Is there an exception free way to access values from a dictionary containing lists. For example, if I have: How do I access the path data[‘object_1’][‘object_2’][‘list’][0][‘property’] safely(i.e. return some default value if not possible to access without throw…
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Why does invoking the playsound module cause my script to crash?
The code: The error: What I’ve done to try and fix this: To preface this, I’m a beginner. I’ve tried to make sure all my python stuff is updated. Made sure to install the playsound module on both Python3 and Python. Originally I had the sounds stored in their own folder, now I’ve moved…
How to get grouped cumulative duration in pandas?
I have the following data: id encounter_key datetime 1 111 2019-04-14 1 111 2019-04-14 1 111 2019-07-18 1 122 2019-09-02 2 211 2019-10-03 2 211 2020-10-03 I want to find the cumulative duration, grouped by id and encounter_key to achieve the following: id encounter_key datetime cum_duration_days 1 111 2019-04…
Scraping multiple website data from a table
I am practicing scraping website and inputting the information into a table. I imported the link, but I seem to be getting an error message based off the url. The error message I received states: I rechecked the url to run the code again, but I am still receiving this error message. Can someone please help me…
Apache Beam Python: returning conditional statement using ParDo class
I want to check, if the CSV file we read in the pipeline of apache beam, satisfies the format I’m expecting it to be in [Ex: field check, type check, null value check, etc.], before performing any transformation. Performing these checks outside the pipeline for every file will take away the concept of p…
generate matrix of random integers unique per row in python
Is there a way to directly sample a matrix of random integers that are unique on each row? Doing this for each row apart can be slow. Answer List comprehension is faster if N, M and K are large:
I’ve got an object that is basically an int with some extra properties. Can I coerce it into an int when it’s used as a list index?
Context: I’m making a game that happens in a maze made of square tiles and almost everything, from movement to attacks, involves directions, which are mostly used to index lists. Subtracting or adding to directions is an easy way to turn left or right, but I always have to check that they are still with…
Python – How do I take items from a list and assign them to values in a dictionary?
I’m trying to make a function that creates a dictionary of “player stats”, based off of inputs from the user. However I’m running into several issues with my code and I know there are better ways of programming this but I can’t figure out what they are. I think much of the issue …
Celery jobs not running on heroku (python/django app)
I have a Django app setup with some scheduled tasks. The app is deployed on Heroku with Redis. The task runs if invoked synchronously in the console, or locally when I also have redis and celery running. However, the scheduled jobs are not running on Heroku. My task: celery.py: In Procfile: worker: celery -A …
How can I extract words from a file from a string
So I have tried to make it so that I can extract words in a file with every English word from random letters a generator gives me. Then I would like to add the found words to a list. But I am having a bit of a problem acquiring this result. Could you help me please? This is what I