My Favorite Python Tricks

Mon Jan 20 2020

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of interview prep with Python. I thought I’d compile some of my favorite useful tricks with Python to help out those in the same boat.

For those of you in that boat, keep swimmin’ 🏊‍♀️ 🚣‍♀️ ✌️

General Tricks

General tips:

Always import specifically using from x import y
Use the standard library as much as possible
Write your code in functions

Comprehensions

s = 'hello world'
n = [i for i in range(len(s))]
d = {s[i]:n[i] for i in range(len(s))}