PYTHON SHORT NOTES

Chapter 2: Variables and Simple Data Types

 Print(name.title()) converts first letter to capital

 Print(name.upper()) to full caps and similarly name.lower()
 \t prints after a few spaces
 print("Languages:\nPython\nC\nJavaScript")
Languages:
Python
C
JavaScript
 you can combine \n and \t as well.
print(“Hello\n\tWorld)
 To remove blank space at right end use “rstrip()”
Ex favourite_language=”Python “
print(favourite_language.rstrip()_
 Similarly use lstrip() and also to strip from both sides simultaneously use
simply ‘strip()’

Chapter 3 : Introducing Lists

bicycles = ['trek', 'cannondale', 'redline', 'specialized']

 Accessing an Element in a list print(bicylces[0])

 Use [-1] to access the last element
 Changing/modifying an element from list

For example, let’s say we have a list of motorcycles, and the first item in the list is 'honda'.

How would we change the value of this first item?

motorcycles = ['honda', 'yamaha', 'suzuki']

motorcycles[0] = ‘ducati’

 Adding an Element to the end : motorcyles.append(‘ducati’)

 Adding an Element to a specific place motorcycles.insert(0, 'ducati')
 Deleting: del motorcycles[0]
 Pop an element. See this code
 first_owned = motorcycles.pop(0) : to pop any specific one
 If you’re unsure whether to use the del statement or the pop() method, here’s a simple way
to decide: when you want to delete an item from a list and not use that item in any way, use
the del statement; if you want to use an item as you remove it, use the pop() method.
 To remove something, but don’t know it’s positional value, then use
motorcycles.remove('ducati') #removes ducati from the list
 The remove() method deletes only the first occurrence of the value you specify. If there’s a
possibility the value appears more than once in the list, you’ll need to use a loop to
determine if all occurrences of the value have been removed. You’ll learn in chapter 7 to
loop
 Sort elements in a list alphabetically : cars.sort()
cars.sort(reverse=True) # to sort it in reverse alphabetic order
This is permenant, you cannot revert back. So how to revert? See this code

 To reverse a list order use: cars.reverse() # simply reverses the order

 Len(cars) # to find the length of a list

Working With Lists – 4

Say we have a list of magicians, Magicians = [‘alice’ , ‘david’ , ‘carolina’ ]

 For magician in Magicians print magician

#for magician in Magicians, the python retrieves the first value from Magicians and store
it in magician as per the code