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15 Python tips and tricks every beginner should know !

AIDRI on August 11, 2021

Hy guys! Today I'm going to share with you the best tips and tricks to master in Python! These tips are based on my experience on Codingame, duri...
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Denin Paul •

I see myself coming to this article again and again in the future

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Matt Curcio •

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AIDRI •

Thank you very much !

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Charlie J Smotherman •

A neat trick with sets

alist = [1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5]
list(set(alist))
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will give you

[1,2,3,4,5]
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There is also the reverse() method which reverses the list in-place, while [::-1] gives a new list in reversed order.

casper = [1,2,3,4]
casper.reverse()
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gives you

[5,4,3,2,1]
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Happy Coding

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AIDRI •

Yes! For the first trick, it is a very cool property of the set function to get unique values.
For the second trick, I explained in my post that this built-in function is much slower, but it is probably easier to remember, I admit :)

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Francis Grizzly Smit • • Edited

nice I didn't know some of that, like the a, *b, c = l thing and import this lol very cool

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Andrea Ghensi •

Just a quick note (that can count as another trick): you can simplify the my_filter function to the return x==3 or x%2==0

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AIDRI •

It's true that you can use that, but I wanted to keep it pretty clear in my post. But your trick is useful in "small" functions like this one to avoid making the code ugly

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