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Introduction to Python
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Contents
• Review: Introduction, Installing & Running.
• Sample Code from Homework 0.
• Names & Assignment
• Containers: Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries
• Mutability
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What is Python?
• A programming language with strong
similarities to PERL, but with powerful
typing and object oriented features.
– Commonly used for producing HTML content
on websites. Great for text files.
– Useful built-in types (lists, dictionaries).
– Clean syntax, powerful extensions.
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Why Python for CSE-391?
• Textbook Code: Very Object Oriented
– Python much less verbose than Java
• AI Processing: Symbolic
– Python’s built-in datatypes for strings, lists, and more.
– Java or C++ require the use of special classes for this.
• AI Processing: Statistical
– Python has strong numeric processing capabilities:
matrix operations, etc.
– Suitable for probability and machine learning code.
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Technical Issues
Installing & Running Python
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Installing Python
• Python is on eniac: /pkg/bin/python
• Python for Win/Mac from www.python.org.
• GUI development environment: IDLE.
Credits:
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html
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IDLE Development Environment
• Shell for interactive evaluation.
• Text editor with color-coding and smart
indenting for creating python files.
• Menu commands for changing system
settings and running files.
• You’ll see me using IDLE in class.
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Running Interactively on UNIX
On Unix…
% python
>>> 3+3
6
The ‘>>>’ is the Python prompt. In Unix, when
finished, you can use CONTROL+D.
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Running Programs on UNIX
% python filename.py
You can create python files using emacs.
(There’s a special Python editing mode.)
You could even make the *.py file executable
and add the following text to top of the file
to make it runable: #!/pkg/bin/python
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Understanding the Basics
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Look at a sample of code…
x = 34 - 23 # A comment.
y = “Hello” # Another one.
z = 3.45
if z == 3.45 or y == “Hello”:
x = x + 1
y = y + “ World” # String concat.
print x
print y
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Enough to Understand the Code
• Assignment uses = and comparison uses ==.
• For numbers +-*/% are as expected.
– Special use of + for string concatenation.
– Special use of % for string formatting.
• Logical operators are words (and, or, not)
not symbols (&&, ||, !).
• The basic printing command is “print.”
• First assignment to a variable will create it.
– Variable types don’t need to be declared.
– Python figures out the variable types on its own.
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Basic Datatypes
• Integers (default for numbers)
z = 5 / 2 # Answer is 2, integer division.
• Floats
x = 3.456
• Strings
Can use “” or ‘’ to specify. “abc” ‘abc’ (Same thing.)
Unmatched ones can occur within the string. “matt’s”
Use triple double-quotes for multi-line strings or strings
than contain both ‘ and “ inside of them: “““a‘b“c”””
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Whitespace
• Whitespace is meaningful in Python: especially
indentation and placement of newlines.
– Use a newline to end a line of code.
(Not a semicolon like in C++ or Java.)
(Use when must go to next line prematurely.)
– No braces { } to mark blocks of code in Python…
Use consistent indentation instead. The first line with a
new indentation is considered outside of the block.
– Often a colon appears at the start of a new block.
(We’ll see this later for function and class definitions.)
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Comments
• Start comments with # – the rest of line is ignored.
• Can include a “documentation string” as the first
line of any new function or class that you define.
• The development environment, debugger, and
other tools use it: it’s good style to include one.
def my_function(x, y):
“““This is the docstring. This
function does blah blah blah.”””
# The code would go here...
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Understanding Assignment
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Names and References 1
• Python has no pointers like C or C++. Instead, it has
“names” and “references”. (Works a lot like Lisp or Java.)
• You create a name the first time it appears on the left side
of an assignment expression:
x = 3
• Names store “references” which are like pointers to
locations in memory that store a constant or some object.
– Python determines the type of the reference automatically based
on what data is assigned to it.
– It also decides when to delete it via garbage collection after any
names for the reference have passed out of scope.
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• There is a lot going on when we type:
x = 3
• First, an integer 3 is created and stored in memory.
• A name x is created.
• An reference to the memory location storing the 3
is then assigned to the name x.
Type: Integer
Data: 3
Name: x
Ref: <address1>
name list memory
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• The data 3 we created is of type integer. In
Python, the basic datatypes integer, float, and
string are “immutable.”
• This doesn’t mean we can’t change the value of
x… For example, we could increment x.
>>> x = 3
>>> x = x + 1
>>> print x
4
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• If we increment x, then what’s really happening is:
– The reference of name x is looked up.
– The value at that reference is retrieved.
– The 3+1 calculation occurs, producing a new data element 4 which
is assigned to a fresh memory location with a new reference.
– The name x is changed to point to this new reference.
– The old data 3 is garbage collected if no name still refers to it.
