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<body> <header> <aside>March 14, 2018</aside> <a href="../" rel="author">Jure Šorn</a> </header>
<a href="javascript:" id="return-to-top"><i class="icon-chevron-up"></i></a> <h1 id="comprehensivepythoncheatsheet">Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet</h1><p class="banner"><sup><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet/master/README.md">Download text file</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet">Fork me on GitHub</a> or <a href="https://github.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions">Check out FAQ</a>.</sup></p><p class="banner"><img src="web/image_888.jpeg" alt="Monty Python"></p>
<br><h2 id="toc"><a href="#toc" name="toc">#</a>Contents</h2><pre><code class="hljs bash"><strong>ToC</strong> = { <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'1. Collections'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#list">List</a>, <a href="#dictionary">Dictionary</a>, <a href="#set">Set</a>, <a href="#tuple">Tuple</a>, <a href="#range">Range</a>, <a href="#enumerate">Enumerate</a>, <a href="#iterator">Iterator</a>, <a href="#generator">Generator</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'2. Types'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#type">Type</a>, <a href="#string">String</a>, <a href="#regex">Regular_Exp</a>, <a href="#format">Format</a>, <a href="#numbers">Numbers</a>, <a href="#combinatorics">Combinatorics</a>, <a href="#datetime">Datetime</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'3. Syntax'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#arguments">Args</a>, <a href="#inline">Inline</a>, <a href="#closure">Closure</a>, <a href="#decorator">Decorator</a>, <a href="#class">Class</a>, <a href="#ducktypes">Duck_Types</a>, <a href="#enum">Enum</a>, <a href="#exceptions">Exceptions</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'4. System'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#print">Print</a>, <a href="#input">Input</a>, <a href="#commandlinearguments">Command_Line_Arguments</a>, <a href="#open">Open</a>, <a href="#path">Path</a>, <a href="#commandexecution">Command_Execution</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'5. Data'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#csv">CSV</a>, <a href="#json">JSON</a>, <a href="#pickle">Pickle</a>, <a href="#sqlite">SQLite</a>, <a href="#bytes">Bytes</a>, <a href="#struct">Struct</a>, <a href="#array">Array</a>, <a href="#memoryview">MemoryView</a>, <a href="#deque">Deque</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'6. Advanced'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#threading">Threading</a>, <a href="#introspection">Introspection</a>, <a href="#metaprograming">Metaprograming</a>, <a href="#operator">Operator</a>, <a href="#eval">Eval</a>, <a href="#coroutine">Coroutine</a>], <strong><span class="hljs-string"><span class="hljs-string">'7. Libraries'</span></span></strong>: [<a href="#progressbar">Progress_Bar</a>, <a href="#plot">Plot</a>, <a href="#table">Table</a>, <a href="#curses">Curses</a>, <a href="#logging">Logging</a>, <a href="#scraping">Scraping</a>, <a href="#web">Web</a>, <a href="#profile">Profile</a>, <a href="#numpy">NumPy</a>, <a href="#image">Image</a>, <a href="#audio">Audio</a>]}</code></pre><h2 id="main"><a href="#main" name="main">#</a>Main</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="hljs-string">'__main__'</span>: <span class="hljs-comment"># Runs main() if file wasn't imported.</span> main()</code></pre><h2 id="list"><a href="#list" name="list">#</a>List</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = <list>[from_inclusive : to_exclusive : ±step_size]</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list>.append(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <list> += [<el>]</span><list>.extend(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <list> += <collection></span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list>.sort()<list>.reverse()<list> = sorted(<collection>)<iter> = reversed(<list>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">sum_of_elements = sum(<collection>)elementwise_sum = [sum(pair) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> pair <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> zip(list_a, list_b)]sorted_by_second = sorted(<collection>, key=<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> el: el[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>])sorted_by_both = sorted(<collection>, key=<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> el: (el[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>], el[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]))flatter_list = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(<list>))product_of_elems = functools.reduce(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> out, x: out * x, <collection>)list_of_chars = list(<str>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">index = <list>.index(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns index of first occurrence or raises ValueError.</span><list>.insert(index, <el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Inserts item at index and moves the rest to the right.</span><el> = <list>.pop([index]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Removes and returns item at index or from the end.</span><list>.remove(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Removes first occurrence of item or raises ValueError.</span><list>.clear() <span class="hljs-comment"># Removes all items. Also works on dict and set.</span></code></pre><h2 id="dictionary"><a href="#dictionary" name="dictionary">#</a>Dictionary</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><view> = <dict>.keys() <span class="hljs-comment"># Coll. of keys that reflects changes.</span><view> = <dict>.values() <span class="hljs-comment"># Coll. of values that reflects changes.</span><view> = <dict>.items() <span class="hljs-comment"># Coll. of key-value tuples.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">value = <dict>.get(key, default=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns default if key does not exist.</span>value = <dict>.setdefault(key, default=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Same, but also adds default to dict.</span><dict> = collections.defaultdict(<type>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Creates a dict with default value of type.</span><dict> = collections.defaultdict(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span>: <span class="hljs-number">1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Creates a dict with default value 1.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><dict>.update(<dict>)<dict> = dict(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Creates a dict from coll. of key-value pairs.</span><dict> = dict(zip(keys, values)) <span class="hljs-comment"># Creates a dict from two collections.</span><dict> = dict.fromkeys(keys [, value]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Creates a dict from collection of keys.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">value = <dict>.pop(key) <span class="hljs-comment"># Removes item from dictionary.</span>{k: v <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> k, v <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <dict>.items() <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> k <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> keys} <span class="hljs-comment"># Filters dictionary by keys.</span></code></pre><h3 id="counter">Counter</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Counter<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>colors = [<span class="hljs-string">'red'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'blue'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'yellow'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'blue'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'red'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'blue'</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter = Counter(colors)Counter({<span class="hljs-string">'blue'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">3</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'red'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'yellow'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">1</span>})<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter.most_common()[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>](<span class="hljs-string">'blue'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="set"><a href="#set" name="set">#</a>Set</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><set> = set()</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><set>.add(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> |= {<el>}</span><set>.update(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> |= <set></span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><set> = <set>.union(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> | <set></span><set> = <set>.intersection(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> & <set></span><set> = <set>.difference(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> - <set></span><set> = <set>.symmetric_difference(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> ^ <set></span><bool> = <set>.issubset(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> <= <set></span><bool> = <set>.issuperset(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <set> >= <set></span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><set>.remove(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Raises KeyError.</span><set>.discard(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Doesn't raise an error.</span></code></pre><h3 id="frozenset">Frozen Set</h3><ul><li><strong>Is immutable and hashable.</strong></li><li><strong>That means it can be used as a key in a dictionary or as an element in a set.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><frozenset> = frozenset(<collection>)</code></pre><h2 id="tuple"><a href="#tuple" name="tuple">#</a>Tuple</h2><p><strong>Tuple is an immutable and hashable list.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><tuple> = ()<tuple> = (<el>, )<tuple> = (<el_1>, <el_2>, ...)</code></pre><h3 id="namedtuple">Named Tuple</h3><p><strong>Tuple's subclass with named elements.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> namedtuple<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>Point = namedtuple(<span class="hljs-string">'Point'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'x y'</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>p = Point(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, y=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>)Point(x=<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, y=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>p[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]<span class="hljs-number">1</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>p.x<span class="hljs-number">1</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>getattr(p, <span class="hljs-string">'y'</span>)<span class="hljs-number">2</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>p._fields <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: Point._fields</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'x'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'y'</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="range"><a href="#range" name="range">#</a>Range</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><range> = range(to_exclusive)<range> = range(from_inclusive, to_exclusive)<range> = range(from_inclusive, to_exclusive, ±step_size)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">from_inclusive = <range>.startto_exclusive = <range>.stop</code></pre><h2 id="enumerate"><a href="#enumerate" name="enumerate">#</a>Enumerate</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i, el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> enumerate(<collection> [, i_start]): ...</code></pre><h2 id="iterator"><a href="#iterator" name="iterator">#</a>Iterator</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><iter> = iter(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Calling `iter(<iter>)` returns unmodified iterator.</span><iter> = iter(<function>, to_exclusive) <span class="hljs-comment"># Sequence of return values until 'to_exclusive'.</span><el> = next(<iter> [, default]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Raises StopIteration or returns 'default' on end.</span></code></pre><h3 id="itertools">Itertools</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> itertools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> count, repeat, cycle, chain, islice</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><iter> = count(start=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, step=<span class="hljs-number">1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns incremented value endlessly.</span><iter> = repeat(<el> [, times]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns element endlessly or 'times' times.</span><iter> = cycle(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Repeats the sequence indefinitely.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><iter> = chain(<coll.>, <coll.> [, ...]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Empties collections in order.</span><iter> = chain.from_iterable(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Empties collections inside a collection in order.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><iter> = islice(<collection>, to_exclusive)<iter> = islice(<collection>, from_inclusive, to_exclusive)<iter> = islice(<collection>, from_inclusive, to_exclusive, +step_size)</code></pre><h2 id="generator"><a href="#generator" name="generator">#</a>Generator</h2><ul><li><strong>Convenient way to implement the iterator protocol.</strong></li><li><strong>Any function that contains a yield statement returns a generator object.</strong></li><li><strong>Generators and iterators are interchangeable.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">count</span><span class="hljs-params">(start, step)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>: <span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span> start start += step</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter = count(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>next(counter), next(counter), next(counter)(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>, <span class="hljs-number">12</span>, <span class="hljs-number">14</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="type"><a href="#type" name="type">#</a>Type</h2><ul><li><strong>Everything is an object.</strong></li><li><strong>Every object has a type.</strong></li><li><strong>Type and class are synonymous.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><type> = type(<el>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <el>.__class__</span><bool> = isinstance(<el>, <type>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: issubclass(type(<el>), <type>)</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>type(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>), <span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>.__class__, str(<<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">str</span>'>, <<span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">str</span>'>, <<span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">str</span>'>)</span></code></pre><h4 id="sometypesdonothavebuiltinnamessotheymustbeimported">Some types do not have builtin names, so they must be imported:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> types <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> FunctionType, MethodType, LambdaType, GeneratorType</code></pre><h3 id="abc">ABC</h3><p><strong>An abstract base class introduces virtual subclasses, that don’t inherit from it but are still recognized by isinstance() and issubclass().</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections.abc <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Sequence, Collection, Iterable<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>isinstance([<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>], Iterable)<span class="hljs-keyword">True</span></code></pre><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ │ Sequence │ Collection │ Iterable ┃┠──────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────┨┃ list, range, str │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ dict, set │ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ iter │ │ │ ✓ ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> numbers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Integral, Rational, Real, Complex, Number<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>isinstance(<span class="hljs-number">123</span>, Number)<span class="hljs-keyword">True</span></code></pre><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━┓┃ │ Integral │ Rational │ Real │ Complex │ Number ┃┠────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────┼─────────┼────────┨┃ int │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ fractions.Fraction │ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ float │ │ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ complex │ │ │ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><h2 id="string"><a href="#string" name="string">#</a>String</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <str>.strip() <span class="hljs-comment"># Strips all whitespace characters from both ends.