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Contents

• Python Built-in Methods
• Pandas
• Numpy
• Data Science Tools
• Terminal
• Cool Tools
• Jupyter Notebook

Python Built-in Methods

Number

Title	Explanation	Code
Get Multiples of a Number Using Modulus	link	link
fractions: Get Numerical Results in Fractions instead of Decimals	link	link
How to Use Underscores to Format Large Numbers in Python	link	link
Confirm whether a variable is a number	link	link
Get a Division, Floor Division, And The Remainder of a Division in Python	link	link

Boolean

Title	Explanation	Code
Boolean Operators: Connect Two Boolean Expressions into One Expression	link	link

String

Title	Explanation	Code
__str__ and __repr__: Create a String Representation of a Python Object	link	link
String find: Find the Index of a Substring in a Python String	link	link
eval: Turn a Python String into a Variable or Function	link	link
re.sub: Replace One String with Another String Using Regular Expression	link	link

List

Title	Explanation	Code
any: Check if Any Element of an Iterable is True	link	link
Extended Iterable Unpacking: Ignore Multiple Values when Unpacking a Python Iterable	link	link
How to Unpack Iterables in Python	link	link
random.choice: Get a Randomly Selected Element from a Python List	link	link
random.sample: Get n Random Elements From a List	link	link
filter: Get the Elements of an Iterable that a Function Returns True	link	link
heapq: Find n Max Values of a Python List	link	link
join method: Turn an Iterable into a Python String	link	link
Zip: Associate Elements from Two Iterators based on the Order	link	link
collections.Counter: Count the Occurrences of Items in a List	link	link
Zip Function: Create Pairs of Elements from Two Lists in Python	link	link
Stop using = operator to create a copy of a Python list. Use copy method instead	link	link
itertools.combinations: A better way to iterate through a pair of values in a Python list	link	link
itertools.product: Nested For-Loops in a Generator Expression	link	link
itertools.islice: Get Items From an Iterable That are Within a Certain Range With a Specific Incrementation	link	link
Enumerate	link	link
set.intersection: Find the Intersection Between 2 Sets	link	link
Set Difference: Find the Difference Between 2 Sets	link	link
Difference between list append and list extend	link	link
map method: Apply a Function to Each Item of an Iterable	link	link
Why Should you Rewrite a For-Loop as a List Comprehension?	link	link

Tuple

Title	Explanation	Code
namedtuple: A Lightweight Python Structure to Mange your Data	link	link
slice: Make your Indices more Readable by Naming your Slice	link	link

Dictionary

Title	Explanation	Code
Defaultdict: Return a default value when a key is not available	link	link
Defaultdict: Create a Dictionary with Values that are List	link	link
Ordered dictionary in Python	link	link

Datetime

Title	Explanation	Code
datetime + timedelta: Calculate End DateTime based on Start DateTime and Duration	link	link
Use Dates in a Month as the Feature	link	link

Function

Title	Explanation	Code
*iterator: Pass Values of an Iterator to a Function	link	link
Use Python Built-in Functions to Speed your Code	link	link
**kwargs: Pass multiple arguments to a function in Python	link	link
Return Multiple Values from a Function Using Python Dictionary	link	link
Decorator in Python	link	link
functools.partial: Generate a New Function with Fewer Arguments	link	link
singledispatch: Call Another Function Based on the Type of the Current Function’s Argument	link	link

Classes

Title	Explanation	Code
Abstract Classes: Declare Methods without Implementation	link	link
classmethod: What is it and When to Use it	link	link
getattr: a Better Way to Get the Attribute of a Class	link	link
__call__: You can Call your Class Instance like a Function. Here is how	link	link
Static method: use the function without adding the attributes required for a new instance	link	link
Property Decorator: A Pythonic Way to Use Getters and Setters	link	link

Files

Title	Explanation	Code
Shutil: Move Files in Python	link	link
pathlith.Path	link	link
pathlib: Create, Write, and Rename Files in One Line of Code	link	link
Pathlib: Iterate Over All Files that End with ‘.csv’ in a Directory	link	link
Path.parents: Get the Parent Directory of a File	link	link
How to Improve the Readability of your JSON file using Indent	link	link
__main__.py: Run a Directory like a Main Script	link	link

