The sample code in your question is clearly trying to count the number of occurrences of each character: if it already has a count for a given character, get returns it (so it's just incremented …

% python -mtimeit -s'import test' 'test.foo()' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.254 usec per loop Do not try to use time.time or time.clock (naively) to compare the speed of functions. They can give …

Dec 21, 2010 · This strategy works in both CPython and PyPy, across Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3. The trick is changing the attribute names from func_code to __code__ and func_globals to …

(Each decorator usage copies and updates the prior property object, so note that you should use the same name for each set, get, and delete function/method.) After defining the above, the …

Sep 26, 2010 · C:\Users\gkuhn\Desktop>python test2.py <__main__.Celsius instance at 0x02E95A80> 212 With Python prior to 3, make sure you subclass from object which will …

Aug 24, 2024 · Note that running Python with -OO strips out docstrings. If you intend to distribute your code to others, keep in mind that they may run it that way. It will make those people really …

The natural, simple, direct, explicit way to get information back from a function is to return it. Broadly speaking, the purpose of a function is to compute a value, and return signifies "this is …

Open your terminal and type python -m pydoc list.append. The advantage of pydoc over help() is that you do not have to import a module to look at its help text. For instance python -m pydoc …

Oct 13, 2009 · $ python -mtimeit -n1 -r1 -t -s "from your_module import main" "main()" It runs your_module.main() function one time and print the elapsed time using time.time() function as …

Apr 10, 2024 · The nested function function in __init__ calls the threaded function we want to save the value of, and saves the result of that nested function as the instance attribute …