Fix the nameerror path is not defined Make sure to import the Path library into your Python script before you invoke any of the library methods as shown below: Understanding the name error message Assume that you run the following line of code in your Python environment of choice such as: Jupyter, PyCharm or VsCode. … Read more
The reason for the type error can’t concatenate string to a byte object, when you try to bring together a Python string and a Python byte objects. You can solve this issue by either encoding your string or decoding your bytes objects and only then concatenate them. Understanding the can’t concat str error message Assume … Read more
In a nutshell, Python 3 will throw a TypeError exception when you try to encode a string without specifically specifying the encoding format (Windows -1255, UTF-8, UTF-16 and so forth). Reproducing the typeerror exception You have a Python string which you have read from a file, Pandas series or dataframe, Web API or a database … Read more
Today we will help you to troubleshoot an error that you might encounter when searching for a specific element in a Python list object. Understanding the list object has no find attribute exception To reproduce the error simply run this short snippet in your Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, VS Code, PyCharm or other Python editor: You … Read more
TL; DR: Attribute error string has no remove attribute This exception is raised in Python whenever you try to slice a string using the remove method which is unavailable for strings, but can be invoked on a list. Reproducing the error #Case 1 – You try to remove part of a Python string using the … Read more
Solve type error method not subscriptable in DataFrames This exception occurs when using the bracket notation to call a Python (or one of its libraries – such as pandas for example) method. A subscriptable object is one that encapsulates other objects, such as a list, tuple or dictionary. Pandas DataFrame methods are not – hence … Read more
Often times you will need to read the contents of external files such as text, csv, json and so forth. This post explains a common error that you might encounter when trying to those files from your Python development environment, be it PyCharm, VSCode, Jupyter and others. Reproducing the str object has no read attribute … Read more
In today’s Data Analysis tutorial we’ll solve a common issue that you might have encountered when trying to add new elements to a Numpy array. Reproducing the error Let’s see together how we can easily reproduce the error: This will return the following ndarray object: [ 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 … Read more
In this data analysis tutorial we will learn how to cast datetime objects to strings in general Python programming tasks and during Data Analysis. Cast a date to string in Python We will Let’s create a datetime object: We will get the following date object: 2023-12-01 00:00:00 If we look at its type we’ll see … Read more
You have a list of datetime objects. Your task is to extract the month and quarter values from each of your list elements into several new lists: one consisting of month numbers, one of month names and the last of quarters. Extract month and quarter from Python dates First we will create a list of … Read more