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SQLite is an open source database and is serverless that needs no configuration. Entire database is a single disk file that can be placed anywhere in operating system's file system. SQLite commands are similar to standard SQL. SQLite is extensively used by applications such as browsers for internal data storage. It is also convenient data storage for embedded devices.Standard Python library has in built support for SQLite database connectivity. It contains sqlite3 module which is a DB-API V2 compliant module written by Gerhad Haring. It adheres to DB-API 2.0.The DB-API has been defined in accordance with PEP-249 to ensure similarity ... Read More

The 'socket' module in Python's standard library defines how server and client machines can communicate using socket endpoints on top of the operating system. The 'socket' API contains functions for both connection-oriented and connectionless network protocols.Socket is an end-point of a two-way communication link. It is characterized by IP address and the port number. Proper configuration of sockets on either ends is necessary so as to initiate a connection. This makes it possible to listen to incoming messages and then send the responses in a client-server environment.The socket() function in 'socket' module sets up a socket object.import socket obj = ... Read More

In addition to the modules and packages built in to the standard distribution of Python, large number of packages from third party developers are uploaded to Python package repository called Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/. To install packages from here, pip utility is needed. The pip tool is an independent project, but since Python 3.4, it has been bootstrapped in Python distribution.The ensurepip module provides support for bootstrapping pip in existing installation of Python. Normally user doesn't need to use it explicitly. If however, installation of pip is skipped in normal installation or virtual environment, it may be needed.Following command will ... Read More

Python is a scripting language while C is a programming language. C/C++ is relatively fast as compared to Python because when you run the Python script, its interpreter will interpret the script line by line and generate output but in C, the compiler will first compile it and generate an output which is optimized with respect to the hardware. In case of other languages such as Java and.NET, Java bytecode, and .NET bytecode respectively run faster than Python because a JIT compiler compiles bytecode to native code at runtime. CPython cannot have a JIT compiler because the dynamic nature of ... Read More

The dis module in Python standard library provides various functions useful for analysis of Python bytecode by disassembling it into a human-readable form. This helps to perform optimizations. Bytecode is a version-specific implementation detail of the interpreter.dis() functionThe function dis() generates disassembled representation of any Python code source i.e. module, class, method, function, or code object.>>> def hello(): print ("hello world") >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(hello) 2    0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (print)      3 LOAD_CONST 1 ('hello world')      6 CALL_FUNCTION 1 (1 positional, 0 keyword pair)      9 POP_TOP      10 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)      13 RETURN_VALUEBytecode ... Read More

In this article, we will talk about creating iterators for efficient looping in Python functions. An iterator is something that helps you go through all the items one by one, like going through pages of a book one page at a time. In Python, we can use lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets as iterators. So we will explore Python functions that generate iterators for efficient looping. Creating Iterators with Functions Python provides different ways to create iterators using functions. So let us see some examples of creating iterators for efficient looping in Python functions - Using Generator Functions Using ... Read More

This article will explain how decimal fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic work in Python, which is useful for performing accurate calculations in various applications. Numbers in Python can be stored in two ways: floating-point and decimal fixed-point. Floating-point numbers are fast but can sometimes be incorrect because of how computers store them. On the other hand, Decimal fixed-point numbers are more accurate and useful when working with precise calculations.  By the end of this article, you will understand how both types of numbers work, when to use them, and how to write programs using them. Floating-Point Arithmetic The following example will ... Read More

Purpose of linecache module in Python’s standard library is to facilitate random access to any text file, although this module is extensively used by Python’s traceback module to generate error trace stack. Further prettyprints of reading are held in a cache so that it saves time while reading lines repeatedly.The most important function in this module is getline() which reads a specified line number from given file. Following is the list of functions −getline(file, x)This function returns xth line from file. If not present it will return empty string. If the file is not present in current path, function ties ... Read More

Python’s built-in open() function opens one file in read/write mode and read/write operations on it. To perform processing on multiple files in a batch, one has to use fileinput module of Python’s standard library. This module provides a Fileinput class with functionality of iterating over files. The module also defines helper functions for the same purpose.Primary interface to this module is input() function. This function returns instance of Fileinput class.fileinput.input(files, inplace, mode)The files parameter is name of one or more files to be read one by one. Each file acts as a generator and using a for loop it can ... Read More

The pathlib module provides an object oriented approach to handling filesystem paths. The module also provides functionality appropriate for various operating systems. Classes defined in this module are of two types – pure path types and concrete path types. While pure paths can only perform purely computational operations, concrete paths are capable of doing I/O operations too.pathlib module defines following classes −Sr.No.Module & Description1PurePathThe base class for all other classes2Pathsubclassed from PurePath. This is a concrete class that represents filesystem path.3PosixPathPath subclass for non-Windows OS4WindowsPathPath subclass for Windows systems5PurePosixPathPurePath subclass for non-Windows systems6PureWindowsPathPurePath subclass for Windows systemsWhen instance of Path ... Read More