Python One-Liners: Write Concise, Eloquent Python Like a Professional

Python One-Liners: Write Concise, Eloquent Python Like a Professional

by Christian Mayer
Python One-Liners: Write Concise, Eloquent Python Like a Professional

Python One-Liners: Write Concise, Eloquent Python Like a Professional

by Christian Mayer

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Overview

Python programmers will improve their computer science skills with these useful one-liners.

Python One-Liners will teach you how to read and write "one-liners": concise statements of useful functionality packed into a single line of code. You'll learn how to systematically unpack and understand any line of Python code, and write eloquent, powerfully compressed Python like an expert.

The book's five chapters cover tips and tricks, regular expressions, machine learning, core data science topics, and useful algorithms. Detailed explanations of one-liners introduce key computer science concepts and boost your coding and analytical skills. You'll learn about advanced Python features such as list comprehension, slicing, lambda functions, regular expressions, map and reduce functions, and slice assignments. You'll also learn how to:

    Leverage data structures to solve real-world problems, like using Boolean indexing to find cities with above-average pollution
    Use NumPy basics such as array, shape, axis, type, broadcasting, advanced indexing, slicing, sorting, searching, aggregating, and statistics
    Calculate basic statistics of multidimensional data arrays and the K-Means algorithms for unsupervised learning
    Create more advanced regular expressions using grouping and named groups, negative lookaheads, escaped characters, whitespaces, character sets (and negative characters sets), and greedy/nongreedy operators
    Understand a wide range of computer science topics, including anagrams, palindromes, supersets, permutations, factorials, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, obfuscation, searching, and algorithmic sorting

By the end of the book, you'll know how to write Python at its most refined, and create concise, beautiful pieces of "Python art" in merely a single line.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781718500518
Publisher: No Starch Press
Publication date: 05/12/2020
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Christian Mayer has a PhD in computer science and is the founder of the popular Python site Finxter (https://blog.finxter.com). Mayer is also the author of the Coffee Break Python series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction xix

Python One-Liner Example xx

A Note on Readability xxi

Who Is This Book For? xxii

What Will You Learn? xxii

Online Resources xxiii

1 Python Refresher 1

Basic Data Structures 2

Numerical Data Types and Structures 2

Booleans 2

Strings 4

The Keyword None 5

Container Data Structures 6

Lists 6

Stacks 8

Sets 9

Dictionaries 10

Membership 11

List and Set Comprehension 12

Control Flow 12

If, else, and elif 13

Loops 13

Functions 14

Lambdas 15

Summary 16

2 Python Tricks 17

Using List Comprehension to Find Top Earners 18

The Basics 18

The Code 20

How It Works 20

Using List Comprehension to Find Words with High Information Value 21

The Basics 21

The Code 21

How It Works 22

Reading a File 22

The Basics 22

The Code 23

How It Works 23

Using Lambda and Map Functions 24

The Basics 24

The Code 25

How It Works 26

Using Slicing to Extract Matching Substring Environments 26

The Basics 26

The Code 28

How It Works 29

Combining List Comprehension and Slicing 29

The Basics 29

The Code 30

How It Works 30

Using Slice Assignment to Correct Corrupted Lists 31

The Basics 31

The Code 32

How It Works 32

Analyzing Cardiac Health Data with List Concatenation 33

The Basics 33

The Code 35

How It Works 35

Using Generator Expressions to Find Companies That Pay Below Minimum Wage 35

The Basics 35

The Code 36

How It Works 36

Formatting Databases with the zip() Function 37

The Basics 37

The Code 38

How It Works 39

Summary 39

3 Data Science 41

Basic Two-Dimensional Array Arithmetic 42

The Basics 42

The Code 45

How It Works 45

Working with NumPy Arrays: Slicing, Broadcasting, and Array Types 46

The Basics 46

The Code 51

How It Works 52

Conditional Array Search, Filtering, and Broadcasting to Detect Outliers 53

The Basics 53

The Code 54

How It Works 55

Boolean Indexing to Filter Two-Dimensional Arrays 57

The Basics 57

The Code 58

How It Works 58

Broadcasting, Slice Assignment, and Reshaping to Clean Every i-th Array Element 60

