Working with Python

Working with Python is a set of code examples to help someone get things done with Python. By someone, I mean myself. I end up reading and referencing these docs often.

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About the guide

The Python code examples can be pasted directly into the REPL, to support this I reverse the >>> that indicate an input line in the REPL, and switch it with the output line, which has no prefix.

In your terminal, the join list example would look like:

>>> a =[1, 2, 3]
>>> b = [4, 5, 6]
>>> a + b
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

But if you try and copy and paste it makes it hard, especially for multiple lines. So I reverse them which makes it easier to copy-paste examples to test out. In the guide the example is shown as:

a = [1, 2, 3]
b = [4, 5, 6]
a + b
>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Additionally, the REPL will automatically display the return value or variable as shown above. So, I tend not to use print(), unless showing a specific example. It is not necessary to have print(a + b) or an even more verbose c = a + b and then another line to print(c).