Error handling

Title	Explanation	Code
Assert in Python: Output a Customized Message When the Assertion Fails	link	link
warnings: Ignore Warnings when Running Python Code	link	link

Interact with Terminal

Title	Explanation	Code
How to Execute Shell Commands in a Python Script	link	link
argparse: Python Library to Parse Arguments from Command Line	link	link

Best Practices

Title	Explanation	Code
Stop Writing Code Comments. Use Meaningful Names Instead	link
Underscore(_): Ignore values that will not be used	link	link
Underscore “_”: Ignore the index in Python for loops	link	link
Save Immediate Output when an Error Occurs	link
Print error without stopping the for loop in Python	link	link
Python Pass Statement	link	link
Type hint in Python 3.9	link

Code Speed

Title	Explanation	Code
Concurrently execute tasks on separate CPUs	link	link
Compare the execution time between 2 functions	link	link

Pandas

Change Values

Title	Explanation	Code
pd.DataFrame.agg: Aggregate over Columns or Rows Using Multiple Operations	link	link
pandas.DataFrame.agg: Apply Different Aggregations to Different Columns	link	link
DataFrame.pipe: Increase the Readability of your Code when Applying Multiple Functions to a DataFrame	link	link
pd.Series.map: Change Values of a Pandas Series Using a Dictionary	link	link
pd.Series.str: Manipulate Text Data in a pandas Series	link	link
set_categories in pandas: Sort Categorical Column by a Specific Ordering	link	link
parse_dates: Convert Columns into Datetime When Using Pandas to Read CSV Files	link	link
Filter Rows only if Column Contains Values from another List	link	link
Specify suffixes when using df.merge()	link	link
Specify the datatype to speed up your code and reduce memory	link
Highlight your pandas DataFrame	link	link
Assign Values to Multiple New Columns	link	link
Reduce pd.DataFrame’s Memory	link	link
pd.DataFrame.explode: Transform Each Element in an Iterable to a Row	link	link
pandas.cut: Bin a DataFrame’s values into Discrete Intervals	link	link
Forward Fill in Pandas: Use the Previous Value to Fill the Current Missing Value	link	link
pandas.pivot_table: Turn Your DataFrame Into a Pivot Table	link	link

Get Values

Title	Explanation	Code
df.columns.str.startswith: Find DataFrame’s Columns that Start with a Pattern	link	link
pandas.DataFrame.iterrows: Iterate over Rows of a DataFrame	link	link
pandas.Series.dt: Access Datetime Properties of pandas Series	link	link
pd.Series.between: Select Rows in a pandas Series Containing Values between 2 Numbers	link	link
DataFrame rolling: Find the average of the previous n datapoints using Pandas	link	link
select_dtypes: Return a subset of a DataFrame including/excluding columns based on their dtype	link	link
pct_change: Find the percentage change between the current and a prior element in a pandas Series	link	link
DataFrame.diff and DataFrame.shift: Take the Difference between Rows within a Column in Pandas	link	link
Pandas DataFrame: How to select all columns that start with a word	link	link
Exclude Outliers	link	link
Pandas DataFrame Get Data in a Year Range	link	link
pd.reindex: Replace the Values of the Missing Dates with 0	link	link
Select DataFrame Rows Before or After a Specific Date	link	link
DataFrame.groupby.sample: Get a Random Sample of Items from Each Category in a Column	link	link

Testing

Title	Explanation	Code
assert_frame equal: Test whether Two DataFrames are Similar	link	link

Numpy

Title	Explanation	Code
np.ravel: Flatten a Numpy Array	link	link
Use List to Change the Positions of Rows or Columns in a Numpy Array	link	link
Key Parameter in Max(): Find the Key with the Largest Value	link	link
Difference between Numpy’s All and Any Methods	link	link
Double np.argsort: Get Rank of Values in an Array	link	link
Get the index of the max value in a Numpy array	link	link
np.all: Test Whether All Elements along a Given Axis of a NumPy Array Evaluate to True	link	link
np.where: Replace Elements of a NumPy Array Based on a Condition	link	link
array-to-latex: Turn a Numpy Array into Latex	link	link
Numpy Comparison Operators	link	link
NumPy.linspace: Get Evenly Spaced Numbers Over a Specific Interval	link	link
NumPy.testing.assert_almost_equal: Check If Two Arrays Are Equal up to a Certain Precision	link	link

