I had originally coded the program wrongly. Instead of returning the Fibonacci numbers between a range (ie. startNumber 1, endNumber 20 should = only those numbers between 1 & 20), I have written for the program to display all Fibonacci numbers between a range (ie. startNumber 1, endNumber 20 displays = First 20 Fibonacci numbers). I thought I had a sure-fire code. I also do not see why this is happening.
If I have sequence of sequences (maybe a list of tuples) I can use itertools.chain() to flatten it. But sometimes I feel like I would rather write it as a comprehension. I just can’t figure out how to do it. Here’s a very construed case: Let’s say I want to swap the elements of every … Read more
I want to write a function that accepts a parameter which can be either a sequence or a single value. The type of value is str, int, etc., but I don’t want it to be restricted to a hardcoded list.
In other words, I want to know if the parameter X is a sequence or something I have to convert to a sequence to avoid special-casing later. I could do
I assumed sequence types in Python were value types. It turns out they’re reference types (Meaning that the value of a variable won’t be copied when assigned to a new variable, but referenced). So now I’m wondering, what are the value types in Python? That is, what types in Python can I assign to new variables without worrying that the variable was referenced?