Python Career Paths: How to Learn Python to Get a Job

Let’s be clear: you learn Python to get a job. Sure, coding is a fun, fulfilling hobby. But at the end of the day, we all dream of getting that developer job and finally putting our hard-earned skills to good use earning a comfortable six–figure salary: And no wonder because being a professional Pythonista has … Read more

Python Ternary Elif

Summary: To use an elif branch in the ternary operator, use another ternary operator as the result of the else branch (nested ternary operator). The nested ternary operator x if c0 else y if c1 else z returns x if condition c0 is met, else if (elif) condition c1 is met, it returns y, else … Read more

The World’s Most Concise Python Cheat Sheet

Do you want to learn Python but you’re overwhelmed and you don’t know where to start? Learn with Python cheat sheets! They compress the most important information in an easy-to-digest 1-page format. Here’s the new Python cheat sheet I just created—my goal was to make it the world’s most concise Python cheat sheet!

Python One Line Quicksort

In this one-liner tutorial, you’ll learn about the popular sorting algorithm Quicksort. Surprisingly, a single line of Python code is all you need to write the Quicksort algorithm! Problem: Given a list of numerical values (integer or float). Sort the list in a single line of Python code using the popular Quicksort algorithm! Example: You … Read more

Python One Line X

This is a running document in which I’ll answer all questions regarding the single line of Python code. If you want to become a one-liner wizard, check out my book “Python One-Liners”! πŸ™‚ This document contains many interactive code shells and videos to help you with your understanding. However, it’s pretty slow because of all … Read more

How to Create a List of Dictionaries in Python?

Problem: Say, you have a dictionary {0: ‘Alice’, 1: ‘Bob’} and you want to create a list of dictionaries with copies of the original dictionary: [{0: ‘Alice’, 1: ‘Bob’}, {0: ‘Alice’, 1: ‘Bob’}, {0: ‘Alice’, 1: ‘Bob’}]. You use list comprehension with a “throw-away” loop variable underscore _ to create a list of 3 elements. … Read more