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JavaScript Tricks You Won’t Find in Most Tutorials

Useful tips for writing more concise and performant JavaScript

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Helpful Python Snippets That You Can Learn in 60 Seconds or Less

Python represents one of the most popular languages that many people use it in data science and machine learning, web development, scripting, automation, etc.

Part of the reason for this popularity is its simplicity and easiness to learn it.

If you are reading this, then it is highly likely that you already use Python or at least have an interest in it.

In this article, we will briefly see 30 short code snippets that you can understand and learn in 30 seconds or less.

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Python DocStrings, Annotations and PEP8

Python Docstring is the documentation string which is string literal, and it occurs in the class, module, function or method definition, and it is written as a first statement. Docstrings are accessible from the doc attribute for any of the Python object and also with the built-in help() function can come in handy.

One-line Docstrings

The one-line Docstrings are the Docstrings which fits all in one line. You can use one of the quotes, i.e., triple single or triple double quotes and opening quotes and closing quotes need to be the same. In the one-line Docstrings, closing quotes are in the same line as with the opening quotes. Also, the standard convention is to use the triple-double quotes.

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Python3 f-Strings and string formatting syntax

As of Python 3.6, f-strings are a great new way to format string. Not only are they more readable, more concise, and less prone to error than other ways of formatting, but they are also faster!

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What’s init for me?

Designing for Python package import patterns

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Building Python Real World Application - part 01 - Interactive Dictionary

The first application we are going to build is a dictionary. An interactive dictionary. Now, what the dictionary will do? It will retrieve the definition for the word which user has entered, that’s what dictionaries do, right? In addition to that, if the user has made a typo while entering a word, our program will suggest the closest word saying ‘did you mean this instead?’, and if the word has more than one definition, retrieve all of them. Doesn’t seem that easy now, huh? Let’s find out.

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Python Sorting

In this article, we explore the various techniques for sorting data using Python.

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Python Dictionaries and JSON

This week we will have a quick look at the use of python dictionaries and the JSON data format. After reading this post, you should have a basic understanding how to work with JSON data and dictionaries in python. I'll choose this topic because of some future posts about the work with python and APIs, where a basic understanding of the data format JSON is helpful.

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Python String Formatters

Python's str.format() method of the string class allows you to do variable substitutions and value formatting. This lets you concatenate elements together within a string through positional formatting. This tutorial will guide you through some of the common uses of formatters in Python, which can help make your code and program more readable and user friendly.

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How To Use *args and **kwargs in Python 3

I have come to see that most new python programmers have a hard time figuring out the *args and **kwargs magic variables. So what are they ? First of all let me tell you that it is not necessary to write *args or **kwargs. Only the * (asterisk) is necessary. You could have also written *var and **vars. Writing *args and **kwargs is just a convention.

The special syntax, *args and **kwargs in function definitions is used to pass a variable number of arguments to a function. The single asterisk form *args is used to pass a non-keyworded, variable-length argument list, and the double asterisk form is used to pass a keyworded, variable-length argument list. Here is an example of how to use the non-keyworded form. So now lets take a look at *args first.

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Python Enumerate Function

Enumerate is a built-in function of Python. It’s usefulness can not be summarized in a single line. Yet most of the newcomers and even some advanced programmers are unaware of it. It allows us to loop over something and have an automatic counter.

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How to Properly Add JavaScripts and Styles in WordPress

Do you want to learn how to properly add JavaScripts and CSS stylesheets in WordPress? Many DIY users often make the mistake of directly calling their scripts and stylesheets in plugins and themes. In this article, we will show you how to properly add JavaScripts and stylesheet in WordPress. This will be particularly useful for those who are just starting to learn WordPress theme and plugin development.

Often times, adding custom JavaScript for analytics tracking is the first type of custom code a WordPress user has to implement. Normally the documentation that you are given with these codes are written as if your site is just a bunch of HTML files. But that’s not how WordPress works. The HTML of your site is dynamically generated.

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