Python notes

2023-10-11 Wednesday

^ Overview

Python notes local page on Neela Nurseries wiki

^ Questions

Question: what is the syntax or python-ism in this construcxt?:

if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()

Question: what is method chaining in Python?

• https://note.nkmk.me/en/python-method-chain-line-break/

^ Python Data Types

The following Python3 online documentation page mentions early on how Python distinguishes Unicode strings and 8-bit strings which it also calls 'bytes'. This may be a starting point to understanding how and when Python3 treats data as bytes:

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html

^ Strings and Long Lines

To express long lines in Python there are a couple of methods. The `textwrap` library or module contains some utils to help with this. To use parentheses about a multi-line string also provides a way.

• https://note.nkmk.me/en/python-long-string/