Summary: Use the global keyword to declare a global variable inside the local scope of a function so that it can be modified or used outside the function as well. To use global variables across modules create a special configuration module and import the module into our main program. The module is available as a …
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Wouldn’t reading code be much easier if the author constantly shared their thoughts with you? Commenting is good practice in Python because it helps others (and your future self) understanding your code much better. Writing commented code makes you more productive in the long term! There are two types of comments: one-line comments and multi-line …
Summary: The key differences between raw_input() and input() functions are the following: raw_input() can be used only in Python 2.x and is obsolete in Python 3.x and above and has been renamed input() In Python 2.x, raw_input() returns a string whereas input() returns result of an evaluation. While in Python 3.x input() returns a string …
Summary: To resolve an UnboundLocalError when the local variable is reassigned after the first use, you can either use the global keyword or the nonlocal keyword. The global keyword allows you to modify the values of a global variable from within a function’s local scope while the nonlocal keyword provides similar functionality in case of …
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Did you check the news today? Or receive an email newsletter from a company? This type of communication is one way. Information flows from a publisher to the subscribers. The publisher creates information, the subscriber consumes information. Thus, computer scientists call this communication pattern publish and subscribe paradigm – pubsub. When consuming news, you seek …
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Deep learning has become the megatrend within artificial intelligence and machine learning. Yet, training large neural networks is not always the best choice. It’s the bazooka in machine learning, effective but not efficient. A human will not understand in practice why the neural network classifies one way or the other. It is just a black …
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You most likely know graphs. The web graph consists of websites connected via hyperlinks. The websites are graph vertices and the hyperlinks are graph edges. Each graph edge connects exactly two vertices. What happens if you drop this limitation and allow each edge to connect an arbitrary number of vertices? Simple: you get a hypergraph. …
Do you know the matrix movie? A matrix is a data structure that holds a bunch of data items of the same type. For example, a matrix of integers holds a set of numbers. An array is the exact same thing as a matrix. In fact, a matrix is nothing but an array, or …
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