Command Line ArgumentsCommand line arguments are input parameters which allow user to enable programs to act in a certain way like- to output additional information, or to read data from a specified source or to interpret the data in a desired format.Python Command Line ArgumentsPython provides many options to read command line arguments. The most common ways are -Python sys.argvPython getopt modulePython argparse modulePython sys moduleThe sys module stores the command line arguments (CLA) into a list and to retrieve it, we use sys.argv. It’s a simple way to read command line arguments as string.import sys print(type(sys.argv)) print('The command ... Read More

In this article, we will see how we can create an empty functions in Python. A function is a block of organized, reusable code that is used to perform a single, related action. Functions provide better modularity for your application and a high degree of code reusing. Function blocks begin with the keyword def followed by the function name and parentheses ( ( ) ). Here, we will see examples of Empty Functions. Empty Function Use the pass statement to write an empty function in Python −Example # Empty function in Python def demo(): pass Above, ... Read More

The reload() is used to reload a previously imported module or loaded module. This comes handy in a situation where you repeatedly run a test script during an interactive session, it always uses the first version of the modules we are developing, even we have made changes to the code. In that scenario we need to make sure that modules are reloaded. The argument passed to the reload() must be a module object which is successfully imported before. Few points to understand, when reload() is executed − Python module’s code is recompiled and the module-level code re-executed, defining a ... Read More

Inplace Operator in PythonInplace operation is an operation which directly changes the content of a given linear algebra or vector or metrices without making a copy. Now the operators, which helps to do this kind of operation is called in-place operator.Let’s understand it with an a simple example -a=9 a += 2 print(a)output11Above the += tie input operator. Here first, a add 2 with that a value is updated the previous value.Above principle applies to other operators also. Common in place operators are -+=-=*=/=%=Above principle applies to other types apart from numbers, for example -language = "Python" language +="3" print(language)OutputPython3Above ... Read More

There are two types of variables: global variables and local variables. The scope of global variables is the entire program whereas the scope of local variable is limited to the function where it is defined.Example def func(): x = "Python" s = "test" print(x) print(s) s = "Tutorialspoint" print(s) func() print(x) OutputIn above program- x is a local variable whereas s is a global variable, we can access the local variable only within the function it is defined (func() above) and ... Read More

A Counters is a container which keeps track to how many times equivalent values are added. Python counter class is a part of collections module and is a subclass of dictionary.Python CounterWe may think of counter as an unordered collection of items where items are stored as dictionary keys and their count as dictionary value.Counter items count can be positive, zero or negative integers. Though there is no restrict on its keys and values but generally values are intended to be numbers but we can store other object types too.InitializingCounter supports three forms of initialization. Its constructor can be called ... Read More

Python provides library to read, represent and reset the time information in many ways by using “time” module. Date, time and date time are an object in Python, so whenever we do any operation on them, we actually manipulate objects not strings or timestamps.In this section we’re going to discuss the “time” module which allows us to handle various operations on time.The time module follows the “EPOCH” convention which refers to the point where the time starts. In Unix system “EPOCH” time started from 1 January, 12:00 am, 1970 to year 2038.To determine the EPOCH time value on your system, ... Read More

Transpose a matrix means we’re turning its columns into its rows. Let’s understand it by an example what if looks like after the transpose.Let’s say you have original matrix something like -x = [[1, 2][3, 4][5, 6]]In above matrix “x” we have two columns, containing 1, 3, 5 and 2, 4, 6.So when we transpose above matrix “x”, the columns becomes the rows. So the transposed version of the matrix above would look something like -x1 = [[1, 3, 5][2, 4, 6]]So the we have another matrix ‘x1’, which is organized differently with different values in different places.Below are couple ... Read More

Many programming languages support ternary operator, which basically define a conditional expression.Similarly the ternary operator in python is used to return a value based on the result of a binary condition. It takes binary value(condition) as an input, so it looks similar to an “if-else” condition block. However, it also returns a value so behaving similar to a function.Syntax[on_true] if [expression] else [on_false]Let’s write one simple program, which compare two integers -a. Using python if-else statement ->>> x, y = 5, 6 >>> if x>y:    print("x") else:    print("y") yb. Using ternary operator>>> x, y = 5, 6 >>> ... Read More

Internet Protocol is currently in the process of moving from version 4 to version 6. This is necessitated because version 4 doesn’t provide enough addresses to handle the increasing number of devices with direct connections to the internet.An IPv4 address is composed of 32 bits, represented into four eight bit groups called as "octets". This is a "dotted decimal" format where each eight-bit octet can have a decimal value 0 to 255.For example: 192.168.1.1IPv4 address with CIDR notation: 192.168.1.1/24 where 24 means first three octets identify the network and last octet identifies node.An IPv6 address is 128 bits long. It ... Read More