Python Cheat Sheet

by Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.com/1/cs/19/

Python sys Variables argv builtin_module_names byteorder check_interval exec_prefix executable exitfunc modules path platform stdin, stdout, stderr version_info winver Python sys.argv sys.argv[0] sys.argv[1] sys.argv[2] sys.argv[3] sys.argv[4] sys.argv for the command: $ python foo.py bar -c qux --h Python os Variables altsep curdir defpath devnull extsep linesep name pardir pathsep sep Alternative sep Current dir string Default search path Path of null device Extension separator Line separator Name of OS Parent dir string Patch separator Path separator Python File Methods close() flush() fileno() isatty() next() read(size) readline(size) Python Indexes and Slices len(a) a[0] a[5] a[-1] a[-2] a[1:] a[:5] a[:-2] a[1:3] a[1:-1] 6 0 5 5 4 [1,2,3,4,5] [0,1,2,3,4] [0,1,2,3] [1,2] [1,2,3,4] readlines(size) seek(offset) tell() truncate(size) write(string) writelines(list) foo.py bar -c qux --h Command line args Linked C modules Native byte order Signal check frequency Root directory Name of executable Exit function name Loaded modules Search path Current platform File objects for I/O Python version info Version number Python String Methods capitalize() * center(width) count(sub, start, end) decode() encode() endswith(sub) expandtabs() find(sub, start, end) index(sub, start, end) isalnum() * isalpha() * isdigit() * islower() * isspace() * istitle() * isupper() * join() ljust(width) lower() * Methods marked * are locale dependant for 8-bit strings. lstrip() partition(sep) replace(old, new) rfind(sub, start ,end) rindex(sub, start, end) rjust(width) rpartition(sep) rsplit(sep) rstrip() split(sep) splitlines() startswith(sub) strip() swapcase() * title() * translate(table) upper() * zfill(width) Python Date Formatting %a %A %b %B %c %d %H %I %j %m %M %p %S %U %w %W %x %X %y %Y %Z %% Abbreviated weekday (Sun) Weekday (Sunday) Abbreviated month name (Jan) Month name (January) Date and time Day (leading zeros) (01 to 31) 24 hour (leading zeros) (00 to 23) 12 hour (leading zeros) (01 to 12) Day of year (001 to 366) Month (01 to 12) Minute (00 to 59) AM or PM Second (00 to 61 ) Week number (00 to 53) Weekday (0 to 6) Week number (00 to 53) Date Time Year without century (00 to 99) Year (2008) Time zone (GMT) A literal "%" character (%) Python Time Methods replace() isoformat() __str__() strftime(format) utcoffset() dst() tzname() Python List Methods append(item) count(item) extend(list) index(item) insert(position, item) pop(position) remove(item) reverse() sort() Python Datetime Methods today() now(timezoneinfo) utcnow() fromordinal(ordinal) combine(date, time) strptime(date, format)

fromtimestamp(timestamp) utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)

Registered OS names: "posix", "nt", "mac", "os2", "ce", "java", "riscos" Python Class Special Methods __new__(cls) __init__(self, args) __del__(self) __repr__(self) __str__(self) __cmp__(self, other) __index__(self) __hash__(self) __getattr__(self, name) __getattribute__(self, name) __setattr__(self, name, attr) __lt__(self, other) __le__(self, other) __gt__(self, other) __ge__(self, other) __eq__(self, other) __ne__(self, other) __nonzero__(self)

Sunday as start of week. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. 0 is Sunday, 6 is Saturday. Monday as start of week. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0. This is not a mistake. Range takes account of leap and double-leap seconds.

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b=a[:]

Shallow copy of a

Indexes and Slices of a=[0,1,2,3,4,5] Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet was published on 19th October, 2011 and was last updated on 27th October, 2011. Sponsor Envoy , for simple and effective bug management. Try it free! http://www.envoyapp.com

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