Kaggle micro-courses 之 Python

Kaggle官方教程，用于data science必备的Python知识。

一、syntax,varibles and numbers

代码范例一：

spam_amount = 0
print(spam_amount)

# Ordering Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam (4 more servings of Spam)
spam_amount = spam_amount + 4

if spam_amount > 0:
    print("But I don't want ANY spam!")

viking_song = "Spam " * spam_amount
print(viking_song)

注意点：

1.Variable assignment

spam_amount = 0

2.Function calls

print(spam_amount)

3.comment

# Ordering Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam (4 more servings of Spam)

4.number types: int、float
5.string
6.arithmetic

二、functions and getting help

1.getting help

help(round)

2.Defining functions

def least_difference(a, b, c):
    diff1 = abs(a - b)
    diff2 = abs(b - c)
    diff3 = abs(a - c)
    return min(diff1, diff2, diff3)

3.Docstrings

def least_difference(a, b, c):
    """Return the smallest difference between any two numbers
    among a, b and c.
    
    >>> least_difference(1, 5, -5)
    4
    """
    diff1 = abs(a - b)
    diff2 = abs(b - c)
    diff3 = abs(a - c)
    return min(diff1, diff2, diff3)

4.Default arguments

print(1, 2, 3)
print(1, 2, 3, sep=' < ')

def greet(who="Colin"):
    print("Hello,", who)
    
greet()
greet(who="Kaggle")
# (In this case, we don't need to specify the name of the argument, because it's unambiguous.)
greet("world")

三、Booleans and Conditionals

1.Booleans

x = True
print(x)
print(type(x))

2.Comparison Operations
3.Combining Boolean Values: and, or, and not.

True or True and False

4.Conditionals

def inspect(x):
    if x == 0:
        print(x, "is zero")
    elif x > 0:
        print(x, "is positive")
    elif x < 0:
        print(x, "is negative")
    else:
        print(x, "is unlike anything I've ever seen...")

inspect(0)
inspect(-15)

5.Boolean conversion

print(bool(1)) # all numbers are treated as true, except 0
print(bool(0))
print(bool("asf")) # all strings are treated as true, except the empty string ""
print(bool(""))
# Generally empty sequences (strings, lists, and other types we've yet to see like lists and tuples)
# are "falsey" and the rest are "truthy"

四、lists

1.Lists: represent ordered sequences of values.

primes = [2, 3, 5, 7]
planets = ['Mercury', 'Venus', 'Earth', 'Mars', 'Jupiter', 'Saturn', 'Uranus', 'Neptune']
hands = [
    ['J', 'Q', 'K'],
    ['2', '2', '2'],
    ['6', 'A', 'K'], # (Comma after the last element is optional)
]

# (I could also have written this on one line, but it can get hard to read)
hands = [['J', 'Q', 'K'], ['2', '2', '2'], ['6', 'A', 'K']]

# A list can contain a mix of different types of variables
my_favourite_things = [32, 'raindrops on roses', help]

2.Indexing

planets[0]
# Elements at the end of the list can be accessed with negative numbers, starting from -1
planets[-1]

3.Slicing

# 左闭右开的区间
planets[0:3]
planets[:3]
planets[3:]

# All the planets except the first and last
planets[1:-1]

# The last 3 planets
planets[-3:]

4.List functions

# How many planets are there?
len(planets)

# The planets sorted in alphabetical order
sorted(planets)

primes = [2, 3, 5, 7]
sum(primes)
max(primes)

5.List methods

# Pluto is a planet darn it!
planets.append('Pluto')
planets.pop()
planets.index('Earth')

# we can use the in operator to determine whether a list contains a particular value
# Is Earth a planet?
"Earth" in planets

# to learn about all the methods and attributes attached to a particular object
help(planets)

6.Tuples

# Tuples are almost exactly the same as lists. They differ in just two ways.

# 1: The syntax for creating them uses parentheses instead of square brackets
t = (1, 2, 3)
t = 1, 2, 3 # equivalent to above

# 2: They cannot be modified (they are immutable).
t[0] = 100    #TypeError

五、Loops and List Comprehensions

1.for loops

planets = ['Mercury', 'Venus', 'Earth', 'Mars', 'Jupiter', 'Saturn', 'Uranus', 'Neptune']
for planet in planets:
    print(planet, end=' ') # print all on same line
    
# The for loop specifies: the variable name to use (in this case, planet)、the set of values to loop over (in this case, planets)

# range() is a function that returns a sequence of numbers
for i in range(5):
    print("Doing important work. i =", i)

2.while loops

i = 0
while i < 10:
    print(i, end=' ')
    i += 1

3.List comprehensions

squares = [n**2 for n in range(10)]

short_planets = [planet for planet in planets if len(planet) < 6]

loud_short_planets = [planet.upper() + '!' for planet in planets if len(planet) < 6]
# you might find the structure clearer when it's split up over 3 lines
# Continuing the SQL analogy, you could think of these three lines as SELECT, FROM, and WHERE
[
    planet.upper() + '!' 
    for planet in planets 
    if len(planet) < 6
]

# compare the following two cells of code that do the same thing.

def count_negatives(nums):
    """Return the number of negative numbers in the given list.
    
