Comparison and Boolean Ops in Python

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Python comparisons are unusual in that chaining comparisons is allowed, and works reasonably. Chained comparisons translate to a series of anded terms, repeating the middle. For instance, a < b == c <= d is interpreted as a < b and b == c and c <= d. The only other note is that the middle expression (4 in the below example) is evaluated only once. For a constant, this doesn’t matter, but it will make a difference for expressions which have a side-effect. Note that this does not always have the desired effect. For instance, 3 != 2 != 3 is true, which might not be what you wanted.

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Python While Loop

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With the while loop we can execute a set of statements as long as a condition is true.

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Python If Statement

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Python is quite unusual in that blocks of statements are defined not with the usual markers, { and }, or begin and end, but by the actual indention of the code itself.

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Hello World in Morse code on Raspberry Pi

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Somebody posted a tutorial on YouTube showing a LED blinking “hello world” in Morse code using a Raspberry Pi.  However, they only show the code executing, not how it was put together. They also don’t show the hardware setup 🙁

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Port Scanner in Python

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This post will show how you can make a small and easy-to-use port scanner program written in Python. There are many ways of doing this with Python, but we’re going to do it using the built-in module Socket.

Do not run programs like this one against servers in the college. Behaviour like this could be seen as malicious and get you suspended!

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Hello World in Python

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This is how you would display “Hello World” in Python.

print("Hello, World!")