Do you want to enrich your Python script with powerful text-generation capabilities? You’re in the right place! What does it do? I just discovered DeepAI’s API that automatically generates a body of text, given a sentence fragment or topic keyword. How can it be used? You can use this as a basis to generate text … Read more
This tutorial provides you a quick and dirty introduction to the most important Pandas features. A popular quickstart to the Pandas library is provided by the official “10 Minutes to Pandas” guide. This tutorial in front of you aims to cover the most important 80% of the official guide, but in 50% of the time. … Read more
Pandas is Excel on steroids—the powerful Python library allows you to analyze structured and tabular data with surprising efficiency and ease. Pandas is one of the reasons why master coders reach 100x the efficiency of average coders. In today’s article, you’ll learn how to work with missing data—in particular, how to handle NaN values in … Read more
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The Python interpreter throws the NameError exception if it encounters an undefined variable or function name. To fix it, you must figure out why the variable is not defined—the most frequent bugs are (1) to use the variable or function name in the code before it was defined, or (2) to misspell the name in … Read more
The pervasive freelancing trend is not coming to a halt soon. Millions of coders—beginners and experts alike—flock to this new opportunity to become self-employed as their own bosses while working on meaningful projects for clients. But what is a freelance developer anyways? This article will give you a clear job description! Freelance Developer Job Description … Read more
Writing this article, I must confess, was very challenging. Not because the content is difficult to write about—be assured, it isn’t—but because it involves scrolling through Reddit to find the best posts, comments, and subreddits regarding freelance developing. Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through Reddit? Well—somehow I accomplished finishing this article despite the … Read more
Overview Computing primes from a given series of numbers might not be a big issue. However, computing primes in the most effective manner keeping the time complexity and other factors in mind might be a challenging issue. After all, one of the major criteria of an effective code is its efficiency. Therefore, in this article, … Read more
Summary: Metaclasses are a class of a class. In other words, a class is an instance of a metaclass. Metaclass can be created using two methods: (1) type Class which is the built-in metaclass in Python. (2) Creating custom metaclass using the metaclass keyword. Problem: What are metaclasses and why do we use them in … Read more
There’s a new guy in town. He’s called freelancing and he’s out for no good. Freelancing platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr are out to disrupt the organization of the world’s talents. Both platforms grow double-digits year-over-year. The proportion of freelancers in the total population is on the rise. Soon, we may find ourselves in … Read more
In this article, you’ll learn the ultimate answer to the following question: How To Eliminate All The Whitespace From A String—on Both Ends, and In-Between Words? Summary: Use the string methods join(), split(), strip(), rstrip(), lstrip() and or replace()—in specific combinations—to remove any whitespace in a given string. The simplest way to remove all whitespaces … Read more
Many beginners who just start out with object-oriented programming in Python are confused about the purpose of the keyword “self”. Let’s resolve this confusion once and for all! The name self is, by convention, the name of the first argument of a Python class method. The variable self points to the concrete instance on which … Read more