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Abstract: The reuse and integration of existing code is a common practice for efficient software development. Constantly updated Python interpreters and third-party packages introduce many challenges ...

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In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

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Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – If you received a sample ballot in the mail from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections, it is critical to carefully check it. Ballots were sent to about 89,000 voters ahead ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Orange County Supervisor of Elections announced on Friday a printing error on thousands of sample ballots for the upcoming Special General ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Running Python scripts is one of the most common tasks in automation. However, managing dependencies across different systems can be challenging. That’s where Docker comes in. Docker lets you package ...