</span><str> = <str>.strip(<span class="hljs-string">'<chars>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Strips all passed characters from both ends.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = <str>.split() <span class="hljs-comment"># Splits on one or more whitespace characters.</span><list> = <str>.split(sep=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>, maxsplit=<span class="hljs-number">-1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Splits on 'sep' str at most 'maxsplit' times.</span><list> = <str>.splitlines(keepends=<span class="hljs-keyword">False</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Splits on line breaks. Keeps them if 'keepends'.</span><str> = <str>.join(<coll_of_strings>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Joins elements using string as separator.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bool> = <sub_str> <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <str> <span class="hljs-comment"># Checks if string contains a substring.</span><bool> = <str>.startswith(<sub_str>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Pass tuple of strings for multiple options.</span><bool> = <str>.endswith(<sub_str>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Pass tuple of strings for multiple options.</span><int> = <str>.find(<sub_str>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns start index of first match or -1.</span><int> = <str>.index(<sub_str>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Same but raises ValueError.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <str>.replace(old, new [, count]) <span class="hljs-comment"># Replaces 'old' with 'new' at most 'count' times.</span><bool> = <str>.isnumeric() <span class="hljs-comment"># True if str contains only numeric characters.</span><list> = textwrap.wrap(<str>, width) <span class="hljs-comment"># Nicely breaks string into lines.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Also: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'lstrip()'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'rstrip()'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>Also: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'lower()'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'upper()'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'capitalize()'</span></code> and <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'title()'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="char">Char</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = chr(<int>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Converts int to unicode char.</span><int> = ord(<str>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Converts unicode char to int.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>ord(<span class="hljs-string">'0'</span>), ord(<span class="hljs-string">'9'</span>)(<span class="hljs-number">48</span>, <span class="hljs-number">57</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>ord(<span class="hljs-string">'A'</span>), ord(<span class="hljs-string">'Z'</span>)(<span class="hljs-number">65</span>, <span class="hljs-number">90</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>ord(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>), ord(<span class="hljs-string">'z'</span>)(<span class="hljs-number">97</span>, <span class="hljs-number">122</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="regex"><a href="#regex" name="regex">#</a>Regex</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> re<str> = re.sub(<regex>, new, text, count=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Substitutes all occurrences.</span><list> = re.findall(<regex>, text) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns all occurrences.</span><list> = re.split(<regex>, text, maxsplit=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Use brackets in regex to keep the matches.</span><Match> = re.search(<regex>, text) <span class="hljs-comment"># Searches for first occurrence of pattern.</span><Match> = re.match(<regex>, text) <span class="hljs-comment"># Searches only at the beginning of the text.</span><iter> = re.finditer(<regex>, text) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns all occurrences as match objects.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Argument <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'flags=re.IGNORECASE'</span></code> can be used with all functions.</strong></li><li><strong>Argument <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'flags=re.MULTILINE'</span></code> makes <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'^'</span></code> and <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'$'</span></code> match the start/end of each line.</strong></li><li><strong>Argument <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'flags=re.DOTALL'</span></code> makes dot also accept newline.</strong></li><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">r'\1'</span></code> or <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'\\1'</span></code> for backreference.</strong></li><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'?'</span></code> to make an operator non-greedy.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="matchobject">Match Object</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <Match>.group() <span class="hljs-comment"># Whole match. Also group(0).</span><str> = <Match>.group(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Part in first bracket.</span><tuple> = <Match>.groups() <span class="hljs-comment"># All bracketed parts.</span><int> = <Match>.start() <span class="hljs-comment"># Start index of a match.</span><int> = <Match>.end() <span class="hljs-comment"># Exclusive end index of a match.</span></code></pre><h3 id="specialsequences">Special Sequences</h3><ul><li><strong>By default digits, whitespaces and alphanumerics from all alphabets are matched, unless <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'flags=re.ASCII'</span></code> argument is used.</strong></li><li><strong>Use capital letters for negation.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'\d'</span> == <span class="hljs-string">'[0-9]'</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># Digit</span><span class="hljs-string">'\s'</span> == <span class="hljs-string">'[ \t\n\r\f\v]'</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># Whitespace</span><span class="hljs-string">'\w'</span> == <span class="hljs-string">'[a-zA-Z0-9_]'</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># Alphanumeric</span></code></pre><h2 id="format"><a href="#format" name="format">#</a>Format</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{<el_1>}</span>, <span class="hljs-subst">{<el_2>}</span>'</span><str> = <span class="hljs-string">'{}, {}'</span>.format(<el_1>, <el_2>)</code></pre><h3 id="attributes">Attributes</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> namedtuple<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>Person = namedtuple(<span class="hljs-string">'Person'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'name height'</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>person = Person(<span class="hljs-string">'Jean-Luc'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">187</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{person.height}</span>'</span><span class="hljs-string">'187'</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-string">'{p.height}'</span>.format(p=person)<span class="hljs-string">'187'</span></code></pre><h3 id="generaloptions">General Options</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{<el>:<<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># '<el> '</span>{<el>:^<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' <el> '</span>{<el>:><span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' <el>'</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{<el>:.<<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># '<el>......'</span>{<el>:><span class="hljs-number">0</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># '<el>'</span></code></pre><h3 id="strings">Strings</h3><p><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'!r'</span></code> calls object's repr() method, instead of str(), to get a string.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{<span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span>!r:<<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># "'abcde' "</span>{<span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span>:<span class="hljs-number">.3</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># 'abc'</span>{<span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10.3</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># 'abc '</span></code></pre><h3 id="numbers-1">Numbers</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{ <span class="hljs-number">123456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10</span>,} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 123,456'</span>{ <span class="hljs-number">123456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10</span>_} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 123_456'</span>{ <span class="hljs-number">123456</span>:+<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' +123456'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">-123456</span>:=<span class="hljs-number">10</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># '- 123456'</span>{ <span class="hljs-number">123456</span>: } <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 123456'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">-123456</span>: } <span class="hljs-comment"># '-123456'</span></code></pre><h3 id="floats">Floats</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{<span class="hljs-number">1.23456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10.3</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 1.23'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">1.23456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10.3</span>f} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 1.235'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">1.23456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10.3</span>e} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 1.235e+00'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">1.23456</span>:<span class="hljs-number">10.3</span>%} <span class="hljs-comment"># ' 123.456%'</span></code></pre><h4 id="comparisonoffloatpresentationtypes">Comparison of float presentation types:</h4><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ │ {<float>} │ {<float>:f} │ {<float>:e} │ {<float>:%} ┃┠────────────────┼────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┨┃ 0.000056789 │ '5.6789e-05' │ '0.000057' │ '5.678900e-05' │ '0.005679%' ┃┃ 0.00056789 │ '0.00056789' │ '0.000568' │ '5.678900e-04' │ '0.056789%' ┃┃ 0.0056789 │ '0.0056789' │ '0.005679' │ '5.678900e-03' │ '0.567890%' ┃┃ 0.056789 │ '0.056789' │ '0.056789' │ '5.678900e-02' │ '5.678900%' ┃┃ 0.56789 │ '0.56789' │ '0.567890' │ '5.678900e-01' │ '56.789000%' ┃┃ 5.6789 │ '5.6789' │ '5.678900' │ '5.678900e+00' │ '567.890000%' ┃┃ 56.789 │ '56.789' │ '56.789000' │ '5.678900e+01' │ '5678.900000%' ┃┃ 567.89 │ '567.89' │ '567.890000' │ '5.678900e+02' │ '56789.000000%' ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ │ {<float>:.2} │ {<float>:.2f} │ {<float>:.2e} │ {<float>:.2%} ┃┠────────────────┼────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────┨┃ 0.000056789 │ '5.7e-05' │ '0.00' │ '5.68e-05' │ '0.01%' ┃┃ 0.00056789 │ '0.00057' │ '0.00' │ '5.68e-04' │ '0.06%' ┃┃ 0.0056789 │ '0.0057' │ '0.01' │ '5.68e-03' │ '0.57%' ┃┃ 0.056789 │ '0.057' │ '0.06' │ '5.68e-02' │ '5.68%' ┃┃ 0.56789 │ '0.57' │ '0.57' │ '5.68e-01' │ '56.79%' ┃┃ 5.6789 │ '5.7' │ '5.68' │ '5.68e+00' │ '567.89%' ┃┃ 56.789 │ '5.7e+01' │ '56.79' │ '5.68e+01' │ '5678.90%' ┃┃ 567.89 │ '5.7e+02' │ '567.89' │ '5.68e+02' │ '56789.00%' ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><h3 id="ints">Ints</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">{<span class="hljs-number">90</span>:c} <span class="hljs-comment"># 'Z'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">90</span>:X} <span class="hljs-comment"># '5A'</span>{<span class="hljs-number">90</span>:b} <span class="hljs-comment"># '1011010'</span></code></pre><h2 id="numbers"><a href="#numbers" name="numbers">#</a>Numbers</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><int> = int(<float/str/bool>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: math.floor(<float>)</span><float> = float(<int/str/bool>)<complex> = complex(real=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, imag=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <real> + <real>j</span><Fraction> = fractions.Fraction(numerator=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, denominator=<span class="hljs-number">1</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'int(<str>)'</span></code> and <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'float(<str>)'</span></code> raise ValueError on malformed strings.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="basicfunctions">Basic Functions</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><num> = pow(<num>, <num>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: <num> ** <num></span><real> = abs(<num>)<int> = round(<real>)<real> = round(<real>, ±ndigits) <span class="hljs-comment"># `round(126, -1) == 130`</span></code></pre><h3 id="math">Math</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> math <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> e, pi, inf, nan<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> math <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> cos, acos, sin, asin, tan, atan, degrees, radians<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> math <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> log, log10, log2</code></pre><h3 id="statistics">Statistics</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> statistics <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> mean, median, variance, pvariance, pstdev</code></pre><h3 id="random">Random</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> random <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> random, randint, choice, shuffle<float> = random()<int> = randint(from_inclusive, to_inclusive)<el> = choice(<list>)shuffle(<list>)</code></pre><h3 id="binhex">Bin, Hex</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><int> = <span class="hljs-number">0</span>b<bin> <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: 0x<hex></span><int> = int(<span class="hljs-string">'0b<bin>'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: int('0x<hex>', 0)</span><int> = int(<span class="hljs-string">'<bin>'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: int('<hex>', 16)</span><span class="hljs-string">'0b<bin>'</span> = bin(<int>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: '0x<hex>' = hex(<int>)</span></code></pre><h3 id="bitwiseoperators">Bitwise Operators</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><int> = <int> & <int> <span class="hljs-comment"># And</span><int> = <int> | <int> <span class="hljs-comment"># Or</span><int> = <int> ^ <int> <span class="hljs-comment"># Xor (0 if both bits equal)</span><int> = <int> << n_bits <span class="hljs-comment"># Shift left</span><int> = <int> >> n_bits <span class="hljs-comment"># Shift right</span><int> = ~<int> <span class="hljs-comment"># Compliment (flips bits)</span></code></pre><h2 id="combinatorics"><a href="#combinatorics" name="combinatorics">#</a>Combinatorics</h2><ul><li><strong>Every function returns an iterator.</strong></li><li><strong>If you want to print the iterator, you need to pass it to the list() function!</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> itertools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> product, combinations, combinations_with_replacement, permutations</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>product([<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>], repeat=<span class="hljs-number">3</span>)[(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>), (<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>)]</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>product(<span class="hljs-string">'ab'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'12'</span>)[(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'1'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'2'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'1'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'2'</span>)]</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>combinations(<span class="hljs-string">'abc'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>)[(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>)]</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>combinations_with_replacement(<span class="hljs-string">'abc'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>)[(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>)]</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>permutations(<span class="hljs-string">'abc'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>)[(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>), (<span class="hljs-string">'c'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>)]</code></pre><h2 id="datetime"><a href="#datetime" name="datetime">#</a>Datetime</h2><ul><li><strong>Module 'datetime' provides 'date' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><D></span></code>, 'time' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><T></span></code>, 'datetime' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><DT></span></code> and 'timedelta' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><TD></span></code> classes. All are immutable and hashable.