Category: Python tips

Python tip: Assignment operators

How do you increase the value of a variable? Here are a few more operations: If you don’t know some of these operators (e.g. ** or //) check out the Python documentation. Notice how...

Good, Better, Best? : FizzBuzz

The Zen of Python states: “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” In real life it is not always that easy. There are usually many different ways to...

Python tip: 1. 2. 3. Enumerate

Say you want to print a numbered list. For instance: Apples Bananas Oranges Pineapple How would you do this? Maybe like this: (The output has a space after each number, which doesn’t look right....

Python tip: Use for loops correctly

If you come from another language, like C, you may write a loop like this: Or perhaps you have discovered Python’s for loop so you use that to make i equal to 0, 1,...