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In Python, a variable’s scope determines where the variable can be accessed from within a program. The two main scopes for variables are local and global. What are Local Variables? Local variables are defined within a function and can only be accessed within that function. They are not accessible outside the function. Once the function…
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The exact number of Python functions is not fixed as it can change with new versions of Python and the addition of new modules and packages. Python is an open-source language with a large standard library and an active community of developers who are constantly adding new features and functions. The Python Standard Library alone…
Lambda functions are anonymous functions that take any amount of arguments as their input, but can only have one expression. Let’s look at the function further Lambda functions are anonymous and are usually classified as user-defined functions but without a name. One thing that makes Lambda functions different from regular functions is that they do…
Sometimes you need a function that will help you to aggregate or combine severable iterables in one go. When we read the official Python documentation it states that using zip ” Iterates over several iterables in parallel, producing tuples with an item from each one.” So what does that actually mean? Well in essence essentially…
To start off passing by reference basically means that you are telling the program you have written to pass a variable to a function. When passing arguments to a function, it is important to understand the meanings first. As a result, when you pass by reference to a function, the variable data gets processed and…
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In our Python Overview Interview Questions we started off the process of trying to prepare you how to answer any questions that may come up in an interview scenario. We then moved on to show how to discuss Python Dictionary Interview Questions and what may come up. One of the questions that you may be…
So you are using Python and you have data stored in a data frame? You would like to present that on a webpage HTML table, but unsure how to achieve this. Well, read on to see two different methods that will help you. Pass the data to Javascript which then passes to the HTML the…
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On this website, we have posted about how to remove unwanted characters from your data and How to remove characters from an imported CSV file both will show you different approaches. In this blog posting, we are going to approach the process by using loops within a function. Essentially we are going to pass a…
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More and more, website developers are looking to blend different programming technologies to allow them to use functionality, that maybe is not available to them in the current programming language they utilise. In previous posts how to pass python variables to Javascript and how to run python directly from javascript, we touched on how to…
Have you ever been faced with a situation where you have multiple lists you want to compare, and need a function that will read them in and show you what is different between them all? In this scenario, this can be handy where you have large data sets and need a quick way to find…
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