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In this introductory tutorial, you will build a recurrent neural network (RNN) with PyTorch.

The Python module collections contains many useful tools. This is an overview of those tools.

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.

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 learned what precision Python floats have.

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”.

This is the most obfuscated “Hello, world!” program I have ever seen!

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.