How-to articles, tricks, and solutions about PYTHON

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In Python 3, all classes automatically inherit from the object class.

Code like str = str(...) causes a TypeError because it attempts to re-assign the built-in str type to a new value, which is not allowed.

When comparing strings using the '==' operator, the comparison is based on the actual characters in the string.

Python code can run faster in a function because of something called "Just-In-Time" (JIT) compilation.

The range() function generates a sequence of numbers, starting from the first argument, and ending before the second argument.

The join() method is a string method, so it is called on a string object and takes a list of strings as its argument.

The error message "invalid command 'bdist_wheel'" occurs when the "bdist_wheel" module is not installed.

Reading from stdin can be slower in C++ than in Python for a few reasons:

Pip is generally preferred over easy_install because it offers a number of features that easy_install does not, including better package management and more user-friendly command options.

Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how to work with UTF-8 encoding in a Python source file:

Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how to write a list to a file with newlines in Python:

In the above code snippet, the to_csv method is used to write a DataFrame to a CSV file.

Here is an example code snippet for writing a string to a file on a new line every time in Python: