Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxxvi) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2019-05-04 19:37:38 GMT

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1. Randomness of Python's random - [44/5]
2. What does a yield inside a yield do? - [39/4]
3. Python "triplet" dictionary? - [15/5]
4. What does a star (asterisk) do in f-string? - [14/1]
5. What if the end-user didn't have the required library? - [13/5]
6. How to efficiently calculate prefix sum of frequencies of characters in a string? - [12/4]
7. Pythonic way to find the last position in a string matching a negative regex - [12/3]
8. When (and why) was Python `__new__()` introduced? - [11/2]
9. Map one pandas column using two dictionaries - [10/6]
10. convert io.StringIO to io.BytesIO - [8/4]

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