Summary: Slicing is a Python concept to extract a subsequence from a string or list—that lies within a start and stop index range. There are two syntactical ways to define a slice. (1) The extended slice notation makes use of a colon : in string_name[start:stop:step]. (2) The slice() constructor defines the index range in string_name[slice(start:stop:step)]. … Read more
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 … Read more
It’s quite common for your code to throw a typeerror, especially if you’re just starting out with Python. The reason for this is that the interpreter expects variables of certain types in certain places in the code. We’ll look at a specific example of such an error: “typeerror: ‘int’ object is not iterable”. Exercise: Run … Read more
Do you hate those lengthy class definitions with __init__ and too many whitespaces and newlines? Python One-Liners to the rescue! Luckily, you can create classes in a single line—and it can even be Pythonic to do so! Sounds too good to be true? Let’s dive right into it! Problem: How to create a Python class … Read more
In this article, you’ll learn about two variants of this problem. Assign multiple values to multiple variables Assign the same value to multiple variables Let’s have a quick overview of both in our interactive code shell: Exercise: Increase the number of variables to 3 and create a new one-liner! Let’s dive into the two subtopics … Read more
Problem: Given two variables a and b. Use a single line of Python code to swap the variables to assign the value of a to b and the value of b to a. Example: Say, you have to integers a=21 and b=42. You want to swap the variables so that a=42 and b=21. How to … Read more
Problem: How to perform one-line if conditional assignments in Python? Example: Say, you start with the following code. You want to set the value of x to 42 if boo is True, and do nothing otherwise. Let’s dive into the different ways to accomplish this in Python. We start with an overview: Exercise: Run the … Read more
Many Python coders—even at intermediate skill levels—are often puzzled when it comes to the asterisk character in Python. What does it mean? How does it work? What’s it purpose? This article answers all of those questions and more. After studying this article, you will have a solid understanding of the asterisk operator * in Python—and … Read more
Python has several built-in data structures such as Lists, Sets and Dictionaries (check out the articles!).In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about tuples including real world examples. A Python tuple is an immutable, ordered, and iterable container data structure that can hold arbitrary and heterogeneous immutable data elements. Tuple Motivating Example … Read more
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You may know the ternary operator x if c else y in Python which reads as “return x if c else return y“. But you may not know that you can also write the ternary operator in a shorter form as (y, x)[c]. Let’s dive into this concise way of hacking your own ternary operator! … Read more
Summary: To convert a dictionary to a list of tuples, use the dict.items() method to obtain an iterable of (key, value) pairs and convert it to a list using the list(…) constructor: list(dict.items()). To modify each key value pair before storing it in the list, you can use the list comprehension statement [(k’, v’) for … Read more