</strong></li><li><strong>Time and datetime can be 'aware' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><a></span></code>, meaning they have defined timezone, or 'naive' <code class="apache hljs"><span class="hljs-section"><n></span></code>, meaning they don't.</strong></li><li><strong>If object is naive it is presumed to be in system's timezone.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> datetime <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> date, time, datetime, timedelta<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> dateutil.tz <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> UTC, tzlocal, gettz</code></pre><h3 id="constructors">Constructors</h3><pre><code class="python language-python apache hljs"><D> = date(year, month, day)<T> = time(hour=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, minute=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, second=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, microsecond=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, tzinfo=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>, fold=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>)<DT> = datetime(year, month, day, hour=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, minute=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, second=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, ...)<TD> = timedelta(days=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, seconds=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, microseconds=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, milliseconds=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, minutes=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, hours=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, weeks=<span class="hljs-number">0</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<D/DT>.weekday()'</span></code> to get the day of the week (Mon == 0).</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'fold=1'</span></code> means second pass in case of time jumping back for one hour.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="now">Now</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><D/DTn> = D/DT.today() <span class="hljs-comment"># Current local date or naive datetime.</span><DTn> = DT.utcnow() <span class="hljs-comment"># Naive datetime from current UTC time.</span><DTa> = DT.now(<tzinfo>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Aware datetime from current tz time.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>To extract time use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<DTn>.time()'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<DTa>.time()'</span></code> or <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<DTa>.timetz()'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="timezone">Timezone</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><tzinfo> = UTC <span class="hljs-comment"># UTC timezone. London without DST.</span><tzinfo> = tzlocal() <span class="hljs-comment"># Local timezone. Also gettz().</span><tzinfo> = gettz(<span class="hljs-string">'<Cont.>/<City>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Timezone from 'Continent/City_Name' str.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python apache hljs"><DTa> = <DT>.astimezone(<tzinfo>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Datetime, converted to passed timezone.</span><Ta/DTa> = <T/DT>.replace(tzinfo=<tzinfo>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Unconverted object with new timezone.</span></code></pre><h3 id="encode">Encode</h3><pre><code class="python language-python apache hljs"><D/T/DT> = D/T/DT.fromisoformat(<span class="hljs-string">'<iso>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Object from ISO string.</span><DT> = DT.strptime(<str>, <span class="hljs-string">'<format>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Datetime from str, according to format.</span><D/DTn> = D/DT.fromordinal(<int>) <span class="hljs-comment"># D/DTn from days since Christ, at midnight.</span><DTn> = DT.fromtimestamp(<real>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Local time DTn from seconds since Epoch.</span><DTa> = DT.fromtimestamp(<real>, <tz.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Aware datetime from seconds since Epoch.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>ISO strings come in following forms: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'YYYY-MM-DD'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'HH:MM:SS.ffffff[±<offset>]'</span></code>, or both separated by <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'T'</span></code>. Offset is formatted as: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'HH:MM'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>On Unix systems Epoch is <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'1970-01-01 00:00 UTC'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'1970-01-01 01:00 CET'</span></code>, …</strong></li></ul><h3 id="decode">Decode</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <D/T/DT>.isoformat() <span class="hljs-comment"># ISO string representation.</span><str> = <D/T/DT>.strftime(<span class="hljs-string">'<format>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Custom string representation.</span><int> = <D/DT>.toordinal() <span class="hljs-comment"># Days since Christ, ignoring time and tz.</span><float> = <DTn>.timestamp() <span class="hljs-comment"># Seconds since Epoch from DTn in local time.</span><float> = <DTa>.timestamp() <span class="hljs-comment"># Seconds since Epoch from DTa.</span></code></pre><h3 id="format-1">Format</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> datetime <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> datetime<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>dt = datetime.strptime(<span class="hljs-string">'2015-05-14 23:39:00.00 +0200'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f %z'</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>dt.strftime(<span class="hljs-string">"%A, %dth of %B '%y, %I:%M%p %Z"</span>)<span class="hljs-string">"Thursday, 14th of May '15, 11:39PM UTC+02:00"</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>For abbreviated weekday and month use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'%a'</span></code> and <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'%b'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>When parsing, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'%z'</span></code> also accepts <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'±HH:MM'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="arithmetics">Arithmetics</h3><pre><code class="python language-python apache hljs"><D/DT> = <D/DT> ± <TD><TD> = <TD> ± <TD><TD> = <TD> */ <real><float> = <TD> / <TD></code></pre><h2 id="arguments"><a href="#arguments" name="arguments">#</a>Arguments</h2><h3 id="insidefunctioncall">Inside Function Call</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><function>(<positional_args>) <span class="hljs-comment"># f(0, 0)</span><function>(<keyword_args>) <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=0, y=0)</span><function>(<positional_args>, <keyword_args>) <span class="hljs-comment"># f(0, y=0)</span></code></pre><h3 id="insidefunctiondefinition">Inside Function Definition</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(<nondefault_args>)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># def f(x, y):</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(<default_args>)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># def f(x=0, y=0):</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(<nondefault_args>, <default_args>)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># def f(x, y=0):</span></code></pre><h2 id="splatoperator"><a href="#splatoperator" name="splatoperator">#</a>Splat Operator</h2><h3 id="insidefunctioncall-1">Inside Function Call</h3><p><strong>Splat expands a collection into positional arguments, while splatty-splat expands a dictionary into keyword arguments.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">args = (<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>)kwargs = {<span class="hljs-string">'x'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">3</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'y'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">4</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'z'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">5</span>}func(*args, **kwargs)</code></pre><h4 id="isthesameas">Is the same as:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">func(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, x=<span class="hljs-number">3</span>, y=<span class="hljs-number">4</span>, z=<span class="hljs-number">5</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="insidefunctiondefinition-1">Inside Function Definition</h3><p><strong>Splat combines zero or more positional arguments into a tuple, while splatty-splat combines zero or more keyword arguments into a dictionary.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">add</span><span class="hljs-params">(*a)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> sum(a)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>add(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-number">6</span></code></pre><h4 id="legalargumentcombinations">Legal argument combinations:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, y, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, 2, z=3) | f(1, 2, 3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*, x, y, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, *, y, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, y, *, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, 2, z=3)</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(1, 2, 3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, *args)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(1, 2, 3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(1, 2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, *args, z)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(1, 2, z=3)</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(**kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*, x, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3)</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, 2, z=3) | f(1, 2, 3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, *args, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, 2, z=3) | f(1, 2, 3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, y, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">f</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, *args, z, **kwargs)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># f(x=1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, y=2, z=3) | f(1, 2, z=3)</span></code></pre><h3 id="otheruses">Other Uses</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = [*<collection> [, ...]]<set> = {*<collection> [, ...]}<tuple> = (*<collection>, [...])<dict> = {**<dict> [, ...]}</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">head, *body, tail = <collection></code></pre><h2 id="inline"><a href="#inline" name="inline">#</a>Inline</h2><h3 id="lambda">Lambda</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><function> = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span>: <return_value><function> = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> <argument_1>, <argument_2>: <return_value></code></pre><h3 id="comprehension">Comprehension</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = [i+<span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)] <span class="hljs-comment"># [1, 2, ..., 10]</span><set> = {i <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> i > <span class="hljs-number">5</span>} <span class="hljs-comment"># {6, 7, 8, 9}</span><iter> = (i+<span class="hljs-number">5</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)) <span class="hljs-comment"># (5, 6, ..., 14)</span><dict> = {i: i*<span class="hljs-number">2</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)} <span class="hljs-comment"># {0: 0, 1: 2, ..., 9: 18}</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">out = [i+j <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> j <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)]</code></pre><h4 id="isthesameas-1">Is the same as:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">out = []<span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>): <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> j <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>): out.append(i+j)</code></pre><h3 id="mapfilterreduce">Map, Filter, Reduce</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> reduce<iter> = map(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> x: x + <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)) <span class="hljs-comment"># (1, 2, ..., 10)</span><iter> = filter(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> x: x > <span class="hljs-number">5</span>, range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)) <span class="hljs-comment"># (6, 7, 8, 9)</span><int> = reduce(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> out, x: out + x, range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)) <span class="hljs-comment"># 45</span></code></pre><h3 id="anyall">Any, All</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bool> = any(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># False if empty.</span><bool> = all(el[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>] <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># True if empty.</span></code></pre><h3 id="ifelse">If - Else</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><expression_if_true> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> <condition> <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <expression_if_false></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>[a <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <span class="hljs-string">'zero'</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> (<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)][<span class="hljs-string">'zero'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'zero'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>]</code></pre><h3 id="namedtupleenumdataclass">Namedtuple, Enum, Dataclass</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> namedtuplePoint = namedtuple(<span class="hljs-string">'Point'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'x y'</span>)point = Point(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> enum <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> EnumDirection = Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'Direction'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'n e s w'</span>)direction = Direction.n</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> dataclasses <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> make_dataclassCreature = make_dataclass(<span class="hljs-string">'Creature'</span>, [<span class="hljs-string">'location'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'direction'</span>])creature = Creature(Point(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>), Direction.n)</code></pre><h2 id="closure"><a href="#closure" name="closure">#</a>Closure</h2><p><strong>We have a closure in Python when:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>A nested function references a value of its enclosing function and then</strong></li><li><strong>the enclosing function returns the nested function.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">get_multiplier</span><span class="hljs-params">(a)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">out</span><span class="hljs-params">(b)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> a * b <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> out</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>multiply_by_3 = get_multiplier(<span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>multiply_by_3(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)<span class="hljs-number">30</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>If multiple nested functions within enclosing function reference the same value, that value gets shared.</strong></li><li><strong>To dynamically access function's first free variable use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<function>.__closure__[0].cell_contents'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="partial">Partial</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> partial<function> = partial(<function> [, <arg_1>, <arg_2>, ...])</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> op<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>multiply_by_3 = partial(op.mul, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>multiply_by_3(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>)<span class="hljs-number">30</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Partial is also useful in cases when a function needs to be passed as an argument, because it enables us to set its arguments beforehand.</strong></li><li><strong>A few examples being <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'defaultdict(<function>)'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'iter(<function>, to_exclusive)'</span></code> and dataclass's <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'field(default_factory=<function>)'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="nonlocal">Nonlocal</h3><p><strong>If variable is being assigned to anywhere in the scope, it is regarded as a local variable, unless it is declared as a 'global' or a 'nonlocal'.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">get_counter</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> i = <span class="hljs-number">0</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">out</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">nonlocal</span> i i += <span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> out</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter = get_counter()<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter(), counter(), counter()(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="decorator"><a href="#decorator" name="decorator">#</a>Decorator</h2><p><strong>A decorator takes a function, adds some functionality and returns it.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">@decorator_name</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">function_that_gets_passed_to_decorator</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> ...</code></pre><h3 id="debuggerexample">Debugger Example</h3><p><strong>Decorator that prints function's name every time it gets called.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> wraps
