10 Python Tips and Tricks for Data Science and Analytics

Supercharge your Python skills

So you may have been coding in Python for a while now, maybe even moved beyond the basics to more intermediate and advanced applications. But do you code efficiently? This is an assessment we need to make from time to time as it's all too easy to get stuck in a habitual loop (no pun intended) without knowing that a better, and more efficient approach exists.

This article brings together 10 useful tips and tricks that will supercharge your Python skills and make you a faster and more efficient coder. Let’s dive in.

Suppose we wanted to write an if/else statement that assigns a value to a variable x, depending on whether a specified condition is True or False. The resulting code may look something like this.

This works perfectly fine and gives us the result we’re expecting, but we need not write that much code. We can use a ternary conditional to achieve the same result.

We may find ourselves needing to print out the values from a list with a corresponding index. Here’s an example of what this may look like.

So what’s the issue, you may ask? Too much code. There’s a more efficient way to…

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