Random string generation with upper case letters and digits
I want to generate a string of size N.
string
Remove empty strings from a list of strings
I want to remove all empty strings from a list of strings in python.
How do I get a substring of a string in Python?
I want to get a new string from the third character to the end of the string, e.g. myString[2:end]. If omitting the second part means ’till the end’, and if you omit the first part, does it start from the start?
How to test if a string contains one of the substrings in a list, in pandas?
Is there any function that would be the equivalent of a combination of df.isin() and df[col].str.contains()?
Python string interning
While this question doesn’t have any real use in practice, I am curious as to how Python does string interning. I have noticed the following.
TypeError: ‘str’ does not support the buffer interface
plaintext = input(“Please enter the text you want to compress”) filename = input(“Please enter the desired filename”) with gzip.open(filename + “.gz”, “wb”) as outfile: outfile.write(plaintext) The above python code is giving me following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 33, in <module> compress_string() File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 15, in compress_string outfile.write(plaintext) … Read more
Why can’t Python’s raw string literals end with a single backslash?
Technically, any odd number of backslashes, as described in the documentation.
Simpler way to create dictionary of separate variables?
I would like to be able to get the name of a variable as a string but I don’t know if Python has that much introspection capabilities. Something like:
How to extract the substring between two markers?
Let’s say I have a string 'gfgfdAAA1234ZZZuijjk' and I want to extract just the '1234' part.