Python Programming for Biology: Bioinformatics and Beyond

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Not ‘programme’, even in the UK.

2

Typically the long integers start at 2

31

or 2

63

depending on whether the system is 32 bit

or 64 bit.

3

To actually write the two characters “\n” without it being interpreted as a new line you

would use “\n”.

4

In Python 3 having different types in a list is discouraged.

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5

The jargon is hashable, and this point is discussed further in

Chapter 3

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6

 It  may  seem  surprising  and  limiting  that  text  strings  in  Python  are  not  internally

modifiable, but in practice this causes few problems, given the right syntax.

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Which hopefully describes its purpose.

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