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Python is a dynamically typed, high-level interpreted programming language. Its design focuses on clear syntax, an intuitive approach to object-oriented programming, and making the right way to do things obvious. Python supports modules and exceptions, and has an extensive standard module library. Python is general-purpose and thus used widely, from the web to embedded systems.
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Correlation between two curves
The classic Pearson's correlation coefficient is perhaps the most popular measure of curve similarity. SciPy's pearsonr function gives you that.
Correlation coefficient measures shape similarity and …
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Python for large projects
I don't think there's anything specific to large Python projects that wouldn't apply to large projects in other programming languages as well. …
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Python mutable default argument: Why?
What benefits does this behaviour offers over an initialisation at each call time?
It lets you select the behavior you want, as you demonstrated in your example. So if you want that the default a …
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Is Python's C interface faster than JNI?
the program was really hurting your program's performance, you write them in C, and make Python call them. … That is, don't write tight Python loops that call C functions; do write the loop itself in C and call it from Python. …
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Why aren't there explicit access modifiers in Python:
The Python convention is to use an underscore prefix for protected/private members. …
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If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programmin...
You can do functional programming in Java (see e.g. http://functionaljava.org/). You can also do object oriented programming in C. It's just not that idiomatic.
So indeed we don't absolutely need Erl …
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python vs php (for project managers)
If you already know Python, you should be able to pick up PHP in no time (the converse is not necessarily true). There's a reason for PHP's popularity. …
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Using Clojure instead of Python for scalability (multi-core) reasons, good idea?
Can't I make really efficient use of all cores using a more imperative language like Python, than a lisp dialect or other functional language?
You definitely can. … It seems that all the benefits of it come from using immutable data, can't I do just that in Python and have all the benefits? …
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How is the JVM and Java's WORA different from other high level languages?
When Java was new, WORA was something to boast about - specifically, that you could compile on one platform and run that (compiled bytecode) on other platforms.
Of course, interpreted languages run p …
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Python productivity VS Java Productivity
In Python it's f.read(). This will definitely be a huge productivity boost especially in quick prototyping. … Python the language is also generally less verbose, which is not a bad thing (although I think the importance of verbosity vs. conciseness is often overemphasized). …
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