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How to add a row based on last user event in pandas?

Imagine I have a dataframe with user events For each user after his last (by timestamp) event I want to add new row with ‘End’ event with the same timestamp as in previous event: I have no idea how to do that. In SQL I would do that with LAG() or LEAD(). But what about pandas? Answer Use DataFrame.drop_duplicates for

Does Image.open() distort grayscale PNG images?

Recently, I’ve been trying to load some grayscale images into my Python program using Pillow’s Image.open(). However, I’ve been finding that the image gets distorted, and all the values polarized. This is the image generated by the Mac preview: And, this is the image generated by the Image.open() function: My code is as follows: And, the characteristics of the image

Merging pandas columns into a new column

Suppose I have a dataframe as follows how can I merge the two columns into one using pandas? The desired output is output Thank you! Answer Use Series.fillna with DataFrame.pop for replace missing values to another column with drop second column: Or you can back filling missing values with select first column by DataFrame.iloc with [[0]] for one column DataFrame

How to make this greedy function faster?

I am trying to solve a problem and my code fails at one test case where the list is of length 25000. Is there any way I can make this faster. I tried using functools.lru_cache and I still can not run within the time required to complete. This is the problem from the site Given an array of non-negative integers

what is the difference and uses of these lines of code?

first line of code: second line of code: what would I use each of them for? Answer You can see for yourself what the difference is. The first one iterates over range and then prints integers. The second one is a generator expression. How iteration works in the generator. Python generators are a simple way of creating iterators. Simply speaking,

Return same position for similar values in a list

I have sorted a list in descending order, I am trying to find a way in which similar numbers re-appearing in the list will return equal position and the next unique number to return the next position. Example in this samplelist = [50, 40, 40, 30, 30, 20, 10] 50 should return 1, 40 returns 2, next 40 returns 2,

Unresolved imports in VSCode Python

While programming in VSCode, Python I imported a module named Selenium. However, VS Code is Showing me an error, saying unresolved import selenium. I had installed selenium yesterday only using the pip command. Please do help me out Answer It is recommended that you use the command “python –version”(or python3 –version) in the VS Code terminal to check whether the

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