Python Basics

This article contains my notes on the Python programming language as of Python 3.x.

Operators

https://www.codecademy.com/resources/docs/python/operators

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#operators

Strings

Template Strings

a = "Munich"
b = "Frankfurt"
c = "Berlin"

# Template string
template = "We are doing a road trip from {} through {} to {}"
print(template.format(a, b, c))

# equivalent to:
print("We are doing a road trip from {} through {} to {}".format(a, b, c))

# equivalent to (?)
print("We are doing a road trip from {2} through {1} to {0}".format(c, b, a))

F-Strings

a = "Munich"
b = "Frankfurt"
c = "Berlin"

# f-String
print(f"We are doing a road trip from {a} through {b} to {c}")

Further reading:

• https://realpython.com/python-string-formatting/
• https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#pep-701-syntactic-formalization-of-f-strings
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#template-strings

Built-in Functions

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

Classes and Object Methods

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-container-types

Command Line

https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html

Executing functions from command line

A function called myfunction from myscript.py can be executed directly from the command line like this:

python -c 'import myscript; myscript.myfunction(var1, var2)