then restore them in order to reuse your previous work to: test your model on new data, compare multiple models, or anything else. This saving procedure is also known as object...
Mihajlo Pavloski
There arises many times in the development of modern web applications where the business requirements inherently describe relationships that are recursive. One well known example of such a business rule is in the description of employees and their relationship to their managers, which are also employees. Notice the circular nature...
Adam McQuistan
Flask is a great choice for building web applications in a modular way using Python. Unlike Django and other analogues like Ruby on Rails, Flask is a micro-framework. This means it includes only what is necessary to do core web development, leaving the bulk of choices beyond that minimal subset...
Tendai Mutunhire
When you start a program on your machine, it runs in its own "bubble" which is completely separate from other programs that are active at the same time. This "bubble" is called a process, and comprises everything which is needed to manage this program call. For...
A CSV (Comma Separated Values) file is a file that uses a certain formatting for storing data. This file format organizes information, containing one record per line, with each field (column) separated by a delimiter. The delimiter most commonly used is usually a comma. This format is so common that...
In this article, we will take a look at two of the most popular web frameworks in Python: Django and Flask. Here, we will be covering how each of these frameworks compares when looking at their learning curves, how easy it is to get started. Next, we'll also be looking...
In this article we go over the Python file types .pyc, .pyo and .pyd, and how they're used to store bytecode that will be imported by other Python programs. You might have worked with .py files writing Python code, but you want to know what these other file types do...
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