...ur goal is to avoid a def, this obviously doesn't cut it. It does, however allow you to conditionally raise exceptions, e.g.: y = lambda x: 2*x if x < 10 else raise_(Exception('foobar')) Alternatively you can raise an exception without defining a named function. All you need is a strong stom...

... 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...

SciPy appears to provide most (but not all [1]) of NumPy's functions in its own namespace. In other words, if there's a function named numpy.foo , there's almost certainly a scipy.foo . Most of the time, the two appear to be exactly the same, oftentimes even pointing to the same function object. ...

...butes, the short answer is: no. The problem is that the attributes are actually defined as the arguments accepted by the getattr built-in function. As the user can reimplement __getattr__, suddenly allowing any kind of attribute, there is no possible generic way to generate that list. The dir functi...

Naturally, for bool isprime(number) there would be a data structure I could query. I define the best algorithm , to be the algorithm that produces a data structure with lowest memory consumption for the range (1, N], where N is a constant. Just an example of what I am looking for: I could rep...

C++11 allows inline namespace s, all members of which are also automatically in the enclosing namespace . I cannot think of any useful application of this -- can somebody please give a brief, succinct example of a situation where an inline namespace is needed and where it is the most idiomatic s...

... & part two being the confusion surrounding Training set. In general all of Machine Learning Algorithms need to be trained for supervised learning tasks like classification, prediction etc. or for unsupervised learning tasks like clustering. During the training step, the algorithms are taught...

...se of teaching, into four categories: Keywords/reserved symbols Automatically imported methods Common methods Syntactic sugars/composition It is fortunate, then, that most categories are represented in the question: -> // Automatically imported method ||= // Syntactic sugar ++= // Syn...

...erface that I want to deprecate with portable C++. When I Googled for this all I got was a Microsoft specific solution; #pragma deprecated and __declspec(deprecated) . ...

...rect. The new $lookup operator added to the aggregation pipeline is essentially identical to a left outer join: https://docs.mongodb.org/master/reference/operator/aggregation/lookup/#pipe._S_lookup From the docs: { $lookup: { from: <collection to join>, localField: &lt...