{"id":481,"date":"2012-06-20T00:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T23:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nemisj.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2020-05-15T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:48:33","slug":"python-api-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nemisj.com\/python-api-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript to Python API reference guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you also keep searching for JS terms to find out what Python API to use? I use this article as a reference guide of the javascript to python API.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prologue<\/h2>\n

After constantly working with javascript for more than seven years I’ve decided to explore another programming language. Python became my language of choice.<\/p>\n

Since I’m not doing python coding fulltime, I keep diving into the same docs of python again and again, in order to recall how to do simple and basic stuff. For example: looping through the different data types or searching in a string for a pattern.<\/p>\n

My long-running relationship with JavaScript only makes the process of learning even more difficult. Every time I’m trying to do something in python i’m searching for the equivalent of javascript API in python. However it can take a long time before the answer is found. For example, how would you do charCodeAt<\/code> in python? I have to say it took me a while to find an answer to this question, but then, time passes by and I forget it again.<\/p>\n

For this reason I wrote this short reference guide. Though it only contains stuff which differs from the javascript perspective. This means I haven’t done a mapping for methods which are the same in both languages.<\/p>\n

One piece of advice. In the python REPL you can execute the help<\/code> function and pass any object to it. The help<\/code> function will show you documentation regarding the passed object e.g.,<\/p>\n

    help([])\n<\/pre>\n
will return documentation about arrays.<\/p>\n
Global stuff<\/h3>\n
escape<\/h4>\n
Syntax: escape(x)<\/em><\/p>\n
import urllib; \nurllib.quote(x)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
unescape<\/h4>\n
Syntax: unescape(x)<\/em><\/p>\n
import urllib\nurllib.unquote(x)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
parseFloat<\/h4>\n
Syntax: parseFloat(x)<\/em><\/p>\n
float(x)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
parseInt<\/h4>\n
Syntax: parseInt(x)<\/em><\/p>\n
int(x)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Note: Be carefull with this one, since it might other thing than you expect. Often parseInt is used to parse any string ( with int or float in it) to an integer. In case you try to parse a float or non-valid number it will throw an error. This means that, stuff like:<\/p>\n
int(\"123.456\")\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
will break in python, but is still valid in javascript.<\/p>\n
String<\/h3>\n