README.md

Python Examples

Various Code Snippets on different topics about Python

1. [namedtuple_benchmark] (namedtuple_benchmark.py)

   An example of comparison between namedtuple and dict assignment. Shows the cost of readability of namedtuples over dict's integer index.

2. [mmap] (mmap)

   Examples on how to use mmap module in python. Includes reading, writing (using slices and only in memory a.k.a. ACCESS_COPY) and regex finds. The example comes from PYMOTW article on mmap.

3. Sorting

   Code snippets demonstrating various sorting algorithms implemented in Python. See tests.py for written tests.

4. [merge_sort] (merge_sort.py)

5. Color in terminal

   

6. Requests - Requests-futures

   A small example in terms of demonstrating the parallelization of requests-futures package. Syncronous example using plain requests and Asyncronous example using requests-futures