What does if __name__ == “__main__”: do?
What does this do?
idioms
Pairs from single list
Often enough, I’ve found the need to process a list by pairs. I was wondering which would be the pythonic and efficient way to do it, and found this on Google:
Get the key corresponding to the minimum value within a dictionary
If I have a Python dictionary, how do I get the key to the entry which contains the minimum value?
LBYL vs EAFP in Java?
I was recently teaching myself Python and discovered the LBYL/EAFP idioms with regards to error checking before code execution. In Python, it seems the accepted style is EAFP, and it seems to work well with the language.
What is the pythonic way to detect the last element in a ‘for’ loop?
I’d like to know the best way (more compact and “pythonic” way) to do a special treatment for the last element in a for loop. There is a piece of code that should be called only between elements, being suppressed in the last one.
Python “Every Other Element” Idiom
I feel like I spend a lot of time writing code in Python, but not enough time creating Pythonic code. Recently I ran into a funny little problem that I thought might have an easy, idiomatic solution. Paraphrasing the original, I needed to collect every sequential pair in a list. For example, given the list … Read more