\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Zoltan} \pdfinfo{ /Title (python-3-x-modules.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Zoltan) /Subject (Python 3.x modules Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A3A3A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Python 3.x modules Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Zoltan} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/35548/cs/11169/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Zoltan \\ \uline{cheatography.com/zoltan} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 16th January, 2018.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.04 cm} x{4.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{random}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{random.randint(a},b) & generate random number N a\textless{}=N\textless{}=b \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{random.shuffle(list)} & shuffles elements of a list \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.96 cm} x{5.04 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{sys}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} sys.argv & argument list \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} sys.exit() & terminate program \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.36 cm} x{4.64 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File manipulation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} obj=open('path','mode') & opens a file and returns a file object \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} with open('file',mode) as obj & same as open but closes file \{\{nl\}\}automatically \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} obj.readlines() & read lines of a text file \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{obj.write('string')} & writes string to text file \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} obj.close() & closes obj file object \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{obj.shelve.open('filename')} & open a persistent dictionary \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{modes: 'r','w','a','rb','wb'} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.48 cm} x{5.52 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{copy}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{copy.copy(obj)} & makes copy of mutable obj (list or dict) \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{copy.deepcopy(obj)} & makes a copy of objs inside obj recursively \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.56 cm} x{5.44 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{pprint (pretty print)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{pprint.pprint(obj)} & prints the formatted object on stream \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{pprint.pformat(obj)} & Returns the formatted object as a string \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4.32 cm} x{3.68 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{send2trash}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{send2trash.send2trash('file')} & sends file to recycle bin \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.52 cm} x{4.48 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{zipfile}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{obj=zipfile.zipfile('file.zip')} & opens file obj to compress file.zip \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{obj.write('file.txt',compress\_type=zipfile.ZIP\_DEFLATED)} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{obj.extractall('file.zip')} & extracts files from zip file \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} obj.close() & closes compress and extract file obj \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} obj.namelist() & return a list of archive members by name \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{info=obj.getinfo('file.zip')} & Return info about the archived file \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} info.file\_size & returns original file size in bytes \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{info.compress\_size} & returns the compressed file size \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.04 cm} x{4.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{os}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.chdir('path')} & change firectory \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} os.getcwd() & get current working dir \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.listdir('path')} & returns list of filename strings in 'path' \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.makedirs('path')} & recursive directory creation \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.rmdir('path')} & deletes the directory path if empty \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.path.abspath('path')} & returns string w/absolute path \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.path.basename('path')} & returns the filename of the path \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.path.dirname('path')} & returns the directory name of pathname path \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.path.exists('path')} & returns True if path refers to existing path \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.path.getsize('path')} & returns filesize in bytes of the file in path \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.path.isabs('path')} & returns True if path is absolute \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.path.isdir('path')} & returns True if path is an existing directory \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.path.isfile('path')} & returns True if path is an existing file \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} os.path.join() & join strings into a file path \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.path.relpath('path')} & returns relative path string \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.path.split('path')} & returns a tuple w/path separated from basename \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 2) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.04 cm} x{4.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{os (cont)}} \tn % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{os.unlink('path')} & delete file at path (irreversible) \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{os.walk('path')} & returns list of strings for path,subdirs,files vars \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Path format in windows - 'Drive:\textbackslash{}\textbackslash{}Dir'} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.52 cm} x{4.48 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{pyperclip (copies data to clipboard)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{pyperclip.copy(obj)} & copies obj to clipboard \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{pyperclip.paste()} & pastes clipboard content \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{requests}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{r=requests.get('url')} & downloads url contents \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{r.raise\_for\_status()} & raise exception if download fails \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} r.status.code() & returns request status code \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} r.headers{[}'content-type'{]} & returns headers \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} r.encoding & returns encoding format \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} r.content & response content in a raw string format \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} r.text() & decodes server response \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} r.json() & returns a decoded json obj \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} r.history & tracks redirection 302 if redirected \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} r.url & returns requested url \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} r.iter\_content(N) & returns "chunks of N bytes" per iteration \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 3) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} requests.post('url',data=\{'key':'value'\}) & pos request \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}