Python Cheatsheet

Main

if __name__ == '__main__':    # If file is not imported, this will be executed
    main()

Basic and necessary commands needed to execute a well-defined python code at the command line.

Opening a python shell.

$ python3               

Installing a package

$ pip3 install <package-name>              

Running a python script

$ python3 <filename>.py                   

Calculating the time of execution

$ time python3 <filename>.py                  

Importing a py script

import <filename>

Getting started with the language

Basic I/O

• Input

input("Input: ")

• Output Python automatically points the cursor to a new line. We need not specify explicitly.

print("Output")

Variables and Constants

In python, we need not specify the datatype of a variable. The interpreter interprets the value and assigns a suitabe datatype for that.

number = 0
org = "GitHub"

Conditional Statements

In python, we do not write a block of code in a pair of paranthesis. We write it after : followed by an indentation in the next line.

The conditional statements include if, if-else, nested if and so on...

x,y = 0,1
if x < y:
  print("x is less than y")
else:
  print("x is not less than y")

Note that the colon (:) following is required. Similarly, the nested if also works.

Iterative statements

As other programming languages, we have

• for loop

for i in range(5):
  print(i)

The range function starts off with 0 till the number(excluded).

• while loop

i=0
while(i < 10):
  print("{} is less than 10".format(i))
  i += 1

.format() is a type of printing.

Data Structures

Lists

# These are all inplace operations returns a None value

<list>.append(<ele>)            # Add an element to the end of the list
<list>.sort()                   # Sorts the given list
<list>.pop([<ele>])             # Removes the last element if no argument else removes the element at the index given
<list>.clear()                  # Makes it an empty list
<list>.insert(<index>, <ele>)   # Adds the element before the index
<list>.extend(<iterator>)
<list>.reverse()                # Reverse a given list

# These are not inplace operations and has a return value

<list>.copy()                   # Makes a shallow copy of the list
<list>.index(<ele>)             # Returns the index of the given element
<list>.count(<ele>)             # Returns the number of occurrences of the element

Dictionaries

key-value pairs.

<dict> = {'Google':100, 'Facebook':80, 'Apple':90}

<dict>['Amazon'] = 85                           # Adding a key along with the value

# Accessing the dictionary 
for key in <dict>:
  print("{key} -> {x}".format(key=key, x=<dict>[key]))
 
<dict>.keys()                                   # Print all the keys
<dict>.values()                                 # Print all the values
len(<dict>)                                     # Find the length of the dictionary
<dict>.pop(<key>)                               # Removes the item with the specified key name
<dict>.copy()                                   # Make a copy of a dictionary

A dictionary can also contain many dictionaries, this is called nested dictionaries.

Third party libraries

Pandas

$ sudo pip3 install pandas          # Installing pandas module in Ubuntu

import pandas as pd

<dataframe>.head([<n>])             # Display the first n rows of the Dataframe, default value is 5 rows
<dataframe>.tail([<n>])             # Display the last n rows of the Dataframe, default value is 5 rows
<dataframe>.info()                  # Gives some information like, row and column datatypes, non-null count, and memory usage
<dataframe>.describe()              # Provides some descriptive statistics about the numerical rows in the dataframe

NLTK

$ sudo pip3 install nltk                    # Installing nltk module in Ubuntu

import nltk

# Before trying any function download the word list
nltk.download('punkt')
nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')