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Python Fundamentals

By : Ryan Marvin, Mark Nganga, Amos Omondi
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Python Fundamentals

By: Ryan Marvin, Mark Nganga, Amos Omondi

Overview of this book

After a brief history of Python and key differences between Python 2 and Python 3, you'll understand how Python has been used in applications such as YouTube and Google App Engine. As you work with the language, you'll learn about control statements, delve into controlling program flow and gradually work on more structured programs via functions. As you settle into the Python ecosystem, you'll learn about data structures and study ways to correctly store and represent information. By working through specific examples, you'll learn how Python implements object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts of abstraction, encapsulation of data, inheritance, and polymorphism. You'll be given an overview of how imports, modules, and packages work in Python, how you can handle errors to prevent apps from crashing, as well as file manipulation. By the end of this book, you'll have built up an impressive portfolio of projects and armed yourself with the skills you need to tackle Python projects in the real world.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Python Fundamentals
Preface

Nesting Loops


Nesting can be defined as the practice of placing loops inside other loops. Although it is frowned upon in some applications, sometimes, it is necessary to nest loops to achieve the desired effect.

One of the use cases for nesting loops is when you need to access data inside a complex data structure. It could also be as a result of a comparison of two data structures. For instance, a computation that requires values in two lists would have you loop through both lists and execute the result. It is sometimes necessary to use one or more loops inside another loop to get to that level of granularity.

Exercise 18: Using Nested Loops

In this exercise, we will utilize nested loops:

  1. First, create a variable called groups, which is a list that contains three other lists of three integers each:

    groups = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

    From the structure of the list, it is clear that just looping over it will not get us to the individual integers. To get to the individual integers, we have...