I do my make-up in somebody else's car - More Late-Night Python 

I am on the train. 

On the train I get excited and want to start coding and start blogging.

I am sorry, okay? The title is from Lorde's "Green Light". I haven't worn make-up since 2018 and that was a one-off. Literally.

100% this is true. 

I might have worn it a few times before then but even then it had been a while.

I write a lot of stuff - but the blog posts that I like the most are the ones where I actually write about code.

One more image from the Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight. Can't believe it was a week; feels like eternity. Such a healing place omg. I have a few more photos stored up but it is getting harder to remember what I have and haven't used!

So where am I at with the Python course?

Intermediate Python 3

• I am still watching the decorators video - I am about 7 minutes in out of 22 and so about 1/3 of the way through
• Videos are quite hard for me to watch
• I am still on the OOP lesson
• There is still quite a bit to go
• Still the rest of the lesson, a quiz, a project and something else... maybe an article maybe...
• What comes after OOP? I have given up on ever finding out. SUCH COOL TOPICS
• Unit testing
• Iterators and Generators
• Specialized Collections
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - AND THEN I WILL BE DONE 

With intermediate Python. 

But there's no rushing it for me.

I have to keep on consolidating at every step of the way.

Otherwise there's no point - sorry. 

And after that the sky will be the limit. I can do the Django course.

And then I can do the Advanced Python course.

OMG AND THEN I CAN SOLVE CODING PROBLEMS.

AND OMG I CAN DO A CODEWARS PROBLEM NOW OMG.

List Filtering

Nice and simple. 

Get back into it again.

I tend to go by the most popular as these tend to be the least finicky...

  def filter_list(my_list: list[str,int]) -> list[int]:
        # take in a new list
        # loop through every item on the list
        # build up a new list with only the numbers on it
        # if the item is a number then add it to the list
        # looks like one for typeof() in here
        # or whatever it is in Python
        # whatever the equivalent is in here
        # okay this is looking a list comprehension isn't it then bye

Notice the above.

The above is really really interesting because:

IT IS A MIXTURE OF PSEUDOCODE AND COMMENTS.

And this is really interesting because: 

This is really interesting because when breaking down the steps, the procedure is:

• Write comments
• Write pseudocode
• Write the code

And I was a bit confused because I took it literally and thought it was the order. But - the first two steps especially can be intertwined. And often done in unison.

And if I didn't know that then I probably would've forced myself to do them what at a time

But as it is I know it so much better - thanks thanks thank you thank you bye.

Back to the code

Wait, WHAT. typeof() is a JavaScript thing. OOPS.

Well, this is what I wrote so far

And apparently, it is not working. NOOOOOOOOOOO.

def filter_list(my_list: list[str,int]) -> list[int]:
    return [item for items in my_list if isinstance(item, int)]

nooooo. help! This code is not working and I don't understand the error. Do not replicate!!! "item" is not defined. But it just points to the last use of item in "isinstance" for now. I didn't really understand the method. How can I fix this please arrrrrrgh.

Tried this and it still isn't working

def filter_list(my_list: list[str,int]) -> list[int]:
    return [item for items in my_list if type(item)==int

BOTH WERE RIGHT

I just used items instead of item in my list comprehension; I got confused between writing for item in items and item for items in my_list ARRGH. Wow.

WELL AT LEAST I LEARNED TWO NEW PYTHON METHODS WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

This is in line with the top solutions.

I had to debug using chat gpt. It is nearly midnight. But I need to stop assuming that I am wrong.

I need to stop assuming that I am stupid and I don't know the methods.

If I knew that I was intelligent and I knew the methods, I would look more closely at the code because I would know the problems could be there as well too - thanks.