1 split open a case
>>> a, b, c = 1, 2, 3
>>> a, b, c
(1, 2, 3)
>>> a, b, c = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a, b, c
(1, 2, 3)
>>> a, b, c = (2 * i + 1 for i in range(3))
>>> a, b, c
(1, 3, 5)
>>> a, (b, c), d = [1, (2, 3), 4]
>>> a
1
>>> b
2
>>> c
3
>>> d
4
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2 Unpacking variable exchange
>>> a, b = 1, 2
>>> a, b = b, a
>>> a, b
(2, 1)
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3 Extended unpacking (python3 only)
>>> a, *b, c = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> a
1
>>> b
[2, 3, 4]
>>> c
5
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4 Negative index
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> a[-1]
10
>>> a[-3]
8
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5 Cutting List
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> a[2:8]
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
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6 negative index cut list
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> a[-4:-2]
[7, 8]
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7 Specify the step size cut list
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> a[::2]
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
>>> a[::3]
[0, 3, 6, 9]
>>> a[2:8:2]
[2, 4, 6]
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8 Negative step size cut list
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> a[::-1]
[10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
>>> a[::-2]
[10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0]
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9 List cutting assignment
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> a[2:3] = [0, 0]
>>> a
[1, 2, 0, 0, 4, 5]
>>> a[1:1] = [8, 9]
>>> a
[1, 8, 9, 2, 0, 0, 4, 5]
>>> a[1:-1] = []
>>> a
[1, 5]
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10 Name the list cutting mode
>>> a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> LASTTHREE = slice(-3, None)
>>> LASTTHREE
slice(-3, None, None)
>>> a[LASTTHREE]
[3, 4, 5]
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11 list and iterator compression and decompression
>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> z = zip(a, b)
>>> z
[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]
>>> zip(*z)
[(1, 2, 3), ('a', 'b', 'c')]
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12 List adjacent element compressor
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> zip(*([iter(a)] * 2))
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent = lambda a, k: zip(*([iter(a)] * k))
>>> group_adjacent(a, 3)
[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent(a, 2)
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent(a, 1)
[(1,), (2,), (3,), (4,), (5,), (6,)]
>>> zip(a[::2], a[1::2])
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> zip(a[::3], a[1::3], a[2::3])
[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent = lambda a, k: zip(*(a[i::k] for i in range(k)))
>>> group_adjacent(a, 3)
[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent(a, 2)
[(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> group_adjacent(a, 1)
[(1,), (2,), (3,), (4,), (5,), (6,)]
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13 Slide the value window in the list with the compressor and iterator
>>> def n_grams(a, n):
... z = [iter(a[i:]) for i in range(n)]
... return zip(*z)
...
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> n_grams(a, 3)
[(1, 2, 3), (2, 3, 4), (3, 4, 5), (4, 5, 6)]
>>> n_grams(a, 2)
[(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6)]
>>> n_grams(a, 4)
[(1, 2, 3, 4), (2, 3, 4, 5), (3, 4, 5, 6)]
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Reverse the dictionary with the compressor
>>> m = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}
>>> m.items()
[('a', 1), ('c', 3), ('b', 2), ('d', 4)]
>>> zip(m.values(), m.keys())
[(1, 'a'), (3, 'c'), (2, 'b'), (4, 'd')]
>>> mi = dict(zip(m.values(), m.keys()))
>>> mi
{1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 4: 'd'}
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15 List Expansion
>>> a = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]
>>> list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(a))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> sum(a, [])
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> [x for l in a for x in l]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> a = [[[1, 2], [3, 4]], [[5, 6], [7, 8]]]
>>> [x for l1 in a for l2 in l1 for x in l2]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> a = [1, 2, [3, 4], [[5, 6], [7, 8]]]
>>> flatten = lambda x: [y for l in x for y in flatten(l)] if type(x) is list else [x]
>>> flatten(a)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
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16 Generator Expressions
>>> g = (x ** 2 for x in xrange(10))
>>> next(g)
0
>>> next(g)
1
>>> next(g)
4
>>> next(g)
9
>>> sum(x ** 3 for x in xrange(10))
2025
>>> sum(x ** 3 for x in xrange(10) if x % 3 == 1)
408
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17 Dictionary Derivation
>>> m = {x: x ** 2 for x in range(5)}
>>> m
{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16}
>>> m = {x: 'A' + str(x) for x in range(10)}
>>> m
{0: 'A0', 1: 'A1', 2: 'A2', 3: 'A3', 4: 'A4', 5: 'A5', 6: 'A6', 7: 'A7', 8: 'A8', 9: 'A9'}
