10 helpful Python Tips and Tricks for Beginners

With practical examples

Lianne & Justin @ Just into Data
Towards Data Science
9 min readAug 31, 2020

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Python tips and tricks for beginners
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In this post, we’d like to share 10 useful Python tips and tricks for beginners with you.

Python is one of the most in-demand skills for data scientists. Besides providing a free Python course for beginners, we also summarize these 10 tips and tricks, which should help you with daily data science tasks.

Following this beginners’ tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  • format strings
  • use enumerate, sorted functions
  • return multiple values from a function
  • use lambda expression, list comprehensions
  • Lots more!

If you want to make your Python coding more efficient, don’t miss these tips/tricks!

Let’s begin.

Tip #1: Display Methods/Functions

With Python being so powerful, there are many different methods and functions. It’s especially hard for beginners to memorize all.

How do we find out the available methods/functions for a Python object?

The first Python tip for beginners is about two quick ways of doing this.

Method #1: Code completion feature

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Lianne & Justin @ Just into Data
Lianne & Justin @ Just into Data

Written by Lianne & Justin @ Just into Data

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