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Vim for Python Development

What is Vim? Vim is a powerful text editor that belongs to one of the default components on every Linux distribution, as well as Mac OSX. Vim follows its own concept of usage, causing the community to divide into strong supporters and vehement opponents that are in favor for other editors like Emacs. (By the way, that’s very nice in winter in order to see the two enthusiastic teams having an extensive snowball fight together). Vim can be individualized and […]

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Object Oriented Programming in Python

Introduction Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm where different components of a computer program are modeled after real-world objects. An object is anything that has some characteristics and can perform a function. Consider a scenario where you have to develop a Formula 1 car racing game using the object-oriented programming approach. The first thing you need to do is to identify real-world objects in the actual Formula 1 race. What are the entities in a Formula 1 race that […]

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Python GUI Development with Tkinter: Part 2

This is the second installment of our multi-part series on developing GUIs in Python using Tkinter. Check out the links below for the other parts to this series: Introduction In the first part of the StackAbuse Tkinter tutorial series, we learned how to quickly build simple graphical interfaces using Python. The article explained how to create several different widgets and position them on the screen using two different methods offered by Tkinter – but still, we barely scratched the surface […]

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Applying Filter Methods in Python for Feature Selection

Introduction Machine learning and deep learning algorithms learn from data, which consists of different types of features. The training time and performance of a machine learning algorithm depends heavily on the features in the dataset. Ideally, we should only retain those features in the dataset that actually help our machine learning model learn something. Unnecessary and redundant features not only slow down the training time of an algorithm, but they also affect the performance of the algorithm. The process of […]

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Overloading Functions and Operators in Python

What is Overloading? Overloading, in the context of programming, refers to the ability of a function or an operator to behave in different ways depending on the parameters that are passed to the function, or the operands that the operator acts on. In this article, we will see how we can perform function overloading and operator overloading in Python. Overloading a method fosters reusability. For instance, instead of writing multiple methods that differ only slightly, we can write one method […]

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Asynchronous Python for Web Development

Asynchronous programming is well suited for tasks that include reading and writing files frequently or sending data back and forth from a server. Asynchronous programs perform I/O operations in a non-blocking fashion, meaning that they can perform other tasks while waiting for data to return from a client rather than waiting idly, wasting resources and time. Python, like many other languages, suffers from not being asynchronous by default. Fortunately, rapid changes in the IT world allow us to write asynchronous […]

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Applying Wrapper Methods in Python for Feature Selection

Introduction In the previous article, we studied how we can use filter methods for feature selection for machine learning algorithms. Filter methods are handy when you want to select a generic set of features for all the machine learning models. However, in some scenarios, you may want to use a specific machine learning algorithm to train your model. In such cases, features selected through filter methods may not be the most optimal set of features for that specific algorithm. There […]

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How to Create, Move, and Delete Files in Python

Introduction Handling files is an entry-level and fundamental skill for any programmer. They’re very commonly used to store application data, user configurations, videos, images, etc. There are a countless number of use-cases for files in software applications, so you’d be smart to make yourself deeply familiar with the tasks of manipulating files. These tasks could include (among others) creating, deleting, and moving files. In this article, we’ll cover the process of working with files using the Python programming language. The […]

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Python GUI Development with Tkinter: Part 3

This is the third installment of our multi-part series on developing GUIs in Python using Tkinter. Check out the links below for the other parts to this series: Introduction Tkinter is the de facto standard package for building GUIs in Python. In StackAbuse’s first and second part of the Tkinter tutorial, we learned how to use the basic GUI building blocks to create simple interfaces. In the last part of our tutorial, we’ll take a look at a couple of […]

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Time Series Analysis with LSTM using Python’s Keras Library

Introduction Time series analysis refers to the analysis of change in the trend of the data over a period of time. Time series analysis has a variety of applications. One such application is the prediction of the future value of an item based on its past values. Future stock price prediction is probably the best example of such an application. In this article, we will see how we can perform time series analysis with the help of a recurrent neural […]

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