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What does a backslash mean in a string literal?

I made a list of strings like this: But if I try to print it, I get a very different looking result: Why does this happen? Does the character have some special meaning here? Answer The backslash is used to escape special (unprintable) characters in string literals. n is for newline, t for tab, f for a form-f…

convert dataframe row to dict

I have datarame like the sample data below. I’m trying to convert one row from the dataframe in to a dict like the desired output below. But when I use to_dict I get the indice along with the column value. Does anyone know how to get convert the row to a dict like the desired output? Any tips greatly ap…

Authentication plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’ is not supported

I am trying to connect to a MySQL server with python connector. I created a new user lcherukuri with the authentication plugin mysql_native_password. But I got the error mysql.connector.errors.NotSupportedError: Authentication plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’ is not supported Can someone help me? An…

All tuples of positive integers

How do I create a generator that will return tuples of all combinations of positive integers, example for generating triplets. Answer This code uses a similar approach to Paul Hankin’s, but it’s more general since it will generate tuples of any desired width, not just 3. output The algorithm for c…