Before you can process your data with Pandas, you need to load it (from disk or remote storage). There are plenty of data formats supported by Pandas, from CSV, to JSON, to Parquet, and many others as well. Which should you use? You don’t want loading the data to be slow, or use lots of memory: that’s pure overhead. Ideally you’d want a file format that’s fast, efficient, small, and broadly supported. You also want to make sure the loaded […]

In Python, a callable is any object that you can call using a pair of parentheses and, optionally, a series of arguments. Functions, classes, and methods are all common examples of callables in Python. Besides these, you can also create custom classes that produce callable instances. To do this, you can add the .__call__() special method to your class. Instances of a class with a .__call__() method behave like functions, providing a flexible and handy way to add functionality to […]

Traditionally, if you wanted to handle HTTP requests and serve static content from files, then you had to set up a full-fledged web server like Apache or NGINX, which could be a tedious process. Building a dynamic web application requires installing a web framework, such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI, which adds yet another complexity layer. Fortunately, you can take advantage of a basic HTTP server built into Python to avoid all this hassle. Python’s HTTP server can come in […]

Large language models (LLMs) have quickly gained popularity since OpenAI released ChatGPT for public access. Since then, people have used ChatGPT for fun, creative, and useful purposes. If you’ve dreamed about using ChatGPT as your Python coding mentor, then keep on reading. Using ChatGPT as your mentor doesn’t mean that you should try to build a software solution without knowing anything about programming. Instead, you’ll focus on using ChatGPT as a learning tool. It probably can’t replace you as a […]