Just about every year is a good year to be investing in Python learning, whether you are a beginner or an expert. Employment opportunities are opening for Python developers in fields beyond traditional web development. An IBM blog post reports that Python is now the dominant language in many data science and machine learning careers. We charted data from DataScienceCentral to see how well Python is doing in this new field. Here is the result. As you can see, it […]

Imagine if you could have computer programs that wrote your code for you. It is possible, but the machines will not write all your code for you! This technique, called metaprogramming, is popular with code framework developers. This is how you get code generation and smart features in many popular frameworks and libraries like Ruby On Rails or TensorFlow. Functional programming languages like Elixir, Clojure, and Ruby are noted for their metaprogramming capabilities. In this guide, we show you how […]

As pointed out in a previous article that deals with reading data from files, file handling belongs to the essential knowledge of every professional Python programmer. This feature is a core part of the Python language, and no extra module needs to be loaded to do it properly. Basics of Writing Files in Python The common methods to operate with files are open() to open a file, seek() to set the file’s current position at the given offset, and close() […]

This article continues with our series on interacting with the file system in Python. The previous articles dealt with reading and writing files. Interestingly, the file system is much more than a way to store/retrieve data to disk. There are also various other types of entries such as files, directories, sockets (for inter-process communication), named pipes, both soft and hard links, as well as special files (block devices). Reading and writing from and to them is done in a similar […]