How To Print A List In Python (And With Custom Formatting)
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 …
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How To Increment A Variable By 1 In Python
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 ++, …
How To Create A List With Values: Python Code (Examples, One-Liners, No Imports)
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 …
Remove Multiple Items From List By Index: Python (Examples, No Imports, One-Liners)
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 …
Sort List By String Length: Python Code Examples (No Imports)
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 …
Python: Empty String To INT
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 …
How To Flatten A List Of Lists In Python (Examples & No Imports)
Recently, I had an exercise where I needed to flatten a two-dimensional list down to just one dimension, something where I needed the result to be like this: There were …
Is A List A Data Type?
In Python there is a handy function to determine the data type of any variable, and it is aptly called type(). This function can help to assess whether a variable …
Python For Loop One Liner With IF Conditions [Code Examples]
There have been times when I wanted to perform a simple for-loop filter operation on a list, and I’ve often wondered if there’s a quick and simple way to do …
Python: Get Average Of Two Dimensional List – No Imports [Code Examples]
In my previous article where I found the average of a list in Python without using imports, in this article I want to expand how you could apply the same …
Python 2D List Sort By Multiple Columns – Code Examples & No Imports [One Liners]
How do you sort a two-dimensional list in Python easily without importing libraries? Thankfully, there are some native functions in Python which make sorting lists a breeze. I recently had …
Python: Average Of List Of Numbers – Without Imports [One-Liner]
How do you calculate the simple average of a list of numbers in Python, without needing to import any libraries? Unfortunately, there’s no native average or avg function in Python …
Is Word In String? Python One-Liner & Custom Function
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 …
Sort List By Dictionary Values In Python [Examples, One-Liner, No Imports]
Moving on from my previous post where I was sorting a list after the second element on, I now needed to sort the list of dictionaries by their values. If …
Sort List Second Element On – Python [One-Liner]
I had a recent need while programming in Python where I needed to sort after the second element onwards. I was outputting a CSV file from a List[Dict] and I …
Reverse Order Of List In Python Without For Loops (Examples, One-Liners, No Imports)
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 …
How To Remove Characters From A String In Python (Examples, No Imports)
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.
Check Broken Links On Website Without Using Scrapy
After moving my blog to Hugo and then back to WordPress, I knew there would be a few broken links on my website. The question I asked myself was: How …
