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Python lambda expressions unleashed

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
CarlKadie
Carl Kadie, Ph.D., is a research developer in Microsoft Research/TnR working on Genomics. Lambda expressions provide a way to pass functionality into a function. Sadly, Python puts two annoying restrictions on lambda expressions. First, lambdas can only contain an expression, not statements. Second, lambdas can't be serialized to ...

What do your users really think? Using Text Analytics to understand GitHub Issue Sentiment

March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16
Christopher Wilcox
Ever get the feeling your users aren't that happy with your project? We all get those issues that are real downers on our repository. So I thought, let's take these issues and make something fun. Using the Text Analytics Service and the WordCloud Python package, we can make some pretty pictures out of otherwise negative comments. I also ...

Python 3 is Winning Library Developer Support

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Christopher Wilcox
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development? It has been out for 7+ years at this point. So, if you aren't using it, why not? Since December of 2008, the initial release of Python 3, it seems the new version of Python has lived in ...