Create array in Python (list) and Django

Posted under » Python » Django on 24 May 2022

Python Collections (Arrays). There are four collection data types in the Python programming language:

List is a collection which is ordered and changeable. Allows duplicate members.
eg. alist = ["durian", "rambutan", "manga"]
Tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable. Allows duplicate members. Some people prefer set because they are faster.
eg. atuple = ("waihong", "adam", "kelvin")
Set is a collection which is unordered and unindexed. No duplicate members. Set items are unchangeable, but you can remove items and add new items.
rg. aset = {"abibakrin", "umar", "uthman"}
Dictionary is a collection which is ordered and changeable. No duplicate members.
eg. thisdict = {"brand": "Ford", "model": "Mustang", "year": 1964}
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If you need more info of what you can do the collections,

print(dir(alist))

To begin, we initialise the list. If it is a set, the we do {} instead of []

cars=[]

Or straight away add some values.

cars = ["Ford", "Volvo", "BMW"]

Use the len() method to return the length of an array (the number of elements in an array) or query.

x = len(cars)
3

This is similar to PHP and django count()

To show a value = BMW

print(cars[2])

To know the number 2 or position of the list

print(index.cars('BMW'))

To sort (similar to PHP)

cars.sort()
print(cars)

Looping to show all values

for x in cars:
  print(x)

You can use the append() method to add an element to an array.

cars.append("Honda") 

To create an associative array, the brackets turn curly and arrow (in PHP) is colon.

af = {'ahmad' : 'WENDY', 'sollihin' : 'CHOOI LENG'}

Assuming you have a car associative array and wants just the model id (m_id field) sorted by car type in django

 model_list = []
 for mod in carass:
     model_list.append(mod.m_id)
 # use the model_list array
 carmod = cars.objects.filter(model__in=model_list).order_by('type')

Note that carass and cars are 2 separate tables or objects. The '__in' means the model is equal to the ids on the model_list array.

Somehow searching in arrays is quite forgiving. In the above cars example, it is a string, but below is integer so it doesn't matter if it's a number or string.

def takenqid(request):
    global le
    sid = request.user.id
    fresh = [518, 519, 520, 521, 523, 524]
    checkobj = Users.objects.filter(user_id=sid)
    taken=[]
    for gay in checkobj:
        taken.append(gay.resume_question_id)
    available = []
    for element in fresh:
        if element not in taken:
            available.append(element)
    le = available[0]
    return le

What the above function does is to see if there are anything from the fresh array that is not already in taken array. If there is then append to the available array. Useful when you want to give people content that the person has not seen.

There are many ways to get unique records. in Python. One way is to convert the list into dictionary which only accept unique data.

query ....

sid=[]
for pet in query:
    sid.append(pet.student_id)

unique_list = list(dict.fromkeys(sid))

for pet in unique_list:
    print(pet)

Removing Array Elements by pop or remove

cars.pop(1) #2nd element

cars.remove("Volvo")

For PHP array.

See also Show all rows in Django template.

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