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 ++, for example i++ will make the value of i increase by 1, but how do you do this in Python? To increment a variable in …
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 do that in Python? To transpose a list of lists in Python first flatten the two-dimensional list into a one-dimensional list then use the …
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 using the [] list square bracket notation, for example as my_list = []. This works well when you want to start a list empty, but …
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 list being operated on changes according to the instruction. To remove multiple items from a list you can use the del statement with the slice …
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 is represented as follows using the sorted function: sorted(my_list, key=lambda el: len(el)). Here is a simple example demonstrating the use of this code: Or, if …
To convert a string to an integer you use the handy int() function. For example, if you have a string such as “79” and you insert this like so into the int() function: int(“79”) you get the result 79. But what happens when you don’t have a string that easily converts into a number? Here …