Python Learning Note

Never, never and never give up!!!

1. python version 2.7
2. interactive interpreter: practice python in command line
3. Python Data Type
   
   • Numbers
   • Strings: escape characters by default. Use print to avoid unreadable escape characters
     Use raw key words and you don’t need to add escape backslash for each escape characters.
     multiple line string: use ” ” ” … ” ” ”
     concatenate string: use ‘+’
     multiple string: use ‘*’
     Two or more string listed adjacent are concatenated by default
     But that only works for literal strings, not variables or expressions
     
     1. characters in a string in Python can be visited by indices, when -1 is used, starting from right
     2. slicing: str[0:2] #from indices 0 to indices 2(excluded)
        
        • how start is included? str[:2]
        • how end is included? str[2:]
     3. indices out of bound is treated as error, but slices out of bound are treated elegantly
     4. characters in a string are immutable
     5. len() returns the length of a string
     6. str() returns ASCII string
     7. encode takes one parameter: of the lower-case named encoding name
   • compound data types:
     
     1. List
        indices and slicing are similar; but List elements are not unimmutable