Introduction Python Templates are used to substitute data into strings. With Templates, we gain a heavily customizable interface for string substitution (or string interpolation). Python already offers many ways to substitute strings, including the recently introduced f-Strings. While it is less common to substitute strings with Templates, its power lies in how we can customize our string formatting rules. In this article, we’ll format strings with Python’s Template class. We’ll then have a look at how we can change the […]

Introduction For most people, Bubble Sort is likely the first sorting algorithm they heard of in their Computer Science course. It’s highly intuitive and easy to “translate” into code, which is important for new software developers so they can ease themselves into turning ideas into a form that can be executed on a computer. However, Bubble Sort is one of the worst-performing sorting algorithms in every case except checking whether the array is already sorted, where it often outperforms more […]

Functions in Python are used to implement logic that you want to execute repeatedly at different places in your code. You can pass data to these functions via function arguments. In addition to passing arguments to functions via a function call, you can also set default argument values in Python functions. These default values are assigned to function arguments if you do not explicitly pass a parameter value to the given argument. Parameters are the values actually passed to function […]

The MS Word utility from Microsoft Office suite is one of the most commonly used tools for writing text documents, both simple and complex. Though humans can easily read and write MS Word documents, assuming you have the Office software installed, often times you need to read text from Word documents within another application. For instance, if you are developing a natural language processing application in Python that takes MS Word files as input, you will need to read MS […]