Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: 20 best Python questions at stackoverflow in 2019

These are the 20 most rated questions at 2019 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2020/01/03 09:19:25 GMT

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1. Why does Python's hash of infinity have the digits of π? - [236/3]
2. Is there a more elegant way to express ((x == a and y == b) or (x == b and y == a))? - [105/10]
3. Why can I use a list index as an indexing variable in a for loop? - [92/6]
4. Why does (inf + 0j)*1 evaluate to inf + nanj? - [93/4]
5. Why is f'}' the same as f'74' with f-Strings? - [88/1]
6. Why does b+=(4,) work and b = b + (4,) doesn't work when b is a list? - [75/7]
7. Why does Python start at index -1 (as opposed to 0) when indexing a list from the end? - [79/7]
8. Why is TensorFlow 2 much slower than TensorFlow 1? - [104/2]
9. Randomness of Python's random - [70/4]
10. Why does Python allow out-of-range slice indexes for sequences? - [72/2]
11. Unexpected behaviour with Python generator - [57/8]
12. What exactly is meant by "partial function" in functional programming? - [55/3]
13. What does a yield inside a yield do? - [56/4]
14. Issues implementing the "Wave Collapse Function" algorithm in Python 2.7 - [52/2]
15. Should linear read-shuffled write always be faster than shuffled read-linear write? (Was: Why is fancy assignment slower than fancy lookup?) - [53/5]
16. How to write 2**n - 1 as a recursive function? - [49/7]
17. Why is a `for` loop so much faster to count True values? - [53/5]
18. Is there a difference between `board[x, y]` and `board[x][y]` in Python? - [47/6]
19. Why was p[:] designed to work differently in these two situations? - [51/6]
20. Jupyter notebook: No connection to server because websocket connection fails - [46/4]

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