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Mohd Mohtashim has Published 238 Articles

Mohd Mohtashim
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Many of Python's time functions handle time as a tuple of 9 numbers, as shown below −IndexFieldValues04-digit year20081Month1 to 122Day1 to 313Hour0 to 234Minute0 to 595Second0 to 61 (60 or 61 are leap-seconds)6Day of Week0 to 6 (0 is Monday)7Day of year1 to 366 (Julian day)8Daylight savings-1, 0, 1, -1 ... Read More

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Python includes the following dictionary functions −Sr.NoFunction with Description1cmp(dict1, dict2)Compares elements of both dict.2len(dict)Gives the total length of the dictionary. This would be equal to the number of items in the dictionary.3str(dict)Produces a printable string representation of a dictionary4type(variable)Returns the type of the passed variable. If passed variable is dictionary, ... Read More

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Dictionary values have no restrictions. They can be any arbitrary Python object, either standard objects or user-defined objects. However, same is not true for the keys.There are two important points to remember about dictionary keys −More than one entry per key not allowed. Which means no duplicate key is allowed. ... Read More

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You can either remove individual dictionary elements or clear the entire contents of a dictionary. You can also delete entire dictionary in a single operation.To explicitly remove an entire dictionary, just use the del statement.ExampleFollowing is a simple example − Live Demo#!/usr/bin/python dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'} del dict['Name']; # ... Read More

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You can update a dictionary by adding a new entry or a key-value pair, modifying an existing entry, or deleting an existing entry as shown below in the simple example −Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/python dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'} dict['Age'] = 8; # update existing entry dict['School'] = "DPS ... Read More

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Python includes the following tuple functions −Sr.NoFunction with Description1cmp(tuple1, tuple2)Compares elements of both tuples.2len(tuple)Gives the total length of the tuple.3max(tuple)Returns item from the tuple with max value.4min(tuple)Returns item from the tuple with min value.5tuple(seq)Converts a list into tuple.Read More

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Any set of multiple objects, comma-separated, written without identifying symbols, i.e., brackets for lists, parentheses for tuples, etc., default to tuples, as indicated in these short examples −Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/python print 'abc', -4.24e93, 18+6.6j, 'xyz'; x, y = 1, 2; print "Value of x , y : ", x, y;OutputWhen the ... Read More

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Tuples respond to the + and * operators much like strings; they mean concatenation and repetition here too, except that the result is a new tuple, not a string.In fact, tuples respond to all of the general sequence operations we used on strings in the prior chapter −Python ExpressionResultsDescriptionlen((1, 2, ... Read More

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Removing individual tuple elements is not possible. There is, of course, nothing wrong with putting together another tuple with the undesired elements discarded.To explicitly remove an entire tuple, just use the del statement.Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/python tup = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000); print tup; del tup; print "After deleting tup : "; print tup;OutputThis ... Read More

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Python includes the following list functions −Sr.NoFunction with Description1cmp(list1, list2)Compares elements of both lists.2len(list)Gives the total length of the list.p>3max(list)Returns item from the list with max value.4min(list)Returns item from the list with min value.5list(seq)Converts a tuple into list.Python includes following list methodsSr.NoMethods with Description1list.append(obj)Appends object obj to list2list.count(obj)Returns count of ... Read More