Python

Here we will see simple tip to cinvert a string to datetime object in Python programming using the datetime.strptime() method.

To check and parse a string to float, I wrote two simple functions. One of the function checks for float and the other converts the string to a float.

There are couple of efficient ways to merge / join / concatenate multiple lists in Python programming. Let’s see how to use them with example.

Here we will see how to write date from list to a file. We will also see a simple technique to write every list element in separate line in the file.

Here we will see how to open the file, read the contents to a list variable with a line per list item. Reading a file into a list is quiet simple in python.

list = list should not be used to copy or clone. Doing so will not copy the contents of one list to another. Instead the child list will be a reference to the master list.

In some situations you may need to use more than one exception in a single except clause. Here is the syntax to catch multiple exceptions in a single line.

Here is one of the method to extract numbers from string in Python. This method can extract integers, float and negative numbers and convert them to float.

split delimited string in Python: To split a string based on a delimiter and store the result in a list, we can use the str.split() method.

Finding the name of month in Python programming. let us see how to find the name of the month form a number and from a given date.

Simple and quick tip to find leap year in Python language. Here I have used a straightforward method from calendar module to find if year is leap.

Finding number of weeks in a given month in Python language. Simple options to find the number of weeks in a month including partial weeks.

Getting week number of month. Here is one of the method to find the monthly week number for a given date in Python programming.

Quick tip to get last day of the month in Python programming. Simple way to get month’s last day using the monthrange method.