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">debug</span><span class="hljs-params">(func)</span>:</span><span class="hljs-meta"> @wraps(func)</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">out</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, **kwargs)</span>:</span> print(func.__name__) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> func(*args, **kwargs) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> out
<span class="hljs-meta">@debug</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">add</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, y)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> x + y</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Wraps is a helper decorator that copies metadata of function add() to function out().</strong></li><li><strong>Without it <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'add.__name__'</span></code> would return <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'out'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="lrucache">LRU Cache</h3><p><strong>Decorator that caches function's return values. All function's arguments must be hashable.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> lru_cache
<span class="hljs-meta">@lru_cache(maxsize=None)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">fib</span><span class="hljs-params">(n)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> n <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> n < <span class="hljs-number">2</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> fib(n<span class="hljs-number">-2</span>) + fib(n<span class="hljs-number">-1</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Recursion depth is limited to 1000 by default. To increase it use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'sys.setrecursionlimit(<depth>)'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="parametrizeddecorator">Parametrized Decorator</h3><p><strong>A decorator that accepts arguments and returns a normal decorator that accepts a function.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> wraps
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">debug</span><span class="hljs-params">(print_result=False)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">decorator</span><span class="hljs-params">(func)</span>:</span><span class="hljs-meta"> @wraps(func)</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">out</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, **kwargs)</span>:</span> result = func(*args, **kwargs) print(func.__name__, result <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> print_result <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <span class="hljs-string">''</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> result <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> out <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> decorator
<span class="hljs-meta">@debug(print_result=True)</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">add</span><span class="hljs-params">(x, y)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> x + y</code></pre><h2 id="class"><a href="#class" name="class">#</a>Class</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <<span class="hljs-title">name</span>>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__repr__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> class_name = self.__class__.__name__ <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{class_name}</span>(<span class="hljs-subst">{self.a!r}</span>)'</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__str__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> str(self.a)
<span class="hljs-meta"> @classmethod</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">get_class_name</span><span class="hljs-params">(cls)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> cls.__name__</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Return value of repr() should be unambiguous and of str() readable.</strong></li><li><strong>If only repr() is defined, it will be also used for str().</strong></li></ul><h4 id="strusecases">Str() use cases:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">print(<el>)print(<span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{<el>}</span>'</span>)<span class="hljs-keyword">raise</span> Exception(<el>)logging.debug(<el>)csv.writer(<file>).writerow([<el>])</code></pre><h4 id="reprusecases">Repr() use cases:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">print([<el>])print(<span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{<el>!r}</span>'</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><el>loguru.logger.exception()Z = dataclasses.make_dataclass(<span class="hljs-string">'Z'</span>, [<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>]); print(Z(<el>))</code></pre><h3 id="constructoroverloading">Constructor Overloading</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <<span class="hljs-title">name</span>>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a=None)</span>:</span> self.a = a</code></pre><h3 id="inheritance">Inheritance</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">Person</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, name, age)</span>:</span> self.name = name self.age = age
<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">Employee</span><span class="hljs-params">(Person)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, name, age, staff_num)</span>:</span> super().__init__(name, age) self.staff_num = staff_num</code></pre><h3 id="multipleinheritance">Multiple Inheritance</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">A</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">pass</span><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">B</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">pass</span><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">C</span><span class="hljs-params">(A, B)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">pass</span></code></pre><p><strong>MRO determines the order in which parent classes are traversed when searching for a method:</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>C.mro()[<<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">C</span>'>, <<span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">A</span>'>, <<span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">B</span>'>, <<span class="hljs-title">class</span> '<span class="hljs-title">object</span>'>]</span></code></pre><h3 id="property">Property</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyClass</span>:</span><span class="hljs-meta"> @property</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">a</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self._a
<span class="hljs-meta"> @a.setter</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">a</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, value)</span>:</span> self._a = value</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>el = MyClass()<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>el.a = <span class="hljs-number">123</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>el.a<span class="hljs-number">123</span></code></pre><h3 id="dataclass">Dataclass</h3><p><strong>Decorator that automatically generates init(), repr() and eq() special methods.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> dataclasses <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> dataclass, field
<span class="hljs-meta">@dataclass(order=False, frozen=False)</span><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <<span class="hljs-title">class_name</span>>:</span> <attr_name_1>: <type> <attr_name_2>: <type> = <default_value> <attr_name_3>: list/dict/set = field(default_factory=list/dict/set)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>An object can be made sortable with <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'order=True'</span></code> or immutable with <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'frozen=True'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>Function field() is needed because <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<attr_name>: list = []'</span></code> would make a list that is shared among all instances.</strong></li><li><strong>Default_factory can be any callable.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="copy">Copy</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> copy <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> copy, deepcopy<object> = copy(<object>)<object> = deepcopy(<object>)</code></pre><h2 id="ducktypes"><a href="#ducktypes" name="ducktypes">#</a>Duck Types</h2><p><strong>A duck type is an implicit type that prescribes a set of special methods. Any object that has those methods defined is considered a member of that duck type.</strong></p><h3 id="comparable">Comparable</h3><ul><li><strong>If eq() method is not overridden, it returns <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'id(self) == id(other)'</span></code>, which is the same as <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'self is other'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>That means all objects compare not equal by default.</strong></li><li><strong>Only left side object has eq() method called, unless it returns 'NotImplemented', in which case the right object is consulted.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyComparable</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__eq__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, other)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> isinstance(other, type(self)): <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a == other.a <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">NotImplemented</span></code></pre><h3 id="hashable">Hashable</h3><ul><li><strong>Hashable object needs both hash() and eq() methods and its hash value should never change.</strong></li><li><strong>Hashable objects that compare equal must have the same hash value, meaning default hash() that returns <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'id(self)'</span></code> will not do.</strong></li><li><strong>That is why Python automatically makes classes unhashable if you only implement eq().</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyHashable</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self._a = copy.deepcopy(a)<span class="hljs-meta"> @property</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">a</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self._a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__eq__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, other)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> isinstance(other, type(self)): <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a == other.a <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">NotImplemented</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__hash__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> hash(self.a)</code></pre><h3 id="sortable">Sortable</h3><ul><li><strong>With 'total_ordering' decorator you only need to provide eq() and one of lt(), gt(), le() or ge() special methods.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> total_ordering
<span class="hljs-meta">@total_ordering</span><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MySortable</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__eq__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, other)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> isinstance(other, type(self)): <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a == other.a <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">NotImplemented</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__lt__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, other)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> isinstance(other, type(self)): <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a < other.a <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-built_in">NotImplemented</span></code></pre><h3 id="iterator-1">Iterator</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">Counter</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> self.i = <span class="hljs-number">0</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__next__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> self.i += <span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.i <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__iter__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter = Counter()<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>next(counter), next(counter), next(counter)(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="callable">Callable</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">Counter</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> self.i = <span class="hljs-number">0</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__call__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> self.i += <span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.i</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter = Counter()<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>counter(), counter(), counter()(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="contextmanager">Context Manager</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyOpen</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, filename)</span>:</span> self.filename = filename <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__enter__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> self.file = open(self.filename) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.file <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__exit__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, *args)</span>:</span> self.file.close()</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(<span class="hljs-string">'test.txt'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'w'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file:<span class="hljs-meta">... </span> file.write(<span class="hljs-string">'Hello World!'</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> MyOpen(<span class="hljs-string">'test.txt'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file:<span class="hljs-meta">... </span> print(file.read())Hello World!</code></pre><h4 id="contextmanagers">Context managers:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>, ...) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: ...<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> wave.open(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>, ...) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> wave_file: ...<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> memoryview(<bytes/bytearray/array>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> view: ...</code></pre><h4 id="reusablecontextmanagers">Reusable context managers:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">lock = threading.RLock(); <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> lock: ...con = sqlite3.connect(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>); <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> con: con.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<insert_query>'</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="iterableducktypes"><a href="#iterableducktypes" name="iterableducktypes">#</a>Iterable Duck Types</h2><h3 id="iterable">Iterable</h3><ul><li><strong>Only required method is iter(). It should return an iterator of object's items.</strong></li><li><strong>Contains() automatically works on any object that has iter() defined.