Python

If you are like me and sometimes you forget the syntax on how to sort a list of custom objects by property then this tutorial is for you.  It seems like there is always a need to sort and manipulate custom objects by property and that was my why I wanted to write this tutorial.  To demonstrate how to take a custom list of objects and sort those objects by a specific property.  In the case of this tutorial I have chosen to use a date property because sorting by date is a very real world example of something you may run into in the work place, but the same code would also work for numbers or

If you have ever wanted to know how to open a file using Python, but were unsure of the syntax, or exactly how Python works with files, then this tutorial is aimed at you.  This tutorial aims to walk you through the basics of how to use Python to open a file using two different real world scenario's.  The first scenario I walk through how to use Python to open a file from the command line using the file as a command line argument passed in from STDIN.  The second scenario I use Python to open a file that is referenced from a file path anywhere in your program.

If you have ever wanted to use Python list comprehensions, but were unsure of the syntax or exactly how they worked, then this tutorial is aimed at you.  This tutorial aims to walk you through the basics of how Python list comprehensions work with three real world examples.  In the tutorial below I have three examples of the power of Python list comprehensions;  The first example illustrates how to setup and create a basic list comprehension.  The second example get's a lot more complex and uses two nes

If you have ever wanted to compile and install multiple versions of Python side by side on the same Linux or Mac machine then this tutorial will walk you through how to set that up.  One reason you might want to run different versions of Python at the same time is to test out a specific implementation or test different environments against a specific feature.  Thankfully, running multiple versions of Python at the same time can be setup with relatively few steps.  Let's get started!

If you have ever wondered how to find a substring inside another string in Python then hopefully this tutorial will help walk you through how to do that.  As an example, in Python 2.7 or above, if you have ever wondered how to determine if the substring "Agnosticdev," is part of the parent string "Hello Agnosticdev, I love Tutorials," then this tutorial will show you how to indicate, with a boolean value, the existence of the substring.