Improving your code readability with namedtuples
If you’ve programmed in Python for some time you’ve no doubt used to tuples to move around data in your […]
Better date and time handling with Arrow
In this article we’ll have a look at the Arrow library. Arrow markets itself as Better dates and times for Python. […]
String formatting like a pro
Just about every Python programmer has used the ‘%’ operator for string formatting. But another formatting method is available using […]
Dictionary creation using dict comprehensions
In a previous Pythonic post we saw list comprehensions, an efficient Pythonic way to create lists. I hope you got […]
Enumerate your iterables!
Whenever you write code similar to the following:
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index = 0 for element in my_list: # do something with element and index index += 1 |
you should consider making your code a bit more Python by […]
Build your lists using list comprehensions
A common way to build lists in a program that we see is this construct
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squares = [] for i in range(0, 10): squares.append(i**2) |
The basic construct here […]