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyIterable</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__iter__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> self.a: <span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span> el</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a = MyIterable([<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>])<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>iter(a)<generator object MyIterable.__iter__ at <span class="hljs-number">0x1026c18b8</span>><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> a<span class="hljs-keyword">True</span></code></pre><h3 id="collection">Collection</h3><ul><li><strong>Only required methods are iter() and len().</strong></li><li><strong>This cheatsheet actually means <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<iterable>'</span></code> when it uses <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<collection>'</span></code>.</strong></li><li><strong>I chose not to use the name 'iterable' because it sounds scarier and more vague than 'collection'.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyCollection</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__iter__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> self.a: <span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span> el <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__contains__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, el)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> self.a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__len__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> len(self.a)</code></pre><h3 id="sequence">Sequence</h3><ul><li><strong>Only required methods are len() and getitem().</strong></li><li><strong>Iter(), contains() and reversed() automatically work on any object that has getitem() defined.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MySequence</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__iter__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> self.a: <span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span> el <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__contains__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, el)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> el <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> self.a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__len__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> len(self.a) <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__getitem__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, i)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a[i] <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__reversed__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> reversed(self.a)</code></pre><h3 id="collectionsabcsequence">Collections.abc.Sequence</h3><ul><li><strong>It's a richer interface than the basic sequence.</strong></li><li><strong>Extending it generates iter(), contains(), reversed(), index(), and count().</strong></li><li><strong>Unlike <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'abc.Iterable'</span></code> and <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'abc.Collection'</span></code>, it is not a duck type. That's why <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'issubclass(MySequence, collections.abc.Sequence)'</span></code> would return 'False' even if it had all the methods defined.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyAbcSequence</span><span class="hljs-params">(collections.abc.Sequence)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__init__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, a)</span>:</span> self.a = a <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__len__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> len(self.a) <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__getitem__</span><span class="hljs-params">(self, i)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> self.a[i]</code></pre><h4 id="tableoftherequiredandavailablemethods">Table of the required and available methods:</h4><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ │ Iterable │ Collection │ Sequence │ abc.Sequence ┃┠────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────┼──────────────┨┃ iter() │ ! │ ! │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ contains() │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ len() │ │ ! │ ! │ ! ┃┃ getitem() │ │ │ ! │ ! ┃┃ reversed() │ │ │ ✓ │ ✓ ┃┃ reverse() │ │ │ │ ✓ ┃┃ index() │ │ │ │ ✓ ┃┃ count() │ │ │ │ ✓ ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><h2 id="enum"><a href="#enum" name="enum">#</a>Enum</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> enum <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Enum, auto
<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <<span class="hljs-title">enum_name</span>><span class="hljs-params">(Enum)</span>:</span> <member_name_1> = <value_1> <member_name_2> = <value_2_a>, <value_2_b> <member_name_3> = auto()
<span class="hljs-meta"> @classmethod</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">get_member_names</span><span class="hljs-params">(cls)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> [a.name <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> cls.__members__.values()]</code></pre><ul><li><strong>If there are no numeric values before auto(), it returns 1.</strong></li><li><strong>Otherwise it returns an increment of last numeric value.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><member> = <enum>.<member_name><member> = <enum>[<span class="hljs-string">'<member_name>'</span>]<member> = <enum>(<value>)name = <member>.namevalue = <member>.value</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">list_of_members = list(<enum>)member_names = [a.name <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <enum>]member_values = [a.value <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <enum>]random_member = random.choice(list(<enum>))</code></pre><h3 id="inline-1">Inline</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">Cutlery = Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'Cutlery'</span>, [<span class="hljs-string">'fork'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'knife'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'spoon'</span>])Cutlery = Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'Cutlery'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'fork knife spoon'</span>)Cutlery = Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'Cutlery'</span>, {<span class="hljs-string">'fork'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'knife'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'spoon'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">3</span>})</code></pre><h4 id="functionscannotbevaluessotheymustbewrapped">Functions can not be values, so they must be wrapped:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> functools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> partialLogicOp = Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'LogicOp'</span>, {<span class="hljs-string">'AND'</span>: partial(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> l, r: l <span class="hljs-keyword">and</span> r), <span class="hljs-string">'OR'</span> : partial(<span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> l, r: l <span class="hljs-keyword">or</span> r)})</code></pre><h2 id="exceptions"><a href="#exceptions" name="exceptions">#</a>Exceptions</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>: <span class="hljs-keyword">try</span>: x = int(input(<span class="hljs-string">'Please enter a number: '</span>)) <span class="hljs-keyword">except</span> ValueError: print(<span class="hljs-string">'Oops! That was no valid number. Try again...'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span>: print(<span class="hljs-string">'Thank you.'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">break</span></code></pre><h3 id="raisingexception">Raising Exception</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">raise</span> ValueError(<span class="hljs-string">'A very specific message!'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="finally">Finally</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">try</span>:<span class="hljs-meta">... </span> <span class="hljs-keyword">raise</span> KeyboardInterrupt<span class="hljs-meta">... </span><span class="hljs-keyword">finally</span>:<span class="hljs-meta">... </span> print(<span class="hljs-string">'Goodbye, world!'</span>)Goodbye, world!Traceback (most recent call last): File <span class="hljs-string">"<stdin>"</span>, line <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <module>KeyboardInterrupt</code></pre><h2 id="print"><a href="#print" name="print">#</a>Print</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">print(<el_1>, ..., sep=<span class="hljs-string">' '</span>, end=<span class="hljs-string">'\n'</span>, file=sys.stdout, flush=<span class="hljs-keyword">False</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'file=sys.stderr'</span></code> for errors.</strong></li><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'flush=True'</span></code> to forcibly flush the stream.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="prettyprint">Pretty Print</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> pprint <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pprint<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>pprint(dir())[<span class="hljs-string">'__annotations__'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'__builtins__'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'__doc__'</span>, ...]</code></pre><h2 id="input"><a href="#input" name="input">#</a>Input</h2><ul><li><strong>Reads a line from user input or pipe if present.</strong></li><li><strong>Trailing newline gets stripped.</strong></li><li><strong>Prompt string is printed to the standard output before reading input.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = input(prompt=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>)</code></pre><h4 id="printslinesuntileof">Prints lines until EOF:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>: <span class="hljs-keyword">try</span>: print(input()) <span class="hljs-keyword">except</span> EOFError: <span class="hljs-keyword">break</span></code></pre><h2 id="commandlinearguments"><a href="#commandlinearguments" name="commandlinearguments">#</a>Command Line Arguments</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> sysscript_name = sys.argv[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]arguments = sys.argv[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>:]</code></pre><h3 id="argparse">Argparse</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> argparse <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> ArgumentParser, FileTypep = ArgumentParser(description=<str>)p.add_argument(<span class="hljs-string">'-<short_name>'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'--<name>'</span>, action=<span class="hljs-string">'store_true'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Flag</span>p.add_argument(<span class="hljs-string">'-<short_name>'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'--<name>'</span>, type=<type>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Option</span>p.add_argument(<span class="hljs-string">'<name>'</span>, type=<type>, nargs=<span class="hljs-number">1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Argument</span>p.add_argument(<span class="hljs-string">'<name>'</span>, type=<type>, nargs=<span class="hljs-string">'+'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Arguments</span>args = p.parse_args()value = args.<name></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'help=<str>'</span></code> for argument description.</strong></li><li><strong>Use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'type=FileType(<mode>)'</span></code> for files.</strong></li></ul><h2 id="open"><a href="#open" name="open">#</a>Open</h2><p><strong>Opens a file and returns a corresponding file object.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><file> = open(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>, mode=<span class="hljs-string">'r'</span>, encoding=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>, newline=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'encoding=None'</span></code> means default encoding is used, which is platform dependent. Best practice is to use <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'encoding="utf-8"'</span></code> whenever possible.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'newline=None'</span></code> means all different end of line combinations are converted to '\n' on read, while on write all '\n' characters are converted to system's default line separator.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'newline=""'</span></code> means no conversions take place, but lines are still broken by readline() on either '\n', '\r' or '\r\n'.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="modes">Modes</h3><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'r'</span></code> - Read (default).</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'w'</span></code> - Write (truncate).</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'x'</span></code> - Write or fail if the file already exists.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'a'</span></code> - Append.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'w+'</span></code> - Read and write (truncate).</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'r+'</span></code> - Read and write from the start.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'a+'</span></code> - Read and write from the end.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'t'</span></code> - Text mode (default).</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'b'</span></code> - Binary mode.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="file">File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><file>.seek(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Moves to the start of the file.</span><file>.seek(offset) <span class="hljs-comment"># Moves 'offset' chars/bytes from the start.</span><file>.seek(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Moves to the end of the file.</span><bin_file>.seek(±offset, <anchor>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Anchor: 0 start, 1 current pos., 2 end.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str/bytes> = <file>.read(size=<span class="hljs-number">-1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Reads 'size' chars/bytes or until EOF.</span><str/bytes> = <file>.readline() <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns a line or empty string on EOF.</span><list> = <file>.readlines() <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns a list of lines or empty list.</span><str/bytes> = next(<file>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns a line using buffer. Do not mix.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><file>.write(<str/bytes>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Writes a string or bytes object.</span><file>.writelines(<coll.>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Writes a coll. of strings or bytes objects.</span><file>.flush() <span class="hljs-comment"># Flushes write buffer.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Methods do not add or strip trailing newlines, even writelines().</strong></li></ul><h3 id="readtextfromfile">Read Text from File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> file.readlines()</code></pre><h3 id="writetexttofile">Write Text to File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_to_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, text)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'w'</span>, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: file.write(text)</code></pre><h2 id="path"><a href="#path" name="path">#</a>Path</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> os <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> path, listdir<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> glob <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> glob</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bool> = path.exists(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>)<bool> = path.isfile(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>)<bool> = path.isdir(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = listdir(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># List of filenames located at 'path'. </span><list> = glob(<span class="hljs-string">'<pattern>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Filenames matching the wildcard pattern.</span></code></pre><h3 id="pathlib">Pathlib</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> pathlib <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Path</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">cwd = Path()<Path> = Path(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span> [, <span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>, <Path>, ...])<Path> = <Path> / <span class="hljs-string">'<dir>'</span> / <span class="hljs-string">'<file>'</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bool> = <Path>.exists()<bool> = <Path>.is_file()<bool> = <Path>.is_dir()</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><iter> = <Path>.iterdir() <span class="hljs-comment"># Iterator of filenames located at path.