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
.
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 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 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.
Today I finished learning how to use a custom JSON decoder to convert JSON to arbitrary Python objects.
Today I learned how to do custom JSON decoding in Python with the module json
.
Today I learned how to do custom JSON encoding in Python with the module json
.
Today I learned how to use JavaScript functions in PyScript.