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Type hint Pandas DataFrameGroupBy

How should I type hint in Python a pandas DataFrameGroupBy object? Should I just use pd.DataFrame as for normal pandas dataframes? I didn’t find any other solution atm Answer DataFrameGroupBy is a proper type in of itself. So if you’re writing a function which must specifically take a DataFrameGro…

Gaussian curve fitting in physics

I have this data, I tried to fit by a Gaussian function but I can’t found an appropriate function, I tried using curve_fit from scipy.optimize : I used this code : this is the result of this fit : Very bad fit The error message : Answer First, you’re not fitting a Gaussian function, you’re f…

Opening Anaconda Prompt with python

I want to create a script that will help me with installing packages for Spyder. Therefore, I want to use Python and have the script first open Anaconda Prompt, then execute the commands and then close that window. However, I can get it to open for example the calculator but it doesn’t seem to open the …

Pandas pivot_table gives KeyError

(I’m fairly new to Python and completely new to Pandas.) I have software usage data in a tab-separated txt file like this: The DataFrame is imported correctly, and groupby methods like this work all right: However, when I’m trying to create a pivot table with this line: I get where the “key&…

Compare all elements of a list

To illustrate my problem, imagine I have a list and I want to compare each element with the next one to check if they are the same value. The problem is that when I try to access the last element of the list and compare it with “the next one”, that one is out of range, so I would get