How to Overcome Procrastination? Procrastination may easily be the reason number one why you are not reaching your goals. Although there are many flavors of procrastination, a common story may go like this: With good intentions, you set your alarm clock in the evening and expect your future self in the morning to get up, … Read more
π¬ Question: How to return one or multiple arguments from a Python function? Basically, creating a function that reflects one or more arguments like a mirror: Let’s find out! π Method 1: Return Single Argument A function can return a single argument by passing that argument variable after the return keyword. If the argument name … Read more
The Leibniz formula to calculate an approximation of the value of Ο is an infinite alternating series that adds and subtracts smaller and smaller terms of the form 1/x until it converges to the value of Ο/4. You can then multiply the result by 4 to obtain an approximation of Ο. Here’s the simple formula … Read more
Do you need to create a function that returns a float but you don’t know how? No worries, in sixty seconds, you’ll know! Go! π₯π₯π₯ A Python function can return any object such as a float value such as 3.14. To return a float, you can use the built-in float() function or create your own … Read more
π¬ Question: What is the difference between return and break? When to use which? Let’s first look at a short answer before we dive into a simple example to understand the differences and similarities between return and break. Comparison Both return and break are keywords in Python. The keyword return ends a function and passes … Read more
KISS – Keep It Secure, Stupid! Since the beginning of days, Man, Woman, Beast, and even Plants, have shared one thing in common. The need and desire to salvage items around them to use as food, pleasure, and necessity. And with that came a need to secure these items for safe use in the future. … Read more
π¬ Question: How to return a global variable from a Python function. And how to return a local variable? First, have a look at the overview figure that shows how to return a local and global variable from a Python function using a simple example: Let’s dive into this example in more detail and answer … Read more
Summary: You can disable security certificate checks for requests in Python in two ways: (i) Using Session.verify as False (ii) Setting verify = false inside the request method. Problem Formulation Problem Statement: How to disable security certificate checks for requests in Python? The requests module in Python sends HTTP requests using a specific method to … Read more
Summary: Use list(“given string”) to extract each character of the given string and store them as individual items in a list.Minimal Example:print(list(“abc”))# OUTPUT: [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’] Problem Formulation Problem: Given a string; How will you split the string into a list of characters? Example: Let’s visualize the problem with the help of an example: input … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you how to read and display the first line of a file in Python. For this article, we will work with a flat-text file containing five (5) possible things to do during your lifetime. This file is saved to bucket_list.txt and placed into the current working … Read more
Coding Challenge π₯ π¬ Question: How to convert a list of strings to all uppercase in Python? Here are three examples: [‘hello’, ‘Python’, ‘world’] to [‘HELLO’, ‘PYTHON’, ‘WORLD’] [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’] to [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’] [‘aa aa’, ‘bb$bb’, ‘cc()cc’] to [‘AA AA’, ‘BB$BB’, ‘CC()CC’] There are multiple great ways to accomplish this coding challenge and … Read more
Coding Challenge π₯ π¬ Question: How to convert a list of strings to all lowercase in Python? Here are three examples: [‘HELLO’, ‘Python’, ‘world’] to [‘hello’, ‘python’, ‘world’] [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’] to [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’] [‘AA AA’, ‘BB$BB’, ‘CC()CC’] to [‘aa aa’, ‘bb$bb’, ‘cc()cc’] There are multiple great ways to accomplish this coding challenge and … Read more