Recent news and useful resources for Python.
How-To
- How To Replace Your Python For Loops with Map, Filter, and Reduce
- Intro to Higher-Order Functions
- Debugging Python with pdb
- Managing Dependencies in Python Applications
- Selecting Subsets of Data in Pandas: Part 1
- Clean your data with unsupervised machine learning
- Get a 2–6x speed-up on your data with Python
- Histograms and Density Plots in Python
- 5 Quick and Easy Data Visualizations in Python with Code
- Static Type Checking in Python 3.6
- Cheat Sheet of Python-Related Cheat Sheets
- Regular Expression Cheat Sheet
Libraries & Tools
- Numerizer: Converts numeric strings into ints and floats
- Faker: Generates fake and randomized data The fake/random data can be specified by category (e.g. dates, email addresses, IP addresses, cities). Potentially very useful for unit testing.
- Emote: Open source Emoticons and Emoji detection library
- Lore: Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
- Know your Python distributions
- Python Data Science Tools
- Python Libraries