[toc] Introduction Objective: In this tutorial, our goal is to fix the following exception TypeError: A Bytes-Like object Is Required, not ‘str’ and also discuss similar exceptions along with their solutions. Example: Consider the following file ‘scores.txt’which contains scores of some random candidates. Now, let us try to access the score obtained by Ravi from … Read more
There comes a time in all our coding lives when we need to compare lists to understand whether items in one list appear in a second list. In this article we’ll start where we all started, using for-loops, before moving to a more classic Python list comprehension. We’ll then move beyond that to use Python … Read more
The most Pythonic way to convert a list of strings to a list of ints is to use the list comprehension [int(x) for x in strings]. It iterates over all elements in the list and converts each list element x to an integer value using the int(x) built-in function. This article shows you the simplest … Read more
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After studying this article, you will know exactly how to calculate the edit distance in Python. Learning requires opening your knowledge gap first. So let’s do this. What is the output of the following Python puzzle showing you a concise code snippet to calculate the edit distance in Python? (source) Python Source Code Now, this … Read more
Problem Description: You have a Numpy array. You want to select specific elements from the array. But neither slicing nor indexing seem to solve your problem. What can you do? In this short tutorial, I show you how to select specific Numpy array elements via Boolean matrices. A feature called conditional indexing or selective indexing. … Read more
The most Pythonic way to convert a list of strings to a list of floats is to use the list comprehension floats = [float(x) for x in strings]. It iterates over all elements in the list and converts each list element x to a float value using the float(x) built-in function. This article shows you … Read more
The most Pythonic way to convert a list of integers ints to a list of floats is to use the list comprehension expression floats = [float(x) for x in ints]. It iterates over all elements in the list ints using list comprehension and converts each list element x to a float value using the float(x) … Read more
Do you want to sell your coding skills as a Python freelance developer but you don’t know where to start? This article shows you the best places to look for new clients – so that you never run out of work (and $$$ cash) again. There are three types of freelancing projects: small, medium, and … Read more
Problem Formulation Every Python object is of a certain type, also called “class”. The class is a blueprint that shows the data and capabilities of each object/instance that is created after this blueprint. Given a Python object (=instance). How to determine/check/get its type (=class)? There are many variants of this question: How to determine the … Read more
Problem Formulation: Given a list of elements in Python. How to get the number of elements in the list? Examples: List Number of Elements [3, 42, 2] 3 [] 0 [‘Alice’, ‘Bob’, ‘Carl’] 3 [(1, 2), [3, 4]] 2 Method 1: len() The most Pythonic way to get the number of list elements is Python’s … Read more
AI is hard! Transforming tensors, cleaning data, building complicated networks- these are all specialized skills that can take months or even years to learn. But the times are a-changin’. Businesses understand that adopting state-of-the-art AI is no longer a choice. Of course, those burdened with actually implementing that AI are the software devs. High-level talk … Read more