Here's the quote:

...it is amazing how Windows is “special.” Back when ..., special things had to be done for Windows. Python continues the tradition w/ an entire section in its doco titled “3. Using Python on Windows”

I wasn't sure what to make of this.

It appeared that they want …

From someone in the process of becoming a data scientist. They had a question on regular expressions, which made almost no sense. It appears that the core concepts of ETL -- Extracting source data, Transforming it into a useful form and the Loading into some persistent storage for long-term analysis -- had …

This is a common issue. We have a file which was printed for human consumption. Consequently, it has many different kinds of lines.

These are the two kinds of lines of interest:

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The core expression is similar to this

y = (f(x) for x in L if f(x) is not None)

There are a lot of variations on the filter. The point is that the function appears twice in the above expression.

We …

Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false

What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?

I think of it this way.

• Languages are a cool thing. Especially programming languages where there's an absolute test -- the Turing machine -- for completeness.
• The Forth-like stack language is a cool thing …

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/which-programming-language-will-earn-you-the-highest-salary/ Okay. I like that. I wonder what the r² value is.