This article is based on a book chapter from my upcoming book “From One to Zero: A Minimalistic Approach to Programming”. My programming students often write in with their struggles and failures. Many students ultimately overcome their struggles—but a large percentage of them give up their programming ambitions after realizing how hard creating software can …
Introduction To yield In Python While using a function, we generally use the return keyword to return a value computed by the function. Similarly, the yield keyword also returns a value from a function, but it also maintains the state of the local variables inside the function and when the function is reused in the …
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In this article, you’ll learn the ultimate answer to the following question: How To Eliminate All The Whitespace From A String—on Both Ends, and In-Between Words? Summary: Use the string methods join(), split(), strip(), rstrip(), lstrip() and or replace()—in specific combinations—to remove any whitespace in a given string. The simplest way to remove all whitespaces …
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Summary: The slice notation list[::-1] with default start and stop indices and negative step size -1 reverses a given list. Problem: Given a list of elements. How to reverse the order of the elements in the list. Example: Say, you’ve got the following list: Your goal is to reverse the elements to obtain the following …
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To remove duplicates from a Python list while preserving the order of the elements, use the code list(dict.fromkeys(list)) that goes through two phases: (1) Convert the list to a dict using the dict.fromkeys() function with the list elements as keys and None as dict values. (2) Convert the dictionary back to a list using the …
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Problem: Given a list. How to access the last element of this list? Example: You have the list [‘Alice’, ‘Bob’, ‘Liz’] and you want to get the last element ‘Liz’. Quick solution: Use negative indexing -1. To access the last element of a Python list, use the indexing notation list[-1] with negative index -1 which …
Problem: If you assign a list object to a new variable using new_list = old_list, any modification to new_list changes old_list. What’s the reason for this and how can you clone or copy the list to prevent this problem? Example: Let’s consider the following example. Appending an element to the new_list also modifies the original …
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Summary: Use one of the following methods to format strings that contain curly braces: Use double curly braces {{}} Use the old string formatting, i.e. the % operator Use the JSON Library Use Template Strings Problem: Given a string literal with curly braces; how to format the string and ensure that the curly braces are …
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Summary: To access the index of iterables like lists in Python, use one of the following methods: Use enumerate() function. Use a counter variable with For Loop/While Loop. Use a list comprehension. Use the NumPy library. Use the itertools module. Introduction An index can be considered as the position of an element in an ordered …
Can you believe it? People use unknown and potentially insecure websites to generate their random passwords! This works as follows: A website generates a “random” password for them and they copy&paste it and assume this is a safe password because of the randomness of the characters. What a security flaw! Why? Because the website could …
Summary: f-string is more readable and easier to implement than % and .format() string formatting styles. Furthermore, using f-strings is suggested for Python 3.6 and above while .format() is best suited for Python 2.6 and above. Versions prior to Python 2.6 only provide % option for string formatting. In terms of speed, % is the …
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A generator function is a Pythonic way to create an iterable without explicitly storing it in memory. This reduces memory usage of your code without incurring any additional costs. The following code shows a function get_numbers(n) that returns a list of n random numbers. However, this is not very efficient code because you create a …