Writing Clean, Pythonic Code With namedtuple

Python’s collections module provides a factory function called namedtuple(), which is specially designed to make your code more Pythonic when you’re working with tuples. With namedtuple(), you can create immutable sequence types that allow you to access their values using descriptive field names and the dot notation instead of unclear integer indices. If you have some experience using Python, then you know that writing Pythonic code is a core skill for Python developers. In this video course, you’ll level up […]

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Using NumPy reshape() to Change the Shape of an Array

The main data structure that you’ll use in NumPy is the N-dimensional array. An array can have one or more dimensions to structure your data. In some programs, you may need to change how you organize your data within a NumPy array. You can use NumPy’s reshape() to rearrange the data. The shape of an array describes the number of dimensions in the array and the length of each dimension. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to change the shape […]

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The Terminal: First Steps and Useful Commands

The terminal can be intimidating to work with when you’re used to working with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, it’s an important tool that you need to get used to in your journey as a Python developer. And once you level up your skill of using the terminal, it becomes an extremely powerful tool in your repertoire. With just a few commands in the terminal, you can do tasks that are impossible or at least very tedious to do in […]

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Using the Terminal on Windows

The terminal can be intimidating to work with when you’re used to working with graphical user interfaces. However, it’s an important tool that you need to get used to in your journey as a Python developer. Even though you can substitute some workflows in the terminal with apps that contain a graphical user interface (GUI), you may need to open the terminal at some point in your life as a Python developer. In this Code Conversation, you’ll follow a chat […]

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Prompt Engineering Lecture

Hi all! It’s finally here! Excited to finally publish our ~1 hour special lecture on prompt engineering techniques, applications, and much more. It includes code examples, exercises, and slides.  The lecture is divided into four parts: Part 1 — Introduction to Prompt Engineering Part 2 — Advanced Techniques for Prompt Engineering  Part 3 — Tools and Applications Part 4 — Conclusion and Future Directions Notebook:

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Questions and answers about ChatGPT and large language models

There’s been a lot of media coverage of ChatGPT and language models lately, and I feel like not everything is being said quite right. That’s why I have prepared some questions and answers that hopefully help clarify what they are talking about. Questions: What is a (large) language model? What is ChatGPT? Are GPT-3.5 and ChatGPT the best things out there? Are there any available alternatives, ideally open source? How can ChatGPT speak multiple languages? Does it use machine translation? […]

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Develop Data Visualization Interfaces in Python With Dash

# app.py import pandas as pd from dash import Dash, Input, Output, dcc, html data = ( pd.read_csv(“avocado.csv”) .assign(Date=lambda data: pd.to_datetime(data[“Date”], format=”%Y-%m-%d”)) .sort_values(by=”Date”) ) regions = data[“region”].sort_values().unique() avocado_types = data[“type”].sort_values().unique() external_stylesheets = [ { “href”

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Python’s multiprocessing performance problem

Because Python has limited parallelism when using threads, using worker processes is a common way to take advantage of multiple CPU cores. The multiprocessing module is built-in to the standard library, so it’s frequently used for this purpose. But while multiple processes let you take advantage of multiple CPUs, moving data between processes can be very slow. And that can reduce some of the performance benefits of using worker processes. Let’s see: Why processes can have performance problems that threads […]

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How to Flush the Output of the Python Print Function

Do you want to build a compact visual progress indicator for your Python script using print(), but your output doesn’t show up when you’d expect it to? Or are you piping the logs of your script to another application, but you can’t manage to access them in real time? In both cases, data buffering is the culprit, and you can solve your troubles by flushing the output of print(). In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Flush the output data […]

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Getters and Setters in Python

If you come from a language like Java or C++, then you’re probably used to writing getter and setter methods for every attribute in your classes. These methods allow you to access and mutate private attributes while maintaining encapsulation. In Python, you’ll typically expose attributes as part of your public API and use properties when you need attributes with functional behavior. Even though properties are the Pythonic way to go, they can have some practical drawbacks. Because of this, you’ll […]

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