Introduction Logging, saving records to the database, and accessing files are all common tasks a programmer works on. In each of those cases, date and time play an important role in preserving the meaning and integrity of the data. Programmers often need to engage with date and time. In this article we will learn how to get the current date and time using Python’s builtin datetime module. With that module, we can get all relevant data in one object, or […]

Introduction Python allows you to convert strings, integers, and floats interchangeably in a few different ways. The simplest way to do this is using the basic str(), int(), and float() functions. On top of this, there are a couple of other ways as well. Before we get in to converting strings to numbers, and converting numbers to strings, let’s first see a bit about how strings and numbers are represented in Python. Note: For simplicity of running and showing these […]

Introduction Some functions have no arguments, others have multiple. There are times we have functions with arguments we don’t know about beforehand. We may have a variable number of arguments because we want to offer a flexible API to other developers or we don’t know the input size. With Python, we can create functions to accept any amount of arguments. In this article, we will look at how we can define and use functions with variable length arguments. These functions […]

Introduction Python 3.6 introduced a new way to format strings: f-Strings. It is faster than other string formatting methods in Python, and they allow us to evaluate Python expressions inside a string. In this post, we’ll look at the various ways we can format strings in Python. Then we’ll have a deeper look at f-Strings, looking at how we can use it when displaying different data. Traditional String Formatting in Python Before we get into f-Strings, let’s have a look […]