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"**Note**: Click on \"*Kernel*\" > \"*Restart Kernel and Clear All Outputs*\" in [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) *before* reading this notebook to reset its output. If you cannot run this file on your machine, you may want to open it [in the cloud <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_mb.png\">](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/webartifex/intro-to-python/develop?urlpath=lab/tree/01_elements/00_content.ipynb)."
"**Note**: Click on \"*Kernel*\" > \"*Restart Kernel and Clear All Outputs*\" in [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) *before* reading this notebook to reset its output. If you cannot run this file on your machine, you may want to open it [in the cloud <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_mb.png\">](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/webartifex/intro-to-python/main?urlpath=lab/tree/01_elements/00_content.ipynb)."
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"These addresses are *not* meaningful for anything other than checking if two variables reference the *same* object.\n",
"\n",
"Obviously, `a` and `b` have the same *value* as revealed by the **equality operator** `==`: We say `a` and `b` \"evaluate equal.\" The resulting `True` - and the `False` further below - is yet another data type, a so-called **boolean**. We look into them in [Chapter 3 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/03_conditionals/00_content.ipynb#Boolean-Expressions)."
"Obviously, `a` and `b` have the same *value* as revealed by the **equality operator** `==`: We say `a` and `b` \"evaluate equal.\" The resulting `True` - and the `False` further below - is yet another data type, a so-called **boolean**. We look into them in [Chapter 3 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/03_conditionals/00_content.ipynb#Boolean-Expressions)."
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"Different types imply different behaviors for the objects. The `b` object, for example, may be \"asked\" if it is a whole number with the [.is_integer() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#float.is_integer) \"functionality\" that comes with *every* `float` object.\n",
"\n",
"Formally, we call such type-specific functionalities **methods** (i.e., as opposed to functions) and we look at them in detail in [Chapter 11 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/11_classes/00_content.ipynb). For now, it suffices to know that we access them with the **dot operator** `.` on the object. Of course, `b` is a whole number, which the boolean object `True` tells us."
"Formally, we call such type-specific functionalities **methods** (i.e., as opposed to functions) and we look at them in detail in [Chapter 11 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/11_classes/00_content.ipynb). For now, it suffices to know that we access them with the **dot operator** `.` on the object. Of course, `b` is a whole number, which the boolean object `True` tells us."
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"For example, while the above code to calculate the average of the even numbers in `[7, 11, 8, 5, 3, 12, 2, 6, 9, 10, 1, 4]` is correct, a Pythonista would rewrite it in a more \"Pythonic\" way and use the built-in [sum() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sum) and [len() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#len) functions (cf., [Chapter 2 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/02_functions/00_content.ipynb#Built-in-Functions)) as well as a so-called **list comprehension** (cf., [Chapter 8 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/08_mfr/00_content.ipynb#List-Comprehensions)). Pythonic code runs faster in many cases and is less error-prone."
"For example, while the above code to calculate the average of the even numbers in `[7, 11, 8, 5, 3, 12, 2, 6, 9, 10, 1, 4]` is correct, a Pythonista would rewrite it in a more \"Pythonic\" way and use the built-in [sum() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#sum) and [len() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#len) functions (cf., [Chapter 2 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/02_functions/00_content.ipynb#Built-in-Functions)) as well as a so-called **list comprehension** (cf., [Chapter 8 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/08_mfr/00_content.ipynb#List-Comprehensions)). Pythonic code runs faster in many cases and is less error-prone."
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"\n",
"At the same time, for a beginner's course, it is often easier to code linearly.\n",
"\n",
"In real data science projects, one would probably employ a mixed approach and put reusable code into so-called Python modules (i.e., *.py* files; cf., [Chapter 2 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/02_functions/00_content.ipynb#Local-Modules-and-Packages)) and then use Jupyter notebooks to build up a linear report or storyline for an analysis."
"In real data science projects, one would probably employ a mixed approach and put reusable code into so-called Python modules (i.e., *.py* files; cf., [Chapter 2 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/02_functions/00_content.ipynb#Local-Modules-and-Packages)) and then use Jupyter notebooks to build up a linear report or storyline for an analysis."
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