Decode HTML entities in Python string?
I’m parsing some HTML with Beautiful Soup 3, but it contains HTML entities which Beautiful Soup 3 doesn’t automatically decode for me:
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How do I concatenate items in a list to a single string?
How do I concatenate a list of strings into a single string?
What do lambda function closures capture?
Recently I started playing around with Python and I came around something peculiar in the way closures work. Consider the following code:
Tkinter — executing functions over time
I’m trying to figure out how the tkinter control flow works.
Using global variables in a function
How can I create or use a global variable in a function?
What is the difference between Python’s list methods append and extend?
Perfect answer, I just miss the timing of comparing adding only one element
What does the Ellipsis object do?
While idly surfing the namespace I noticed an odd looking object called Ellipsis, it does not seem to be or do anything special, but it’s a globally available builtin.
Circular (or cyclic) imports in Python
What will happen if two modules import each other?
Convert Pandas Column to DateTime
I have one field in a pandas DataFrame that was imported as string format.
It should be a datetime variable.
How do I convert it to a datetime column and then filter based on date.
How does the @property decorator work in Python?
I would like to understand how the built-in function property works. What confuses me is that property can also be used as a decorator, but it only takes arguments when used as a built-in function and not when used as a decorator.