</span><iter> = <Path>.glob(<span class="hljs-string">'<pattern>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Filenames matching the wildcard pattern.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = str(<Path>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns path as a string.</span><tup.> = <Path>.parts <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns all components as strings.</span><Path> = <Path>.resolve() <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns absolute Path without symlinks.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <Path>.name <span class="hljs-comment"># Final component.</span><str> = <Path>.stem <span class="hljs-comment"># Final component without extension.</span><str> = <Path>.suffix <span class="hljs-comment"># Final component's extension.</span><Path> = <Path>.parent <span class="hljs-comment"># Path without final component.</span></code></pre><h2 id="commandexecution"><a href="#commandexecution" name="commandexecution">#</a>Command Execution</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> os<str> = os.popen(<command>).read()</code></pre><h3 id="subprocess">Subprocess</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> subprocess, shlex<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a = subprocess.run(shlex.split(<span class="hljs-string">'ls -a'</span>), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a.stdout<span class="hljs-string">b'.\n..\nfile1.txt\nfile2.txt\n'</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a.returncode<span class="hljs-number">0</span></code></pre><h2 id="csv"><a href="#csv" name="csv">#</a>CSV</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> csv</code></pre><h3 id="readrowsfromcsvfile">Read Rows from CSV File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_csv_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>, newline=<span class="hljs-string">''</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> csv.reader(file, delimiter=<span class="hljs-string">';'</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>If <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'newline=""'</span></code> is not specified, then newlines embedded inside quoted fields will not be interpreted correctly.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="writerowstocsvfile">Write Rows to CSV File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_to_csv_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, rows)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'w'</span>, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>, newline=<span class="hljs-string">''</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter=<span class="hljs-string">';'</span>) writer.writerows(rows)</code></pre><h2 id="json"><a href="#json" name="json">#</a>JSON</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> json<str> = json.dumps(<object>, ensure_ascii=<span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>, indent=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>)<object> = json.loads(<str>)</code></pre><h3 id="readobjectfromjsonfile">Read Object from JSON File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_json_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> json.load(file)</code></pre><h3 id="writeobjecttojsonfile">Write Object to JSON File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_to_json_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, an_object)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'w'</span>, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: json.dump(an_object, file, ensure_ascii=<span class="hljs-keyword">False</span>, indent=<span class="hljs-number">2</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="pickle"><a href="#pickle" name="pickle">#</a>Pickle</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pickle<bytes> = pickle.dumps(<object>)<object> = pickle.loads(<bytes>)</code></pre><h3 id="readobjectfromfile">Read Object from File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_pickle_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'rb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> pickle.load(file)</code></pre><h3 id="writeobjecttofile">Write Object to File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_to_pickle_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, an_object)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'wb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: pickle.dump(an_object, file)</code></pre><h2 id="sqlite"><a href="#sqlite" name="sqlite">#</a>SQLite</h2><p><strong>Server-less database engine that stores each database into separate file.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> sqlite3db = sqlite3.connect(<span class="hljs-string">'<path>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Also ':memory:'.</span>...db.close()</code></pre><ul><li><strong>New database will be created if path doesn't exist.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="read">Read</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">cursor = db.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>)<span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> cursor: <tuple> = cursor.fetchone() <span class="hljs-comment"># First row.</span> <list> = cursor.fetchall() <span class="hljs-comment"># Remaining rows.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Returned values can be of type str, int, float, bytes or None.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="write">Write</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">db.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>)db.commit()</code></pre><h3 id="placeholders">Placeholders</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">db.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>, <list/tuple>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Replaces '?'s in query with values.</span>db.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>, <dict/namedtuple>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Replaces ':<key>'s with values.</span>db.executemany(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>, <coll_of_above>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Runs execute() many times.</span></code></pre><ul><li><strong>Passed values can be of type str, int, float, bytes, None, bool, datetime.date or datetime.datetme.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="mysql">MySQL</h3><p><strong>Has a very similar interface, with differences listed below.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install mysql-connector</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> mysql <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> connectordb = connector.connect(host=<str>, user=<str>, password=<str>, database=<str>)cursor = db.cursor()cursor.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Connector doesn't have execute method.</span>cursor.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>, <list/tuple>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Replaces '%s's in query with values.</span>cursor.execute(<span class="hljs-string">'<query>'</span>, <dict/namedtuple>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Replaces '%(<key>)s's with values.</span></code></pre><h2 id="bytes"><a href="#bytes" name="bytes">#</a>Bytes</h2><p><strong>Bytes object is an immutable sequence of single bytes. Mutable version is called 'bytearray'.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bytes> = <span class="hljs-string">b'<str>'</span> <span class="hljs-comment"># Only accepts ASCII characters and \x00 - \xff.</span><int> = <bytes>[<index>] <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns int in range from 0 to 255.</span><bytes> = <bytes>[<slice>] <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns bytes even if it has only one element.</span><bytes> = <bytes>.join(<coll_of_bytes>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Joins elements using bytes object as separator. </span></code></pre><h3 id="encode-1">Encode</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><bytes> = <str>.encode(<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: bytes(<str>, 'utf-8')</span><bytes> = bytes(<coll_of_ints>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Ints must be in range from 0 to 255.</span><bytes> = <int>.to_bytes(<length>, byteorder=<span class="hljs-string">'big|little'</span>, signed=<span class="hljs-keyword">False</span>)<bytes> = bytes.fromhex(<span class="hljs-string">'<hex>'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="decode-1">Decode</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><str> = <bytes>.decode(<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Or: str(<bytes>, 'utf-8')</span><list> = list(<bytes>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Returns ints in range from 0 to 255.</span><int> = int.from_bytes(<bytes>, byteorder=<span class="hljs-string">'big|little'</span>, signed=<span class="hljs-keyword">False</span>)<span class="hljs-string">'<hex>'</span> = <bytes>.hex()</code></pre><h3 id="readbytesfromfile">Read Bytes from File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_bytes</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'rb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> file.read()</code></pre><h3 id="writebytestofile">Write Bytes to File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_bytes</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, bytes_obj)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'wb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: file.write(bytes_obj)</code></pre><h2 id="struct"><a href="#struct" name="struct">#</a>Struct</h2><ul><li><strong>Module that performs conversions between a sequence of numbers and a C struct, represented as a Python bytes object.</strong></li><li><strong>Machine’s native type sizes and byte order are used by default.</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> struct <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pack, unpack, iter_unpack, calcsize<bytes> = pack(<span class="hljs-string">'<format>'</span>, <num_1> [, <num_2>, ...])<tuple> = unpack(<span class="hljs-string">'<format>'</span>, <bytes>)<tuples> = iter_unpack(<span class="hljs-string">'<format>'</span>, <bytes>)</code></pre><h3 id="example">Example</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>pack(<span class="hljs-string">'>hhl'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-string">b'\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03'</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>unpack(<span class="hljs-string">'>hhl'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">b'\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03'</span>)(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>calcsize(<span class="hljs-string">'>hhl'</span>)<span class="hljs-number">8</span></code></pre><h3 id="format-2">Format</h3><h4 id="forstandardsizesstartformatstringwith">For standard sizes start format string with:</h4><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'='</span></code> - native byte order</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<'</span></code> - little-endian</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'>'</span></code> - big-endian</strong></li></ul><h4 id="integertypesusecapitalletterforunsignedtypestandardsizesareinbrackets">Integer types. Use capital letter for unsigned type. Standard sizes are in brackets:</h4><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'x'</span></code> - pad byte</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'b'</span></code> - char (1)</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'h'</span></code> - short (2)</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'i'</span></code> - int (4)</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'l'</span></code> - long (4)</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'q'</span></code> - long long (8)</strong></li></ul><h4 id="floatingpointtypes">Floating point types:</h4><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'f'</span></code> - float (4)</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'d'</span></code> - double (8)</strong></li></ul><h2 id="array"><a href="#array" name="array">#</a>Array</h2><p><strong>List that can only hold numbers of predefined type. Available types and their sizes in bytes are listed above.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> array <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> array<array> = array(<span class="hljs-string">'<typecode>'</span> [, <collection>])</code></pre><h2 id="memoryview"><a href="#memoryview" name="memoryview">#</a>Memory View</h2><p><strong>Used for accessing the internal data of an object that supports the buffer protocol.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><memoryview> = memoryview(<bytes> / <bytearray> / <array>)<memoryview>.release()</code></pre><h2 id="deque"><a href="#deque" name="deque">#</a>Deque</h2><p><strong>A thread-safe list with efficient appends and pops from either side. Pronounced "deck".</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> deque<deque> = deque(<collection>, maxlen=<span class="hljs-keyword">None</span>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><deque>.appendleft(<el>)<el> = <deque>.popleft()<deque>.extendleft(<collection>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Collection gets reversed.</span><deque>.rotate(n=<span class="hljs-number">1</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Rotates elements to the right.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a = deque([<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>], maxlen=<span class="hljs-number">3</span>)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a.append(<span class="hljs-number">4</span>)[<span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>, <span class="hljs-number">4</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a.appendleft(<span class="hljs-number">5</span>)[<span class="hljs-number">5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>a.insert(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">6</span>)IndexError: deque already at its maximum size</code></pre><h2 id="threading"><a href="#threading" name="threading">#</a>Threading</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> threading <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Thread, RLock</code></pre><h3 id="thread">Thread</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">thread = Thread(target=<function>, args=(<first_arg>, ))thread.start()...thread.join()</code></pre><h3 id="lock">Lock</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">lock = RLock()lock.acquire()...lock.release()</code></pre><h4 id="or">Or:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">lock = RLock()<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> lock: ...</code></pre><h2 id="introspection"><a href="#introspection" name="introspection">#</a>Introspection</h2><p><strong>Inspecting code at runtime.</strong></p><h3 id="variables">Variables</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><list> = dir() <span class="hljs-comment"># Names of variables in current scope.</span><dict> = locals() <span class="hljs-comment"># Dict of local variables. Also vars().</span><dict> = globals() <span class="hljs-comment"># Dict of global variables.</span></code></pre><h3 id="attributes-1">Attributes</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><dict> = vars(<object>)<bool> = hasattr(<object>, <span class="hljs-string">'<attr_name>'</span>)value = getattr(<object>, <span class="hljs-string">'<attr_name>'</span>)setattr(<object>, <span class="hljs-string">'<attr_name>'</span>, value)</code></pre><h3 id="parameters">Parameters</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> inspect <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> signature<sig> = signature(<function>)no_of_params = len(<sig>.parameters)param_names = list(<sig>.parameters.keys())</code></pre><h2 id="metaprograming"><a href="#metaprograming" name="metaprograming">#</a>Metaprograming</h2><p><strong>Code that generates code.</strong></p><h3 id="type-1">Type</h3><p><strong>Type is the root class. If only passed an object it returns its type (class). Otherwise it creates a new class.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><<span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span>> = <span class="hljs-title">type</span><span class="hljs-params">(<class_name>, <parents_tuple>, <attributes_dict>)</span></span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>Z = type(<span class="hljs-string">'Z'</span>, (), {<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'b'</span>: <span class="hljs-number">12345</span>})<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>z = Z()</code></pre><h3 id="metaclass">Meta Class</h3><p><strong>Class that creates class.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">my_meta_class</span><span class="hljs-params">(name, parents, attrs)</span>:</span> attrs[<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>] = <span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> type(name, parents, attrs)</code></pre><h4 id="or-1">Or:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyMetaClass</span><span class="hljs-params">(type)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__new__</span><span class="hljs-params">(cls, name, parents, attrs)</span>:</span> attrs[<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>] = <span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> type.