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Class 9
Dunder Methods
Q. What is the purpose of dunder methods in Python? Provide an example of a commonly used dunder method.
- Double-underscore methods in python are special methods that are used to define specific behavior to built-in python functions/operators. A common example is the str method that is used too define how an object will view a string.
AI guru
Q. In the video “AI Guru makes $238,800 with misleading paid course,” what was the main ethical issue raised concerning the use of developers’ work, and how might this have been avoided?
- By the looks of it, Siraj was taking peoples github code and not crediting those people properly. This can be a huge deal because it is stealing someones code they made from scratch and posting it as your own, or plagerism.
Python statistics
Q. Describe the Python statistics module and give an example of a function within the module that can be used to perform a common statistical operation.
- statistics is a built-in library of python that features for a variety of statistical implications. Because it is a library you will need to import at the top of the page with (import statistics). For example, to calculate the mean of a list, you would simply write-
Adding all the numbers together in the list (45), then dividing by the length (9) will equal a mean of 5.
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Things I want to know more about
What is the difference between a function and a method? Where/when should I use one or the other?