    >>> count_negatives([5, -1, -2, 0, 3])
    2
    """
    n_negative = 0
    for num in nums:
        if num < 0:
            n_negative = n_negative + 1
    return n_negative

def count_negatives(nums):
    return len([num for num in nums if num < 0])

def count_negatives(nums):
    # Reminder: in the "booleans and conditionals" exercises, we learned about a quirk of 
    # Python where it calculates something like True + True + False + True to be equal to 3.
    return sum([num < 0 for num in nums])

六、Strings and Dictionaries

1.String syntax

# strings in Python can be defined using either single or double quotations
x = 'Pluto is a planet'
y = "Pluto is a planet"
x == y

# Double quotes are convenient if your string contains a single quote character
print("Pluto's a planet!")
print('My dog is named "Pluto"')

2.Strings are sequences

# Indexing
planet = 'Pluto'
planet[0]

# Slicing
planet[-3:]

# How long is this string?
len(planet)

# Yes, we can even loop over them
[char+'! ' for char in planet]

# But a major way in which they differ from lists is that they are immutable. We can't modify them.

3.String methods

# ALL CAPS
claim = "Pluto is a planet!"
claim.upper()

# all lowercase
claim.lower()

# Searching for the first index of a substring
claim.index('plan')

4.Going between strings and lists

words = claim.split()
words
//['Pluto', 'is', 'a', 'planet!']

datestr = '1956-01-31'
year, month, day = datestr.split('-')

'/'.join([month, day, year])
// '01/31/1956'

5.Building strings with format()

position = 9
"{}, you'll always be the {}th planet to me.".format(planet, position)

pluto_mass = 1.303 * 10**22
earth_mass = 5.9722 * 10**24
population = 52910390
#         2 decimal points   3 decimal points, format as percent     separate with commas
"{} weighs about {:.2} kilograms ({:.3%} of Earth's mass). It is home to {:,} Plutonians.".format(
    planet, pluto_mass, pluto_mass / earth_mass, population,
)
// "Pluto weighs about 1.3e+22 kilograms (0.218% of Earth's mass). It is home to 52,910,390 Plutonians."

# Referring to format() arguments by index, starting from 0
s = """Pluto's a {0}.
No, it's a {1}.
{0}!
{1}!""".format('planet', 'dwarf planet')
print(s)
// Pluto's a planet.
No, it's a dwarf planet.
planet!
dwarf planet!

6.Dictionaries: mapping keys to values

numbers = {'one':1, 'two':2, 'three':3}
numbers['one']

numbers['eleven'] = 11
numbers

numbers['one'] = 'Pluto'
numbers

#dictionary comprehensions
planets = ['Mercury', 'Venus', 'Earth', 'Mars', 'Jupiter', 'Saturn', 'Uranus', 'Neptune']
planet_to_initial = {planet: planet[0] for planet in planets}
planet_to_initial
// {'Mercury': 'M',
 'Venus': 'V',
 'Earth': 'E',
 'Mars': 'M',
 'Jupiter': 'J',
 'Saturn': 'S',
 'Uranus': 'U',
 'Neptune': 'N'}

#The in operator tells us whether something is a key in the dictionary
'Saturn' in planet_to_initial

# A for loop over a dictionary will loop over its keys
for k in numbers:
    print("{} = {}".format(k, numbers[k]))

# To read a full inventory of dictionaries' methods
help(dict)

七、External Libraries

1.Imports

import math
math.pi

import math as mt
mt.pi

from math import *
print(pi, log(32, 2))

from math import log, pi
from numpy import asarray

2.Three tools for understanding strange objects

# 1: type() (what is this thing?)
type(rolls)
//numpy.ndarray

2: dir() (what can I do with it?)
print(dir(rolls))

3: help() (tell me more)
help(rolls.ravel)

4.Operator overloading

#  double-underscores are directly related to operator overloading
#  Generally, names that follow this double-underscore format have a special meaning to Python
print(dir(list))
// ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'append', 'clear', 'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']