Mar 3, 2013 · Internally, the set type is implemented using a hash table: a hash function is used to separate items into a number of buckets to reduce the number of equality operations needed …

I am taking a set as input, but it actually could be any iterable, and I am returning a set of sets which is the power set of the input. I like this approach because it is more aligned with the …

I'm doing it like: def set_property(property,value): def get_property(property): or object.property = value value = object.property What's the pythonic way to use getters and setters?

This can be justified as follows: if you are using the return within the function, the function will give you a value that can be later used in other functions (i.e. the function return s something you …

See the Python documentation for an excellent summary; the various other answers to the question make use of most of these variations. Since you always have parameters a, b, c in …

What is the pythonic way to enforce a function to take a specific set of values for a given parameter? For instance there is a function like: def results (status, data): I want to restrict the

For the answers that suggest this solution, read these: Is there a way to set a default parameter equal to another parameter value? Python shortcut for variable default value to be another …

According to this thread: Indeed, CPython's sets are implemented as something like dictionaries with dummy values (the keys being the members of the set), with some optimization (s) that …

202 While I am aware of the duck-typing concept of Python, I sometimes struggle with the type of arguments of functions, or the type of the return value of the function. Now, if I wrote the …

Closed 2 years ago. There is a socket related function call in my code, that function is from another module thus out of my control, the problem is that it blocks for hours occasionally, …