In this short tutorial we will learn how to use the Python string split function to convert single or multiple row strings into list objects which you are able to use for further Data Analysis or automation tasks. Convert string to list of elements in Python Consider the very simple string made of the following … Read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to save the contents of a dictionary to a pickle file (aka ‘pickling a file’). This will serialize your data objects by converting its contents into bytes. Make sure that you only un-pickle data coming from trusted sources. Sample data for this example We will start by creating … Read more
In this short tutorial we will learn how to divide a Python list objects to multiple sublists. Example list object All examples in this tutorial will be based on the following programming languages list : Divide a list based with delimiter In this simple case, the after being split, the elements will be written to … Read more
In today’s Python automation tutorial we’ll learn how we can quite easily export the contents of a Python dictionary into standalone files that you are able to store for further processing. Specifically we will look into saving dictionaries into json (JavaScript object notation) files which you can store online or on your workstation / server. … Read more
In today’s tutorial we will learn how to use how to calculate time differences in Python and Pandas. Find the difference between timestamps in seconds We will start by defining our datetime time stamps. We then define a timedelta. The timedelta is by default expressed in days and hours. Therefore, we then use the total_seconds() … Read more
In this tutorial we’ll learn about different ways that we can use to convert one or multiple float numbers to string objects in Python. Convert a floating number to string In order to cast a single float number into a string you can use the Python str function: This will return: The workshop attendance rate … Read more
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to remove the one or several last rows of a DataFrame. We’ll be touching on several cases: Getting the last (or last n) rows in a DataFrame. Removing the last (or last n) rows from the DataFrame. Dropping all rows except the first row Drop the last column Example … Read more
In today’s quick tutorial we’ll learn how to easily transform string objects to datetime objects. We’ll look into three main topics: Transform a simple string to datetimes. Convert a list of strings to a list of datetime objects Troubleshooting the module not found strptime error Strings to date times in Python 3 The function datetime.datetime … Read more
In this short Python tutorial we’ll learn how to load the contents one or multiple files (being both text, csv files) into a string variable object with Python 3. We will cover several scenarios: Load the content of a single text file. Reading multiple text files in a directory. Reading a csv file. Append the … Read more
Often times, when developing with Python, we encounter errors related to third party module not found in our development environment. These are generally known as “no module named errors”. In this tutorial we would like to answer several questions related to the topic, so you can easily tackle those issues when trying to import and … Read more