This short article is based on the ultimate guide to freelance developing on the Finxter blog. You’ll first learn about the definition of freelancing. Then, I’ll show you how you can evaluate whether the freelance developing niche is attractive for you and whether you can expect it to grow over time. So, let’s get started, … Read more
There’s a reason why programmers, software developers, and hackers never seem to go out of vogue: Leverage. A skilled programmer may spend a year writing software which, in turn, automates the jobs performed by thousands of workers. Soon will a program for automated driving destroy billions of today’s and tomorrow’s jobs in the logistics sector. … Read more
Do you want to work from home and earn a healthy living as a freelance developer? There never has been a better time! Freelance Developers make $51 per hour, on average, in the US. This complete guide to freelance development is a running document in which I share all my experiences from working as a … Read more
This is a running document in which I’ll answer all questions regarding the single line of Python code. It’s based on my interactive collection here but without the slow videos and embedded code shells. Let’s get started! Python One Line If Else You can use a simple if statement in a single line of code. … Read more
Summary: To access the index of iterables like lists in Python, use one of the following methods: Use enumerate() function. Use a counter variable with For Loop/While Loop. Use a list comprehension. Use the NumPy library. Use the itertools module. Introduction An index can be considered as the position of an element in an ordered … Read more
Python’s dictionary data structure is one of the most powerful, most underutilized data structures in Python. Why? Because checking membership is more efficient for dictionaries than for lists, while accessing elements is easier for dictionaries than for sets. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to perform four common dictionary operations in one line of Python … Read more
Problem: How to append elements to a list using a single line for loop? Example: You hope to accomplish something like this where you create an initial list (this one is empty) and you append multiple elements to it: However, this statement doesn’t work! Is there a one-line for loop to append elements to a … Read more
Summary: The UnicodeEncodeError generally occurs while encoding a Unicode string into a certain coding. Only a limited number of Unicode characters are mapped to strings. Thus, any character that is not-represented / mapped will cause the encoding to fail and raise UnicodeEncodeError. To avoid this error use the encode(utf-8) and decode(utf-8) functions accordingly in your … Read more
Dictionary Comprehension is a concise and memory-efficient way to create and initialize dictionaries in one line of Python code. It consists of two parts: expression and context. The expression defines how to map keys to values. The context loops over an iterable using a single-line for loop and defines which (key,value) pairs to include in … Read more
Here’s the step-by-step approach of how to deploy your Dash app on Pythonanywhere.com using Flask and pip: Create an account on Pythonanywhere.com. Create a Flask application. Create a Dash application. Copy the Dash app into the Flask app. Connect the Flask server with the Dash app. Modify the WSGI configuration file. Install Dash with pip … Read more
Can you believe it? People use unknown and potentially insecure websites to generate their random passwords! This works as follows: A website generates a “random” password for them and they copy&paste it and assume this is a safe password because of the randomness of the characters. What a security flaw! Why? Because the website could … Read more
It’s quite common for your code to throw a typeerror, especially if you’re just starting out with Python. The reason for this is that the interpreter expects variables of certain types in certain places in the code. We’ll look at a specific example of such an error: “typeerror: ‘int’ object is not iterable”. Exercise: Run … Read more