My Top 5 Favorite Python Tips and Tricks!

This might be an annoyingly simple blog post to some readers, but I hope that for some junior devs messing around with Python, this is useful. So, the title really says it all - this blog is about my top 5 favorite Python tips and tricks that can be used to make code more efficient and readable.

1. List comprehension: just a neat and concise way to create lists!

Makes me feel so Pythonic and nice at it.

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2. Using zip for parallel iteration: a neat technique when you have multiple lists and you want to iterate over them simultaneously, processing the corresponding elements together.

Literally makes me feel like a snake

Example:

3. F-Strings: One of the first things you'll learn but always use.

Gregory Goyle for the true believers.

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4. args and kwargs for passing a variable number of arguments to functions.

If you don't feel like a snaky snake yet…

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5. Context managers (with statement) for efficient resource management within a block of code (might be my fave of faves)

After this yer a wizard...

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So, this is it. I hope that someone (maybe you) finds these tips helpful and can come back to this blog at some point and be like oh thanks… I’d be interested to hear anyone’s favorite tips and tricks not listed here?! Maybe using enumeration? It was definitely up there. More importantly, I’d be interested to hear what house you belong to (if you known you know). Drop it in the comments! Btw, kudos to CodeSnap for beautiful screenshots of code on VS Code :)