Oh the amazing things you can do with Numpy. NumPy is a blazing fast maths library for Python with a heavy emphasis on arrays. It allows you to do vector and matrix maths within Python and as a lot of the underlying functions are actually written in C, you get speeds that you would never reach in …
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Slicing is an incredibly useful and powerful feature of python. It gives you to ability to manipulate sequences with simple and concise syntax. Slicing has more uses than I can think of or list here, but some of many useful applications include string manipulation and various mathematical uses; when …
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One of the most popular uses for Python, especially in recent years is data processing, analysis and visualisation. This then leads topics such as the analysis of 'big data' which has many applications in pretty much every type of business you can imagine, and a personal interest of mine; Machine …
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Looking around the community, at other people products and such I get the feeling that Python is being used more for services and scientific applications rather than desktop applications. That being said, python desktop applications are by no means dead and lots of people want to create them (me …
Do you want to be able to utilise the powerful tool that is mocking within your Python tests? Mocking is a useful tool and was vital to unit tests that I needed to write for a project I am working on. I'd never used mocking before, so I didn't know where to start but after reading pages of …
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In a previous post I mentioned how I'm going to stop using Blogger's built in post editor due to the horrendous HTML is produces. Well, I had no luck finding a desktop blogging client that worked well. The existing blogging clients either don't work on linux or development was stopped some ten years …
This blog is a programming and Computer Science blog. Therefore the posts I have made and will make, have code embedded in them and for readability I thought it would be nice if there was some form of syntax highlighting. Now, this blog is hosted on blogger and blogger doesn't have any support for …
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This is going to be a short post, it's just something that hit me today as I was looking over one of my current projects. Python is an object orientated language, everything in Python is an object. However this is extremely misleading. Unlike languages such as Java, in Python you are not forced …
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Recently I've been reviewing basic algorithms and data structures. I have one more year left of university and then I have to find a job. You hear all kind of crazy stories from programming interviews, but one recurring theme is algorithms and data structures. Long story, short; know them. So, in …
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This is the fifth and final in a series of posts on common pythonic idioms, so if you haven't seen the previous two, you should definitely go and give them a read. Learning the idioms presented in this series has really improved my Python code. Not only do a lot of these idioms actually run …
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