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I don't know the efficacy of this as an educational tool, but as a Python programmer, it's a really handy "cheat sheet" to have around whenever doing general scripting. It's really well written as well. Kudos to whomever wrote it.
Glad you find it useful!
This looks very similar to the notes I was taking on my own when going through "learning python the hardway". Yours are much better and easier to read though, and make more sense in terms of going from very easy to more complicated in staggered steps. Great stuff! As a sidenote, how does everyone take note (if you even do) when learning something new like a language or some kind of skill?
Wow. I've only every programmed Java and this looks amazing. I'm so sorry scripting languages, I've neglected you!
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I used to sleep with a walkman plugged in and playing german vocab - everyone knew that was guaranteed to work
I put my computer on youtube's google io talk whenever I can't get to sleep. It sures put me to sleep fast. :-) If Michael Jackson just knew that......
int, boolean, float etc. are not _primitive_ data types in python. If you say that, you really have no idea, what you are talking about. They are objects like everything else. You can inherit from them and do all the good OO stuff. Sorry for the nitpicking, but calling them primitive types, is just plain wrong.
Author here. Sorry for that. I know they are objects but if you consider everything an object then really you have no primitives except object itself. Certainly this has a place in programming philosophy but not really a helpful point in a language-primer/cheat sheet.
What does he mean by "# Tuples are created by default if you leave out the parentheses". With or without the parens I'm getting the same result for "a, b, c = (1, 2, 3)"
You get a list if you do "object_a = [1, 2, 3]" and a tuple if you do "object_b = (1, 2, 3)". Then try "object_c = 1, 2, 3" and you'll also get the tuple.