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5 Python Tricks Every Python Developer should know

Blessing Agyei Kyem on January 03, 2023

Photo by Chris Ried on Unsplash As a Python developer or enthusiast, it's recommended you know some python tricks to help you facilitate your w...
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Samuel Amankwah Donkor •

Wow these are some cools tricks 🔥

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Blessing Agyei Kyem •

Thanks!

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Ali İlteriş Keskin •

Nice tricks, thanks.

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Blessing Agyei Kyem •

Glad you love them!

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mohammadparsa-javidi •

that was perfect 👌

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Blessing Agyei Kyem •

Thanks!

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Be Hai Nguyen •

Hi Blessing Agyei Kyem,

Great article, thank you.

Following your example:

ten_numbers = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

*first_9, last_num = ten_numbers
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I tried this:

*first_2, *next_7, last_num = ten_numbers

print(first_2)
print(next_7)
print(last_num)
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It does not like it:

SyntaxError: multiple starred expressions in assignment
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While this is acceptable:

_, _, *three_to_nine, last_num = ten_numbers

print(three_to_nine)
print(last_num)
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[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
10
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Take care.

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Blessing Agyei Kyem •

You can't use * twice in your code when unpacking the elements

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Be Hai Nguyen •

I used this before. But not with *. Thank you and take care.