π‘ With this article, we’ll discover a new and fascinating world of bytes and strings, as well as ways to manipulate them, allocate memory arrays, and use array literals. 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, starting with these … Read more
Through this article, we’ll learn about reference types, in particular structs, arrays, and mappings, continued by a story on data locations, memory areas, and assignment behaviors. Finally, we’ll conclude with a section introducing arrays. It’s part of our long-standing tradition to make this (and other) articles a faithful companion, or a supplement to the official … Read more
Do you need to create a function that returns an integer value 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. To return an integer, use the built-in int() function. Or create your own function with an arbitrary expression within the function body … Read more
π¬ Programming Challenge: Given a Pandas DataFrame or a Pandas Series object. How to convert them to a NumPy array? In this short tutorial, you’ll learn (1) how to convert a 1D pandas Series to a NumPy array, and (2) how to convert a 2D pandas DataFrame to an array. Let’s get started with the … Read more
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