Why have regular expressions survived seven decades of technological disruption? Because coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article is all about the re.split(pattern, string) method of Python’s re library. Let’s answer the following question: …
Why have regular expressions survived seven decades of technological disruption? Because coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article is all about the re.compile(pattern) method of Python’s re library. Before we dive into re.compile(), let’s …
Why have regular expressions survived seven decades of technological disruption? Because coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article is all about the re.fullmatch(pattern, string) method of Python’s re library. There are three similar methods …
Why have regular expressions survived seven decades of technological disruption? Because coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article is all about the match() method of Python’s re library. There are two similar methods to …
When I first learned about regular expressions, I didn’t appreciate their power. But there’s a reason regular expressions have survived seven decades of technological disruption: coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article is …
In many functions, you see a third argument flags. What are they and how do they work? Flags allow you to control the regular expression engine. Because regular expressions are so powerful, they are a useful way of switching on and off certain features (e.g. whether to ignore capitalization when matching your regex). For example, …
When I first learned about regular expressions, I didn’t really appreciate their power. But there’s a reason regular expressions have survived seven decades of technological disruption: coders who understand regular expressions have a massive advantage when working with textual data. They can write in a single line of code what takes others dozens! This article …
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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. …
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Simple Answer: To check your Python version, run python –version in your command line or shell. This general method works across all major operating systems (Windows, Linux, and macOS). Do you need to google important Python keywords again and again? Simply download this popular Python cheat sheet, print the high-resolution PDF, and pin it to …
NumPy is full of those little helper functions that boost your productivity and make coding a lot of fun. The NumPy’s fv() function is one of those helpers for financial analysis that will save you a lot of time if you’re working in the financial sector—or if you’re just using NumPy to analyze your own …
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This tutorial is a chapter excerpt drafted for my new book “Python One-Liners” (to appear in 2020, No Starch Press, San Francisco). Are you an office worker, student, software developer, manager, blogger, researcher, author, copywriter, teacher, or self-employed freelancer? Most likely, you are spending many hours in front of your computer, day after day. In …
It’s a cold Tuesday morning in December. After a long drive in your warm and cozy car—you enjoyed your favorite podcast—you finally arrive at your office. You prepare a hot cup of coffee for you and Mandy, your colleague and best office friend. While filling in the coffee beans (their rough, chocolate aroma fills the …
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