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Popular Modern Must-Know Python Idioms

The document summarizes popular Python idioms including list comprehensions, dictionary comprehensions, the walrus operator, f-strings, unpacking sequences, the ternary operator, boolean chaining, iterators and generators, context managers, and decorators. These idioms provide concise ways to build and transform collections, assign variables, format strings, work with sequences, write conditional expressions, efficiently process large data, simplify resource management, and modify functions respectively.

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Popular Modern Must-Know Python Idioms

The document summarizes popular Python idioms including list comprehensions, dictionary comprehensions, the walrus operator, f-strings, unpacking sequences, the ternary operator, boolean chaining, iterators and generators, context managers, and decorators. These idioms provide concise ways to build and transform collections, assign variables, format strings, work with sequences, write conditional expressions, efficiently process large data, simplify resource management, and modify functions respectively.

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Popular Modern Must-Know

Python Idioms
Y. Bulavin
List Comprehensions Ternary Operator
Dictionary Comprehensions Boolean Chaining
Walrus Operator (:=) Iterators and Generators
f-Strings Context Managers
Unpacking Sequences Decorators
List Comprehensions

Concisely building new lists based on existing ones.

E.g., [square for x in range(10)] creates a list of squares from 0 to 9.


Dictionary Comprehensions

Similar to list comprehensions, but build dictionaries.

E.g., {x: x*2 for x in range(5)} creates a dictionary {0: 0, 1: 2, 2: 4, ...}.


Walrus Operator (:=):

Assigns a value and uses it in the same expression.

E.g., (total := sum(data)) * 2 assigns the sum of data to total and then
doubles it.
f-Strings

Embed variables and expressions directly into formatted strings.

E.g., f"The answer is {result:.2f}" formats result to two decimal places.


Unpacking Sequences

Assign multiple values from a sequence to variables simultaneously.

E.g., a, b, c = (1, 2, 3) assigns 1 to a, 2 to b, and 3 to c.

Conditional expression with a concise syntax.

E.g., positive = "Yes" if x > 0 else "No" assigns "Yes" to positive if x is


positive, else "No".
Ternary Operator

Conditional expression with a concise syntax.

E.g., positive = "Yes" if x > 0 else "No" assigns "Yes" to positive if x is


positive, else "No".
Boolean Chaining

Combine conditional expressions with and or or for concise checks.

E.g., if age > 18 and name == "Alice": print("Welcome!") checks both age
and name.
Iterators and Generators

Efficiently work with large or infinite data without storing everything in


memory.

E.g., use itertools functions like map and filter for concise processing.
Context Managers

Simplify resource management like opening and closing files with with
statements.

E.g., with open("data.txt") as f: print(f.read()) automatically closes the


file.
Decorators

Modify functions without changing their source code.

E.g., use @cache to memoize the results of a function for faster


subsequent calls.

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