Lessons Learned TODOs

All global variables are stored in globals()

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3972872/python-variables-as-keys-to-dict

You can use a switch statement in python via a Dictionary

dict {'a' : method1(),
      'b' : method2()}
      
#Invokes method1()    
dict['a'] 

Add-On

Dictionaries can also be iterated with a default value using get

dict.get('c', print "This variable does not exist - please debug")

Object Oriented Programming

Inheriting a class Parent is the parent class that inherits all variables and methods:

class toInherit(Parent):
  def method1():
    pass

Overriding Methods You can override methods just by using the same function name as the parent class

Static Methods Inserting the @staticmethod property on top of a class makes it callable (Cannot be called within the same class) Use Class.method inorder to do recurstion here

class math():
    @staticmethod
    def method1(var1, var2):
        return var + var2

{Un}Packing Varables Functions can be packed:

def method1(var1, var2):
  return var + var2
  
numbers = [1, 5]
print method1(*numbers)
>>> 6

Functions can also be unpacked

def method1(*many_numbers):
  return sum(many_numbers)
  
numbers = [1, 5, 2, 2, 1, 2]
print method1(numbers)
>>> 13