Mathspp Blog
A blog dedicated to mathematics and programming!
This blog has a really interesting assortment of articles on mathematics and programming. You can use the tags to your right to find topics that interest you, or you may want to have a look at
- my Python articles about the core language; or
- the problems I wrote to get your brain working.
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Go through the complete code for a Python project that consists in finding similar photographs in a folder. This tutorial will make use of classical techniques and is suitable for beginners.
How do you implement a case-insensitive (or caseless) dictionary? In this article we explore solutions where we inherit from the built-in dict, the abstract base class MutableMapping from the standard module collections.abc, and the UserDict in the standard module collections.
Can you prove that there are arbitrarily many primes in arbitrarily big intervals?
Learn how I found over +10,000 bugs in Python code all over GitHub and how all those bugs could have been fixed by importing the Python module string and using the constants ascii_lowercase and ascii_uppercase.
This article shows how to communicate between Python and Dyalog APL through the use of sockets. We will use the module socket from Python and the Conga workspace from Dyalog.
This is a short and practical tutorial that guides you on how to work with case-insensitive strings in Python and teaches how to use the str.lower, str.upper, and str.casefold methods.
Running Python inside ChatGPT shows some amazing capabilities that ChatGPT has to understand Python code and evaluate it for you.
Today I learned about the type hint Any and its bidirectional compatibility with all other types.
Today I (re)learned how to delete a file in Python with the module pathlib.
Today I (re)learned Heron's formula to compute the area of a triangle from its three sides.
Today I learned that you can add suggestions directly when reviewing pull requests on GitHub.
Today I learned how to edit multiple lines in the VS Code code editor.
How do you create a Python package? How do you set up automated testing and code coverage? How do you publish the package? That's what this article teaches you.
This is the written version of my EuroPython 2022 lightning talk “Smoosh all the things”.
In this article we go over the most obscure “Hello, world!” Python program I have ever seen.
Learn about the dunder method __init__, responsible for initialising class instances.
This is an introduction to dunder methods in Python, to help you understand what they are and what they are for.
This article explains how to extend the JSON format by using a custom encoder and a custom decoder to turn arbitrary Python objects into JSON and back.