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Use dictionaries to derive inverse dictionaries
>>> m = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}
>>> m
{'d': 4, 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
>>> {v: k for k, v in m.items()}
{1: 'a', 2: 'b', 3: 'c', 4: 'd'}
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19 Named tuple
> > > Point = collections. Namedtuple (' Point ', [' x ', 'y']) > > > p = Point (x = 1.0, y = 2.0) > > > Point p (x = 1.0, Y =2.0) >>> P.x 1.0 >>> P.y 2.0Copy the code
20 Inherit the named tuple
>>> class Point(collections.namedtuple('PointBase', ['x', 'y'])): ... __slots__ = () ... def __add__(self, other): ... return Point(x=self.x + other.x, y=self.y + other.y) ... > > > p = Point (x = 1.0, y = 2.0) > > > q = Point (x = 2.0, y = 3.0) > > > p + q Point (x = 3.0, y = 5.0)Copy the code
21 Set of Operations
>>> A = {1, 2, 3, 3}
>>> A
set([1, 2, 3])
>>> B = {3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
>>> B
set([3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> A | B
set([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> A & B
set([3])
>>> A - B
set([1, 2])
>>> B - A
set([4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> A ^ B
set([1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> (A ^ B) == ((A - B) | (B - A))
True
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22 Operate multiple collections
>>> A = collections.Counter([1, 2, 2])
>>> B = collections.Counter([2, 2, 3])
>>> A
Counter({2: 2, 1: 1})
>>> B
Counter({2: 2, 3: 1})
>>> A | B
Counter({2: 2, 1: 1, 3: 1})
>>> A & B
Counter({2: 2})
>>> A + B
Counter({2: 4, 1: 1, 3: 1})
>>> A - B
Counter({1: 1})
>>> B - A
Counter({3: 1})
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Count the most frequently occurring elements in an iterator
>>> A = collections.Counter([1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
>>> A
Counter({3: 4, 1: 2, 2: 2, 4: 1, 5: 1, 6: 1, 7: 1})
>>> A.most_common(1)
[(3, 4)]
>>> A.most_common(3)
[(3, 4), (1, 2), (2, 2)]
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24 Queues that can be operated on both ends
>>> Q = collections.deque()
>>> Q.append(1)
>>> Q.appendleft(2)
>>> Q.extend([3, 4])
>>> Q.extendleft([5, 6])
>>> Q
deque([6, 5, 2, 1, 3, 4])
>>> Q.pop()
4
>>> Q.popleft()
6
>>> Q
deque([5, 2, 1, 3])
>>> Q.rotate(3)
>>> Q
deque([2, 1, 3, 5])
>>> Q.rotate(-3)
>>> Q
deque([5, 2, 1, 3])
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25 There is a maximum length of two – ended queue
>>> last_three = collections.deque(maxlen=3) >>> for i in xrange(10): ... last_three.append(i) ... print ', '.join(str(x) for x in last_three) ... 0 0, 1 0, 1, 2 1, 2 2, 2 2, 3 2, 3, 4 3, 4, 5 4, 5, 6 5, 6, 7 6, 7, 8 7, 8 7, 8, 9Copy the code
26 sortable dictionary
>>> m = dict((str(x), x) for x in range(10)) >>> print ', '.join(m.keys()) 1, 0, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 9, 8 >>> m = collections.OrderedDict((str(x), x) for x in range(10)) >>> print ', '.join(m.keys()) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 >>> m = collections.OrderedDict((str(x), x) for x in range(10, 0, -1)) >>> print ', '.join(m.keys()) 10, 9, 8, 7, Six, five, four, three, two, oneCopy the code
27 Default Dictionary
>>> m = dict()
>>> m['a']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'a'
>>>
>>> m = collections.defaultdict(int)
>>> m['a']
0
>>> m['b']
0
>>> m = collections.defaultdict(str)
>>> m['a']
''
>>> m['b'] += 'a'
>>> m['b']
'a'
>>> m = collections.defaultdict(lambda: '[default value]')
>>> m['a']
'[default value]'
>>> m['b']
'[default value]'
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A simple tree representation of the default dictionary
>>> import json >>> tree = lambda: collections.defaultdict(tree) >>> root = tree() >>> root['menu']['id'] = 'file' >>> root['menu']['value'] = 'File' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['new']['value'] = 'New' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['new']['onclick'] = 'new(); ' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['open']['value'] = 'Open' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['open']['onclick'] = 'open(); ' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['close']['value'] = 'Close' >>> root['menu']['menuitems']['close']['onclick'] = 'close(); ' >>> print json.dumps(root, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': ')) { "menu": { "id": "file", "menuitems": { "close": { "onclick": "close();" , "value": "Close" }, "new": { "onclick": "new();" , "value": "New" }, "open": { "onclick": "open();" , "value": "Open" } }, "value": "File" } }Copy the code
Mapping of objects to unique counts
>>> import itertools, collections
>>> value_to_numeric_map = collections.defaultdict(itertools.count().next)
>>> value_to_numeric_map['a']
0
>>> value_to_numeric_map['b']
1
>>> value_to_numeric_map['c']
2
>>> value_to_numeric_map['a']
0
>>> value_to_numeric_map['b']
1
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30 Maximum and minimum list elements
>>> a = [random.randint(0, 100) for __ in xrange(100)]
>>> heapq.nsmallest(5, a)
[3, 3, 5, 6, 8]
>>> heapq.nlargest(5, a)
[100, 100, 99, 98, 98]
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31 The Cartesian product of two lists
>>> for p in itertools.product([1, 2, 3], [4, 5]):
(1, 4)
(1, 5)
(2, 4)
(2, 5)
(3, 4)
(3, 5)
>>> for p in itertools.product([0, 1], repeat=4):
... print ''.join(str(x) for x in p)
...
