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Python – Basics & Examples

This is to get started with Python and try few concrete examples. It should help beginners to learn or others to do a quick revision without getting too deep.

Entire Jupyter notebook can be downloaded or forked from my GitHub to look or play around: https://github.com/sandeep-mewara/python-examples

I started Python programming using Jupiter notebook web application. Later, I moved to Visual Studio Code that looked much user friendly.

A guide on how to setup VS Code for Python is here.

Python basics includes:

# items are indexed by integers, starting from 0.

# % is a format operator and %d, %s, %f are special format sequences

# negative index is used to access list elements from the end

# [start:end:step] Returns a new list from start to end-1 with default step 1

# zip can merge two lists into a list of tuples

Key learning’s …

Examples notebook includes:

# sometimes anonymous functions are enough

# storing data in dictionary as key-value pair helps

Key learning’s …

Keep learning!