30-Day Coding Challenge

Days 16 & 17 — Can I Know Every Hack?

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So far in my challenge, I’ve discovered several hacks online, some of which I’ve shared in my previous reports.

It’s part of the process. Each time I sit to code, I discover new ways of working with a function or a data type.

It makes me wonder:

Can I know every single hack in Python language?

Ah, that would be like planning to master all the modules, which I don’t think my brain can take in a lifetime.

What hacks from Days 16 & 17 of my challenge do I plan on sharing?

Day 16: Converting Str to Lists/Tuples

I’ll be honest — I never thought of a situation or the possibility of converting from string to lists and vice versa. Sure, I knew of the str function but never thought of using it to convert a list into a string. I’ve only used it for converting integers and floats to strings.

I guess there are some functions you never think of applying in some ways.

Day 17: Ways to Add New Key-value Pairs to a Dictionary

Normally, I’ve updated my dictionaries using the update method:

dict = {'author':'Kester R.', 'pub': 'DSV Logs!', 'action': 'Follow 😉'}

dict.update({'another key': 'Another value'})

# Output: {'author': 'Kester R.', 'pub': 'DSV Logs!', 'action': 'Follow 😉', 'another key': 'Another value'}

But, there are two more ways to do so. Still using the update method, you can write it this way:

dict.update(new_key = 'New value')

You can even add new key-value pairs without the update method:

dict['latest key'] = 'Latest value'

However, the second method seems limited since keys used with keyword arguments in the update method can't have spaces.

On to two more days of discovery and coding.