Why doesn’t Python recognize my utf-8 encoded source file?
Here is a little tmp.py with a non ASCII character:
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Prepend a level to a pandas MultiIndex
I have a DataFrame with a MultiIndex created after some grouping:
How to run celery on windows?
How to run celery worker on Windows without creating Windows Service? Is there any analogy to $ celery -A your_application worker?
How to wrap every method of a class?
I’d like to wrap every method of a particular class in python, and I’d like to do so by editing the code of the class minimally. How should I go about this? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue … Read more
Multiprocessing – Pipe vs Queue
What are the fundamental differences between queues and pipes in Python’s multiprocessing package?
Spark DataFrame: Computing row-wise mean (or any aggregate operation)
I have a Spark DataFrame loaded up in memory, and I want to take the mean (or any aggregate operation) over the columns. How would I do that? (In numpy, this is known as taking an operation over axis=1).
Is it better to use “is” or “==” for number comparison in Python?
Is it better to use the “is” operator or the “==” operator to compare two numbers in Python? Examples: >>> a = 1 >>> a is 1 True >>> a == 1 True >>> a is 0 False >>> a == 0 False Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note … Read more
Browse files and subfolders in Python
I’d like to browse through the current folder and all its subfolders and get all the files with .htm|.html extensions. I have found out that it is possible to find out whether an object is a dir or file like this:
Call Python script from bash with argument
I know that I can run a python script from my bash script using the following:
How to check if an object is a list or tuple (but not string)?
This is what I normally do in order to ascertain that the input is a list/tuple – but not a str. Because many times I stumbled upon bugs where a function passes a str object by mistake, and the target function does for x in lst assuming that lst is actually a list or tuple.