Python Basics Notes 🐍📚

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If you work with Python, remember a simple rule: do not modify a list while iterating over it. 🐍🛑 This can lead to unexpected results because the iterator does not track structural changes.

Here is an example that looks logical but works incorrectly: 🤔

items = [1, 2, 2, 3, 4]
for item in items:
    if item == 2:
        items.remove(item)
print(items)
# Output: [1, 2, 3, 4]

It seems that all 2s should disappear, but one remains. ❓ Why?

After removing an element, the list shifts, but the loop moves on — as a result, some values are simply skipped. 🔄🚫

How to do it correctly — iterate over a copy: ✅

for item in items[:]:
    if item == 2:
          items.remove(item)
print(items)
# Output: [1, 3, 4]

Even better — use list comprehension: 🚀

items = [x for x in items if x != 2]

Conclusion: 🏁 do not modify a collection during iteration. This can lead to skipped elements, duplication, or even errors during execution. 🛠️🚧

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The Python library itertools contains many useful functions. 🐍✨

One of them is compress(), which returns an iterator over the elements from data, for which the corresponding element in selectors is equal to True. 🔍💻

Here's an example: 📝👇

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Cheat sheet on the basics of Python: 🐍📚

basic syntax and language rules 📝
scalar types — basic data types (int, float, bool, str, NoneType) 🔢

datetime — working with date and time 📅⏰

data structures — Python data structures (list, tuple, dict, set) 🗄

list — mutable lists for storing data collections 📋
tuple — immutable sequences of values 🔒
dict (hash map) — storing data in a key-value format 🗝
set — unique elements without order 🔘

slicing — obtaining parts of sequences through indices and step ✂️

module/library — connecting modules and libraries 🔌

help functions — using help() and dir() to explore the Python API 🛠

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Do you know that Python can shift sequences without slicing and creating new lists? 🤔

When you need to cyclically shift data, many use slicing:

data = data[-1:] + data[:-1]

But deque.rotate() does this at the level of the data structure and usually works more efficiently for cyclical operations. 🚀

q.rotate(1)

A negative value rotates the queue in the other direction. ⬅️

q.rotate(-2)

This is useful for ring buffers, task schedulers, cyclical queues, and round-robin algorithms. 🔄

workers.rotate(-1)

🔥 deque.rotate() allows you to implement cyclical data structures without manual index logic and without creating new lists. 💡

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How to check for the presence of subclasses in Python? 🐍🧐

Here's how you can do it:

import inspect

def has_subclasses(cls):
    return any(issubclass(sub, cls) for sub in inspect.getmembers(sys.modules[cls.__module__], inspect.isclass))

This function uses the inspect module to find all subclasses of the given class. 🛠️

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📂 Reminder about Python map()!

map() — a built-in function that applies the specified function to each element of an iterable object (list, tuple, set, etc.).

The picture shows the basic syntax, an example of use with lambda, and a typical case — data transformation without a manual for loop.

Save it to quickly remember the syntax!

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"Introduction to Algorithms" 📘 - an outstanding university resource for everyone studying algorithms and computer science. 🎓💻

The book covers computational complexity, data structures, algorithms on graphs, dynamic programming, divide-and-conquer methods, greedy algorithms, randomized algorithms, and many mathematical foundations of modern computer science. 🧮📊🔍

What's particularly valuable here is the combination of mathematical rigor and practical algorithmic thinking. 🧠✨ This is one of those books that greatly change the approach to problem analysis, efficiency, and computing itself. 🚀🛠

An essential tool in the library of any developer and engineer working in the field of computer science. 🏗💾

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Why is enumerate() used in Python? 🤔🐍

It allows you to simultaneously obtain the value of an element and its index when iterating through a list. 📊✨

This is more convenient and more readable than manually working with a counter. ✅🚀

for i, item in enumerate(items):
    print(i, item)

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# Cheat sheet on high-order functions in Python:

🐍 map() - applies a function to every element of an iterable and returns an iterator with the results
🔍 filter() - filters elements based on a condition and leaves only those for which the function returns True
🔄 reduce() - successively combines all elements of an iterable into a single value
⚡ lambda functions - anonymous functions for short expressions and working with map/filter/reduce
📦 iterable objects - lists, tuples, and other collections for processing
📚 functools - a Python module that contains reduce()
🧠 functional programming - an approach to programming through functions and data processing without changing the state

```python
# Example usage
from functools import reduce

# map
squared = map(lambda x: x**2, [1, 2, 3, 4])
print(list(squared))

# filter
evens = filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
print(list(evens))

# reduce
total = reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, [1, 2, 3, 4])
pr

int(total)```

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Why in Python it is better to check None using is 🐍

In Python, you should not write obj == None, even if sometimes it works the same ⚠️

The reason is that == calls the comparison method eq, which can be overridden in the class — and then the behavior becomes unpredictable 🎲

For example:

class Weird:
    def eq(self, other):
        return True  # always says "equal"

obj = Weird()

print(obj == None)  # True
print(obj is None)  # False

Here obj == None gives a false result due to custom logic 🤔

Instead:

obj is None

is checks the identity of the object and cannot be overridden. Since None is a singleton, such a check is always correct and predictable ✅

Conclusion: to check for None always use is None — it is the right and safe approach 🛡️

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