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Python One-Liners

by Christian Mayer

April 2020

Intermediate to advanced

216 pages

5h 19m

English

No Starch Press

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Basic Data StructuresContainer Data StructuresControl FlowFunctionsLambdasSummary
Using List Comprehension to Find Top EarnersUsing List Comprehension to Find Words with High Information ValueReading a FileUsing Lambda and Map FunctionsUsing Slicing to Extract Matching Substring EnvironmentsCombining List Comprehension and SlicingUsing Slice Assignment to Correct Corrupted ListsAnalyzing Cardiac Health Data with List ConcatenationUsing Generator Expressions to Find Companies That Pay Below Minimum WageFormatting Databases with the zip() FunctionSummary
Basic Two-Dimensional Array ArithmeticWorking with NumPy Arrays: Slicing, Broadcasting, and Array TypesConditional Array Search, Filtering, and Broadcasting to Detect OutliersBoolean Indexing to Filter Two-Dimensional ArraysBroadcasting, Slice Assignment, and Reshaping to Clean Every i-th Array ElementWhen to Use the sort() Function and When to Use the argsort() Function in NumPyHow to Use Lambda Functions and Boolean Indexing to Filter ArraysHow to Create Advanced Array Filters with Statistics, Math, and LogicSimple Association Analysis: People Who Bought X Also Bought YIntermediate Association Analysis to Find Bestseller BundlesSummary
The Basics of Supervised Machine LearningLinear RegressionLogistic Regression in One LineK-Means Clustering in One LineK-Nearest Neighbors in One LineNeural Network Analysis in One LineDecision-Tree Learning in One LineGet Row with Minimal Variance in One LineBasic Statistics in One LineClassification with Support-Vector Machines in One LineClassification with Random Forests in One LineSummary
Finding Basic Textual Patterns in StringsWriting Your First Web Scraper with Regular ExpressionsAnalyzing Hyperlinks of HTML DocumentsExtracting Dollars from a StringFinding Nonsecure HTTP URLsValidating the Time Format of User Input, Part 1Validating Time Format of User Input, Part 2Duplicate Detection in StringsDetecting Word RepetitionsModifying Regex Patterns in a Multiline StringSummary
Finding Anagrams with Lambda Functions and SortingFinding Palindromes with Lambda Functions and Negative SlicingCounting Permutations with Recursive Factorial FunctionsFinding the Levenshtein DistanceCalculating the Powerset by Using Functional ProgrammingCaesar’s Cipher Encryption Using Advanced Indexing and List ComprehensionFinding Prime Numbers with the Sieve of EratosthenesCalculating the Fibonacci Series with the reduce() FunctionA Recursive Binary Search AlgorithmA Recursive Quicksort AlgorithmSummary

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1PYTHON REFRESHER

The purpose of this chapter is to refresh your knowledge of basic Python data structures, keywords, control flow operations, and other fundamentals. I wrote this book for intermediate Python programmers who want to reach the next level of programming expertise. To get to the expert level, you need a thorough study of the basics.

Understanding the basics allows you to take a step back and see the bigger picture—an important skill whether you want to become tech lead at Google, a computer science professor, or just a great programmer. For instance, computer science professors will often have an incredibly profound knowledge of ...