Introduction The print() function in Python appends a newline to the output when displayed on the tty (teletypewriter A.K.A the terminal). When you don’t want your message displayed with newlines or with spaces, how can you change the behavior of print()? This can easily be achieved by altering the default values of the sep and end parameters of the print() function. Printing Without a Newline Until Python version 2.x, print was a reserved keyword that acts as a special statement. […]

Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to check if a list contains an element or value in Python. We’ll use a list of strings, containing a few animals: animals = [‘Dog’, ‘Cat’, ‘Bird’, ‘Fish’] Check if List Contains Element With for Loop A simple and rudimentary method to check if a list contains an element is looping through it, and checking if the item we’re on matches the one we’re looking for. Let’s use a for […]

Introduction Python is a dynamically typed language, and the variable data types are inferred without explicit intervention by the developer. If we had code that needed a list but lacked type hints, which are optional, how can we avoid errors if the variable used is not a list? In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to check if a variable is a list in Python, using the type() and isinstance() functions, as well as the is operator: Developers […]