Python Regex Capturing Groups – A Helpful Guide (+Video)

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Python’s regex capturing groups allow you to extract parts of a string that match a pattern. For example: match = re.search(r'(\d+)’, ‘abc123’) captures the digits, and match.group(1) returns ‘123’. One of the powerful aspects of Python’s regular expression capabilities is the use of capturing groups. By using capturing groups, you can easily extract specific portions … Read more

Python f-Strings — The Ultimate Guide

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Python f-strings, available since Python 3.6, offer a concise way to embed expressions in string literals using curly braces {}. They improve readability and performance over older methods like %-formatting and str.format(). To use f-strings, prefix the string with “f” or “F” and enclose expressions within braces: f”My name is {name} and I am {age} … Read more

Python List of Dicts to Pandas DataFrame

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In this article, I will discuss a popular and efficient way to work with structured data in Python using DataFrames. 💡 A DataFrame is a two-dimensional, size-mutable, and heterogeneous tabular data structure with labeled axes (rows and columns). It can be thought of as a table or a spreadsheet with rows and columns that can … Read more

How I Built an English Premier League Scores Tracker with Streamlit

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The English Premier League is the most-watched football competition in the world. It is full of suspense, breathtaking, and unpredictable events. Few competitions have witnessed the aggression, excitement, and burst of energy seen in the Premier League. No wonder why it has drawn millions of football fans worldwide. So, you can take advantage of that … Read more

The Evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs): Insights from GPT-4 and Beyond

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Playing with any large language model (LLM), such as GPT-4, is fascinating.  But it doesn’t give you an accurate understanding of where AGI is heading because one isolated snapshot provides limited information. You can gain more insight into the growth and dynamicity of LLMs by comparing two subsequent snapshots. Roughly speaking, it’s less interesting to … Read more

Solidity Function Constructors – A Helpful Simplified Guide with Video

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In this article, we’ll learn about function constructors, a Solidity language feature enabling us to execute a function during smart contract creation. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) articles a faithful companion or a supplement to the official Solidity documentation. We’ll base this article on the original Solidity programming language … Read more

Solidity Function Overloading

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In this article, we’ll learn about function overloading 🎛️🔁👷‍♂️💻🚀, a useful and interesting feature in the Solidity programming language. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) articles a faithful companion or a supplement to the official Solidity documentation. We’ll base this article on the original Solidity programming language content. Overview Function … Read more

Solidity’s Fallback Function – A Simple Guide

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In this article, we will focus on the second topic of the interesting pair, the fallback function, as a follow-up on the receive ether function discussed in the previous article. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) articles a faithful companion, or a supplement to the official Solidity documentation. Overview The … Read more

Solidity Receive Ether Function

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In this article, we will focus on an important topic, the receive Ether function in Solidity. This function allows us to receive the currency and is the first of the two possible approaches for receiving currency. The other approach is the fallback function, and we’ll briefly introduce it here to become aware of the wider … Read more