The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) of Python allows only one thread to be executed at a time. It is often a hurdle, as it does not allow multi-threading in python to save time. This post will tell you what exactly is GIL and why is it needed. This will also walk you through the alternate …
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tf.function is a decorator function provided by Tensorflow 2.0 that converts regular python code to a callable Tensorflow graph function, which is usually more performant and python independent. It is used to create portable Tensorflow models. Introduction Tensorflow released the second version of the library in September 2019. This version, popularly called …
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Lambda Function, also referred to as ‘Anonymous function’ is same as a regular python function but can be defined without a name. 1. What is Lambda Function in Python? Lambda Function, also referred to as ‘Anonymous function’ is same as a regular python function but can be defined without a name. While normal functions are …
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Adding yield keyword to a function will make the function return a generator object that can be iterated upon. What does the yield keyword do? Approaches to overcome generator exhaustion How to materialize Generators? How yield works, step by step Exercise 1: Write a program to create a generator that generates cubes of numbers up …
Compare the popular deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow vs Pytorch. We will go into the details behind how TensorFlow 1.x, TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch compare against eachother. And how does keras fit in here. Table of Contents: Introduction Tensorflow: 1.x vs 2 Difference between static and dynamic computation graph Keras integration or rather centralization What is …
Reducing code runtime is important for developers. Python Profilers, like cProfile helps to find which part of the program or code takes more time to run. This article will walk you through the process of using cProfile module for extracting profiling data, using the pstats module to report it and snakeviz for visualization. By the …
Collections is a built-in python module that provides useful container datatypes. Container datatypes allow us to store and access values in a convenient way. Generally, you would have used lists, tuples, and dictionaries. But, while dealing with structured data we need smarter objects. In this article, I will walk you through the different data structures …
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a lightweight data format used for data interchange between multiple different languages. It is easy to read for humans and easily parsed by machines. CONTENTS Brief Overview Purpose of JSON Serializing JSON dumps() function dump() function Deserializing JSON loads() function load() function Complex number encoding Complex JSON …
Requests is an elegant and simple Python library built to handle HTTP requests in python easily. It allows you make GET, POST, PUT and other types of requests and process the received response in a flexible Pythonic way. Contents Introduction to Requests Library What is a GET and POST request? GET Method Status Code Contents …
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datetime is the standard module for working with dates in python. It provides 4 main objects for date and time operations: datetime, date, time and timedelta. In this post you will learn how to do all sorts of operations with these objects and solve date-time related practice problems (easy to hard) in Python. datetime in …
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The logging module lets you track events when your code runs so that when the code crashes you can check the logs and identify what caused it. Log messages have a built-in hierarchy – starting from debugging, informational, warnings, error and critical messages. You can include traceback information as well. It is designed for small …
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List comprehensions is a pythonic way of expressing a ‘For Loop’ that appends to a list in a single line of code. It is an intuitive, easy-to-read and a very convenient way of creating lists. This is a beginner friendly post for those who know how to write for-loops in python but don’t quite understand …
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A python @property decorator lets a method to be accessed as an attribute instead of as a method with a ‘()’. Today, you will gain an understanding of when it is really needed, in what situations you can use it and how to actually use it. Contents 1. Introduction2. What does @property do?3. When to …
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Parallel processing is a mode of operation where the task is executed simultaneously in multiple processors in the same computer. It is meant to reduce the overall processing time. In this tutorial, you’ll understand the procedure to parallelize any typical logic using python’s multiprocessing module. 1. Introduction Parallel processing is a mode of operation where …
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101 python pandas exercises are designed to challenge your logical muscle and to help internalize data manipulation with python’s favorite package for data analysis. The questions are of 3 levels of difficulties with L1 being the easiest to L3 being the hardest. 101 Pandas Exercises. Photo by Chester Ho. You might also like to practice …
The goal of the numpy exercises is to serve as a reference as well as to get you to apply numpy beyond the basics. The questions are of 4 levels of difficulties with L1 being the easiest to L4 being the hardest. 101 Numpy Exercises for Data Analysis. Photo by Ana Justin Luebke. If you …
Numpy is the core package for data analysis and scientific computing in python. This is part 2 of a mega numpy tutorial. In this part, I go into the details of the advanced features of numpy that are essential for data analysis and manipulations. Introduction How to get index locations that satisfy a given condition …
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This is part 1 of the numpy tutorial covering all the core aspects of performing data manipulation and analysis with numpy’s ndarrays. Numpy is the most basic and a powerful package for scientific computing and data manipulation in python. Numpy Tutorial Part 1: Introduction to Arrays. Photo by Bryce Canyon. Also Read: Numpy Tutorial – …
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Regular expressions, also called regex, is a syntax or rather a language to search, extract and manipulate specific string patterns from a larger text. It is widely used in projects that involve text validation, NLP and text mining. Regular Expressions in Python: A Simplified Tutorial. Photo by Sarah Crutchfield. 1. Contents Introduction to regular expressions …
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