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Inline for loop

I’m trying to learn neat pythonic ways of doing things, and was wondering why my for loop cannot be refactored this way: I tried replacing the for loop with: But it doesn’t work. The for v in vm: loop evicts numbers from vm based on when they come next in q. Answer What you are using is called a l…

Installing Hiredis with pip on windows machine

I´ve been trying to install Hiredis in my virtual environment. I developing in windows 7. At first i got the vcvarsall.bat error (or something like that). I read a lot of blogs and suggestions to this problem but i found no suitable answer. I tried “Windows GCC (MinGW) binaries for Python developers&#82…

How do you represent missing data in a Pandas DataFrame?

Does Pandas have an equivalent of R’s na (meaning not available)? If not, what is the convention for representing a missing value, as opposed to NaN which represents a mathematically impossible value such as a divide by zero? Answer Currently there is no NA value available in Pandas or NumPy. From the s…

Make division by zero equal to zero

How can I ignore ZeroDivisionError and make n / 0 == 0? Answer Check if the denominator is zero before dividing. This avoids the overhead of catching the exception, which may be more efficient if you expect to be dividing by zero a lot.

Python: Matplotlib avoid plotting gaps

I am currently generating the plot below: with this code: where intra.to_pydatetime() is a: <bound method DatetimeIndex.to_pydatetime of <class ‘pandas.tseries.index.DatetimeIndex’> [2011-01-03 09:35:00, …, 2011-01-07 16:00:00] Length: 390, Freq: None, Timezone: None> So the date…