It is suggested that you avoid using Excel files (or other spreadsheet tools) for storing data. Parquet file is currently the best format for storing table-like data. If you do want to interact and manipulate your data using Excel (or other spreadsheet tools), dump your data into CSV files and …
Summary on Random Number Generators
Xoshiro
Xoshiro is a family of fast, space-efficient and high quality PRNGs. It is considered the state-of-the-art (SOTA) family of non-cryptographic pseudo random number generators (PRNGs). The Rust crate rand_xoshiro (which is part of the popular Rust crate rand) has implementations of Xoshiro256Plus and Xoshiro256PlusPlus . Xoshiro256PlusPlus is a very good …
Install Python in macOS
There are a few ways to install Python in Mac.
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Install system-wide via the official Python installation package.
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Install a Anaconda Python distribution locally.
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Install locally using Homebrew (recommended).
A few comments about different ways of installation.
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Avoid installing multiple versions of Python in your system. It usually brings more …
GitHub API
Python Bindings - ghapi¶
ghapi provides 100% always-updated coverage of the entire GitHub REST API by automatically converting the OpenAPI spec to a Pythonic API. ghapi is always up to date with the latest changes to GitHub APIs.
Hands on the Python Library pexpect
Tips and Traps¶
The command-line tool of some (e.g., network) applications might be slow to authenticate. If you use pexect to automate such a command-line tool, it is best to wait for sometime after sending password using
child.sendline(passwd)
. If the authentication has ouput on both success and failure, a smart way is to wait for the success or failure message to come out.
IPython Is the Best Shell
IPython is the Best Shell!
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Use IPython as much as possible.
- IPython has virtues of both shell and Python.
- You should avoid using shell scripts for complicate tasks any way.
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If you do want to use a Unix/Linux shell, I'd suggest you stick to Bash unless Linux distributions start …