I am trying to generate an image of a random contour using python but I couldn’t find an easy way to do it. Here is an example sort of what I want: Initially I tought of doing it using matplotlib and gaussian functions, but I could not even get close to the image I showed. Is there a simple way
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Pygame, Collision between 2 objects in the same group
So, i am trying to create a game where aliens spawn from 3 specific places. Each Alien will spawn randomly in one of the 3. But there will always be at least one alien, that will spawn on top of another one. I want to delete that alien and spawn him randomly in another spawn point. If it is empty
How to use logging.getLogger(__name__) in multiple modules
From the logging howto for Python 2.7 (my emphasis): A good convention to use when naming loggers is to use a module-level logger, in each module which uses logging, named as follows: logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) This means that logger names track the package/module hierarchy, and it’s intuitively obv…
Why do python module names have some uppercase letters but are always imported in lowercase?
Whenever I see references to modules like SciPy and NumPy the first letter of each part is capitalized. However they must be imported with all lowercase letters. Why is there this difference? Answer The difference is basically in branding. As per the style guide: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#pack…
Scrape all href into list with BeautifulSoup
I’d like to to grab links from this page and put them in a list. I have this code: It produces following output: I need to get following: [/en/catalog/view/514, … , ‘/en/catalog/view/565’] But then I go ahead and add following: href_value = links.get(‘href’) I got an error.…
Start CloudSQL Proxy on Python Dataflow / Apache Beam
I am currently working on a ETL Dataflow job (using the Apache Beam Python SDK) which queries data from CloudSQL (with psycopg2 and a custom ParDo) and writes it to BigQuery. My goal is to create a Dataflow template which I can start from a AppEngine using a Cron job. I have a version which works locally usin…
Pandas query function not working with spaces in column names
I have a dataframe with spaces in column names. I am trying to use query method to get the results. It is working fine with ‘c’ column but getting error for ‘a b’ For this I am getting this error: I don’t want to fill up space with other characters like ‘_’ etc. There…
How to increase process speed using read_excel in pandas?
I need use pd.read_excel to process every sheet in one excel file. But in most cases,I did not know the sheet name. So I use this to judge how many sheet in excel: During the process,I found that the process is quite slow, So,can read_excel only read limited rows to improve the speed? I tried nrows but did no…
Can’t run any ipynb files using Jupyter Lab or Jupyter Notebook (FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified)
I have JupyterLab/JupyterNotebook running on Win10, along with Python and PyCharm on the side on Windows 10. Whenever I launch JupyterLab/JupyterNotebook I get the error stated below. I have tried reinstalling the Anaconda-distribution or any other instances of Python but it gives me the same error every time…
Specify border appearance in tables using python-docx
I am going through the tutorial and documentation of python-docx. However, I can’t find any reference to how I can specify and manipulate the border appearance of a table created in a Microsoft Word document. When i use the following code: The resulting docx file shows the 3×3 table with header. Cu…