Data Science Tools

Testing

Title	Explanation	Code
snoop : Smart Print to Debug your Python Function	link	link
pytest benchmark: A Pytest Fixture to Benchmark your Code	link	link
pytest.mark.parametrize: Test your Functions with Multiple Inputs	link	link
Pytest: Shows only Failed Tests	link
Pytest Fixtures: Use the same data for different tests	link	link
Pytest repeat	link	link
Pandera: a Python Library to Validate Your Pandas DataFrame	link	link

Data

Title	Explanation	Code
faker: Create Fake Data in One Line of Code	link	link
DVC: A Data Version Control Tool for your Data Science Projects	link	link
fetch_openml: Get OpenML’s Dataset in One Line of Code	link	link
github-to-sqlite: Download the Data of your Starred GitHub Repositories in One Command Line	link
Autoscraper	link	link
Extract series data from various Internet sources directly into a pandas DataFrame	link	link
Compare the similar features between 2 different datasets	link	link
newspaper3k: Extract Meaningful Information From an Articles in 2 Lines of Code	link	link
distfit: Find The Best Theoretical Distribution For Your Data in Python	link	link

Feature extraction

Title	Explanation	Code
datefinder: Automatically Find Dates and Time in a Python String	link	link
dill’s getname: Get Names a Python Object	link	link
pytrend: Get the Trend of a Keyword on Google Search Over Time	link	link
add_datepart: Add Relevant DateTime Features in One Line of Code	link	link
Geopy: Extract Location Based on Python String	link	link
Maya: Convert the string to datetime automatically	link	link
Select the features by their relevance	link
Extract holiday from date column	link	link
fastai’s cont_cat_split: Get a DataFrame’s Continuous and Categorical Variables Based on Their Cardinality	link	link

Visualization

Title	Explanation	Code
D-Tale: A Python Library to Visualize and Analyze your Data Without Code	link
Graphviz: Create a Flowchart to Capture your Ideas in Python	link	link
Create an interactive map in Python	link	link
dtreeviz: Visualize and Interpret a Decision Tree Model	link	link

Sharing and Downloading

Title	Explanation	Code
Datapane: Publish your Python Objects on the Web in 2 Lines of Code	link	link
gdown: Download a File from Google Drive in Python	link	link

Natural Language Processing

Title	Explanation	Code
TextBlob: Processing Text in One Line of Code	link	link
sumy: Summarize Text in One Line of Code	link
Spacy_streamlit: Create a Web App to Visualize your Text in 3 Lines of Code	link	link
Extract a contiguous sequence of 2 words	link	link
Detect the “almost similar” articles	link	link
Convert number to words	link	link
texthero.clean: Preprocess Text in One Line of Code	link	link
wordfreq: Estimate the Frequency of a Word in 36 Languages	link	link

Tools for Best Python Practices

Title	Explanation	Code
Don’t Hard-Code. Use Hydra Instead	link	link
python-dotenv: How to Load the Secret Information from .env File	link	link
kedro pipeline: Create Pipeline for your Data Science Projects in Python	link	link
docopt: Create Beautiful Command-line Interfaces for Documentation in Python	link	link

Speed Up Code

Title	Explanation	Code
fastai’s df_shrink: Shrink DataFrame’s Memory Usage in One Line of Code	link	link
Swifter: Add One Word to Make your Pandas Apply 23 Times Faster	link	link

Better Pandas

Title	Explanation	Code
rich-dataframe: Create Animated and Colorful Pandas Dataframe	link
tqdm: Add Progress Bar to your Pandas Apply	link	link
tqdm.set_description: Set a Description for Your Progress Bar	link	link

Machine Learning

Title	Explanation	Code
causalimpact: Find Causal Relation of an Event and a Variable in Python	link	link
Pipeline + GridSearchCV: Prevent Data Leakage when Scaling the Data	link	link
Decompose high dimensional data into two or three dimensions	link	link
Cross Validation with Time Series	link
squared=False: Get RMSE from Sklearn’s mean_squared_error method	link	link

Terminal

Text

Title	Explanation	Code
tr Command: Translate Characters to Improve Readability In Unix/Linux	link	link
Sed Command: Replace a string with another string on the command line	link	link

Files

Title	Explanation	Code
fd: a Simple Tool to Search for Files or Directories Fast	link
ln -s: Create Symbolic Link Between 2 Files	link	link
tee: Save Command Output to a File	link	link
Make Important Files Impossible to be Deleted	link	link
View tree structure of your file	link

Tracking

Title	Explanation	Code
timeit on the Command Line: Measure Execution Time of Small Code Snippets	link	link
Time Command: Track the Time it Takes to Execute a File in Linux	link
htop	link

Python

Title	Explanation	Code
Python Shell as an Calculator: Grab the Last Output Using “_”	link
Find version of a Python library using pip list and grep	link
Conda rollback to the last revision	link	link
How to Check Whether a Library is Installed	link	link
pydash.chunk: Split Elements in a List into Groups of n Items	link	link

Prettify Terminal

Title	Explanation	Code
colorls: Beautify your ls Command with Color and Icons	link
Colorama: Produce a colored terminal text in Python	link

Sharing

Title	Explanation	Code
terminalizer: Record and Share your Terminal Sessions	link

Productive Hacks

Title	Explanation	Code
Bash For Loop: Stop Staring at your Screen. Write a Bash For Loop instead	link	link
Environment Variables: Save Private Information in your Local Machine	link	link
Pet: A Command-line Snippet Tool That Allows you to Store your Favorite Commands	link
Loop through a list of data on your terminal	link
Multi-run command	link
Run multiple commands in one line of code	link

Cool Tools

Better Output

Title	Explanation	Code
How to Strip Outputs and Execute Interactive Code in a Python Script	link	link
rich.inspect: Produce a Beautiful Report on any Python Object	link	link
Rich’s Console: Debug your Python Function in One Line of Code	link	link
loguru: Print Readable Traceback in Python	link	link
Icecream: Adding a Datetime Stamp to Python print	link	link
Icrecream: Never use print() to debug again	link	link
Pyfiglet: Make large and unique letters out of ordinary text in Python	link	link
heartrate — Visualize the Execution of a Python Program in Real-Time	link	link

Tracking

Title	Explanation	Code
Stacer: Visualize the History of your CPU and Memory Usage	link

Data

Title	Explanation	Code
sherlock: Search for a Username Across 298 Popular Website	link
getme forecast: Get the Weather Forecast Through your Terminal	link	link

Automation

Title	Explanation	Code
notion-py: Access and Edit your Notion App Using Python	link	link
organize: Automate Organizing Files with Command Line	link
Schedule: Schedule your Python Functions to Run At a Specific Time	link	link
notify-send: Send a Desktop Notification after Finishing Executing a File	link	link
isort: Automatically Sort your Python Imports in 1 Line of Code	link	link
knockknock: Receive an email when your code finishes executing	link	link
snsscrape: Scrape Social Networking Services in Python	link	link
Typer: Build a Command-Line Interface in a Few Lines of Code	link	link
yarl: Create and Extract Elements from a URL Using Python	link	link
interrogate: Check your Python Code for Missing Docstrings	link	link
mypy: Static Type Checker for Python	link	link

Git and GitHub

Title	Explanation	Code
Github CLI: Brings GitHub to your Terminal	link	link
Pull one file from another branch using git	link
Download a file on Github using wget	link	link
github1s: Read GitHub Code with VS Code on your Browser in One Second	link
PyGithub: Manage your Github resources using Python	link	link
Astral: Organize your Github stars with ease	link
pip install -e: Install Forked GitHub Repository using Pip	link	link

Alternative Approach

Title	Explanation	Code
Box: Using Dot Notation to Access Keys in a Python Dictionary	link	link
decorator module: Write Shorter Python Decorators without Nested Functions	link	link
virtualenv-clone: Create a Copy of a Virtual Environment	link	link

Jupyter Notebook

Title	Explanation	Code
nbdime: Better Version Control for Jupyter Notebook	link
display in IPython: Display math equations in Jupyter Notebook	link	link
Reuse the notebook to run the same code across different data	link
ngrok: Create a Public Server for your Jupyter Notebook in 1 Line of Code	link	link
watermark: Get Information About Your Hardware and the Packages Being Used within Your Notebook	link	link