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Securing Your Email Sending With Python: Authentication and Encryption

Email encryption and authentication are modern security techniques that you can use to protect your emails and their content from unauthorized access. Everyone, from individuals to business owners, uses emails for official communication, which may contain sensitive information. Therefore, securing emails is important, especially when cyberattacks like phishing, smishing, etc....

Ivan Djuric

Sep 19, 2024·19 min read

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Building Custom Email Templates with HTML and CSS in Python

An HTML email utilizes HTML code for presentation. Its design is heavy and looks like a modern web page, rich with visual elements like images, videos, etc., to emphasize different parts of an email's content. Building email templates tailored to your brand is useful for various email marketing purposes such...

Ivan Djuric

Aug 20, 2024·19 min read

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Guide to Strings in Python

A string in Python is a sequence of characters. These characters can be letters, numbers, symbols, or whitespace, and they are enclosed within quotes. Python supports both single (' ') and double (" ") quotes to define a string, providing flexibility based on the coder's preference or specific requirements of...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Jan 25, 2024·111 min read

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Guide to Heaps in Python

In this guide, we'll embark on a journey to understand heaps from the ground up. We'll start by demystifying what heaps are and their inherent properties. From there, we'll dive into Python's own implementation of heaps, the heapq module, and explore its rich set of functionalities. So, if you've ever...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Nov 15, 2023·19 min read

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Guide to Hash Tables in Python

While Python doesn't have a built-in data structure explicitly called a "hash table", it provides the dictionary, which is a form of a hash table. Python dictionaries are unordered collections of key-value pairs, where the key is unique and holds a corresponding value. Thanks to a process known...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Nov 09, 2023·31 min read

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Guide to Queues in Python

From storing simple integers to managing complex workflows, data structures lay the groundwork for robust applications. Among them, the queue often emerges as both intriguing and ubiquitous. Think about it - a line at the bank, waiting for your turn at a fast-food counter, or buffering tasks in a computer...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Nov 08, 2023·13 min read

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Guide to Stacks in Python

At its core, a stack is a linear data structure that follows the LIFO (Last In First Out) principle. Think of it as a stack of plates in a cafeteria; you only take the plate that's on top, and when placing a new plate, it goes to the top of...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Nov 02, 2023·19 min read

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Linear Search in Python

Linear Search, also known as Sequential Search, operates by traversing through the dataset, element by element until the desired item is found or the algorithm reaches the end of the collection. Its simplicity and ease of implementation make it a go-to choice for small datasets and lists where items are...

Dimitrije Stamenic

Oct 26, 2023·12 min read

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How to Delete a File or Folder in Python

Deleting a file in Python is fairly easy to do. Let's discuss two methods to accomplish this task using different Python modules. The os module in Python provides a method called os.remove() that can be used to delete a file. Here's a simple example: import os # specify the file...

Scott Robinson

Oct 23, 2023·19 min read