?Introduction You might have a code in Python such that certain functions have no arguments, whereas the others have numerous arguments. While there are times, we have functions with arguments unknown. Thus, we may have n number of arguments in a function, and sometimes we don’t even have a clue about the input size of … Read more
Summary: To convert a string object to float object use the float(string_input) method which typecasts the string input to a floating-point value. Introduction Before learning how to convert a string object to a float object, let us understand what is type conversion in Python. ✎ The process of converting an object of a particular data … Read more
Summary: To check whether a key exists in a dictionary, you can use: The in keyword The keys() method The get() method The has_key() method Overview Mastering dictionaries is one of the things that differentiates the expert coders from the intermediate coders. Why? Because dictionaries in Python have many excellent properties in terms of runtime—and … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a string in hexadecimal form: How to convert the hex string to an integer in Python? For example, you want to convert the hexadecimal string ‘0xff’ to the decimal integer 255. Here are a few other examples: 0x0 –> 0 0x4 –> 4 0x8 –> 8 0x12 –> 18 0x16 –> 22 … Read more
To fi TypeError: object is not subscriptable if you try to use indexing upon an object that is not subscriptable. To fix it you can:
Problem Formulation You use NumPy’s np.nanmedian() function in your code that is supposed to ignore NaN values when computing the mean of a NumPy array. But when using it, NumPy raises a RuntimeWarning: All-NaN slice encountered message: What is the reason for this warning and how to fix it? Solution + Explanation The reason this … Read more
Problem Formulation You use NumPy’s np.nanmean() function in your code that is supposed to ignore NaN values when computing the mean of a NumPy array. But when using it, NumPy raises a RuntimeWarning: Mean of empty slice message: What is the reason for this warning and how to fix it? Solution + Explanation The reason … Read more
This article will show you how to visualize, modify and save images in Python, more specifically in Matplotlib. In the following sections, we will see how to load images, how to modify some of their properties and finally how to save them. Long story short If you want to import an image and to display … Read more
Being hated by newbies, experienced Python coders can’t live without this awesome Python feature. In this article, I give you everything you need to know about set comprehensions using the bracket notation {}. What is Set Comprehension? Set comprehension is a concise way of creating sets in Python using the curly braces notation {expression for … Read more
This tutorial shows you how to perform simple HTTP get requests to get an HTML page from a given URL in Python! Problem Formulation Given a URL as a string. How to extract the HTML from the given URL and store the result in a Python string variable? Example: Say, you want to accomplish the … Read more
Alexa is on the way to lead the next wave of technological disruption. Have you ever asked yourself about the exact steps needed to create an Alexa Skill? And how these steps interplay with each other? To answer these questions, I give you a quick overview of Alexa Skill development in Python. This article serves … Read more
Problem Formulation Given an image stored at image.jpeg, a target width and height in pixels, and a target starting point (upper-left) x and y in the coordinate system. How to crop the given image in Python PIL so that the resulting image has width * height size? Here’s an example of how the original image … Read more