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More Needles in the Haystack

More Needles in the Haystack

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We aren’t yet done with the tiny bits of information that Pythonists miss out on.

1.

The following code has an assert statement with an assertion failure message.

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a = "python"
b = "javascript"
assert(a == b, "Both languages are different")

No assertion was raised in the code. Why is that so?

2.

Let’s try to modify a dictionary.

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some_list = [1, 2, 3]
some_dict = {
  "key_1": 1,
  "key_2": 2,
  "key_3": 3
}
some_list = some_list.append(4) 
some_dict = some_dict.update({"key_4": 4})
# Let's check if the new values were added
print(some_list)
print(some_dict)

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