Absolute values are commonly used in mathematics, physics, and engineering. Although the school definition of an absolute value might seem straightforward, you can actually look at the concept from many different angles. If you intend to work with absolute values in Python, then you’ve come to the right place. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Implement the absolute value function from scratch Use the built-in abs() function in Python Calculate the absolute values of numbers Call abs() on NumPy […]

GitHub Copilot is a thrilling new technology that promises to deliver to your code editor a virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence, and it stirred up considerable controversy when it was released to the general public. Python is among the languages that are particularly well-supported by this tool. After reading this tutorial, you’ll know whether GitHub Copilot is a risk, a gimmick, or a true game changer in software engineering. To continue with this tutorial, you need to have a […]

When your software is too slow in production, how can you figure out the source of the problem? One common starting point to improving production observability is logging, and ideally trace-based logging (tracing for short). For example, the OpenTelemetry standard and the libraries and backend services that work with it can help you collect metrics, logs, and traces. Tracing—both within and across processes—is the most general of these, immensely useful for identifying and debugging problems, including performance problems. But there’s […]

# samples.py dictionary_of_dictionaries = { 1: {“first_name”: “Dorthea”, “last_name”: “Emmanuele”, “age”: 29}, 2: {“first_name”: “Evelina”, “last_name”: “Ferras”, “age”: 91}, 3: {“first_name”: “Frederica”, “last_name”: “Livesay”, “age”: 99}, 4: {“first_name”: “Murray”, “last_name”: “Linning”, “age”: 36}, 5: {“first_name”: “Annette”, “last_name”: “Garioch”, “age”: 93},