As we kick off 2020, I wanted to start getting back to some of my favorite content: Python “how to” content. Today, we’ll be looking at how to comment code in Python—a skill we should all have. To summarize, there are three main ways to make comments in Python. To make inline comments, use the hash mark, #. To make ...

After writing nearly 20 articles just about Python, I’ve decided to take some time to reflect on what I’ve learned. For instance, I recently wrote a compilation article which includes 70+ Python code snippets. Now, I’ve put together a list of some of the coolest Python programming language features. Coolest Python Features List And without further ado, let’s take a ...

One concept that threw me for a loop when I first picked up Python was checking if a string contains a substring. After all, in my first language, Java, the task involved calling a method like indexOf() or contains(). Luckily, Python has an even cleaner syntax, and we’ll cover that today. To summarize, we can check if a string contains ...

Lately, I’ve been thinking about new Python topics to write about, so I took to Google. When I searched “Python how to”, “Python how to add to a list” popped up first. Since this must be a popular search term, I decided it was worth an article. In other words, today we’ll learn how to add an item to a ...

Welcome to yet another Python tutorial. Today, we’re taking a look at dictionaries and how we can perform a reverse dictionary lookup. In words, how do we get a key from a dictionary given a value? As it turns out, there are three main solutions. First, we could try explicitly looping over the dictionary using something like my_dict.items(). Alternatively, we could ...

If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know that I regularly publish Python code snippets for everyday problems. Well, I figured I’d finally aggregate all those responses in one massive article with links to all those resources. Everyday Problems In this section, we’ll take a look at various common scenarios that arise and how to solve ...

The development of web applications is becoming more and more dynamic. Big and small enterprises are rolling out web applications and upgraded versions in very short intervals. The faster your release cycles are, the more important it becomes to thoroughly your web applications. To support agile methodology, professionals are constantly striving to discover assets beneficial to the QA teams. One ...

It has been a while since the concept of CSS Preprocessor made its debut into the mainstay of front-end web development workflow and changed the way we code CSS. To say that its impact in pushing the limits of what CSS can achieve has been nothing short of revolutionary, would be a grave understatement. To all the front-end developers actively ...

“CSS Grid or CSS Framework? What should I use for my next project?” It is a question often asked by web developers, specifically new ones after they are introduced to the CSS Grid layout. CSS Grid layouts allows developers to build custom complex layouts with absolute control only by using Native CSS properties without relying on any frameworks which are ...