I encountered a few computers having obsolete Windows 10 build, like 16.04. This build is not supported for a while, but Windows Update should help here, right? When running Windows Update from the settings app, I got a notification that version 20H2 was available. Cool, isn’t it? But the upgrade…

One of the most common techniques of data exploration is constructing a histogram. We will have a look at how to create one in Pandas with minimal prerequisites. Preparing the data First, install Pandas and Matplotlib, if you didn’t already. …

QNAP NAS devices are hugely popular among both home and office users. It offers a wide range of services from media streaming to backup options. In Hybrid backup client in particular, a critical security vulnerability was discovered that might allow attackers to encrypt your data (ransomware kind of attacks). What…

We’ve all been using the builtin sum function to add up integers or floats from lists or tuples for years, since our Python journey started. It’s well taught but a little boring feature of the language, right? Well, maybe not so boring after all. Sum is able to add up…

Python code can be executed by a few environments, but the reference and most common implementation is CPython. This is what runs your code by default, but is commonly considered slow. There are certainly a lot of options how to speed up your code already, from switching to another interpreter…

A few days ago, PEP 634 authored by Brandt Bucher and the creator of Python language Guido van Rossum was accepted. So, lets have a look at what it means for us, Pythonistas. The simplest example may look like this (example adapted from PEP 636): def http_error(status)…

Introduction In Python, there are two competing solutions for web scraping or interacting with web pages: BeautifulSoup and a binding for the Selenium framework. BeautifulSoup enables a user to break down an already download page to a set of elements and analyze them further. This approach is not always possible or…