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How to filter a generator with a predicate function in Python

This code defines a generator function that yields only items from an iterable that satisfy a given predicate, then tests it with even and positive number filters.

generators filtering lazy evaluation
Python
def filter_gen(predicate, iterable):
    for item in iterable:
        if predicate(item):
            yield item

def is_even(num):
    return num % 2 == 0

def is_positive(num):
    return num > 0

if __name__ == "__main__":
    numbers = range(-5, 10)
    
    even_numbers = list(filter_gen(is_even, numbers))
    p…
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Automation & scripting medium

How to Build a Python Tool That Finds Trending Open Source Projects Daily

A Python script that queries the GitHub Search API to fetch the top 5 trending repositories created in the last day, sorted by stars, with optional language filtering.

github api trending
Python
import requests
import json
import datetime

def fetch_trending_projects(language: str = "", since: str = "daily"):
    url = "https://api.github.com/search/repositories"
    date_limit = (datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)).isoformat()
    query = f"created:>{date_limit} language:{language}" if langua…
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Concurrency & performance medium

How to Speed Up Data Filtering with Python ThreadPoolExecutor

This code compares sequential filtering of even numbers with a threaded version using ThreadPoolExecutor, showing a measurable speedup for I/O-bound work.

threadpoolexecutor concurrency filtering
Python
import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
import random


def is_even(number):
    time.sleep(0.001)  # simulate work
    return number % 2 == 0


def filter_even_sequential(numbers):
    return [n for n in numbers if is_even(n)]


def filter_even_threaded(numbers):
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_…
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System design patterns medium

How to Build a Pipe and Filter Text Processing Chain in Python

A functional pipe-and-filter chain that transforms text through uppercase, whitespace normalization, number removal, stopword filtering, and file export.

pipeline text-processing functional
Python
import re
import sys


def pipe_filter_chain(stream):
    def uppercase(text):
        return text.upper()

    def strip_whitespace(text):
        return " ".join(text.split())

    def remove_numbers(text):
        return re.sub(r"\d+", "", text)

    def remove_stopwords(text, stopwords={"the", "and", "of", "in"}):…
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API design & gRPC medium

How to Filter Query Parameters by Operator in Python

Parse a URL query string and keep only parameters with allowed comparison operators like eq, gt, and lt.

query-parsing url api
Python
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs

def filter_operators(query_string, allowed=("eq", "gt", "lt")):
    parsed = urlparse(query_string)
    params = parse_qs(parsed.query)
    filtered = {}
    for key, values in params.items():
        if "__" in key:
            field, op = key.rsplit("__", 1)
            i…
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