Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be taking a look at using the Python timedelta object. This object is really useful if you want to represent an instance of time, as an object. As opposed to an integer / float number, this is an actual object. The advantage is that it gives us more flexibility […]
Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be looking at using the Python heapq Module. This modules gives us a quick and easy way to build any type of priority queue for your application. To understand more about this module, let’s take a closer look. Priority Queue as a Min-Heap A Priority Queue is a queue
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Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be looking at using the Python IO Module. This module is quite useful when you want to perform file-related I/O operations (eg. file reading/writing) While you can use the normal read() and write() methods to read/write to a file, this module gives us a lot more flexibility regarding these
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Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be looking at using Python to automatically login to Facebook. This will be a fun experiment that will give you a glimpse into web-browser automation using Python’s Selenium web driver. So let’s get right into the topic and create a script that will visit the Facebook page, enter the
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Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll take a look at using Python HttpServer. This module serves as a very quick and easy way to start a local Http Server on your network. Earlier, in Python 2.7, this module was called HttpServer. But with Python3, this module has been merged into the http.server module. Let’s get
The Python with statement is a very useful. This has been there since Python 2.5, and it’s been an ever-present feature used by almost every Python application now! What’s so useful about this statement, so much that everyone uses it? The most useful thing (the only thing in fact!) it does is that it opens
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Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll take a look at the id() function in Python. The id() function returns the identity of any Python object. This will return an integer identification number for different objects. The underlying CPython implementation uses the id() function as the address of the object, in memory. Let’s understand this a
Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be looking at Python’s in-built hash() function. The Python hash() function computes the hash value of a Python object. But the language uses this to a large extent. Let’s understand more about this function, using some examples! Basic Syntax of Python hash() This function takes in an immutable Python
Hello again! In this article, we’ll be taking a look at Python property decorator. Python has a very useful feature called decorators, which is just a syntactic sugar for function-wrappers. Here, we’ll be focusing on the property decorator, which is a special type of decorator. This topic may be a bit confusing to you, so
In this tutorial, we’ll look at the Python CSV Module, which is very useful for csv file processing. Using this module, which comes bundled with Python, we can easily read and write to CSV files. Let’s get started! Using the Python csv module We must import the csv module to use relevant methods. Now, depending