It's most common to pass a list into the sorted() function, but in fact it can take as input any sort of iterable collection. As another example, specifying str.lower as the key function is a way to ...

Custom multiclass loss functions in python don't work-- LightGBM doesn't seem to be learning anything. In the example code below on the iris dataset, I train lightgbm with the default multiclass loss ...

The discovery has resulted in a better solution to sorting lists in Python, called Powersort, that has been implemented in Python 3.11, the latest version released in October. Powersort arranges lists ...

University of Liverpool computer scientists have solved a long standing algorithmic puzzle to speed up a core building block of Python, the most popular programming language and the foundation of ...