Abstract: Weight-only quantization has been widely explored in large language models (LLMs) to reduce memory storage and data loading overhead. During deployment on single-instruction-multiple-threads ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...

When attempting to use an f-string format specifier like :.2f within a VS Code Python Logpoint, the debugger throws an "invalid decimal literal" error. The logpoint ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s much easier to format an int with printf than a float or double, because decimal precision ...

It’s important to test your code. In fact, one famous dictum of programming is: If it hasn’t been tested, it’s broken. When writing code, try to anticipate odd or non-conforming input, and then test ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To use Java printf to format double and float values with decimal place precision, follow these ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...

Human-readable and machine-generated lock file will specify what direct and indirect dependencies should be installed into a Python environment. Python’s builders have accepted a proposal to create a ...

Previously, we were formatting fractional components of numbers by kinda abusing the DecimalFormatter. But in order to fix #73, I found it simpler to split the fractional case out of the "normal" ...

This tutorial explains how to get the terminal size using Python’s shutil module with … OSTechNix (Open Source, Technology, Nix*) regularly publishes the latest news, how-to articles, tutorials and ...