XKlondike

26 Sep

Python

Using functools.partialmethod to Create Partial Methods

functools.partialmethod This function allows you to create a partial method of a class by pre-fixing some of the method's arguments. …

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24 Sep

Python

Using itertools.combinations_with_replacement to generate combinations with repetition

itertools.combinations_with_replacement is a useful function from the itertools module that allows you to create combinations of elements with repetition. This …

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24 Sep

Python

Tenacity is a powerful library for implementing retries.

Tenacity is a library for implementing automatic retries when errors occur. It allows you to easily add retry logic to …

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23 Sep

Python

Using types.MappingProxyType to create immutable mappings

types.MappingProxyType is a wrapper object that allows you to create an immutable mapping based on an existing dictionary. It provides …

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23 Sep

Python

How to implement a queue in Python

Queues are a data structure used to store collections of elements in a first-in, first-out (FIFO) order. Just like in …

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23 Sep

Python

What does the takewhile() function from the itertools module do?

The takewhile() function from the itertools module creates an iterator that returns elements from an iterable as long as the …

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23 Sep

Python

Starmap()

`starmap()` accepts another function and an iterable object as arguments, where the elements of the iterable are tuples. The passed …

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20 Sep

Python

Peewee is a lightweight ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) for Python

Peewee is a compact and easy-to-use ORM library for working with databases. It supports SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, providing a …

by Xor0x

20 Sep

Python

DABL

DABL (Data Analytics in Business Language) is a Python library that simplifies the use of machine learning for data analysis. …

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13 Sep

Python

Using defaultdict to simplify working with dictionaries

When working with dictionaries where you need to initialize default values for new keys, defaultdict from the collections module greatly …

by Xor0x

13 Sep

Python

Why use namedtuple instead of a regular dictionary?

The main advantage of namedtuple is that it takes up less space (memory) than an equivalent dictionary. Therefore, for large …

by Xor0x

13 Sep

Python

Sorting a list of dictionaries

There are tasks where it is necessary to sort a list of dictionaries in order to obtain a list sorted …

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09 Sep

Python

Compress function

The compress function from itertools is used to filter elements from the input sequence based on the corresponding elements in …

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06 Sep

Python

Green threads

Green threads are execution threads that are managed by a virtual machine (VM) instead of the operating system. Green threads …

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06 Sep

Python

Shallow Copying

Object copying can be performed as either "shallow" copying or "deep" copying. The difference between them lies in how nested …

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