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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

You're reading from  Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815093
Pages 554 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Heinrich Kruger Heinrich Kruger
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. A Gentle Introduction to Python 2. Built-In Data Types 3. Conditionals and Iteration 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Comprehensions and Generators 6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Exceptions and Context Managers 8. Files and Data Persistence 9. Cryptography and Tokens 10. Testing 11. Debugging and Profiling 12. GUIs and Scripting 13. Data Science in Brief 14. Introduction to API Development 15. Packaging Python Applications 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Looping

If you have any experience with looping in other programming languages, you will find Python's way of looping a bit different. First of all, what is looping? Looping means being able to repeat the execution of a code block more than once, according to the loop parameters given. There are different looping constructs, which serve different purposes, and Python has distilled all of them down to just two, which you can use to achieve everything you need. These are the for and while statements.

While it's definitely possible to do everything you need using either of them, they do serve different purposes, and therefore they're usually used in different contexts. We'll explore this difference thoroughly in this chapter.

The for loop

The for loop is used when looping over a sequence, such as a list, tuple, or collection of objects. Let's start with a simple example and expand on the concept to see what the Python...

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