Introduction Python provides the max() function to find the maximum (or largest) element among a group of values.This function is built-in and you can find additional information reading the official Python documentation. In the next sections we will see in detail how to use the max() function with examples. Are you curious to find out …
Introduction Are you thinking of creating a newsletter for your application but you don’t know how to send an email in python? Or did you just want to automate some boring tasks? Well, whatever the motivation, if you want to learn how to send an email using Python, you are in the right place! This …
Introduction This post will help you configure your environment to write a Python program whose purpose is to read or write a CSV file. In your life as a developer, you will surely have to write or read a CSV file.A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a simple text file that uses commas to separate …
Introduction The Linux ls command is one of the basic commands and it is used to list information about files and sub-directories of the working directory (by default).While this command is pretty simple to use, this post tells you how to best use all of its parameters. Linux ls command The ls command allows you …
Introduction The Linux cd command is one of the basic commands and allows you to change directory.While this command is pretty simple to use, this post tells you how to best use all of its parameters. In the next sections we will start to describe the difference between absolute and relative path and then we …
Introduction The if – else statement is a fundamental construct in Python and in all other programming languages.Using them is it possible to execute a code only under specific conditions. This post presents the simple if, but also the if else, and if elif else.Last but not least we will see also the nested if …
Introduction To generate a random number in Python you can use the random module. In many cases it can be useful to know how to generate random numbers, think for example of a program that simulates a dice roll for statistical purposes. Luckily, Python provides several methods for generating random numbers.In this post we will …
Introduction Python list is a special data type used to store data and it is one of the 4 built-in Python data types.The other 3 are Dictionary, Tuple and Set but they will be explained different posts. This post will explain to you the following topics: List creation Access to list elements List slicing Change …
Introduction A virtual environment (or venv) is an isolated python environment in which you can use a specific Python version and install packages. At this point you may ask: Why should I create a virtualenv since I can already install everything I need? Imagine running several projects and maybe each of them requires a different …
Introduction The Django select_related method allows you to speed up your querysets and therefore your application.In this post, I’ll show you how you can minimize database accesses and thus maximize the speed of your Django app. To learn how to use the select_related method we will see a very clear example. We will start from …