Get a unique computer ID in Python on windows and linux
I’d like to get an id unique to a computer with Python on Windows and Linux. It could be the CPU ID, the motherboard serial, … or anything else.
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Python pandas: remove everything after a delimiter in a string
I have data frames which contain e.g.:
Serializing a Python namedtuple to json
What is the recommended way of serializing a namedtuple to json with the field names retained?
Python Requests vs PyCurl Performance
How does the Requests library compare with the PyCurl performance wise?
Thread vs. Threading
What’s the difference between the threading and thread modules in Python?
scikit-learn cross validation, negative values with mean squared error
When I use the following code with Data matrix X of size (952,144) and output vector y of size (952), mean_squared_error metric returns negative values, which is unexpected. Do you have any idea?
Recursively access dict via attributes as well as index access?
I’d like to be able to do something like this:
Selecting Pandas Columns by dtype
I was wondering if there is an elegant and shorthand way in Pandas DataFrames to select columns by data type (dtype). i.e. Select only int64 columns from a DataFrame.
How to create python bytes object from long hex string?
I have a long sequence of hex digits in a string, such as
Fast arbitrary distribution random sampling (inverse transform sampling)
The random module (http://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html) has several fixed functions to randomly sample from. For example random.gauss will sample random point from a normal distribution with a given mean and sigma values.