Type: Integer
Data: 3Name: x
Ref: <address1>
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Type: Integer
Data: 3Name: x
Ref: <address1>
Type: Integer
Data: 4
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Type: Integer
Data: 3Name: x
Ref: <address2>
Type: Integer
Data: 4
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Name: x
Ref: <address2>
Type: Integer
Data: 4
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Assignment 1
• So, for simple built-in datatypes (integers, floats,
strings), assignment behaves as you would expect:
>>> x = 3 # Creates 3, name x refers to 3
>>> y = x # Creates name y, refers to 3.
>>> y = 4 # Creates ref for 4. Changes y.
>>> print x # No effect on x, still ref 3.
3
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Assignment 1
3
Type: Integer
Data: 3
Name: x
Ref: <address1>
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Assignment 1
3
Type: Integer
Data: 3
Name: x
Ref: <address1>
Name: y
Ref: <address1>
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Assignment 1
3
Type: Integer
Data: 3
Name: x
Ref: <address1>
Type: Integer
Data: 4
Name: y
Ref: <address1>
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Assignment 1
3
Type: Integer
Data: 3
Name: x
Ref: <address1>
Type: Integer
Data: 4
Name: y
Ref: <address2>
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Assignment 2
• For other data types (lists, dictionaries, user-defined
types), assignment works differently.
– These datatypes are “mutable.”
– When we change these data, we do it in place.
– We don’t copy them into a new memory address each time.
– If we type y=x and then modify y, both x and y are changed!
– We’ll talk more about “mutability” later.
>>> x = 3 x = some mutable object
>>> y = x y = x
>>> y = 4 make a change to y
>>> print x look at x
3 x will be changed as well
immutable mutable
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Container Types in Python
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Container Types
• We’ve talked about integers, floats, and strings…
• Containers are other built-in data types in Python.
– Can hold objects of any type (including their own
type).
– There are three kinds of containers:
Tuples
• A simple immutable ordered sequence of items.
Lists
• Sequence with more powerful manipulations possible.
Dictionaries
• A look-up table of key-value pairs."Vibrant Technology & Computer"
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Tuples, Lists, and Strings:
Similarities
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Similar Syntax
• Tuples and lists are sequential containers that
share much of the same syntax and functionality.
– For conciseness, they will be introduced together.
– The operations shown in this section can be applied to
both tuples and lists, but most examples will just show
the operation performed on one or the other.
• While strings aren’t exactly a container data type,
they also happen to share a lot of their syntax with
lists and tuples; so, the operations you see in this
section can apply to them as well.
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Tuples, Lists, and Strings 1
• Tuples are defined using parentheses (and commas).
>>> tu = (23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
• Lists are defined using square brackets (and commas).
>>> li = [“abc”, 34, 4.34, 23]
• Strings are defined using quotes (“, ‘, or “““).
>>> st = “Hello World”
>>> st = ‘Hello World’
>>> st = “““This is a multi-line
string that uses triple quotes.”””
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Tuples, Lists, and Strings 2
• We can access individual members of a tuple, list,
or string using square bracket “array” notation.
>>> tu[1] # Second item in the tuple.
‘abc’
>>> li[1] # Second item in the list.
34
>>> st[1] # Second character in string.
‘e’
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Looking up an Item
>>> t = (23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
Positive index: count from the left, starting with 0.
>>> t[1]
‘abc’
Negative lookup: count from right, starting with –1.
>>> t[-3]
4.56
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Slicing: Return Copy of a Subset 1
>>> t = (23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
Return a copy of the container with a subset of the
original members. Start copying at the first index,
and stop copying before the second index.
>>> t[1:4]
(‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3))
You can also use negative indices when slicing.
>>> t[1:-1]
(‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3))"Vibrant Technology & Computer"
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Slicing: Return Copy of a Subset 2
>>> t = (23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
Omit the first index to make a copy starting from the
beginning of the container.
>>> t[:2]
(23, ‘abc’)
Omit the second index to make a copy starting at the
first index and going to the end of the container.
>>> t[2:]
(4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)"Vibrant Technology & Computer"
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Copying the Whole Container
You can make a copy of the whole tuple using [:].
>>> t[:]
(23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
So, there’s a difference between these two lines:
>>> list2 = list1 # 2 names refer to 1 ref
# Changing one affects both
>>> list2 = list1[:] # Two copies, two refs
# They’re independent
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The ‘in’ Operator
• Boolean test whether a value is inside a container:
>>> t = [1, 2, 4, 5]
>>> 3 in t
False
>>> 4 in t
True
>>> 4 not in t
False
• Be careful: the ‘in’ keyword is also used in the
syntax of other unrelated Python constructions:
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The + Operator
• The + operator produces a new tuple, list, or string
whose value is the concatenation of its arguments.
>>> (1, 2, 3) + (4, 5, 6)
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
>>> [1, 2, 3] + [4, 5, 6]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> “Hello” + “ ” + “World”
‘Hello World’"Vibrant Technology & Computer"
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The * Operator
• The * operator produces a new tuple, list, or string
that “repeats” the original content.
