Motivation I wanted to try writing an Android app. In spite of using plain old Java I wanted to give the new kid on the block Kotlin (from the Jetbrains folks) a try. First observations Coming from a Python background it’s good to see that Kotlin doesn’t use semi-colons! But the curly braces from Java…
In my article Python Type Checking I wrote about type hints. Type hints are around the block since Python 3.5. Python 3.7 introduced another interesting concept to make Python code even more type safe: Protocols Duck typing If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck…
As the Junior Data Scientist of Knight Industries we created a table to keep track of all our operatives: SQL-Basics: Create, Read, Update, Delete Devon asks us to keep track of our operations aka missions as well. For the first implementation let us assume that a mission has one operative and an operative can participate…
In SQL-Basics we learned the standard SQL statements to create a table, insert data into it, retrieving data from tables and altering data. Now we want to do even Devon is a data driven man and to evaluate our mission, he likes to know from us: how many missions we finished the total cost of…
import unicodecsv def read_csv(filename): with open(filename, ‘rb’) as f: reader = unicodecsv.DictReader(f) return list(reader)
In Distributing your own package on PyPi I wrote about my first package on PyPI. Here are some refinements aka lessons learned: Project Description on PyPI I wondered why the project description on PyPi was empty. Solution: You need a long_description. If You already have a README.md, you can read it into a string and…
When you finished reading part 1 of the introduction you might have wondered how to draw more than one line or curve into on plot. I will show you now. To make it a bit more interesting we generate two functions: sine and cosine. We generate our x-values with numpy’s linspace function import numpy as…
One of the things I always forget is date and time in Python. So message to myself: The strftime method is used for formatting (string_format_time) import datetime start_date = datetime.datetime.now() DATE_FORMAT = ‘%d/%m/%Y %H:%M’ print(start_date.strftime(DATE_FORMAT)) Her is a nice little Cheatsheet
Since Python 3.3 You can chain dictionaries which contain the same key in a prioritized order: from collections import ChainMap prio_1 = {“param_1”: “foo”} prio_2 = {“param_1”: “foobar”, “param_2”: “bar”} combined = ChainMap(prio_1, prio_2) print(combined[“param_1”]) # outputs ‘foo’ print(combined[“param_2”]) # outputs ‘bar’ The param_1 from the prio_1 dictionary is dominant, so it isn’t overwritten by…
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