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What is \"not in\" operator in Python?

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Updated on 09-Sep-2023 5K+ Views

In Python, 'not in' membership operator evaluates to true if it does not finds a variable in the specified sequence and false otherwise. For example >>> a = 10 >>> b = 4 >>> l1 = [1,2,3,4,5] >>> a not in l1 True >>> b not in l1 False Since 'a' doesn't belong to l1, a not in b returns True. However, b can be found in l1, hence b not in l1 returns False

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How to pop-up the first element from a Python tuple?

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Pythonic
Updated on 20-Feb-2020 4K+ Views

By definition, tuple object is immutable. Hence it is not possible to remove element from it. However, a workaround would be convert tuple to a list, remove desired element from list and convert it back to a tuple.>>> T1=(1,2,3,4) >>> L1=list(T1) >>> L1.pop(0) 1 >>> L1 [2, 3, 4] >>> T1=tuple(L1) >>> T1 (2, 3, 4)

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What is the difference between __str__ and __repr__ in Python?

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Pythonic
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 295 Views

The built-in functions repr() and str() respectively call object.__repr__(self) and object.__str__(self) methods. First function computes official representation of the object, while second returns informal representation of the object. Result of both functions is same for integer object. >>> x = 1 >>> repr(x) '1' >>> str(x) '1' However, it is not the case for string object. >>> x = "Hello" >>> repr(x) "'Hello'" >>> str(x) 'Hello' Return value of repr() of a string object can be evaluated by eval() function and results in valid string object. However, result of str() can not be evaluated. ...

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