>>> (1, 2, 3) * 3
(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)
>>> [1, 2, 3] * 3
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
>>> “Hello” * 3
‘HelloHelloHello’
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Mutability:
Tuples vs. Lists
What’s the
difference between
tuples and lists?
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Tuples: Immutable
>>> t = (23, ‘abc’, 4.56, (2,3), ‘def’)
>>> t[2] = 3.14
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#75>", line 1, in -toplevel-
tu[2] = 3.14
TypeError: object doesn't support item assignment
You’re not allowed to change a tuple in place in memory; so,
you can’t just change one element of it.
But it’s always OK to make a fresh tuple and assign its
reference to a previously used name.
>>> t = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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Lists: Mutable
>>> li = [‘abc’, 23, 4.34, 23]
>>> li[1] = 45
>>> li
[‘abc’, 45, 4.34, 23]
We can change lists in place. So, it’s ok to change
just one element of a list. Name li still points to the
same memory reference when we’re done.
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Operations on Lists Only 1
• Since lists are mutable (they can be changed
in place in memory), there are many more
operations we can perform on lists than on
tuples.
• The mutability of lists also makes managing
them in memory more complicated… So,
they aren’t as fast as tuples. It’s a tradeoff.
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>>> li = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> li.append(‘a’)
>>> li
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ‘a’]
>>> li.insert(2, ‘i’)
>>>li
[1, 2, ‘i’, 3, 4, 5, ‘a’]
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The ‘extend’ operation is similar to concatenation with the +
operator. But while the + creates a fresh list (with a new
memory reference) containing copies of the members from
the two inputs, the extend operates on list li in place.
>>> li.extend([9, 8, 7])
>>>li
[1, 2, ‘i’, 3, 4, 5, ‘a’, 9, 8, 7]
Extend takes a list as an argument. Append takes a singleton.
>>> li.append([9, 8, 7])
>>> li
[1, 2, ‘i’, 3, 4, 5, ‘a’, 9, 8, 7, [9, 8, 7]]
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>>> li = [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘b’]
>>> li.index(‘b’) # index of first occurrence
1
>>> li.count(‘b’) # number of occurrences
2
>>> li.remove(‘b’) # remove first occurrence
>>> li
[‘a’, ‘c’, ‘b’]
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>>> li = [5, 2, 6, 8]
>>> li.reverse() # reverse the list *in place*
>>> li
[8, 6, 2, 5]
>>> li.sort() # sort the list *in place*
>>> li
[2, 5, 6, 8]
>>> li.sort(some_function)
# sort in place using user-defined comparison
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Tuples vs. Lists
• Lists slower but more powerful than tuples.
– Lists can be modified, and they have lots of handy
operations we can perform on them.
– Tuples are immutable and have fewer features.
• We can always convert between tuples and lists
using the list() and tuple() functions.
li = list(tu)
tu = tuple(li)
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More About Assignment
Classes,
Functions,
Naming Rules
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Assignment & Mutability 1
• Remember that assignment works differently for
mutable vs. immutable datatypes.
– If you type y=x, then changing y:
…will change x if they are mutable.
…won’t change x if they are immutable.
>>> x = 3 >>> x = [ 1, 2, 3]
>>> y = x >>> y = x
>>> y = y + 1 >>> y.reverse()
>>> print x >>> print x
3 [ 3, 2, 1]
immutable mutable
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Python is object-oriented, and user-defined classes are mutable.
Let’s say that the name x refers to an object of some class.
This class has a “set” and a “get” function for some value.
>>> x.getSomeValue()
4
What happens if we create a new name y and set y=x ?
>>> y = x
This creates a new name y which points to the same memory
reference as the name x. Now, if we make some change to y,
then x will be affected as well.
>>> y.setSomeValue(3)
>>> y.getSomeValue()
3
>>> x.getSomeValue()
3
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• When passing parameters to functions:
– Immutable data types are “call by value.”
– Mutable data types are “call by reference.”
– If you pass mutable data to a function, and you
change it inside that function, the changes will
persist after the function returns.
– Immutable data appear unchanged inside of
functions to which they are passed.
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Naming Rules
• Names are case sensitive and cannot start with a
number. They can contain letters, numbers, and
underscores.
bob Bob _bob _2_bob_ bob_2 BoB
• There are some reserved words:
and, assert, break, class, continue,
def, del, elif, else, except, exec,
finally, for, from, global, if,
import, in, is, lambda, not, or,
pass, print, raise, return, try,
while
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Accessing Non-Existent Name
• If you try to access a name before it’s been
properly created (by placing it on the left side of
an assignment), you’ll get an error.
>>> y
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#16>", line 1, in -toplevel-
y
NameError: name ‘y' is not defined
>>> y = 3
>>> y
3 "Vibrant Technology & Computer"
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Multiple Assignment
• You can also assign to multiple names at the same
time.
>>> x, y = 2, 3
>>> x
2
>>> y
3
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