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How to Quickly Generate Fake Data in Python using Faker

April 24, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Testing your code is a great way to check whether you have implemented everything correctly. No matter how much you try, no matter how hard you analyze all the cases, sometimes, just the smallest mistake can lead to a big problem which could have maybe been avoided writing tests.

When you write tests, you are obviously not going to use data from production. We need to use some dummy data that does not belong to anyone who is actually using the project. This is called faking the data.

How to Quickly Check Whether a Variable is a Number in Python

April 17, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Since you don’t have a predefined type for a variable in Python, you may notice a lot of bugs that can arise. As such, it is very important that you pay a lot of attention in cases when you have to make sure that you are using the correct type of variable.

This can also be the case when you expect a variable to be a number, but you get a string or any other type instead.

How to Quickly Display a Progress bar in Python using tqdm

April 3, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If you are working with large lists, you may need to have a sense of progress from time to time so that you do not just cluelessly stare at your screen.

This is where tqdm comes to help.

How to Quickly Find the Symmetric Difference of 2 Sets in Python

March 27, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If you have to find the union of elements that are either in the first or the second set, but not in both of them, then you need to use the symmetric difference.

This is also another math operation between sets that you have probably seen in a math class in high school.

This can be done quite easily and quickly using 2 built-in methods in Python.

Let’s start with the first one.

How to Quickly Find the Intersection of 2 Sets in Python

March 20, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If you need to find whether 2 sets have the same elements, then you need to use an operation such as intersection.

This operation is known in Math and used everywhere. In Python, we have 2 built-in methods that we can use right away to find whether 2 sets have the same elements or not.

How to Quickly Find the Union of 2 Sets in Python

March 13, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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In the last article, we saw how we can find the difference between 2 sets in Python. In this article, we are going to see how to find the union of 2 sets.

This is actually quite similar to the difference.

We also have 2 ways to do the union of 2 sets in Python.

How to Quickly Convert a JSON into a List in Python

February 27, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If your project is in some ways connected to a third-party API, then you are probably going to need to handle some JSON data.

In case you do not know what it means, it represents the most commonly used data format that is used to exchange data.

How to Repeat a List in Python

February 20, 2022 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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If you happen to need to concatenate a string with itself multiple times, you may think to actually write a loop and do the concatenation in that way:

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