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Sometimes you need a function that will help you to aggregate or combine severable iterables in one go. When we read the official Python documentation it states that using zip ” Iterates over several iterables in parallel, producing tuples with an item from each one.” So what does that actually mean? Well in essence essentially…
To start off passing by reference basically means that you are telling the program you have written to pass a variable to a function. When passing arguments to a function, it is important to understand the meanings first. As a result, when you pass by reference to a function, the variable data gets processed and…
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In our last example of working with dictionaries, we showed you How To Delete a Set of Keys From a Python Dictionary. This is a very useful scenario if you want to tidy up the dictionary and remove data not required. Following on from that, in this post, we are going to look at changing…
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In our last video on how to delete a key from a python dictionary, we illustrated where one key could be removed easily. But what if you wanted to remove one or more keys? In the below code, we have created an empty dictionary. This will be populated by values in “dictionary_remove”. Option1 uses the…
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Are you looking to learn python, and in the process coming across this error and trying to understand why it occurs? In essence, this usually occurs when you have more than one data frames and in the process of writing your program you are trying to use the data frames and their data, but there…
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On this website, we have posted about how to remove unwanted characters from your data and How to remove characters from an imported CSV file both will show you different approaches. In this blog posting, we are going to approach the process by using loops within a function. Essentially we are going to pass a…
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In a recent post, we discussed arrays and what they mean, and how they differ from lists. When you have a list in an array, one of the things that you need to define is what data type it is. If you don’t then the array will throw the error that you are on this…
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More and more, website developers are looking to blend different programming technologies to allow them to use functionality, that maybe is not available to them in the current programming language they utilise. In previous posts how to pass python variables to Javascript and how to run python directly from javascript, we touched on how to…
In our recent blog posting How to Pass a Javascript Variable to Python using JSON, we demonstrated how to easily use AJAX to pass whatever data you wanted and then manipulate it with Python. In this blog posting, we are going to show how to do this the other way around. The scenario is that…
Have you ever been faced with a situation where you have multiple lists you want to compare, and need a function that will read them in and show you what is different between them all? In this scenario, this can be handy where you have large data sets and need a quick way to find…
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