In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

There should only be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it”, says the Zen of Python. Yet there are areas where even seasoned programmers debate what the right or wrong way to do things ...

For those that are unfamiliar with the concept of classes and who want to learn more about how they work, keep reading. If you just want the syntax for classes in Python, you can skip to the next ...

If you have experience with R or want a quick way to generate a regression with statsmodels using a pandas DataFrame, you can use R-style formulas. First, you need to import statsmodels and its ...

Python allows free creation of plots, unlike expensive, stagnant graphing calculators. Import NumPy and Matplotlib for basic linear and polynomial plots in Python. Seaborn lets you make statistical ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.