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Diffstat (limited to 'python.html.markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | python.html.markdown | 18 | 
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
| diff --git a/python.html.markdown b/python.html.markdown index c75e90c4..9324e29b 100644 --- a/python.html.markdown +++ b/python.html.markdown @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ None #=> None  "etc" is None #=> False  None is None  #=> True +# The 'is' operator tests for object identity. This isn't +# very useful when dealing with primitive values, but is +# very useful when dealing with objects. +  # None, 0, and empty strings/lists all evaluate to False.  # All other values are True  0 == False  #=> True @@ -169,9 +173,6 @@ li.extend(other_li) # Now li is [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]  # Examine the length with len  len(li) #=> 6 -# Note: lists can contain arbitrary values -li2 = [1, "Hello", [[], "Hi", 5,]] -  # Tuples are like lists but are immutable.  tup = (1, 2, 3)  tup[0] #=> 1 @@ -375,8 +376,6 @@ add_10(3) #=> 13  # There are also anonymous functions  (lambda x: x > 2)(3) #=> True -rectangle_area = lambda a, b: a * b -print rectangle_area(3, 4) #=> 12  # There are built-in higher order functions  map(add_10, [1,2,3]) #=> [11, 12, 13] @@ -386,9 +385,6 @@ filter(lambda x: x > 5, [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]) #=> [6, 7]  [add_10(i) for i in [1, 2, 3]]  #=> [11, 12, 13]  [x for x in [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] if x > 5] #=> [6, 7] -# You can also use dictionary comprehensions -{i: add_10(i) for i in [1, 2, 3]} #=> {1: 11, 2: 12, 3: 13} -  ####################################################  ## 5. Classes  #################################################### @@ -404,8 +400,7 @@ class Human(object):          # Assign the argument to the instance's name attribute          self.name = name -    # An instance method. All methods take self as the first argument, -    # which refers to the instance of this class +    # An instance method. All methods take self as the first argument      def say(self, msg):         return "%s: %s" % (self.name, msg) @@ -462,7 +457,8 @@ import math as m  math.sqrt(16) == m.sqrt(16) #=> True  # Python modules are just ordinary python files. You -# can write your own, and import them. +# can write your own, and import them. The name of the  +# module is the same as the name of the file.  ``` | 
