Python Cheat Sheet

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Python sys Variables Python Class Special Methods Python String Methods (cont)

argv Command line args __new__(cls) __lt__(self, other) istitle() * title() *

builtin_module_names Linked C modules __init__(self, args) __le__(self, other) isupper() * translate(table)

byteorder Native byte order __del__(self) __gt__(self, other) join() upper() *

check_interval Signal check __repr__(self) __ge__(self, other) ljust(width) zfill(width)

frequency
__str__(self) __eq__(self, other) lower() *
exec_prefix Root directory
__cmp__(self, other) __ne__(self, other) Methods marked * are locale dependant for 8-
executable Name of executable __index__(self) __nonzero__(self) bit strings.
exitfunc Exit function name
__hash__(self)
Python File Methods
modules Loaded modules
__getattr__(self, name)
path Search path close() readlines(size)
__getattribute__(self, name)
platform Current platform flush() seek(offset)
__setattr__(self, name, attr)
stdin, stdout, stderr File objects for I/O fileno() tell()
__delattr__(self, name)
version_info Python version info isatty() truncate(size)
__call__(self, args, kwargs)
winver Version number next() write(string)
Python List Methods read(size) writelines(list)
Python sys.argv
append(item) pop(position) readline(size)
sys.argv[0] foo.py
count(item) remove(item)
Python Indexes and Slices
sys.argv[1] bar extend(list) reverse()
sys.argv[2] -c len(a) 6
index(item) sort()
sys.argv[3] qux a[0] 0
insert(position, item)
sys.argv[4] --h a[5] 5

sys.argv for the command: Python String Methods a[-1] 5

$ python foo.py bar -c qux --h capitalize() * lstrip() a[-2] 4

center(width) partition(sep) a[1:] [1,2,3,4,5]

Python os Variables
count(sub, start, end) replace(old, new) a[:5] [0,1,2,3,4]
altsep Alternative sep a[:-2] [0,1,2,3]
decode() rfind(sub, start ,end)
curdir Current dir string
encode() rindex(sub, start, end) a[1:3] [1,2]
defpath Default search path a[1:-1] [1,2,3,4]
endswith(sub) rjust(width)
devnull Path of null device
expandtabs() rpartition(sep) b=a[:] Shallow copy of a
extsep Extension separator
find(sub, start, end) rsplit(sep) Indexes and Slices of a=[0,1,2,3,4,5]
linesep Line separator
index(sub, start, end) rstrip()
name Name of OS Python Datetime Methods
isalnum() * split(sep)
pardir Parent dir string today() fromordinal(ordinal)
isalpha() * splitlines()
pathsep Patch separator now(timezoneinfo) combine(date, time)
isdigit() * startswith(sub)
sep Path separator utcnow() strptime(date, format)
islower() * strip()
Registered OS names: "posix", "nt", fromtimestamp(timestamp)
isspace() * swapcase() *
"mac", "os2", "ce", "java", "riscos"
utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)

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Python Time Methods

replace() utcoffset()

isoformat() dst()

__str__() tzname()

strftime(format)

Python Date Formatting

%a Abbreviated weekday (Sun)

%A Weekday (Sunday)

%b Abbreviated month name (Jan)

%B Month name (January)

%c Date and time

%d Day (leading zeros) (01 to 31)

%H 24 hour (leading zeros) (00 to 23)

%I 12 hour (leading zeros) (01 to 12)

%j Day of year (001 to 366)

%m Month (01 to 12)

%M Minute (00 to 59)

%p AM or PM

%S Second (00 to 61)

%U Week number (00 to 53)

%w Weekday (0 to 6)

%W Week number (00 to 53)

%x Date

%X Time

%y Year without century (00 to 99)

%Y Year (2008)

%Z Time zone (GMT)

%% A literal "%" character (%)

Sunday as start of week. All days in a new year preceding the

first Sunday are considered to be in week 0.
0 is Sunday, 6 is Saturday.
Monday as start of week. All days in a new year preceding the
first Monday are considered to be in week 0.
This is not a mistake. Range takes account of leap and double-
leap seconds.

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