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Python: Built-in Functions vs. For & If Loops – 5 Programs Explained

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Python’s built-in functions make coding fast and efficient. But understanding how they work under the hood is crucial to mastering Python. This post shows five Python tasks, each implemented in two ways: Using built-in functions Using for loops and if statements ✅ 1. Sum of a List ✅ Using Built-in Function: numbers = [ 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 ] total = sum (numbers) print ( "Sum:" , total) 🔁 Using For Loop: numbers = [ 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 ] total = 0 for num in numbers: total += num print ( "Sum:" , total) ✅ 2. Find Maximum Value ✅ Using Built-in Function: values = [ 3 , 18 , 7 , 24 , 11 ] maximum = max (values) print ( "Max:" , maximum) 🔁 Using For and If: values = [ 3 , 18 , 7 , 24 , 11 ] maximum = values[ 0 ] for val in values: if val > maximum: maximum = val print ( "Max:" , maximum) ✅ 3. Count Vowels in a String ✅ Using Built-ins: text = "hello world" vowel_count = sum ( 1 for ch in text if ch i...

Python Command Line Options List

The complete list of command line options -b Issue warnings for calling str() with a bytes or bytearray object and no encoding argument, and comparing a bytes or bytearray with a str. Option -bb issues errors instead. -B Do not write .pyc or .pyo byte-code files on imports. -d Turn on parser debugging output (for developers of the Python core). -E Ignore Python environment variables described ahead (such as PYTHONPATH). -h Print help message and exit. -i Enter interactive mode after executing a script. Hint: useful for postmortem debugging; see also pdb.pm(), described in Python’s library manuals. -O Optimize generated byte code (create and use .pyo byte-code files). Currently yields a minor performance improvement. -OO Operates like -O, the previous option, but also removes docstrings from byte code. -q Do not print version and copyright message on interactive startup (as of Python 3.2). -s Do not add the user site directory to the sys.path module search path. -S Do not imply “impor...