Book Review: Python Playground – Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer

No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don’t normally get books from that publisher so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won’t provide any spoilers here as we have a quick

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Python 101: Lambda Basics

Many programming languages have the concept of the lambda function. In Python, the lambda is an anonymous function or unbound function. The syntax for them looks a bit odd, but it’s actually just taking a simple function and turning it into a one-liner. Let’s look at a regular simple function to start off: #———————————————————————- def

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