I am a lonely Python/C++ coder with a background in financial markets and an interest in modern art. I am an application-driven guy, not a computer scientist. Sure I have many gaps in my knowledge, but I strive to do my best to fill them. I keep learning new things, listening to smart guys, correcting my mistakes, and pushing myself to the limits. I enjoy it.
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You have a collection of items and you need to keep the N highest or lowest of them. Instead of writing your own algorithm, use build-in heapq module.
This module has two handy functions, nlargest(), and nsmallest().
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All too often I see people referring to tuple as an immutable list. Also many tutorials on Python present tuples just as a list that cannot be changed. Although it is true that tuple is immutable, there is actually much more to...
There is a caveat when removing duplications from a list in Python using for loop. One thing you have to keep in mind to make it correct is, that you need to iterate over a copy of the list, not the list itself.
Suppose you have this...