...is also used in lots of 3rd-party modules, so it's the quasi-standard. Usually, __version__ is a string, but sometimes it's also a float or tuple. Edit: as mentioned by S.Lott (Thank you!), PEP 8 says it explicitly: Module Level Dunder Names Module level "dunders" (i.e. names with two lea...

I have a small database in Elasticsearch and for testing purposes would like to pull all records back. I am attempting to use a URL of the form... ...

...loop, or map, or a list comprehension, etc. in Python, the next method is called automatically to get each item from the iterator, thus going through the process of iteration. A good place to start learning would be the iterators section of the tutorial and the iterator types section of the standar...

...er) instead of simply delegating to the instance's __dict__ - which essentially means you're creating two dicts for every instance. – Aaron Hall♦ Jan 8 '17 at 0:39 8 ...

...nsider it "easy" or not;-) is to add the infrastructure to your program to allow such methods to be pickled, registering it with the copy_reg standard library method. For example, Steven Bethard's contribution to this thread (towards the end of the thread) shows one perfectly workable approach to a...

... Summary: One option is, as suggested by jpic and sgallen in the comments, to add .filter() for each category. Each additional filter adds more joins, which should not be a problem for small set of categories. There is the aggregation approach. This query would be shorter and...

... Here is what is going on. First, the only global variables Python really has are module-scoped variables. You cannot make a variable that is truly global; all you can do is make a variable in a particular scope. (If you make a variable inside the Python interpreter, and then import other mo...

...__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.__dict__ = self Some pros: It actually works! No dictionary class methods are shadowed (e.g. .keys() work just fine. Unless - of course - you assign some value to them, see below) Attributes and items are always in sync Trying to access non-existent key as an...

...nfortunately Only the name of this class is considered a public API. All the methods provided by the class are considered an implementation detail. So probably not a great idea, although it might not matter, since 2.7 is meant to be the last 2.x python and you'll be expected to refactor lots ...

...turn the size of an object in bytes. The object can be any type of object. All built-in objects will return correct results, but this does not have to hold true for third-party extensions as it is implementation specific. Only the memory consumption directly attributed to the object is accounted for...