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10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code

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This video is sponsored by Skillshare. Be one of the first 500 people to sign up with this link and get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/coreyschafer In this Python Programming video, we will be going over 10 tips and tricks for writing Pythonic code. Here are the timestamps for each topic we will cover... 1) Ternary Conditionals - 0:34 2) Underscore Placeholders - 2:13 3) Context Managers - 4:25 4) Enumerate - 6:50 5) Zip - 8:52 6) Unpacking - 13:02 7) Setattr/Getattr - 19:08 8) GetPass - 26:24 9) Python dash m - 29:18 10) Help/Dir - 33:17 Context Managers Tutorial - https://youtu.be/-aKFBoZpiqA Sys.path Tutorial - https://youtu.be/CqvZ3vGoGs0 ✅ Support My Channel Through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/coreyms ✅ Become a Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g/join ✅ One-Time Contribution Through PayPal: https://goo.gl/649HFY ✅ Cryptocurrency Donations: Bitcoin Wallet - 3MPH8oY2EAgbLVy7RBMinwcBntggi7qeG3 Ethereum Wallet - 0x151649418616068fB46C3598083817101d3bCD33 Litecoin Wallet - MPvEBY5fxGkmPQgocfJbxP6EmTo5UUXMot ✅ Corey's Public Amazon Wishlist http://a.co/inIyro1 ✅ Equipment I Use and Books I Recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/coreyschafer ▶️ You Can Find Me On: My Website - http://coreyms.com/ My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/coreymschafer Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoreyMSchafer Twitter - https://twitter.com/CoreyMSchafer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coreymschafer/ #Python

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'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 801.812, 'text': "So zip is actually returning a tuple of three items here, but we're just unpacking them by setting three different variables.", 'start': 794.246, 'duration': 7.566}, {'end': 805.254, 'text': 'Now we could just access that single tuple if we wanted.', 'start': 802.252, 'duration': 3.002}, {'end': 815.22, 'text': 'So for example, if I was to just say for value in zip names, And then instead of all this, I just printed out that value and run that.', 'start': 805.615, 'duration': 9.605}, {'end': 823.522, 'text': 'Then we can see that now it prints out the tuple of all three of those values, instead of accessing them individually,', 'start': 815.68, 'duration': 7.842}, {'end': 824.962, 'text': 'like we did when we unpacked them.', 'start': 823.522, 'duration': 1.44}, {'end': 827.182, 'text': 'So that brings us to our next tip.', 'start': 825.402, 'duration': 1.78}, {'end': 830.843, 'text': "A lot of people don't know much about how unpacking works.", 'start': 827.583, 'duration': 3.26}, {'end': 835.724, 'text': "So let's take a more detailed look at some different ways that we can unpack different values.", 'start': 831.443, 'duration': 4.281}], 'summary': 'Using zip in python to unpack and access tuples in a list.', 'duration': 45.702, 'max_score': 790.022, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk790022.jpg'}, {'end': 892.349, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 859.218, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 862.941, 'text': 'And let me also uncomment out the print statements here and run this.', 'start': 859.218, 'duration': 3.723}, {'end': 869.125, 'text': "And that's what we saw before when we unpacked those values from our for loops in the last couple of examples.", 'start': 863.441, 'duration': 5.684}, {'end': 874.33, 'text': "So here, we're just unpacking two values into two different variables.", 'start': 869.565, 'duration': 4.765}, {'end': 879.816, 'text': "Now, it's pretty common to sometimes have, you know, a function or something that's returning a tuple.", 'start': 874.691, 'duration': 5.125}, {'end': 883.32, 'text': 'But really, you just want to use one value in particular.', 'start': 880.216, 'duration': 3.104}, {'end': 892.349, 'text': "So let's say that I only want to use this a value here, but i just am not going to use this b value.", 'start': 884.141, 'duration': 8.208}], 'summary': 'Unpacking two values into two variables and focusing on using a single value.', 'duration': 33.131, 'max_score': 859.218, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk859218.jpg'}, {'end': 947.94, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 928.238, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 939.05, 'text': "Now, the convention of using the underscore as a variable name is basically just telling Python or anyone else reading your code that we know that we're not planning to use that variable anywhere else in the code.", 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'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk1597111.jpg'}, {'end': 1707.801, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1683.612, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1690.116, 