...d in [1] (often cited, but unfortunately rarely read...). It is sometimes called "gini importance" or "mean decrease impurity" and is defined as the total decrease in node impurity (weighted by the probability of reaching that node (which is approximated by the proportion of samples reaching that no...

...the name and scope of the variable, not the object it's pointing to. Since all the functions in your example are created in the same scope and use the same variable name, they always refer to the same variable. EDIT: Regarding your other question of how to overcome this, there are two ways that com...

...ier which can be applied to a floating point specifier that would automatically format the output to the necessary number of significant digits such that when scanning the string back in, the original floating point value is acquired? ...

...ry to execute the above shell command, the fact that you need __init__.pys all the way down, and the __package__-modifying trickery (described below by BrenBarn) needed to allow these imports for executable scripts (e.g. when using a shebang and doing ./my_script.py at the Unix shell) would all be u...

... There are two ways to split strings over multiple lines: Using \ All lines in C can be split into multiple lines using \. Plain C: char *my_string = "Line 1 \ Line 2"; Objective-C: NSString *my_string = @"Line1 \ Line2"; Better approach Th...

...rs = new Product("Sneakers",20); sneakers.discount = 50; // 50, setter is called sneakers.discount+= 20; // 70, setter is called sneakers.discount+= 20; // 80, not 90! alert(sneakers.discount); // getter is called Note the last but one line: the responsibility for correct discount value was moved ...

... importlib was added to Python 3 to programmatically import a module. It is just a wrapper around __import__, see the docs. import importlib moduleName = input('Enter module name:') importlib.import_module(moduleName) Note: the .py extension should be removed from mod...

... Scala treats all of its different tuple sizes as different classes (Tuple1, Tuple2, Tuple3, Tuple4,...,Tuple22) while they do all inherit from the Product trait, that trait doesn't carry enough information to actually use the data values ...

...add gettext functionality to someone else's code (that defines a function called '_') so it should be banned – nosklo Jan 11 '09 at 13:32 28 ...

...ect as the first parameter, whereas staticmethod can have no parameters at all. Example class Date(object): def __init__(self, day=0, month=0, year=0): self.day = day self.month = month self.year = year @classmethod def from_string(cls, date_as_string): ...