What does the ‘b’ character do in front of a string literal?
Apparently, the following is the valid syntax:
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What’s the difference between lists and tuples?
What’s the difference between tuples/lists and what are their advantages/disadvantages?
CSV file written with Python has blank lines between each row
If csvfile is a file object, it must be opened with the ‘b’ flag on platforms where that makes a difference.
What does __all__ mean in Python?
I see __all__ in __init__.py files. What does it do?
Change column type in pandas
I want to convert a table, represented as a list of lists, into a pandas DataFrame. As an extremely simplified example:
Parsing XML with namespace in Python via ‘ElementTree’
I have the following XML which I want to parse using Python’s ElementTree:
How to have one colorbar for all subplots
I’ve spent entirely too long researching how to get two subplots to share the same y-axis with a single colorbar shared between the two in Matplotlib.
Python, Unicode, and the Windows console
When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get an error .
How can I randomly select an item from a list?
Assume I have the following list:
Drop all duplicate rows across multiple columns in Python Pandas
The pandas drop_duplicates function is great for “uniquifying” a dataframe. However, one of the keyword arguments to pass is take_last=True or take_last=False, while I would like to drop all rows which are duplicates across a subset of columns. Is this possible?