Few new things in Python which I learned last week.

Chunkify Huge List into Smaller N equal size lists.

In order to backfill data for one of our machine learning pipeline I have to divide the date list into small n list of equal length and distribute them at n GPU cluster.

from datetime import timedelta,date,datetime
start_dt = date(2023,1,1)
end_dt = date(2023,12,31)
cdays = []

while start_dt < end_dt:
    cdays.append(start_dt)
    start_dt += timedelta(days=3)

#print(cdays)

def split(a, n):
    k, m = divmod(len(a), n)
    return (a[i*k+min(i, m):(i+1)*k+min(i+1, m)] for i in range(n))

split_list = list(split(cdays, 15))
print(split_list[0])

#Output
[datetime.date(2023, 1, 1), datetime.date(2023, 1, 4), datetime.date(2023, 1, 7), datetime.date(2023, 1, 10), datetime.date(2023, 1, 13), datetime.date(2023, 1, 16), datetime.date(2023, 1, 19), datetime.date(2023, 1, 22), datetime.date(2023, 1, 25)]

__all__ in Python

The __all__ represents name of variable ,function or module that you want to expose to wildcards import. This method really comes handy when large number of function in your base module and you just want to export only few of them. Example let's say you have.

#foo.py

waz = 3
bar = 9

def baz():
    return 'baz'

__all__ = ['bar','baz']

and now bar.py imports from foo.py

#bar.py

from foo import *

print(bar)

print(baz)

print(waz) # This will trigger the exception , as waz was is not exported by the module.

Conclusion

Hope this was easy and clear to understand.

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