I would like to generate a UUID v4 string starting from the uuid import from the Python standard library. I know I can cast a UUID to str by doing str(uuid.uuid4()), however I am trying to understand what the bytes in that class instance mean. While trying to decode those bytes I see all sorts of errors, eith…
Tag: encoding
Encoding German Character in Jupyter Notebook [closed]
Closed. This question is not reproducible or was caused by typos. It is not currently accepting answers. This question was caused by a typo or a problem that can no longer be reproduced. While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a way less likely to help future readers. Closed 8 m…
How to create a one-hot-encoding for the intermediate class?
Let’s say I have 3 classes: 0, 1, 2 One-hot-encoding an array of labels can be done via pandas as follows: What I’m interested in, is how to get an encoding that can handle an intermediate class, e.g. class in the middle between 2 classes. For example: for class 0.4, resulting encoding should be […
Two unicode encodings represent 1 cyrillic letter
I have such string in unicode and utf-8 representation: and The desired ouput is “Если повезет то сегодня уже скину”. I have tried all possible encodings but still wasn’t able to get it in complete cyrillic form. The best I got was using windows-1252. And also I’ve noticed that one cyr…
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
So, as title of the questions says, I have a problem with encoding/decoding of strings. I am using: python 2.7 | django 1.11 | jinja2 2.8 Basically, I am retrieving some data from data base, I serialize it, set cache on it, then get the cache, deserialize it and rendering it to the template. Problem: I have f…
How to convert multiple excel files to CSV utf-8 encoding using python
I have 30+ xlsx files in same directory and using python I would like to convert all files to csv with utf-8 encoding, regardless of whatever encoding is present in the file. I am using python’s magic library to get the file names (below code).For conversion, I tried the code mention by SO user Julian h…
UnicodeDecodeError when try to read data from ‘google.com’ in Python
I’m starting to learn about reading data from a website. But when I try to read data from google.com I encounter this error: Below are my code (extractly as the instruction video, only different website): What is wrong? Thanks in advance Answer Specifing the encoding and error handling should solve the …
Python fix french accents parsed as =C3=A9
In python i’m stuck with a couple of strings from french language with accents that I can’t convert back to normal, e.g.: Most documentation I read specify to read the files with some encodings=’utf-8′ or so, but here I’m stuck with actual strings. Is there a way to decode the st…
how to fix python pandas encoding issue?
I import csv table into JUPYTER NOTEBOOK, and something wrong is happening when I try to iloc a video views column (К-ть переглядів). I need to format this cell to INT type (using .astype()), but it tells me that there is an error: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘380xa0891xa0555R…
__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘handle_unknown’
I’m trying to Ordinal Encode my categorical features using sklearn, but I get the error __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘handle_unknown’ when I compile the below code: A sample data to reproduce the error: Could someone please tell me what’s wrong in my code? Answer You a…