Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• New interesting data structures in Python 3

  25 May, 2017

  • 5 min read • Python

  take a look at some data structures that Python 3 offers, but that are not available in Python 2

• Keyword argument demystify

  22 May, 2017

  • 3 min read • Python

  There’s a lot of baffling among Python programmers on what exactly 'keyword arguments' are

• Looping techniques in Python

  4 May, 2017

  • 1 min read • Python

  Python has multiple techniques for looping over data structures

• Enhance your tuples

  3 May, 2017

  • 1 min read • Python

  Standard Python `tuple`s are lightweight sequences of immutable objects, yet their implementation may prove inconvenient in some scenarios

• Get more with collections!

  2 May, 2017

  • 1 min read • Python

  In addition to Python's built-in data structures (such as `tuple`s, `dict`s, and `list`s), a library module called `collections` provides data structures with additional features, some of which are specializations of the built-in ones

• There is more to copying

  1 May, 2017

  • 1 min read • Python

  An assignment only creates a binding (an association) between a name and a target (object of some type). A copy is sometimes necessary so you can change the value of one object without changing the other (when two names are pointing to the same object)

• Implementing weak references in Python

  30 Apr, 2017

  • 1 min read • Python

  Normal Python references to objects increment the object's reference count thus preventing it from being garbage collected

• Translating Scanner tokens into primitive types

  29 Apr, 2017

  • 1 min read • Java

  Translating Scanner tokens into primitive types