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Learn Python in 7 Days

You're reading from Learn Python in 7 Days Begin your journey with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288386

Length 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

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Author (1):

Das

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Python FREE CHAPTER

2. Type Variables and Operators

3. Strings

4. Lists

5. Dictionary

6. Control Statements and Loops

7. Function and Scope of Variable

8. Modules and Packages

9. File Handling and Exceptions

10. Collections

11. Class and Objects

Exercises

See the following list:

list1 = ["abc",[2,3,("mohit","the avengers")],1,2,3]

Get the string "avengers".

With the for loop, take the following list and sort it based on the sum of the values of the tuples of the list:

[(1,5),(9,0),(12,3),(5,4),(13,6),(1,1)]

Use the list, [1,2,4,5,1,1,4,1,56], and find the index of all the 1 elements.
Do the preceding exercise by using list comprehension.

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Authors (1)

Das

Das

Bhaskar N. Das has 8 years' experience in various projects involving application development, maintenance, and support with IBM. He has worked in various technologies and domains including Java, Python, application servers, the cloud, and various database technologies. His domain expertise includes finance and asset management (IT and finance assets). His areas of interest include big data, business finance optimization and scaling, data science, and Machine Learning.

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