The problemLet's say you have more than one version of Python installed on your machine. What version does python3 point to? If you said, "the newest version", you may actually be wrong. That's because python3 points at the last version of Python you inst... (more…)

Sorted Containers is an Apache2 licensed sorted collections library, written in pure-Python, and fast as C-extensions. (more…)

Linux owners configure makefiles so as to have easy commands to perform operations such as make dependencies to pip install required packages. Here are the dry simple steps to run makefiles in Python projects on Windows. Download git for windows. You shou... (more…)

Implementing a Naive Bayes machine learning classifier in Python. Starting with a basic implementation, and then improving it. Libraries used: NumPy, Numba (and scikit-learn for comparison). (more…)

Ben Hoyt is an experienced software engineer at TripAdvisor in New York City. He and his wife and three daughters live just across the Hudson River in New Jersey. (more…)