__new__(cls, name, parents, attrs)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>New() is a class method that gets called before init(). If it returns an instance of its class, then that instance gets passed to init() as a 'self' argument.</strong></li><li><strong>It receives the same arguments as init(), except for the first one that specifies the desired class of returned instance (</strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'MyMetaClass'</span></code> <strong>in our case).</strong></li><li><strong>New() can also be called directly, usually from a new() method of a child class (</strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">__new__</span><span class="hljs-params">(cls)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> super().__new__(cls)</code><strong>), in which case init() is not called.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="metaclassattribute">Metaclass Attribute</h3><p><strong>Right before a class is created it checks if it has metaclass defined. If not, it recursively checks if any of his parents has it defined and eventually comes to type().</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">class</span> <span class="hljs-title">MyClass</span><span class="hljs-params">(metaclass=MyMetaClass)</span>:</span> b = <span class="hljs-number">12345</span></code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>MyClass.a, MyClass.b(<span class="hljs-string">'abcde'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">12345</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="typediagram">Type Diagram</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">type(MyClass) == MyMetaClass <span class="hljs-comment"># MyClass is an instance of MyMetaClass.</span>type(MyMetaClass) == type <span class="hljs-comment"># MyMetaClass is an instance of type.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ Classes │ Metaclasses ┃┠─────────┼─────────────┨┃ MyClass → MyMetaClass ┃┃ │ ↓ ┃┃ object ───→ type ←╮ ┃┃ │ ↑ ╰───╯ ┃┃ str ───────╯ ┃┗━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><h3 id="inheritancediagram">Inheritance Diagram</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">MyClass.__base__ == object <span class="hljs-comment"># MyClass is a subclass of object.</span>MyMetaClass.__base__ == type <span class="hljs-comment"># MyMetaClass is a subclass of type.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="text language-text">┏━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ Classes │ Metaclasses ┃┠─────────┼─────────────┨┃ MyClass │ MyMetaClass ┃┃ ↓ │ ↓ ┃┃ object ←─── type ┃┃ ↑ │ ┃┃ str │ ┃┗━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛</code></pre><h2 id="operator"><a href="#operator" name="operator">#</a>Operator</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> add, sub, mul, truediv, floordiv, mod, pow, neg, abs<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> not_, and_, or_<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> itemgetter, attrgetter, methodcaller</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> operator <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> opproduct_of_elems = functools.reduce(op.mul, <collection>)sorted_by_second = sorted(<collection>, key=op.itemgetter(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>))sorted_by_both = sorted(<collection>, key=op.itemgetter(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>))LogicOp = enum.Enum(<span class="hljs-string">'LogicOp'</span>, {<span class="hljs-string">'AND'</span>: op.and_, <span class="hljs-string">'OR'</span> : op.or_})last_el = op.methodcaller(<span class="hljs-string">'pop'</span>)(<list>)</code></pre><h2 id="eval"><a href="#eval" name="eval">#</a>Eval</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> ast <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> literal_eval<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>literal_eval(<span class="hljs-string">'1 + 2'</span>)<span class="hljs-number">3</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>literal_eval(<span class="hljs-string">'[1, 2, 3]'</span>)[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>literal_eval(<span class="hljs-string">'abs(1)'</span>)ValueError: malformed node <span class="hljs-keyword">or</span> string</code></pre><h2 id="coroutine"><a href="#coroutine" name="coroutine">#</a>Coroutine</h2><ul><li><strong>Similar to generator, but generator pulls data through the pipe with iteration, while coroutine pushes data into the pipeline with send().</strong></li><li><strong>Coroutines provide more powerful data routing possibilities than iterators.</strong></li><li><strong>If you build a collection of simple data processing components, you can glue them together into complex arrangements of pipes, branches, merging, etc.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="helperdecorator">Helper Decorator</h3><ul><li><strong>All coroutines must be "primed" by first calling next().</strong></li><li><strong>Remembering to call next() is easy to forget.</strong></li><li><strong>Solved by wrapping coroutines with a decorator:</strong></li></ul><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">coroutine</span><span class="hljs-params">(func)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">out</span><span class="hljs-params">(*args, **kwargs)</span>:</span> cr = func(*args, **kwargs) next(cr) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> cr <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> out</code></pre><h3 id="pipelineexample">Pipeline Example</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">reader</span><span class="hljs-params">(target)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">10</span>): target.send(i) target.close()
<span class="hljs-meta">@coroutine</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">adder</span><span class="hljs-params">(target)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>: value = (<span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span>) target.send(value + <span class="hljs-number">100</span>)
<span class="hljs-meta">@coroutine</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">printer</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>: value = (<span class="hljs-keyword">yield</span>) print(value)
reader(adder(printer())) <span class="hljs-comment"># 100, 101, ..., 109</span></code></pre><p><br><br></p><h1 id="libraries">Libraries</h1><h2 id="progressbar"><a href="#progressbar" name="progressbar">#</a>Progress Bar</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install tqdm</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> tqdm <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> tqdm<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> time <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> sleep<span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> tqdm([<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3</span>]): sleep(<span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>)<span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> tqdm(range(<span class="hljs-number">100</span>)): sleep(<span class="hljs-number">0.02</span>)</code></pre><h2 id="plot"><a href="#plot" name="plot">#</a>Plot</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install matplotlib</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> matplotlib <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pyplotpyplot.plot(<data_1> [, <data_2>, ...])pyplot.hist(<data>)pyplot.savefig(<filename>)pyplot.show()pyplot.clf() <span class="hljs-comment"># Clears figure.</span></code></pre><h2 id="table"><a href="#table" name="table">#</a>Table</h2><h4 id="printsacsvfileasanasciitable">Prints a CSV file as an ASCII table:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install tabulate</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> tabulate <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> tabulate<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> csv<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(<filename>, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>, newline=<span class="hljs-string">''</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: lines = csv.reader(file, delimiter=<span class="hljs-string">';'</span>) headers = [header.title() <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> header <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> next(lines)] table = tabulate(lines, headers) print(table)</code></pre><h2 id="curses"><a href="#curses" name="curses">#</a>Curses</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> curses <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> wrapper, ascii
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">main</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> wrapper(draw)
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">draw</span><span class="hljs-params">(screen)</span>:</span> screen.clear() screen.addstr(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'Press ESC to quit.'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">while</span> screen.getch() != ascii.ESC: <span class="hljs-keyword">pass</span>
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">get_border</span><span class="hljs-params">(screen)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> namedtuple P = namedtuple(<span class="hljs-string">'P'</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'y x'</span>) height, width = screen.getmaxyx() <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> P(height<span class="hljs-number">-1</span>, width<span class="hljs-number">-1</span>)
<span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="hljs-string">'__main__'</span>: main()</code></pre><h2 id="logging"><a href="#logging" name="logging">#</a>Logging</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install loguru</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> loguru <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> logger</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">logger.add(<span class="hljs-string">'debug_{time}.log'</span>, colorize=<span class="hljs-keyword">True</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Connects a log file.</span>logger.add(<span class="hljs-string">'error_{time}.log'</span>, level=<span class="hljs-string">'ERROR'</span>) <span class="hljs-comment"># Another file for errors or higher.</span>logger.<level>(<span class="hljs-string">'A logging message.'</span>)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Levels: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'debug'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'info'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'success'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'warning'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'error'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'critical'</span></code>.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="exceptions-1">Exceptions</h3><p><strong>Error description, stack trace and values of variables are appended automatically.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">try</span>: ...<span class="hljs-keyword">except</span> <exception>: logger.exception(<span class="hljs-string">'An error happened.'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="rotation">Rotation</h3><p><strong>Argument that sets a condition when a new log file is created.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">rotation=<int>|<datetime.timedelta>|<datetime.time>|<str></code></pre><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<int>'</span></code> - Max file size in bytes.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<timedelta>'</span></code> - Max age of a file.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<time>'</span></code> - Time of day.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<str>'</span></code> - Any of above as a string: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'100 MB'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'1 month'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'monday at 12:00'</span></code>, …</strong></li></ul><h3 id="retention">Retention</h3><p><strong>Sets a condition which old log files are deleted.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">retention=<int>|<datetime.timedelta>|<str></code></pre><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<int>'</span></code> - Max number of files.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<timedelta>'</span></code> - Max age of a file.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'<str>'</span></code> - Max age as a string: <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'1 week, 3 days'</span></code>, <code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'2 months'</span></code>, …</strong></li></ul><h2 id="scraping"><a href="#scraping" name="scraping">#</a>Scraping</h2><h4 id="scrapesandprintspythonsurlandversionnumberfromwikipedia">Scrapes and prints Python's URL and version number from Wikipedia:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install requests beautifulsoup4</span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> requests<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> bs4 <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> BeautifulSoupurl = <span class="hljs-string">'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)'</span>page = requests.get(url)doc = BeautifulSoup(page.text, <span class="hljs-string">'html.parser'</span>)table = doc.find(<span class="hljs-string">'table'</span>, class_=<span class="hljs-string">'infobox vevent'</span>)rows = table.find_all(<span class="hljs-string">'tr'</span>)link = rows[<span class="hljs-number">11</span>].find(<span class="hljs-string">'a'</span>)[<span class="hljs-string">'href'</span>]ver = rows[<span class="hljs-number">6</span>].find(<span class="hljs-string">'div'</span>).text.split()[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]print(link, ver)</code></pre><h2 id="web"><a href="#web" name="web">#</a>Web</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install bottle</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> bottle <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> run, route, post, template, request, response<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> json</code></pre><h3 id="run">Run</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">run(host=<span class="hljs-string">'localhost'</span>, port=<span class="hljs-number">8080</span>)run(host=<span class="hljs-string">'0.0.0.0'</span>, port=<span class="hljs-number">80</span>, server=<span class="hljs-string">'cherrypy'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="staticrequest">Static Request</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">@route('/img/<image>')</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">send_image</span><span class="hljs-params">(image)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> static_file(image, <span class="hljs-string">'images/'</span>, mimetype=<span class="hljs-string">'image/png'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="dynamicrequest">Dynamic Request</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">@route('/<sport>')</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">send_page</span><span class="hljs-params">(sport)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> template(<span class="hljs-string">'<h1>{{title}}</h1>'</span>, title=sport)</code></pre><h3 id="restrequest">REST Request</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">@post('/odds/<sport>')</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">odds_handler</span><span class="hljs-params">(sport)</span>:</span> team = request.forms.get(<span class="hljs-string">'team'</span>) home_odds, away_odds = <span class="hljs-number">2.44</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3.29</span> response.headers[<span class="hljs-string">'Content-Type'</span>] = <span class="hljs-string">'application/json'</span> response.headers[<span class="hljs-string">'Cache-Control'</span>] = <span class="hljs-string">'no-cache'</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> json.dumps([team, home_odds, away_odds])</code></pre><h4 id="test">Test:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install requests</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> requests<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>url = <span class="hljs-string">'http://localhost:8080/odds/football'</span><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>data = {<span class="hljs-string">'team'</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'arsenal f.c.'</span>}<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>response = requests.post(url, data=data)<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>response.json()[<span class="hljs-string">'arsenal f.c.'</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2.44</span>, <span class="hljs-number">3.29</span>]</code></pre><h2 id="profile"><a href="#profile" name="profile">#</a>Profile</h2><h3 id="basic">Basic</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> time <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> timestart_time = time() <span class="hljs-comment"># Seconds since Epoch.</span>...duration = time() - start_time</code></pre><h3 id="highperformance">High Performance</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> time <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> perf_counter <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> pcstart_time = pc() <span class="hljs-comment"># Seconds since restart.