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| | [AI summary] The author discusses differences between Python and Ruby regarding dictionary key access and missing keys, highlighting cultural design philosophies and the Pythonic .get() method.
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| | Nick Coghlan added another interesting note in response to my last post about creating side-effecting assignments in python. Here's Nick: @ ...
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| | Hi guys, have you ever wondered how can Python dictionaries be so fast and reliable? The answer is that they are built on top of another technology: hash tables. Knowing how Python hash tables work will give you a deeper understanding of how dictionaries work and this could be a great advantage for your Python understanding because dictionaries are almost everywhere in Python. Hash Functions Before introducing hash tables and their Python implementation you have to know what is a hash function and how it works. A hash function is a function that can map a piece of data of...
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| While reading Understanding Computation again last night, I was going back through the chapter where Tom Stuart describes deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata. These simple state machines seem like little more than a teaching tool, but he eventually uses them as the implementation for a regular expression matcher. I thought seeing this concrete use for such an abstract idea was interesting and wanted to re-enforce the ideas by implementing such a system myself - with Haskell, of course.