my problem is I want to make the elif statement work on numbers only but the elif statement work on any datatype, is there any way i can separate the numbers in string type from the other data types The Code OutPut Answer You can use and for this: Note that you can use in to check if a key
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Create dictionary of context words without stopwords
I am trying to create a dictionary of words in a text and their context. The context should be the list of words that occur within a 5 word window (two words on either side) of the term’s position in the string. Effectively, I want to ignore the stopwords in my output vectors. My code is below. I can ge…
How to sort the contents of a list?
I have the following list: I need to make a list of book titles ordered by year, with the underscore character and the year removed. For example, the first book title should be “SecretOfChimneys”. Call your list booktitles. Is there a way to use the fact that titles are already sorted by year in b…
Best practice when substring is missing from string
I’m extracting data from an API and one of the fields is a string from which i want to extract multiple substrings(7 ideally). To get those substring I’m using the index() method. There could be cases when one or more of these substrings(Reason ,Improvements_Done, Improvements_Planned etc) could b…
Appending text to a string if it matches a condition
I am learning to scrape websites. I need to get document titles and links to them, I already manage to do this, but the format of the resulting links is sometimes not what I need. Here is a snippet of the information I get: You can see that in the second case I get only part of the link, while
Converting list of lists of strings into integer in Python
I want to convert the string elements to integers within the each following list: I have tried the following codes: These are not working in my case. I need the following outputs: Answer Try: You need to use split to parse each long string into small strings, and then apply int to convert a string into an int…
Python: converting list of strings into a string which illustrates the list
I’m searching a simple method for converting a list of strings (e.g. [‘test 1’, ‘test 2’ , ‘test 3’] ) into a string whereby the list of objects doesn’t have some quotation mark. That means in our example (‘[test 1, test 2, test 3]’). My first approa…
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 handle Pandas columns where elements are Lists?
I have loaded some JSON API data as a Pandas dataframe, as such, there are some columns that come out as lists. I also have some NaN values. First and foremost I want to replace the NaN with a single word such as ’empty’ but the rest of the data are already in list forms. I want to ultimately crea…
Splitting a string within a list into a list of lists and further splitting its elements if special character found
I’ve got a list of strings that I split into a list of list on (‘/>’), yet I want to split the elements of that list within further depending on IF it has a certain character (‘/’) in it while maintaining the order that the ‘further elements’ are split in. So for e…