20 cool things you can do with Python's built-in functions

The Python built-in functions are amazing, they make for clean, fast and concise code. Here are 20 cool things you can do with them:

1. Make a dictionary from two lists:

2. Get a counter when looping through a sequence:

3. Check if a condition holds true for any or all items in a sequence:

4. Print things:

5. Summing values:

6. Uniquify a list:

7. Reverse a list:

8. Make a range of integers with a step:

9. Get a quotient and remainder, for example to divide seconds into minutes + seconds:

10. Name and apply a slice:

11. Use dir() together with a list comprehension to only list "public" methods (and attributes) of an object:

12. Get the min and max of a sequence:

13. Get user input:

14. Check for, get and set attributes:

15. Call a method on the parent class:

16. Use next() to retrieve the next value from a generator:

17. Make values absolute:

18. Sort values, by key, reversed, and in-place:

19. Round numbers:

20. See the representation / string of an object:

That's it, 20 snippets of useful things you can do with Python's built-in functions.

Check out the Python Built-in Functions docs for more information.

We also have a related Pybites training on our YouTube channel.

Hope this is helpful and let me know what other Python topics you'd like to know more about ...

- Bob

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