Asynchronous vs Synchronous Python Performance Analysis

Introduction This article is the second part of a series on using Python for developing asynchronous web applications. The first part provides a more in-depth coverage of concurrency in Python and asyncio, as well as aiohttp. If you’d like to read more about Asynchronous Python for Web Development, we’ve got it covered. Due to the non-blocking nature of asynchronous libraries like aiohttp we would hope to be able to make and handle more requests in a given amount of time […]

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Search Algorithms in Python

Introduction Searching for data stored in different data structures is a crucial part of pretty much every single application. There are many different algorithms available to utilize when searching, and each have different implementations and rely on different data structures to get the job done. Being able to choose a specific algorithm for a given task is a key skill for developers and can mean the difference between a fast, reliable and stable application and an application that crumbles from […]

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Saving Text, JSON, and CSV to a File in Python

Saving data to a file is one of the most common programming tasks you may come across in your developer life. Generally, programs take some input and produce some output. There are numerous cases in which we’d want to persist these results. We may find ourselves saving data to a file for later processing – from webpages we browse, simple dumps of tabular data we use for reports, machine learning and training or logging during the application runtime – we […]

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Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib

Introduction Visualizing data trends is one of the most important tasks in data science and machine learning. The choice of data mining and machine learning algorithms depends heavily on the patterns identified in the dataset during data visualization phase. In this article, we will see how we can perform different types of data visualizations in Python. We will use Python’s Matplotlib library which is the de facto standard for data visualization in Python. The article A Brief Introduction to Matplotlib […]

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Handling Unix Signals in Python

UNIX/Linux systems offer special mechanisms to communicate between each individual process. One of these mechanisms are signals, and belong to the different methods of communication between processes (Inter Process Communication, abbreviated with IPC). In short, signals are software interrupts that are sent to the program (or the process) to notify the program of significant events or requests to the program in order to run a special code sequence. A program that receives a signal either stops or continues the execution […]

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Seaborn Library for Data Visualization in Python: Part 1

Introduction In the previous article, we looked at how Python’s Matplotlib library can be used for data visualization. In this article we will look at Seaborn which is another extremely useful library for data visualization in Python. The Seaborn library is built on top of Matplotlib and offers many advanced data visualization capabilities. Though, the Seaborn library can be used to draw a variety of charts such as matrix plots, grid plots, regression plots etc., in this article we will […]

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Sets in Python

Introduction In Python, a set is a data structure that stores unordered items. The set items are also unindexed. Like a list, a set allows the addition and removal of elements. However, there are a few unique characteristics that define a set and separate it from other data structures: A set does not hold duplicate items. The elements of the set are immutable, that is, they cannot be changed, but the set itself is mutable, that is, it can be […]

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Seaborn Library for Data Visualization in Python: Part 2

In the previous article Seaborn Library for Data Visualization in Python: Part 1, we looked at how the Seaborn Library is used to plot distributional and categorial plots. In this article we will continue our discussion and will see some of the other functionalities offered by Seaborn to draw different types of plots. We will start our discussion with Matrix Plots. Matrix Plots Matrix plots are the type of plots that show data in the form of rows and columns. […]

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Building a GraphQL API with Django

Introduction Web APIs are the engines that power most of our applications today. For many years REST has been the dominant architecture for APIs, but in this article we will explore GraphQL. With REST APIs, you generally create URLs for every object of data that’s accessible. Let’s say we’re building a REST API for movies – we’ll have URLs for the movies themselves, actors, awards, directors, producers… it’s already getting unwieldy! This could mean a lot of requests for one […]

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Introduction to Web Scraping with Python

Introduction Web-scraping is an important technique, frequently employed in a lot of different contexts, especially data science and data mining. Python is largely considered the go-to language for web-scraping, the reason being the batteries-included nature of Python. With Python, you can create a simple scraping script in about 15 minutes and in under 100 lines of code. So regardless of usage, web-scraping is a skill that every Python programmer must have under his belt. Before we start getting hands-on, we […]

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