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But this isn’t considered Pythonic. There is a faster way to manipulate
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>>>title = "{} the {}".format(name, job)

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format() method in sequential order. The rst {} gets replaced by the
name parameter and the second {} gets replaced by the job parameter.
You can have as many {}s and parameters as you want as long as the
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>>>title = "{} the {} of {} years".format(name, job, age
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doing it by hand.
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>>>x = False
>>>if not x:
>>> # Do something here
The in Operator
If you just want to check if a value exists within an iterable object, like a
list or a dictionary, then the quickest way is to use the in operator:
>>>availability = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Friday"]

>>>request = "Saturday"
>>>if request in availability:
>>> print("I'm available on that day!")
Complex Conditionals
You can combine multiple conditional statements together using the and
and or operators. The and operator evaluates to True if both sides
evaluate to True, otherwise False. The or operator evaluates to True if
either side evaluates to True, otherwise False.
>>>legs = 8
>>>habitat = "Land"
>>>if legs == 8 and habitat == "Land":
>>> species = "Spider"
>>>weather = "Sunny"
>>>if weather == "Rain" or weather == "Snow":
>>> umbrella = True
>>>else:
>>> umbrella = False
You could compact that last example even further:

>>>weather = "Sunny"
>>>umbrella = weather == "Rain" or weather == "Snow"
>>>umbrella
>False
Loops
The most basic type of loop in Python is the while loop, which keeps
repeating as long as the conditional statement evaluates to True:
>>>i = 0
>>>while i < 10:
>>> print(i)
>>> i = i + 1
This could also be structured like so:
>>>i = 0
>>>while True:
>>> print(i)
>>> if i >= 10:
>>> break
The break statement is used to immediately exit out of a loop. If you just
want to skip the rest of the current loop and start the next iteration, you
can use continue.
The For Loop
The more Pythonic approach is to use for loops. The for loop in Python is
nothing like the for loop that you’d nd in a C-related language like Java or
C#. It’s much closer in design to the foreach loops in those languages.
In short, the for loop iterates over an iterable object (like a list or
dictionary) using the in operator:
>>>weekdays = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursd

>>>for day in weekdays:
>>> print(day)
The for loop starts at the beginning of the weekdays list, assigns the rst
item to the day variable, and the rst loop through applies only to that
variable. When the loop ends, the next item in the weekdays list gets
assigned to day and loops through again. It keeps going until you reach
the end of the weekdays list.
If you just want to run a loop for X amount of iterations, Python provides a
range() method just for that purpose:
>>># Prints 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

>>>for i in range(10):
>>> print(i)
When it only has one parameter, range() starts at zero and counts up one
by one to the parameter value but stops just short of it. If you provide two
parameters, range() starts at the rst value and counts up one by one to
the second value but stops just short of it:
>>># Prints 5,6,7,8,9

>>>for i in range(5, 10):
>>> print(i)
If you want to count in intervals other than one by one, you can provide a
third parameter. The following loop is the exact same as the previous one,
except it skips by two instead of one:
>>># Prints 5,7,9

>>>for i in range(5, 10, 2):
>>> print(i)
Enumerations
If you’re coming from another language, you might notice that looping
through an iterable object doesn’t give you the index of that object in the
list. Indexes are usually non-Pythonic and should be avoided, but if you
really need them, you can use the enumerate() method:
>>>weekdays = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursd

>>>for i, day in enumerate(weekdays):
>>> print("{} is weekday {}".format(day, i))
This would result in:
>Monday is weekday 0
>Tuesday is weekday 1
>Wednesday is weekday 2
>Thursday is weekday 3
>Friday is weekday 4
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Dictionaries
Dictionaries (or dicts) are the most important data type to know in Python.
You’re going to be using them all the time. They’re fast, they’re easy to
use, and they will keep your code clean and readable. Mastery of dicts is
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The good news is that you’ve probably been exposed to dicts already, but
you likely know them as hash tables or hash maps. It’s the exact same
thing: an associative array of key-value pairs. In a list, you access the
contents by using an index; in a dict, you access the contents by using a
key.
How to declare an empty dict:
>>>d = {}
How to assign a dict key to a value:
>>>d = {}
>>>d["one_key"] = 10
>>>d["two_key"] = 25
>>>d["another_key"] = "Whatever you want"
The nice thing about a dict is that you can mix and match variable types. It
doesn’t matter what you put in there. To make initialization of a dict easier,
you can use this syntax:
>>>d = {
>>> "one_key": 10,
>>> "two_key": 25,
>>> "another_key": "Whatever you want"
>>>}
To access a dict value by key:
>>>d["one_key"]
>10
>>>d["another_key"]
>"Whatever you want"
>>>d["one_key"] + d["two_key"]
>35
To iterate over a dict, use a for loop like so:
>>>for key in d:
>>> print(key)
To iterate both keys and values, use the items() method:
>>>for key, value in d.items():

>>> print(key, value)
And if you want to remove an item from a dict, use the del operator:
>>>del d["one_key"]
Again, dicts can be used for so many different things, but here’s a simple
example: mapping every US state to its capital. Initialization of the dict
might look like this:
>>>capitals = {
>>> "Alabama": "Montgomery",
>>> "Alaska": "Juneau",
>>> "Arizona": "Phoenix",
>>> ...
>>>}
And whenever you need the capital of a state, you can access it like so:
>>>state = "Pennsylvania"
>>>capitals[state]
>"Harrisburg"
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These are just the basic aspects of Python that set it apart from most of
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On your right is a menu called “Query Settings” which contains an

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The last thing to do is take this data stored on the Power Query editor
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