I have a Pandas dataframe of intervals defined by 2 numerical coordinates, ‘start’ and ‘end’. I am trying to collapse all intervals that are overlapping, and keep the inner coordinates. Output: The same Pandas dataframe with collapsed intervals and inner coordinates. Two intervals over…
Calculating EMD for 3D point-clouds is very SLOW
I wanted to calculate the distance between two 3D point clouds with at least 2000 points using Earth Mover’s Distance with the following code, however, it is too slow and does not work properly. So, is there any way to calculate it for approximate it faster? Answer As of SciPy 1.4.0 (released December 2…
Django Haystack – No module named ‘haystack.backends.elasticsearch5_backend’
Im following the install instructions as per the haystack documentation http://docs.haystacksearch.org/en/master/tutorial.html#installation and the search engine installation https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/installing_search_engines.html#elasticsearch I have installed Elasticsearch 5.1.16 whi…
Plotting multiple functions with pyplot, passing functions into functions, & reusing code
I want to plot multiple arbitrary math functions while reusing code for getting coordinates and plotting them. Answer You have to provide the function itself and not the call to it. You could restructure to something like this. Having a dedicated function to produce the coordinates and a dedicated function to…
Python Correctly Parse a Complex Object into a JSON format
I have the following which I’d like to parse it into JSON. The class has a list of item object also So, when I try to parse the instance of Item class, root.reprJSON() I get the following result. But I’d like to get the values of those item also into a single json object. I don’t know how to…
Could not open resource file, pygame error: “FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory.”
Answer The resource (image, font, sound, etc.) file path has to be relative to the current working directory. The working directory is possibly different from the directory of the python file. It is not enough to put the files in the same directory or sub directory. You also need to set the working directory.…
Drop rows from dataframe where problematic values are in separate list
I have a list of problematic rows where there is a unique identifier, all of which I want to remove from a dataframe. I’ve tried to use loc to index them, as follows: where df is 5063 row x 28 cols and toDel[‘GUID’] is a list of GUIDs that I want to remove from the df. I expected this to
Determine which widget triggers the callback function in command
I am coding a GUI in python using tkinter. I assgined the same callback function to the “command” argument in 3 buttons. The purpose of these buttons is to specify a directory depending on the widget name. Is there any way that I can tell which widget triggered the callback function, and assign di…
To invert colours from black to white in opencv python
I have a condition where I want to detect white line incase of black background and black line incase of white background. I used bitwise_not operation something like this: It is working perfectly until and unless i give a condition like this: I get an error ValueError: The truth value of an array with more t…
How do i loop over a geometric sequence. i need to loop some function over 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
My code is This is what the program looks like Answer With generators: Output: