Python Tips

Here we will see how to open the file, read the contents to a list variable with a line per list item. Reading a file into a list is quiet simple in python.

list = list should not be used to copy or clone. Doing so will not copy the contents of one list to another. Instead the child list will be a reference to the master list.

In some situations you may need to use more than one exception in a single except clause. Here is the syntax to catch multiple exceptions in a single line.

Here is one of the method to extract numbers from string in Python. This method can extract integers, float and negative numbers and convert them to float.

split delimited string in Python: To split a string based on a delimiter and store the result in a list, we can use the str.split() method.

Finding the name of month in Python programming. let us see how to find the name of the month form a number and from a given date.

Simple and quick tip to find leap year in Python language. Here I have used a straightforward method from calendar module to find if year is leap.

Finding number of weeks in a given month in Python language. Simple options to find the number of weeks in a month including partial weeks.

Getting week number of month. Here is one of the method to find the monthly week number for a given date in Python programming.

Quick tip to get last day of the month in Python programming. Simple way to get month’s last day using the monthrange method.

Quick tip to find first day of the month in Python programming. There are several ways to find first day of the month.

Simple tip for getting week number of the year from a given date in Python programming.

Simple tip with sample code on getting day of week for a specific date in Python programming in integer format as well as day name.

Simple methods for getting day of year for a given date in Python programming.

How to find time interval between two times in Python programming. Example for finding number of hours or minutes or seconds between two times.

Finding the days between two dates in Python. Example for finding the difference between two dates in Python programming.

Quick Python tip for adding days to date object using the datetime.timedelta() method.

Here we will see how to do the reverse of it. i.e. converting date string of mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy to date object.