Since full unicode is the current range of the default string type (str), I find my initial explorations of strings often swerve into chess pieces, playing cards, emoji. Speaking of playing cards: I'm surprised to discover an unfamiliar face card this late in life. Unicode has a "Knight" (letter C) in all four suits. I'm so used to Bicycle decks with suits of 13. I chop out all the Knights using slice notation in the Notebook linked below. The playing card motif is especially apropos around Python given the logo has that face card symmetry, if you know what I mean. I believe Luciano Ramahlo does playing cards quite a bit, along with little flag GIFs (served by nginx), which I think these days could be emoji. If not bothering with Unicode, then why not just: from random import shuffle suits = "Hearts Clubs Spades Diamonds".split() # chop me up royals = "Ace Jack Queen King".split() # could Ace be a she? Sure! normals = [str(i) for i in range(2, 11)] # starts at 1, stops at 10 deck = [ ] # I'm an empty list for s in suits: # outer loop for n in [royals[0]] + normals + royals[1:]: # Ace, normals, rest card = (n, s) # (suit, face value) deck.append(card) deck += ["Joker", "Joker"] # need these too! print("Fresh from box:\n", deck) shuffle(deck) print("Shuffled:\n", deck) But then we'd probably want instances of the Deck class no? Self shuffling. Besides, I think bothering with Unicode is worth the effort. Lets not lazily pretend we still live in the days of ASCII. Copying over from a publicly shared Jupyter listserv, one of mine from yesterday: === "Orthogonal" to the programming languages (yet pops up in most of them): Unicode. http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/4dsolutions/SAISOFT/blob/master/Unicode_F... I'm finding Jupyter fun for exploring Unicode, in part because of HTML( ) enlargement possibility. I approach it through Python, but other kernels could do that too. I second Lee's enthusiasm for the Jake Vanderplas tutorials. He gave a great keynote at a Pycon I went to here in Portland. Kirby On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 8:19 PM Lee Smith <leesmith404@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:30:53 AM UTC-7, akash deep srivastava wrote:
hi i am akash i'am student of today i'am staring a jupyter . i dont know what is jupyter and what is the use so please help me and guide to jupyter .
Jupyter is a Browser that easily allows programming experiments. First in Python, now there are C++ kernels being adopted. You will find Juyper very useful since on line a number of people are publishing free courses written in a notebook. Consider https://github.com/jakevdp. One of his 'Repitories' -- folders is a complete elementary course in Python. " WhirlwindTourOfPython <https://github.com/jakevdp/WhirlwindTourOfPython>"
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