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Skipping every other element after the first

January 15, 2021 James Cameron

Question or problem about Python programming: I have the general idea of how to do this in Java, but I am learning Python and not sure how to do it.

drop trailing zeros from decimal

January 15, 2021 Andrew Rocky

Question or problem about Python programming: I have a long list of Decimals and that I have to adjust by factors of 10, 100, 1000,….. 1000000 depending on certain conditions. When I multiply them there is sometimes a useless trailing zero (though not always) that I want to get rid of. For example…

Is it true that I can’t use curly braces in Python?

January 15, 2021 Bell Jacquise

Question or problem about Python programming: I was reading that Python does all it’s “code blocks” by indentation, rather than with curly braces. Is that right? So functions, if’s and stuff like that all appear without surrounding their block with curly braces?

How can I search a word in a Word 2007 .docx file?

January 15, 2021 Odhran Miss

Question or problem about Python programming: I’d like to search a Word 2007 file (.docx) for a text string, e.g., “some special phrase” that could/would be found from a search within Word.

Functions Defined The core of extensible programming is defining functions. Python allows mandatory and optional arguments, keyword arguments, and even arbitrary argument lists.

Alternative implementations of python/setuptools entry points (extensions) in other languages/applications

January 15, 2021 Ollie MC

Question or problem about Python programming: While this question has a python backend, the question is not tied to python itself, but rather about extension mechanisms and how to register/lookup for plugins.

Python is a powerful general-purpose programming language.

Pandas: Knowing when an operation affects the original dataframe

January 15, 2021 Ollie MC

Question or problem about Python programming: I love pandas and have been using it for years and feel pretty confident I have a good handle on how to subset dataframes and deal with views vs copies appropriately (though I use a lot of assertions to be sure). I also know that there have been tons […]

Pandas in AWS lambda gives numpy error

January 15, 2021 Andrew Rocky

Question or problem about Python programming: I’ve been trying to run my code in AWS Lambda which imports pandas. So here is what I’ve done. I have a python file which contains a simple code as follows(This file has the lambda handler)

multiprocessing in python – sharing large object (e.g. pandas dataframe) between multiple processes

January 15, 2021 Abreonia Ng

Question or problem about Python programming: I am using Python multiprocessing, more precisely

How can I rewrite python version with git?

January 15, 2021 Abreonia Ng

Question or problem about Python programming: I would like to define a __version__ variable in my module which should be automatically updated on git commit similarly to what SVN keywords do. Is there a way to achieve it in Git? Does anyone have a working example?

How to properly use coverage.py in Python?

January 15, 2021 Simon Abital

Question or problem about Python programming: I’ve just started using Coverage.py module and so decided to make a simple test to check how it works.