Coding

How do you insert a blank line into HTML? Several ways are possible, with each unique approach depending on your specific use case and what is permissible to edit with …

How do you find the most common element in a list using Python without importing any special libraries? To find the most frequent elements in a list iterate through the …

How can you check the version of Python you are using in PyCharm? There are three ways to check the version of your Python interpreter being used in PyCharm: 1. …

When using the slice operator [start:stop:step] to capture only a subset of data from an original list or string, what does [:] do? The slice operator containing no values for …

There are times when you want to be able to print the contents of a variable along with a string to help provide some context around what has been output …

A way to easily sort a list of strings equally is to change all the strings to lower case, but how do you change strings to lower case in Python? …

It can be easy to sort a list, whether a list of strings or even a list of dictionaries, but can you sort just a dictionary? Another handy expression that …

The built-in ord() function in Python converts any Unicode character into a number. It only takes one parameter which must be a single Unicode character, any more than one character …

A common requirement in Python is to split a string into the characters which make up the string. I’ve previously shown how you can do this by breaking up a …

To find the length of a list use the built-in len() function which takes a single parameter that is iterable. For example this could be a string, list, tuple or …

One way to determine if one value does not equal another is to use the != comparator, but what if you’re not comparing two values – how can you determine …

Previously I looked at how to use the enumerate() built-in function with a for loop to provide two variables when iterating through a list. In that article the enumerate() function …

The for loop in Python allows the user to iterate through a variable that is iterable, such as a list. In Python the syntax for the loop is simply: for …

How do you print a tab character in Python? The easiest way to print a tab character in Python is to use the short-hand abbreviation ‘\t’. To see the tab …

When you want to print the contents of a list you have a couple of different options depending upon the context. If you’re in the REPL there’s the easy method …

How do you increase a variable by one in Python? In other popular programming languages to increment a variable by one you can use the simple increment syntax of ++, …

When using a spreadsheet it can be as easy as using the TRANSPOSE function on a range to transform the rows and columns into columns and rows, but how do …

You can construct a list in a certain number of ways as detailed in the Python documentation. The most popular I use the most is by defining my list variables …

To remove an individual item from a list in Python you can use either a list method or the del statement, both approaches mutate the original list – meaning the …

To sort a list of strings according to their length, use a lambda function on the key parameter with the lambda function using the len function on each element. This …