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Two of Python 3.6's new features make your code easier to read and write. Another great one lets you specify the type you'd like variables to be (don't worry, we're still duck typed!) so people get the most out of your code.
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The edition that I think
I'm the most excited about
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is the new format in string literals.
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You've probably use this string method
format to put some external data into
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a string, right?
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Something like this,
name = "Kenneth" and then print,
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"Hello, my name is, and then a
placeholder, and then format name, right?
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You've done something like this,
and this works.
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And it also works for simple Python
statements, so like 2 + 2 = something,
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we format that with 2 + 2,
and we get 2 + 2 = 4.
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So this is such a common scenario that
they've put a shortcut into the language.
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So now you can skip
the entire format call.
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And you can use the new F marker for
strings,
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kinda like how we use R for raw strings.
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So we would do print(f"Hello,
my name is name"),
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and we get hello, my name is Kenneth.
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So it brings the name variable
that's in the current scope,
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which was defined up here, and
it puts it into the string.
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We can also do this with simple statements
like before, so print f"2 + 2 = 2 + 2 and
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we get 2 + 2 = 4, and while we're
talking about presentational things,
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if you regularly have
to code large numbers,
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the addition of underscores to
numbers makes them a little easier.
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So you can do like 1.
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So a 1_000_000 times 10.
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And you get the new number.
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Python will just ignore the underscores
and sees this as a million times 10.
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This changes purely cosmetic, but
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it will definitely help anyone
who has to type out long numbers.
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Granted, that's not something
you have to do very often, but
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if you're doing scientific Python,
if you're doing like stuff at NumPy or
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SciPy, you may find this more useful.
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I do believe it's actually been
in those for a little while.
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If you've been using Python 3's
function annotation abilities or
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Python 3.5's typing module,
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you'll be happy to know that variable
annotation has come to Python.
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We swap over here to PyCharm,
and we'll talk about this.
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So now, if you have a type checker set up
like the one that's installed by default
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in PyCharm, you can annotate variables
as being of a particular type, and
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then you get some handy user information
when you want to use them later.
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So like we can say that age is an int, and
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then we can set it to a default value of
like 35, and so now if I do like age., and
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I've got my normal age strings.
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Now, PyCharm can infer that from the
variable that was set before but you'll
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also see things like, if you're trying to
use this variable and you're trying to
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use it in a way that's not compatible
with an int, you can get error messages.
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All of these changes, well, minor,
definitely make working with strings and
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big numbers nicer in Python.
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And I've already found myself
using the f-strings constantly,
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I'm sure you will too.
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The variable typing will definitely make
a big impact on larger code bases too.
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