The Basics 60

The Code 62

How It Works 63

When to Use the sort() Function and When to Use the argsort() Function in NumPy 64

The Basics 64

The Code 66

How It Works 66

How to Use Lambda Functions and Boolean Indexing to Filter Arrays 68

The Basics 68

The Code 68

How It Works 69

How to Create Advanced Array Filters with Statistics, Math, and Logic 70

The Basics 70

The Code 73

How It Works 74

Simple Association Analysis: People Who Bought X Also Bought Y 74

The Basics 74

The Code 75

How It Works 76

Intermediate Association Analysis to Find Bestseller Bundles 77

The Basics 77

The Code 77

How It Works 78

Summary 79

4 Machine Learning 81

The Basics of Supervised Machine Learning 82

Training Phase 82

Inference Phase 83

Linear Regression 83

The Basics 83

The Code 86

How It Works 87

Logistic Regression in One Line 89

The Basics 89

The Code 92

How It Works 93

K-Means Clustering in One Line 94

The Basics 94

The Code 97

How It Works 97

K-Nearest Neighbors in One Line 100

The Basics 100

The Code 101

How It Works 102

Neural Network Analysis in One Line 104

The Basics 104

The Code 108

How It Works 109

Decision-Tree Learning in One Line 111

The Basics 111

The Code 112

How It Works 113

Get Row with Minimal Variance in One Line 113

The Basics 113

The Code 114

How It Works 115

Basic Statistics in One Line 116

The Basics 116

The Code 118

How It Works 118

Classification with Support-Vector Machines in One Line 119

The Basics 120

The Code 121

How It Works 122

Classification with Random Forests in One Line 123

The Basics 123

The Code 124

How It Works 125

Summary 126

5 Regular Expressions 127

Finding Basic Textual Patterns in Strings 128

The Basics 128

The Code 130

How It Works 131

Writing Your First Web Scraper with Regular Expressions 132

The Basics 132

The Code 133

How It Works 133

Analyzing Hyperlinks of HTML Documents 134

The Basics 134

The Code 136

How It Works 137

Extracting Dollars from a String 137

The Basics 138

The Code 138

How It Works 139

Finding Nonsecure HTTP URLs 140

The Basics 140

The Code 140

How It Works 141

Validating the Time Format of User Input, Part 1 141

The Basics 142

The Code 142

How It Works 143

Validating Time Format of User input, Part 2 143

The Basics 143

The Code 144

How It Works 144

Duplicate Detection in Strings 145

The Basics 145

The Code 146

How It Works 146

Detecting Word Repetitions 147

The Basics 147

The Code 147

How It Works 148

Modifying Regex Patterns in a Multiline String 148

The Basics 149

The Code 149

How It Works 149

Summary 150

6 Algorithms 151

Finding Anagrams with Lambda Functions and Sorting 152

The Basics 152

The Code 153

How It Works 153

Finding Palindromes with Lambda Functions and Negative Slicing 154

The Basics 154

The Code 155

How It Works 155

Counting Permutations with Recursive Factorial Functions 156

The Basics 156

The Code 158

How It Works 158

Finding the Levenshtein Distance 159

The Basics 159

The Code 160

How It Works 160

Calculating the Powerset by Using Functional Programming 162

The Basics 162

The Code 164

How It Works 165

Caesar's Cipher Encryption Using Advanced Indexing and List Comprehension 165

The Basics 165

The Code 166

How It Works 167

Finding Prime Numbers with the Sieve of Eratosthenes 168

The Basics 168

The Code 169

How It Works 170

Calculating the Fibonacci Series with the reduce() Function 174

The Basics 174

The Code 175

How It Works 175

A Recursive Binary Search Algorithm 176

The Basics 177

The Code 178

How It Works 179

A Recursive Quicksort Algorithm 180

The Basics 180

The Code 181

How It Works 181

Summary 182

Afterword 183

Index 185

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