In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how Python's eval() works and how to use it effectively in your programs. Additionally, you'll learn how to minimize the security risks associated to the use of eval(). (more…)

If you aren’t wowed by Python’s super() builtin, chances are you don’t really know what it is capable of doing or how to use it effectively. Much has been written about super() and much of that wri…...

Functions, like in any programming languages, are the smallest reusable building blocks of an application. In Python, we can declare and define the functions in the following ways. Lambda expressions are used create anonymous functions. (more…)

Python natively does not support function overloading - having multiple functions with the same name. Today we see how we can implement and add this functionality to Python by using common language constructs like decorators and dictionaries. (more…)

In this tutorial we'll dive in Topic Mining. We'll analyze a dataset of newsfeed extracted from more than 60 sources. We'll show how to process it, analyze it and extract visual clusters from it. We'll be using great python tools for interactive visualiza... (more…)