Docker packaging is useful, but doing it well is not easy. Even limiting the scope of discussion to production use of Python applications, the number of details to cover is extensive enough that I’ve written over 50 articles on the topic, and created a number of products to speed up the packaging process. In a better universe, none of this would be necessary. So while Docker is often useful enough to merit this effort, in some situations you might be […]

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Neste artigo, será realizada uma análise exploratória de dados referente a um dataset intitulado: House Prices — Advanced Regression Techniques obtido no kaggle. O link para o repositório no github contendo o código utilizado nessa análise será disponibilizado ao final do artigo.

You’ve likely encountered Python’s if __name__ == “__main__” idiom when reading other people’s code. No wonder—it’s widespread! You might have even used if __name__ == “__main__” in your own scripts. But did you use it correctly? Maybe you’ve programmed in a C-family language like Java before, and you wonder whether this construct is a clumsy accessory to using a main() function as an entry point. Syntactically, Python’s if __name__ == “__main__” idiom is just a normal conditional block: 1if __name__ […]