Subtitle: Avoid Hard-Coded Data While Making Your (And Others) Life Easier When the subject of config, or configuration, files comes up there is often confusion on what they are, how to read them, and the benefits that come from their use. In this article, we will cover what config files are before introducing the Python …
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There comes a time in all our coding lives when we need to compare lists to understand whether items in one list appear in a second list. In this article we’ll start where we all started, using for-loops, before moving to a more classic Python list comprehension. We’ll then move beyond that to use Python …
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A Quick Introduction To Python’s ‘re’ Module “How to extract digits or numbers from a string” is a common search by Python users in Google, and a frequent query in forums such as Stack Overflow. The answers invariably talk to two main solutions and in this article, I intend to focus down on one of …
Learn to Love Your Lambda! Lambda functions in python are simple one-line functions without a name (and therefore called an anonymous function) that can take many arguments but will only evaluate a single expression. They’re fast, short, and simple and can help you write cleaner ‘more pythonic’ code. If like me you wanted to learn …