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Python Tricks: Storing Multiple Values
In this post, we’re going to talk about how to store and manipulate values in a Python list. Understanding all the ways you can store and use values is integral to mastering any coding language, and Python is no exception. For the purposes of this post, let’s use the following list as an example: l […]
Read MoreHow to Use Python to Convert Miles to Kilometers
It can be so frustrating that the entire planet can’t just agree on one system of measurement, whether it relates to measuring distances, weights, temperatures, etc (for the record…same goes for which side of the road everyone drives on). If every country used the same units of measurement, then these formulas would be useless and […]
Read MoreHow to Use Python to Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius
There aren’t many easy tricks you can use to easily convert Fahrenheit to Celsius (or vice versa) in your head. Unless you’re great with numbers, the formulas aren’t exactly something you can you figure out using mental math. If you’re not so great with numbers, there’s calculators for that. Or, if you feel so inclined, the formulas […]
Read MoreBuild Games for Python Using Pygame
Pygame is a set of modules designed to help you write Python games by providing you with extra functionalities and libraries. It’s free, supports Python 3.2 and up, runs on just about every operating system and platforms, and has over a million downloads, so it’s very widely used. Pygame is super speedy because it uses optimized […]
Read MoreUsing Modulo to Check for Leap Year in Python
We’ve already covered the modulo (%) operator in a previous lesson, but just as a quick refresher, the modulo is an operator that is used to calculate the remainder of one number divided by another. So if you have an equation such as 6 % 3, the answer would be 0, because 3 goes into […]
Read MorePython Code Snippets: Solving the Quadratic Equation
Here’s a fun way to use Python: input any three numbers into a function and you can solve the quadratic equation in milliseconds. Bet you wish you knew about this one back when you were in Algebra I class. The function, written by the people over at Programiz, solves the quadratic equation using basic multiplication […]
Read MoreImage Processing with Pillow for Python
If you’ve ever tried to process images on Python and found it to be a total pain, Pillow is here for you. You might know that PIL (Python Imaging Library) has a lot of problems and limitations, and it doesn’t really seem to be in development (it’s hardly ever updated or changed). Here’s where Pillow […]
Read MoreBeautiful Soup: A Web Scraper for Python
If you ever need to extract data from a Python site or file quickly and easily, Beautiful Soup, a library designed to help with things like web scraping, is here for you. Beautiful Soup is built on top of popular Python parsers lxml and html5lib, and it’s great for web scraping because it automatically converts […]
Read MorePython Snippets: How to Generate Random String
Python can be a really useful tool to do things like creating random strings. There could be dozens of different reasons why you might want to create a random string of characters and numbers, but one of the more common ones is to use this string as a password. Python Code Snippets offers this really […]
Read MoreQuick Tip: How to Print a File Path of a Module
Python provides a really easy and simple way of retrieving file paths of an imported module. This can be really helpful if you’re trying to find a file path quickly and you’re working on a project that has multiple subdirectories, or if you’re using scripts or programs that are primarily accessed through the command line. If […]
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