A Python class attribute is a variable that belongs to a class, not an individual instance, and is shared among all instances. An instance attribute is a variable that belongs to exactly one object. An instance attribute is defined inside the __init__() method by using the reference to the instance self, whereas a class attribute … Read more
Python provides three ways to stop a while loop: The while loop condition is checked once per iteration. If it evaluates to False, the program ends the loop and proceeds with the first statement after the loop construct. The keyword break terminates a loop immediately. The program proceeds with the first statement after the loop … Read more
When mentally approaching this problem, you may be tempted to utilize a “for loop”. I admit that’s how my mind was working: iterate through the list one element at a time and check for empty strings. If it’s empty, remove it. Repeat. Please join me in today’s topic on how to remove empty strings from … Read more
A couple of years ago, I fell into the habit of creating cheat sheets when exploring certain areas in the programming space. Over time, hundreds of thousands of Finxters have downloaded and used them in their own learning journeys. However, the cheat sheets are largely scattered around many different locations on the Finxter ecosystem. And … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a string s. How to find the substring s’ between an opening and a closing parentheses? Consider the following examples: Input: ‘Learn Python (not C++)’ Output: ‘not C++’ Input: ‘function(a, b, c, d)’ Output: ‘a, b, c, d’ Input: ‘(a+(b+c))’ Output: ‘a+(b+c)’ Method 1: Slicing and str.find() The simplest way to extract … Read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to implement a simple Python program to detect if a linked list consists of a cycle or not. If you need a brief refresher on linked lists, do check out this blog post. Definition of a Cycle in a Linked List A linked list can consist of a … Read more
The set data structure is one of the most underused primary data structures in Python. I’ve seen so many intermediate-level coders who use lists when all they need is a data structure that checks membership!! ? Understanding the basics differentiates the good from the great. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Python’s basic set methods. First, … Read more
In Python, everything is an object. Even integers are objects — this is different from programming languages like Java where integers, floats, and Booleans are primitive data types. In this way, Python is built on a rigorously consistent object-oriented paradigm. Considering that objects are everywhere in Python, object-oriented programming is not well studied by Python … Read more
A common problem people often run up against in Python is understanding a method to sort one list based on the values in another. There are many solutions to this but I will select three main methods, one of which uses well-understood Python built-in functions such as zip() and sorted(). One will use the dictionary … Read more
This article is a collection of useful machine learning cheat sheets focusing on the Python libraries such as Theano, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NetworkX, and other ML-related Python libraries. You may want to check out these great resources that cover many of these topics at once: https://becominghuman.ai/cheat-sheets-for-ai-neural-networks-machine-learning-deep-learning-big-data-science-pdf-f22dc900d2d7 https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/ https://www.pythonsheets.com/ Theano Cheat Sheets Theano is a Library … Read more
Hey Finxters! Have you ever felt surrounded by developers boasting from their latest app in prod hosted in the cloud? Or the need for making yours too but overwhelmed by the technicalities involved? Needed to set up quickly and easily a mini data science demo website without resorting to web developers? Or simply wanting to … Read more
Python’s S.symmetric_difference(T) method creates and returns a new set containing all elements that are in exactly one of the two sets S and T. Here’s a minimal example where we return a new set containing the elements 1 and 4 that are in exactly one of the two sets s and t. Here’s another visual … Read more