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111
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List composition and list element substitution composition
>>> for c in itertools.combinations([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3): ... print ''.join(str(x) for x in c) ... 123 124 125 134 135 145 234 235 245 345 >>> for c in itertools.combinations_with_replacement([1, 2, 3], 2): ... print ''.join(str(x) for x in c) ... 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 33Copy the code
33 Combination of list elements
>>> for p in itertools.permutations([1, 2, 3, 4]):
... print ''.join(str(x) for x in p)
...
1234
1243
1324
1342
1423
1432
2134
2143
2314
2341
2413
2431
3124
3142
3214
3241
3412
3421
4123
4132
4213
4231
4312
4321
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34 Linkable iterator
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> for p in itertools.chain(itertools.combinations(a, 2), itertools.combinations(a, 3)): ... print p ... (1, 2) (1, 3) (1, 4), (2, 3) (2, 4) (3, 4) (1, 2, 3) (1, 2, 4) (1, 3, 4) (2, 3, 4) >>> for subset in itertools.chain.from_iterable(itertools.combinations(a, n) for n in range(len(a) + 1)) ... print subset ... (a) (1) (2) (3) (4) (1, 2) (1, 3) (1, 4) (2, 3) (2, 4) (3, 4) (1, 2, 3) (1, 2, 4) (1, 3, 4) (2, 3, 4) (1, 2, 3, 4)Copy the code
35 Specify column clustering based on the file
>>> import itertools >>> with open('contactlenses.csv', 'r') as infile: ... data = [line.strip().split(',') for line in infile] ... >>> data = data[1:] >>> def print_data(rows): ... print '\n'.join('\t'.join('{: <16}'.format(s) for s in row) for row in rows) ... >>> print_data(data) young myope no reduced none young myope no normal soft young myope yes reduced none young myope yes normal hard young hypermetrope no reduced none young hypermetrope no normal soft young hypermetrope yes reduced none young hypermetrope yes normal hard pre-presbyopic myope no reduced none pre-presbyopic myope no normal soft pre-presbyopic myope yes reduced none pre-presbyopic myope yes normal hard pre-presbyopic hypermetrope no reduced none pre-presbyopic hypermetrope no normal soft pre-presbyopic hypermetrope yes reduced none pre-presbyopic hypermetrope yes normal none presbyopic myope no reduced none presbyopic myope no normal none presbyopic myope yes reduced none presbyopic myope yes normal hard presbyopic hypermetrope no reduced none presbyopic hypermetrope no normal soft presbyopic hypermetrope yes reduced none presbyopic hypermetrope yes normal none >>> data.sort(key=lambda r: r[-1]) >>> for value, group in itertools.groupby(data, lambda r: r[-1]): ... print '-----------' ... print 'Group: ' + value ... print_data(group) ... ----------- Group: hard young myope yes normal hard young hypermetrope yes normal hard pre-presbyopic myope yes normal hard presbyopic myope yes normal hard Group: none young myope no reduced none young myope yes reduced none young hypermetrope no reduced none young hypermetrope yes reduced none pre-presbyopic myope no reduced none pre-presbyopic myope yes reduced none pre-presbyopic hypermetrope no reduced none pre-presbyopic hypermetrope yes reduced none pre-presbyopic hypermetrope yes normal none presbyopic myope no reduced none presbyopic myope no normal none presbyopic myope yes reduced none presbyopic hypermetrope no reduced none presbyopic hypermetrope yes reduced none presbyopic hypermetrope yes normal none Group: soft young myope no normal soft young hypermetrope no normal soft pre-presbyopic myope no normal soft pre-presbyopic hypermetrope no normal soft presbyopic hypermetrope no normalCopy the code