Half an hour ago, my friend and coauthor of the textbook “Coffee Break NumPy” asked me the following question via WhatsApp: Problem Formulation How would you solve the problem of interleaving two strings in Python: Input: String s1= “AAA” and string s2 = “BBBBB” Output: String s=”ABABABBB” Being obsessed with finding the most Pythonic way … Read more
Note that this tutorial concerns NumPy arrays. To learn how to print lists without brackets check out this tutorial: How to Print a List Without Brackets in Python? Problem Formulation Given a NumPy array of elements. If you print the array to the shell using print(np.array([1, 2, 3])), the output is enclosed in square brackets … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a set of elements. If you print the list to the shell using print({1, 2, 3}), the output is enclosed in curly brackets (braces) like so: {1, 2, 3}. But you want the set without brackets like so: 1, 2, 3. How to print the set without enclosing brackets? Method 1: Unpacking … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a tuple of elements. If you print the tuple to the shell using print((1, 2, 3)), the output is enclosed in parentheses like so: (1, 2, 3). But you want the list without brackets like so: 1, 2, 3. How to print the tuple without enclosing parentheses? Method 1: Unpacking The asterisk … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a dictionary of key value pairs in Python. If you print the dictionary to the shell using print({‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2}), the output is enclosed in curly brackets (braces) like so: {‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2}. But you want the dictionary without brackets like so: ‘a’: 1, ‘b’: 2. How to print the … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a list of elements. If you print the list to the shell using print([1, 2, 3]), the output is enclosed in square brackets like so: [1, 2, 3]. But you want the list without brackets like so: 1, 2, 3. How to print the list without enclosing brackets? Method 1: Unpacking The … Read more
Python’s print() function prints a string representation of any number of arguments to the standard output. It has many arguments such as the sep argument to set a custom separator string between the printed objects, the end argument to set a custom ending string, or the file argument to print a string into a file. … Read more
Problem Formulation Python has special “escape characters” that start with the single backslash such as \n, \t, and \”. If you print a string with escape characters, Python prints the special meaning—for example, a new line for the newline character \n. You can see that the output prints the special meaning of the escape characters: … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a floating point number x = 123.456. How to print the number without decimal remainder? Solution 1: int() Python’s built-in function int(x) converts any float number x to an integer by truncating it towards 0. For example, positive int(1.999) will be truncated to 1 and negative int(-1.999) to -1. To boost your … Read more
Problem Formulation If you print a float value in Python that is smaller than 0.0001, Python will use the scientific notation for small numbers such as 1e-05 that is short for 1*1/10**-5. Here’s an example output when printing smaller and smaller floats to the shell. If there are more than three zeros after the decimal … Read more
Parentheses are used to initiate a function call in Python. Here are three examples: f() calls custom function f without an argument, print(‘hello world’) calls built-in function print with the string argument ‘hello world’, and range(2, 10, 3) calls built-in function range on the integer arguments 2, 10, and 3. A common question among Python … Read more
Problem Formulation Python’s print() function allows an arbitrary number of comma-separated values and prints them to the shell, separated by a single empty space character ‘ ‘. The following example shows how you pass four string values as arguments into the print() function: The resulting shell output has an added empty space character ‘ ‘ … Read more