When I first learned about Python decorators, using them felt like doing voodoo magic. Decorators can give you the ability to add new functionalities to any callable without actually touching or changing the code inside it. This can typically yield better... (more…)

This post will talk about three different packages to read word documents with Python, including docx2txt, docx, and docx2python. (more…)

Member Blog Post Guest blog post originally published on PlanetScale’s blog by Deepthi Sigireddi Over the last three quarters, the team at PlanetScale has focused on the dual goals of... (more…)

Simple and reliable optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques in numerical search spaces. - SimonBlanke/Gradient-Free-Optimizers... (more…)

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Python return statement when writing functions. Additionally, you'll cover some good programming practices related to the use of return. With this knowledge, you'll be able to write readable, robu... (more…)