Tag: Manipulation

Mastering Strings in Python: From Basics to Advanced Manipulation

Now that we have cleared our first hurdle — choosing a suitable IDE — let’s dive into the first fundamental concept you need to grasp: strings. Before we get started to delve deep into the realm of strings we shall first brief ourselves with what strings really are , a string is a ...

Regular Expressions in Python: Mastering String Manipulation

In the realm of programming, one often encounters situations where text or string data needs to be manipulated, extracted, validated, or transformed. Python, a versatile and popular programming language, offers a powerful tool to tackle such tasks: regular expressions. Regular expressions, of...

Who Needs Photo Editors?! — Massive Image Manipulation Tutorial in Python

Introduction We are here on a sad business. Very sad, indeed. We are here to learn how to take beautiful, breathtaking images and turn them into a bunch of ugly little numbers so that they are more presentable to all those soulless, mindless machines. We will take animals and strip them of the...

I Hate the Manipulation Economy

It was inescapable all December long. There was advertising everywhere — on TV, on billboards, on the internet. Sports betting was arriving in my state on January 1. I’m not a gambler at all. I’ve been in probably three casinos in my life, and found them disturbing and sad rathe...

Historical manipulation is a-foot

When somebody does something wrong, they should be given the opportunity to make amends. This is what common sense asks for and sounds like the decent thing to do unless the supposed “amends” are going to produce an even greater wrong. One such case is the “restitution” with ...

The United States and Cultural Manipulation: Mexico

“Mexicans”. This word, describes the eight largest population in the entire world. It represents a culture full of beauty, diverse perspectives, money, power, poverty, violence, love, community, it describes a place just like the United States. However, when I was at dinner yesterday, on...