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What does a backslash mean in a string literal?

I made a list of strings like this: But if I try to print it, I get a very different looking result: Why does this happen? Does the character have some special meaning here? Answer The backslash is used to escape special (unprintable) characters in string literals. n is for newline, t for tab, f for a form-f…

Nested lambda statements when sorting lists

I wish to sort the below list first by the number, then by the text. Attempt 1 I was not happy with this since it required splitting a string twice, to extract the relevant components. Attempt 2 I came up with the below solution. But I am hoping there is a more succinct solution via Pythonic lambda statements…

Python comparing two lists and filtering items

I would like to do some word filtering (extracting only items in ‘keyword’ list that exist in ‘whitelist’). Here is my code so far: I want to remove every word except for ‘Cat’, ‘Dog’, and ‘Cow’ (which are in the ‘whitelist’) so that the …

How to replace a word to another word in a list python?

If I have this list: Is it possible to replace every world to any other word without using any auto command, I am thinking about something like this: Answer You can use a list comprehension with an if-else. You now have a new list, list_B, where all instances of the word “world” have been replaced…