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Python is a popular, powerful, and versatile programming language; however, concurrency and parallelism in Python often seems to be a matter of debate. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Marcus McCurdy explores different approaches to solving this discord with code, including examples of Python m...
In this tutorial, you'll learn all about object-oriented programming (OOP) in Python. You'll learn the basics of the OOP paradigm and cover concepts like classes and inheritance. You'll also see to how instantiate an object from a class.
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Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR.
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