⚔️ Programming Challenge: Given an integer n that could be very high (e.g., n=1000000). How to initialize a Python dictionary of size n that is fast, easy, and efficient? Next, you’ll learn the five main ways to solve this and compare their performance at the end of this article. Interestingly, the winner Method 4 is … Read more
Problem Formulation 💬 Programming Challenge: Given a dictionary where the values are lists of varying sizes. Find and return the shortest list! Here’s an example: Also, you’ll learn how to solve a variant of this challenge. 💬 Bonus challenge: Find only the key that is associated with the shortest list in the dictionary. Here’s an … Read more
Problem Formulation 💬 Programming Challenge: Given a list of lists (nested list). Find and return the shortest inner list from the outer list of lists. Here are some examples: [[1], [2, 3], [4, 5, 6]] 👉 [1] [[1, [2, 3], 4], [5, 6], [7]] 👉 [7] [[[1], [2], [3]], [4, 5, [6]], [7, 8, 9, … Read more
Problem Formulation 💬 Programming Challenge: Given a dictionary where the values are lists of varying sizes. Find and return the longest list! Here’s an example: Also, you’ll learn how to solve a variant of this challenge. 💬 Bonus challenge: Find only the key that is associated with the longest list in the dictionary. Here’s an … Read more
Problem Formulation 💬 Programming Challenge: Given a list of lists (nested list). Find and return the longest inner list from the outer list of lists. Here are some examples: [[1], [2, 3], [4, 5, 6]] 👉 [4, 5, 6] [[1, [2, 3], 4], [5, 6], [7]] 👉 [1, [2, 3], 4] [[[1], [2], [3]], [4, … Read more
Use Python’s built-in min() function with the key argument to find the shortest string in a set. Call min(my_set, key=len) to return the shortest string in the set using the built-in len() function to determine the weight of each string—the shortest string has minimum length. 👉 Recommended Tutorial: How to Find the Shortest String in … Read more
You’ll never guess the most concise way to solve this problem… 🦄 Coding Challenge 💬 Challenge: Given a dictionary with string keys. Get the string key with the minimum number of characters, i.e., the shortest string. A variant of this problem is to get the length of the shortest string – I’ll give you a … Read more
💬 Problem Formulation: Given a Python set. How to convert it to a tuple? And how to convert the tuple back to a set? There are three main ways: Method 1: To convert a Python set to a tuple, use the tuple(my_set) function. Method 2: To convert a Python tuple to a set, use the … Read more
Use Python’s built-in max() function with the key argument to find the longest string in a set. Call max(my_set, key=len) to return the longest string in the set using the built-in len() function to determine the weight of each string—the longest string has maximum length. 👉 Recommended Tutorial: How to Find the Longest String in … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you how to apply a function to a List in Python. To make it more interesting, we have the following running scenario: As a Python assignment, you have been given a List of Integers and asked to apply a function to each List element in various … Read more
You’ll never guess the most concise way to solve this problem… 🦄 Coding Challenge 💬 Challenge: Given a dictionary with string keys. Get the string key with the maximum number of characters, i.e., the longest string. A variant of this problem is to get the length of the longest string – I’ll give you a … Read more
Problem Given the following Markdown table stored in ‘my_file.md’: 🐍 Python Challenge: How to convert the Markdown table to a CSV file ‘my_file.csv’? Solution To convert a Markdown table .md file to a CSV file in Python, first read the Markdown table file by using the f.readlines() method on the opened file object f, by … Read more