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Python Basics: Reading and Writing Files

Files are everywhere in the modern world. They’re the medium in which data is digitally stored and transferred. Chances are, you’ve opened dozens, if not hundreds, of files just today! Now it’s time to read and write files with Python. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Understand the difference between text and binary files Learn about character encodings and line endings Work with file objects in Python Read and write character data in various file modes Use open(), […]

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Python News: What’s New From May 2023

May 2023 was an important month for Python, as the upcoming Python 3.12 version is now feature complete. You can dig into a lot of information about Python and its development by reading the coverage of the Language Summit and watching videos from PyCon US. Modular has announced a new programming language that’s based on Python. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and sit down with the most important Python news from the last month. Python 3.12 in Beta […]

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Understanding CPUs can help speed up Numba and NumPy code

When you need to speed up your NumPy processing—or just reduce your memory usage—the Numba just-in-time compiler is a great tool. It lets you write Python code that gets compiled at runtime to machine code, allowing you to get the kind of speed improvements you’d get from languages like C, Fortran, or Rust. Or at least, that’s the theory. In practice, your initial Numba code may be no faster than the NumPy equivalent. But you can do better, once you […]

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Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality in May 2023

Here are a few papers I found most interesting in the flood of new pre-prints on arXiv. There was ACL’s camera-ready deadline and the start of the EMNLP anonymity period, so there were many more papers than usual. What is the best recipe for character-level encoder-only modeling? A paper from DeepMind accepted to ACL 2023 systematically (and empirically) studies how to train a BERT-like model that works directly with character-level inputs using existing architectural building blocks. Transformers work well with […]

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What’s the Zen of Python?

If you’ve been learning Python long enough, then you’ve likely seen or heard about the Zen of Python. Experienced Pythonistas often refer to it as a source of wisdom and guidance, especially when they want to settle an argument about certain design decisions in a piece of code. Others take these principles even more seriously by considering them a sort of Pythonic decalogue. In this tutorial, you’ll learn where to find the Zen of Python, how it came into existence, […]

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Mazes in Python Part 1: Building and Visualizing

If you’re up for a little challenge and would like to take your programming skills to the next level, then you’ve come to the right place! In this hands-on video course, you’ll practice object-oriented programming, among several other good practices, while building a cool maze solver project in Python. This is the first part in a two-part series. Throughout the series, you’ll go step by step through the guided process of building a complete and working project. This will include […]

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