'text': 'So we can see that when we input our password, we can see it typed out here on the screen.', 'start': 1683.612, 'duration': 6.504}, {'end': 1693.418, 'text': "And that's definitely not what users are going to want.", 'start': 1690.476, 'duration': 2.942}, {'end': 1696.859, 'text': "you know, if they're using your application or program in front of others,", 'start': 1693.698, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 1701.14, 'text': "then they simply don't want that displaying on the screen for everyone to see.", 'start': 1696.859, 'duration': 4.281}, {'end': 1707.801, 'text': 'so python has a built-in module called get pass that has a function that takes care of this for us.', 'start': 1701.14, 'duration': 6.661}], 'summary': "Python's getpass module helps secure passwords by hiding them from the screen.", 'duration': 24.189, 'max_score': 1683.612, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk1683612.jpg'}, {'end': 1794.859, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1765.764, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1768.548, 'text': 'Okay, so let me clear the screen for what I have there now.', 'start': 1765.764, 'duration': 2.784}, {'end': 1777.812, 'text': 'and now what I want to specifically talk about is I want to talk about what\'s going on when we run Python with the "-m option.', 'start': 1769.188, 'duration': 8.624}, {'end': 1781.453, 'text': 'now, some of you have seen me do this in videos before and have asked about it.', 'start': 1777.812, 'duration': 3.641}, {'end': 1783.814, 'text': "so let's talk about what that's doing.", 'start': 1781.453, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 1786.315, 'text': "so if you don't know what I mean, here are some examples.", 'start': 1783.814, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 1794.859, 'text': 'so if 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functions.", 'start': 1997.332, 'duration': 7.168}, {'end': 2014.11, 'text': 'So in this case, let me start a Python interpreter and import that SMTPD module to see if I can discover what arguments I can pass in there.', 'start': 2004.901, 'duration': 9.209}, {'end': 2021.797, 'text': "So I can say Python, and now I have my interpreter started, and now I'm going to import smtpd.", 'start': 2014.511, 'duration': 7.286}], 'summary': 'Tips on learning more about modules and objects in python, including using built-in functions and importing modules for exploration.', 'duration': 33.734, 'max_score': 1988.063, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk1988063.jpg'}, {'end': 2148.764, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2123.282, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2129.286, 'text': "If you just wanted to know what attributes and methods are available to you and don't need all those explanations,", 'start': 2123.282, 'duration': 6.004}, {'end': 2137.292, 'text': 'then you can use the built in dir function and get the available attributes and methods for that specific object.', 'start': 2129.286, 'duration': 8.006}, {'end': 2143.158, 'text': "So for example, let's say that I wanted to see what attributes and methods were available with a datetime object.", 'start': 2137.552, 'duration': 5.606}, {'end': 2144.98, 'text': 'So first let me import that.', 'start': 2143.478, 'duration': 1.502}, {'end': 2148.764, 'text': "So I'll say from datetime, import datetime.", 'start': 2145.18, 'duration': 3.584}], 'summary': 'Use dir function to get available attributes and methods for specific objects.', 'duration': 25.482, 'max_score': 2123.282, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/C-gEQdGVXbk/pics/C-gEQdGVXbk2123282.jpg'}, {'end': 2313.334, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2285.079, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 2287.481, 'text': 'So I want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring this video.', 'start': 2285.079, 'duration': 2.402}, {'end': 2291.264, 'text': 'And it would be great if you could go and check them out and support the sponsors for this channel.', 'start': 2287.781, 'duration': 3.483}, {'end': 2294.868, 'text': "And they've provided me with the sign up link that I'll post in the description section below.", 'start': 2291.625, 'duration': 3.243}, {'end': 2300.273, 'text': 'And the first 500 people to sign up using that link will get two free months of Skillshare premium,', 'start': 2295.248, 'duration': 5.025}, {'end': 2302.274, 'text': 'so that you can check it out and see how you like it.', 'start': 2300.273, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 2304.95, 'text': 'Okay, so I think that is going to do it for this video.', 'start': 2303.109, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 2308.812, 'text': 'I hope you learned some useful tips and tricks in this video that you might not have seen before.', 'start': 2305.29, 'duration': 3.522}, {'end': 2313.334, 'text': "And I'm also interested in your 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