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5 Powerful Python One-Liners You Should Know: 1-Typecasting of All Items in A List

This document presents 5 useful Python one-liners: 1) Using map() to typecast all items in a list to the same type like int or float. 2) Using lambda, map(), and str() to sum the digits of an integer. 3) Using list comprehension to flatten a nested list into a single list. 4) Using zip() to transpose a matrix by switching rows and columns. 5) Using dictionary comprehension to swap dictionary keys and values.

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5 Powerful Python One-Liners You Should Know: 1-Typecasting of All Items in A List

This document presents 5 useful Python one-liners: 1) Using map() to typecast all items in a list to the same type like int or float. 2) Using lambda, map(), and str() to sum the digits of an integer. 3) Using list comprehension to flatten a nested list into a single list. 4) Using zip() to transpose a matrix by switching rows and columns. 5) Using dictionary comprehension to swap dictionary keys and values.

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5 Powerful Python

One-Liners You Should

Know
1- Typecasting of all items in a list
This is useful when you need to change the type of values in a list.

Example 1:
>>> list(map(int, ['1', '2', '3']))
Output:
[1, 2, 3]

Example 2:
This is also useful when we want to make a list consisting of heterogonous
items homogeneous.
>>> list(map(float, ['1', 2, '3.0', 4.0, '5', 6]))
Output:
[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0]

2- Sum of digits of an integer

You don’t have to use mathematical operators, i.e. / (division) and %


(modulo) operators, to compute the sum of digits of an integer number.
There is an alternative way to do that. If we convert the number to a string,
everything becomes easy. But how? We’ve already known that strings are
iterable so we can iterate over characters of a string with map() function.

We’ll basically use this logic.


>>> sum_of_digits = lambda x: sum(map(int, str(x)))
Example:
>>> print(sum_of_digits(1789))
Output:
25

3- Flat a list that contains sublists

Suppose that we have a list like that:


>>> l = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6], [7, 8], [9]]

And we want to flat the list so that the result becomes:


[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

>>> flattened_list = [item for sublist in l for item in sublist]

Example:
>>> l = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6], [7, 8], [9]]
>>> flattened_list = [item for sublist in l for item in sublist]
>>> print(flattened_list)
Output:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

4- Transpose of a Matrix

This is a good practice to use zip() function.


>>> transpose_A = [list(i) for i in zip(*A)]
Example:
>>> A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
>>> transpose_A = [list(i) for i in zip(*A)]

Let’s use NumPy to print the 2d array:


import numpy as np

A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

print(np.matrix(A))

transpose_A = [list(i) for i in zip(*A)]

print()

print(np.matrix(transpose_A))
Output:
[[1 2 3]
[4 5 6]
[7 8 9]]
[[1 4 7]
[2 5 8]
[3 6 9]]

5- Swap keys and values in a dictionary

Suppose that we have staff data storing in a dict and want to exchange
key-value pairs.
>>> staff = {'Data Scientist': 'John', 'Django Developer': 'Jane'}
We can use dictionary comprehension to swap key-value pairs.
>>> staff = {i:j for j, i in staff.items()}
Let’s print the result:
>>> print(staff)
Output:
{'John': 'Data Scientist', 'Jane': 'Django Developer'}

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