</span>...duration = pc() - start_time</code></pre><h3 id="timingasnippet">Timing a Snippet</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> timeit <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> timeit<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>timeit(<span class="hljs-string">'"-".join(str(a) for a in range(100))'</span>,<span class="hljs-meta">... </span> number=<span class="hljs-number">10000</span>, globals=globals(), setup=<span class="hljs-string">'pass'</span>)<span class="hljs-number">0.34986</span></code></pre><h3 id="lineprofiler">Line Profiler</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install line_profiler</span><span class="hljs-meta">@profile</span><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">main</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> a = [*range(<span class="hljs-number">10000</span>)] b = {*range(<span class="hljs-number">10000</span>)}main()</code></pre><h4 id="usage">Usage:</h4><pre><code class="text language-text">$ kernprof -lv test.pyLine # Hits Time Per Hit % Time Line Contents============================================================== 1 @profile 2 def main(): 3 1 1128.0 1128.0 27.4 a = [*range(10000)] 4 1 2994.0 2994.0 72.6 b = {*range(10000)}</code></pre><h3 id="callgraph">Call Graph</h3><h4 id="generatesapngimageofacallgraphwithhighlightedbottlenecks">Generates a PNG image of a call graph with highlighted bottlenecks:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install pycallgraph</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> pycallgraph <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> output, PyCallGraph<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> datetime <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> datetimetime_str = datetime.now().strftime(<span class="hljs-string">'%Y%m%d%H%M%S'</span>)filename = <span class="hljs-string">f'profile-<span class="hljs-subst">{time_str}</span>.png'</span>drawer = output.GraphvizOutput(output_file=filename)<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> PyCallGraph(drawer): <code_to_be_profiled></code></pre><h2 id="numpy"><a href="#numpy" name="numpy">#</a>NumPy</h2><p><strong>Array manipulation mini language. Can run up to one hundred times faster than equivalent Python code.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install numpy</span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> numpy <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> np</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><array> = np.array(<list>)<array> = np.arange(from_inclusive, to_exclusive, ±step_size)<array> = np.ones(<shape>)<array> = np.random.randint(from_inclusive, to_exclusive, <shape>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><array>.shape = <shape><view> = <array>.reshape(<shape>)<view> = np.broadcast_to(<array>, <shape>)</code></pre><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><array> = <array>.sum(axis)indexes = <array>.argmin(axis)</code></pre><ul><li><strong>Shape is a tuple of dimension sizes.</strong></li><li><strong>Axis is an index of dimension that gets collapsed. Leftmost dimension has index 0.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="indexing">Indexing</h3><pre><code class="bash language-bash hljs"><el> = <2d_array>[0, 0] <span class="hljs-comment"># First element.</span><1d_view> = <2d_array>[0] <span class="hljs-comment"># First row.</span><1d_view> = <2d_array>[:, 0] <span class="hljs-comment"># First column. Also [..., 0].</span><3d_view> = <2d_array>[None, :, :] <span class="hljs-comment"># Expanded by dimension of size 1.</span></code></pre><pre><code class="bash language-bash hljs"><1d_array> = <2d_array>[<1d_row_indexes>, <1d_column_indexes>]<2d_array> = <2d_array>[<2d_row_indexes>, <2d_column_indexes>]</code></pre><pre><code class="bash language-bash hljs"><2d_bools> = <2d_array> > 0<1d_array> = <2d_array>[<2d_bools>]</code></pre><ul><li><strong>If row and column indexes differ in shape, they are combined with broadcasting.</strong></li></ul><h3 id="broadcasting">Broadcasting</h3><p><strong>Broadcasting is a set of rules by which NumPy functions operate on arrays of different sizes and/or dimensions.</strong></p><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">left = [[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (3, 1)</span>right = [ <span class="hljs-number">0.1</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span> ] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (3)</span></code></pre><h4 id="1ifarrayshapesdifferinlengthleftpadtheshortershapewithones">1. If array shapes differ in length, left-pad the shorter shape with ones:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">left = [[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (3, 1)</span>right = [[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (1, 3) <- !</span></code></pre><h4 id="2ifanydimensionsdifferinsizeexpandtheonesthathavesize1byduplicatingtheirelements">2. If any dimensions differ in size, expand the ones that have size 1 by duplicating their elements:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">left = [[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (3, 3) <- !</span>right = [[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>], [<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]] <span class="hljs-comment"># Shape: (3, 3) <- !</span></code></pre><h4 id="3ifneithernonmatchingdimensionhassize1riseanerror">3. If neither non-matching dimension has size 1, rise an error.</h4><h3 id="example-1">Example</h3><h4 id="foreachpointreturnsindexofitsnearestpoint010608121">For each point returns index of its nearest point (<code class="python hljs">[<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>] => [<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>]</code>):</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>points = np.array([<span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>])[ <span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>wrapped_points = points.reshape(<span class="hljs-number">3</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>)[[ <span class="hljs-number">0.1</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.6</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.8</span>]]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>distances = wrapped_points - points[[ <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> , <span class="hljs-number">-0.5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">-0.7</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> , <span class="hljs-number">-0.2</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.7</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> ]]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>distances = np.abs(distances)[[ <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.7</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> , <span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.7</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.</span> ]]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>i = np.arange(<span class="hljs-number">3</span>)[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>distances[i, i] = np.inf[[ inf, <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.7</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>, inf, <span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>], [ <span class="hljs-number">0.7</span>, <span class="hljs-number">0.2</span>, inf]]<span class="hljs-meta">>>> </span>distances.argmin(<span class="hljs-number">1</span>)[<span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>]</code></pre><h2 id="image"><a href="#image" name="image">#</a>Image</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install pillow</span><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> PIL <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Image</code></pre><h4 id="createsapngimageofarainbowgradient">Creates a PNG image of a rainbow gradient:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs">width = <span class="hljs-number">100</span>height = <span class="hljs-number">100</span>size = width * heightpixels = [<span class="hljs-number">255</span> * i/size <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(size)]
img = Image.new(<span class="hljs-string">'HSV'</span>, (width, height))img.putdata([(int(a), <span class="hljs-number">255</span>, <span class="hljs-number">255</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> pixels])img.convert(mode=<span class="hljs-string">'RGB'</span>).save(<span class="hljs-string">'test.png'</span>)</code></pre><h4 id="addsnoisetoapngimage">Adds noise to a PNG image:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> random <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> randintadd_noise = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> value: max(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, min(<span class="hljs-number">255</span>, value + randint(<span class="hljs-number">-20</span>, <span class="hljs-number">20</span>)))img = Image.open(<span class="hljs-string">'test.png'</span>).convert(mode=<span class="hljs-string">'HSV'</span>)img.putdata([(add_noise(h), s, v) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> h, s, v <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> img.getdata()])img.convert(mode=<span class="hljs-string">'RGB'</span>).save(<span class="hljs-string">'test.png'</span>)</code></pre><h3 id="modes-1">Modes</h3><ul><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'1'</span></code> - 1-bit pixels, black and white, stored with one pixel per byte.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'L'</span></code> - 8-bit pixels, greyscale.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'RGB'</span></code> - 3x8-bit pixels, true color.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'RGBA'</span></code> - 4x8-bit pixels, true color with transparency mask.</strong></li><li><strong><code class="python hljs"><span class="hljs-string">'HSV'</span></code> - 3x8-bit pixels, Hue, Saturation, Value color space.</strong></li></ul><h2 id="audio"><a href="#audio" name="audio">#</a>Audio</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> wave<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> struct <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pack, iter_unpack</code></pre><h3 id="readframesfromwavfile">Read Frames from WAV File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_wav_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> wave.open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'rb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> wf: frames = wf.readframes(wf.getnframes()) <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> [a[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>] <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> iter_unpack(<span class="hljs-string">'<h'</span>, frames)]</code></pre><h3 id="writeframestowavfile">Write Frames to WAV File</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">write_to_wav_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename, frames_int, mono=True)</span>:</span> frames_short = (pack(<span class="hljs-string">'<h'</span>, a) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> frames_int) <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> wave.open(filename, <span class="hljs-string">'wb'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> wf: wf.setnchannels(<span class="hljs-number">1</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> mono <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <span class="hljs-number">2</span>) wf.setsampwidth(<span class="hljs-number">2</span>) wf.setframerate(<span class="hljs-number">44100</span>) wf.writeframes(<span class="hljs-string">b''</span>.join(frames_short))</code></pre><h3 id="examples">Examples</h3><h4 id="savesasinewavetoamonowavfile">Saves a sine wave to a mono WAV file:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> math <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> pi, sinframes_f = (sin(i * <span class="hljs-number">2</span> * pi * <span class="hljs-number">440</span> / <span class="hljs-number">44100</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(<span class="hljs-number">100000</span>))frames_i = (int(a * <span class="hljs-number">30000</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> frames_f)write_to_wav_file(<span class="hljs-string">'test.wav'</span>, frames_i)</code></pre><h4 id="addsnoisetoamonowavfile">Adds noise to a mono WAV file:</h4><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> random <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> randintadd_noise = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> value: max(<span class="hljs-number">-32768</span>, min(<span class="hljs-number">32767</span>, value + randint(<span class="hljs-number">-500</span>, <span class="hljs-number">500</span>)))frames_i = (add_noise(a) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> a <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> read_wav_file(<span class="hljs-string">'test.wav'</span>))write_to_wav_file(<span class="hljs-string">'test.wav'</span>, frames_i)</code></pre><h3 id="synthesizer">Synthesizer</h3><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># $ pip3 install simpleaudio</span><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> simpleaudio, math, struct<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> itertools <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> chain, repeatF = <span class="hljs-number">44100</span>P1 = <span class="hljs-string">'71♪,69,,71♪,66,,62♪,66,,59♪,,,'</span>P2 = <span class="hljs-string">'71♪,73,,74♪,73,,74,,71,,73♪,71,,73,,69,,71♪,69,,71,,67,,71♪,,,'</span>get_pause = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> seconds: repeat(<span class="hljs-number">0</span>, int(seconds * F))sin_f = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> i, hz: math.sin(i * <span class="hljs-number">2</span> * math.pi * hz / F)get_wave = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> hz, seconds: (sin_f(i, hz) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> i <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> range(int(seconds * F)))get_hz = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> key: <span class="hljs-number">8.176</span> * <span class="hljs-number">2</span> ** (int(key) / <span class="hljs-number">12</span>)parse_note = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> note: (get_hz(note[:<span class="hljs-number">2</span>]), <span class="hljs-number">0.25</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> <span class="hljs-string">'♪'</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> note <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <span class="hljs-number">0.125</span>)get_frames = <span class="hljs-keyword">lambda</span> note: get_wave(*parse_note(note)) <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> note <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> get_pause(<span class="hljs-number">0.125</span>)frames_f = chain.from_iterable(get_frames(n) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> n <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> <span class="hljs-string">f'<span class="hljs-subst">{P1}</span><span class="hljs-subst">{P1}</span><span class="hljs-subst">{P2}</span>'</span>.split(<span class="hljs-string">','</span>))frames_b = <span class="hljs-string">b''</span>.join(struct.pack(<span class="hljs-string">'<h'</span>, int(f * <span class="hljs-number">30000</span>)) <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> f <span class="hljs-keyword">in</span> frames_f)simpleaudio.play_buffer(frames_b, <span class="hljs-number">1</span>, <span class="hljs-number">2</span>, F)</code></pre><h2 id="basicscripttemplate"><a href="#basicscripttemplate" name="basicscripttemplate">#</a>Basic Script Template</h2><pre><code class="python language-python hljs"><span class="hljs-comment">#!/usr/bin/env python3</span><span class="hljs-comment">#</span><span class="hljs-comment"># Usage: .py</span><span class="hljs-comment">#</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> collections <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> namedtuple<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> dataclasses <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> make_dataclass<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> enum <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> Enum<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> re<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> sys
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">main</span><span class="hljs-params">()</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">pass</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">###</span><span class="hljs-comment">## UTIL</span><span class="hljs-comment">#</span>
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">def</span> <span class="hljs-title">read_file</span><span class="hljs-params">(filename)</span>:</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> open(filename, encoding=<span class="hljs-string">'utf-8'</span>) <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> file: <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> file.readlines()
<span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="hljs-string">'__main__'</span>: main()</code></pre>
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