How can you check if a word is found in a string using Python? Recently, I had an issue where I wanted to exclude strings from a list if they contained a certain word. I thought I could use the following common code familiar to most using Python: But the problem ended up being a …
How can you sort a list of dictionaries by a key contained in each dictionary using Python? Can you do it in 1 line to show off your friends? Of course! To sort a list of dictionaries use the sorted() function with the key parameter set to a lambda function that uses the common key …
How do you sort a list by the second (or nth) element on in Python? How can you leave the first or nth elements in a list as they are but then have the remaining elements in the list sorted? When applying the .sort() list method on a list Python will sort all elements in …
There have been times when after creating a list in Python I’ve wanted to sort a list and then have the list reversed from ascending to descending. To reverse the order of a list in Python use either the .reverse() list method which mutates the original list, or the slice operator technique [::-1] which returns …
In Microsoft Word you can control whether or not you want to see the white space characters in your document. This helps to check you haven’t incorrectly inserted a tab where a space should have gone and vice versa. Generally, a tab is the same width as 4 to 5 spaces provided the font being …
How many ways can you skin a string? In this article we will look at several ways to remove a character from a string using Python.