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You can do this using the excellent framework Karrigell. This framework is focused on HTML though. “Karrigell is an open source Python web framework written in Python” (source). Say you want to embed the following Python code inside your HTML doc: With Karrigell, you can achieve this by using the <% … %> environment: Similarly, … Read more

Sorry for the click-bait. But I’ve just read about a similar Quora question and some people were discussing ways to earn 10% on the stock market. In many cases, they proposed high-risk strategies for stock picking. I don’t want to argue too much against those ideas (they are stupid—you cannot beat the stock market over … Read more

Surprisingly, DevOps specialists “are among the highest paid, most experienced developers most satisfied with their jobs, and are looking for new jobs at the lowest levels”  according to the recent StackOverflow developer report. The report shows that almost 11% of all programmers classify themselves as DevOps specialists. On average, they earn $71,000 per year (worldwide) and $122,000 … Read more

Rather than having a technology-first mindset, the best freelance developers have a project-first mindset. They don’t limit themselves to a single technology so any answer that gives you a single technology to learn is fundamentally flawed. This article discusses practical freelancing projects and many of them are interdisciplinary. Here’s a list of projects and an initial reference … Read more

Today, I got the following question from one of my Finxters who struggles to find the best Python field to work in: My main struggle now is which python field to choose. I know there is a video that you recommend pick up one field and maybe later pick up another in order to find … Read more

The Android operation system (OS) uses the Linux operating system kernel which is implemented in the programming language C. The Linux kernel is a program that sits between the hardware and the processes and manages resource allocation (e.g. CPU access) and device drivers (e.g. printers)—among other things. The kernel’s tasks are challenging and performance is … Read more

The popular (and addictive) Question and Answer Site Quora is not just a hobby. There are many people earning serious money with it. Affiliate Marketing This guy earns money by including affiliate links into his answers. Read his excellent Quora answer to learn more about this way of earning money with affiliate links. Read Zach … Read more

The short answer is 80 bytes. Here’s the longer answer: In Python, you can determine the size of any object x by using the function sys.getsizeof(x). The complex number consists of two parts: the real and the imaginary part. On my notebook, a complex number is represented by 32 bytes: Note that the sys.getsizeof() method … Read more

Yesterday, I got a great question from one of my “Coffee Break Python” email course readers: I once read that {list, dictionary, tuple} comprehension can substitute any lambda code. Is that true? Is lambda, filter, map really essential? — Albrecht, Finxter Member Python’s creator, Guido van Rossum, doesn’t like functional programming a lot. That’s well-known. … Read more

Many people have a negative attitude toward investing money. The reason is that there are so many companies that do not bring good into the world. However, investing is one of the most profound things in nature. Every plant invests energy into creating seeds out of which grow more of its sort. A lot more … Read more