Python is a dynamically typed language which makes it easy and fun to program. But sometimes -especially in bigger projects- it can become quite cumbersome when you just receive errors at run time. Given the hypothetical example where we define a function which multiplies integer: def multiply(a, b): return a * b print(multiply(“I”, “You”)) It…
Diving deeper into data science I started to brush up my knowledge about math especially statistics. The Mother of all Distributions The normal distribution was formulated by Carl Friedrich Gauß in 1809 and can be implemented in Python like the following : def normal_distribution_pdf(x, mu=0, sigma=1): sqrt_two_pi = math.sqrt(2*math.pi) return (1 / (sqrt_two_pi * sigma))…
Motivation Cross-validation is a technique to validate the quality of your machine learning model. For validating your model you split your training data into a training and a test data set. ———————————————– | | | | training data | test data | | | | ———————————————– More training data means a better model, more test…
JuPyteR Do You know the feeling of being already late to a party when encountering something new? But when you actually start telling others about it, you realize that it is not too common knowledge at all, e.g. Jupyter Notebooks. What is a Jupyter notebook? In my own words: a browser-based document-oriented command line style…
Sometimes you want to make your python package usable for different situations, e.g. flask or bottle or django. If You want to minimize dependencies You can use an optional dependency in setup.py: extras_require={ ‘flask’: [‘Flask>=0.8’, ‘blinker>=1.1’] } Now you can install the library with: pip install raven[flask]
To create e.g. x-axis indices you can use the linspace function from numpy. You give it a range (e.g. 0 to 23) and the number of divisions and it will distribute the values evenly across that range. The stop values is included in the resulting value array by default. Example: import numpy as np np.linspace(0,…
Sometimes Python gives You a hard time when You deploy code to a server after you changed directory structures or simply moved files. With the following command You can remove the pyc files in the working directory and subdirectories: find . -name \*.pyc -delete
Trying to contribute to the Flask plugin flask-login I just added these lines: if isinstance(duration, (int, long)): duration = timedelta(seconds=duration) Looking quite plausible, isn’t it? But lo and behold: it doesn’t work under Python 3.x. Dang! The reason: Python 2 has two integer types: int and long. In Python 3 there is only int, which…
Motivation Every Junior Developer needs some pet projects to try out some techniques he or she is not familiar with already. Because I’ve always had a hard time with regular expressions (I know that they are useful, but I use them so rarely that I cannot get a hold of all the syntax) I’ve started…
One major change in Python 3 is the implementation of the division operator /. In Python 2 the division yielded a floor rounded integer when dividing two integers but a float when using a float as divider or divisor. Due to Python’s weakly typed nature this behavior could lead to some issues. So PEP-238 changed…