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Testing membership and empty strings

By J. Ryan Hall on 20 January 2023

I was working on one of the exercises on the Pybites platform (Bite 29) and encountered a situation I didn’t understand. I needed to check a set of inputs to see if they were alphanumeric or not as part of the solution to the exercise. I succeeded in all but one test, but I couldn’t… Continue reading Testing membership and empty strings

Best Practices

Single or double quotes in Python?

By Bob Belderbos on 20 September 2022

Whatever you think about Twitter these days, it’s pretty handy for us developers to ask questions and get inputs 💡 Last week I asked about single vs double quotes in Python: I thought double quotes were a given, black – “The Uncompromising Code Formatter”, defaults to them and I personally find them pleasant to the eye.… Continue reading Single or double quotes in Python?

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Mutable vs Immutable Data Types in Python

By Bob Belderbos on 27 April 2020

Knowing the difference between mutable and immutable types in Python is important. In this article I will give you some practical examples of both and show you some of the advantages of using immutable types. We even look at JS / React / functional programming a bit towards the end.

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