The Python botocore library is among the top 100 Python libraries with more than 182,348,770 downloads. This article will show you everything you need to get this installed in your Python environment. How to Install botocore on Windows? Type “cmd” in the search bar and hit Enter to open the command line. Type “pip install …
Problem Formulation Given a list such as a list of integers. How to print the list elements in one line? Input: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Output: 1 2 3 4 5 Method 1: Print One Line List With Asterisk To print all list of elements in one line, unpack the list into the built-in …
Today, when trying to get some information about specific pip packages, I wanted to use the pip search command in my local computer’s PowerShell. pip search Here’s the syntax: py -m pip search [options] <query> The semantics of pip search is to find PyPI packages that contain the <query> in their package name. Error Message …
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Problem Formulation What’s the difference between the built-in dir() function and __dir__ dunder method in Python? Quick Answer Python’s built-in function dir(object) returns a list of the object’s attribute names and method names. The dir() function is a wrapper around the __dir__() method because it internally calls the object’s dunder method object.__dir__(). But the two …
Problem Formulation Given a Python loop and a logical condition. How to restart the loop if the condition is met? Solution 1: Reset While Loop The while loop checks a condition in order to determine whether the loop body should be executed or not. You can reset the condition to the initial value in order …
Problem Formulation Given a string representation of a dictionary. How to convert it to a dictionary? Input: ‘{“1”: “hi”, “2”: “alice”, “3”: “python”}’ Output: {‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2, ‘c’: 3} Method 1: eval() The built-in eval() function takes a string argument, parses it as if it was a code expression, and evaluates the expression. If …
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Problem Formulation Given a Unicode string representation of a dictionary. How to convert it to a dictionary? Input: u”{‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2, ‘c’: 3}” Output: {‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2, ‘c’: 3} Note: The u’string’ representation represents a Unicode string that was introduced in Python 3. This is redundant as all strings in Python 3 are …
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When searching for a list of dunder methods, I only found a couple of resources all over the web—each covering only a fraction of dunder methods. So, here’s my collection of 127 dunder methods (also called “magic methods”) from those sources, sorted alphabetically: __abs__ __add__ __aenter__ __aexit__ __aiter__ __and__ __anext__ __await__ __bool__ __bytes__ __call__ __ceil__ …
The Python language does not generally provide backward compatibility. The ability to break inefficiencies and fix wrong design choices are major reasons why Python has remained lean and efficient over the last decades. However, the PEP 387 standard discusses that incompatibility issues should be well thought out. Here’s the basic policy when backward incompatibilities may …
This article gives you five code puzzles to help you master basic looping in Python. If you are a Python expert, you solve all of them without even the slightest mistake. If you are a Python intermediate, you make one or two mistakes. If you are a Python beginner, you should get at least one …
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The following table provides an overview of the Python versions supported by AWS SDK for Python: Name Operating system Python 3.9 Amazon Linux 2 Python 3.8 Amazon Linux 2 Python 3.7 Amazon Linux Python 3.6 Amazon Linux Python 2.7 Amazon Linux Boto3 is the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python from Amazon Web Services (AWS). …
This article is about a topic that is far more important and even more fundamental than any specific Python tutorial: Libraries. What Are the Top 10 Python Libraries? The following list reflects the most important Python libraries based on my experience: Pandas. “Excel for coders”. NumPy. Fundamental to many libraries in the data science and …