I have two time-series data frames that track the same certain countries throughout the same amount of time, but the variables they track for each observation represent vastly different things. For example, the first data frame is like so: Tracking variable ‘A’: Country 01/01/2020 01/02/2020 01/03…
Segmentation fault in destructor with Python
I have made a class to represent my led strip, and I would like to switch off the strip when I stop it (aka when the program stops and the object is destroyed). Hence, as I would do in C++, I created a destructor to do that. But it looks like Python call it after it destroyed the object. Then
Spread List of Lists to Sparks DF with PySpark?
I’m currently struggling with following issue: Let’s take following List of Lists: How can I create following Sparks DF out of it with one row per element of each sublist: The only way I’m getting this done is by processing this list to another list with for-loops, which basically then alrea…
How to handle implicit namespaces modifying XML in python xml.etree.ElementTree
Edit: others have responded showing xslt as a better solution for the simple problem I have posted here. I have deleted my answer for now. I’ve been through about a dozen StackOverflow posts trying to understand how to import an XML document that has namespaces, modify it, and then write it without chan…
Anyone know why pacman is not respecting the walls? When i press the keys to move pacman teleports between the walls
i’m trying to make a pacman game like pygame, now i just want him to walk through the maze without going beyond the walls of the maze. However I have faced some problems, when I press the keys to move the pacman, he ends up telephoning between the walls, although he does not exceed them it ends up buggi…
Jupyter Notebook in VS Code is not working
I’m using Ubuntu, installed Vs Code and anaconda. I’ve also installed python extension in VS Code, which brings Jupyter Notebook extension. Now, whenever I’m trying to run code from the Jupyter extension, its throwing error as if it requires ipykernel. Now, my conda ‘base’ enviro…
limit pandas .loc method output within a iloc range
I am looking for a maximum value within my pandas dataframe but only within certain index range: This gives me a pandas.core.frame.DataFrame type output with multiple rows. I specifically need the the index integer of the maximum value within iloc[430:440] and only the first index the maximum value occurs. Is…
How to remove a certain number of characters at the start of a string
I have a dataset of NHL Free Agents, however they are numbered as a part of the name. I am trying to make “1. Alex Ovechkin” look like “Alex Ovechkin”. Basically just trying to delete the number, period, and space between. I have used the following code to successfully delete the numbe…
Dataframe row slicing is not consistent
I have a DataFrame variable called data with ~ 6 mil rows and I’d like to process it 50 rows at a time. I have the following code: However it seems the slices obtained are not 50 rows in length. In fact they seem to be random (although every time I re-run the program they stay consistent. The first one
Removing the 2d point that are close to each others
I would like to remove the coordinates that lie close to each other or if it is just a duplicate. For example, In the above list, the first and second element lies close to each other. How do I remove the second element while preserving the first one? Following is what I have tried, The problem is that it doe…