Python | Split String Except Quotes

⭐Summary: Use shlex.split(text) to split the given string using a delimiter except at quotes. You can strip away the remaining comma characters like so: [x.strip(‘,’) for x in shlex.split(text)] Minimal Example Problem Formulation ⚡Problem: Given a string in Python. How will you split the string using a certain delimiter except when the delimiter occurs within … Read more

How to Write to a Binary File in Python?

Problem Formulation 💬 Question: Given a binary string in your Python script, such as b’this is a binary string’. How to write the binary string to a file in Python? For example, you may have tried a code snippet like this that will not work with file.write(): Because this yields a TypeError: Traceback (most recent … Read more

How to Write a Hex String as Binary Data & Binary File in Python?

Hex String as Binary Data To convert a hex string such as ‘FF0001AF’ to binary data, use the binascii.unhexlify(hex_str) function that returns the binary data represented by the hexadecimal string. Note that this converts two hex string digits to one byte, i.e., hex string ‘F0’ is converted to the byte representation 11110000, or in binary … Read more

Python Split String Double Quotes

✨Summary: The two methods to split the string at double quotes are:(i) given_string.split(‘”‘)(ii) re.split(‘”‘, given_string) Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string using the double quotes as the delimiter? Example Let’s visualize the problem with the help of an example: Now that we have an overview of our … Read more

Plotly Dash Checklist Components

Welcome to the bonus content of “The Book of Dash”. 🤗 Here you will find additional examples of Plotly Dash components, layouts and style. To learn more about making dashboards with Plotly Dash, and how to buy your copy of “The Book of Dash”, please see the reference section at the bottom of this article. … Read more

Plotly Dash: Bootstrap Indicator Components Made Easy

Welcome to the bonus content of “The Book of Dash”. 🤗 Here you’ll find additional examples of Plotly Dash components, layouts and style. To learn more about making dashboards with Plotly Dash, and how to buy your copy of “The Book of Dash”, please see the reference section at the bottom of this article. This … Read more

Python | Split String and Count Results

✨Summary: Split the string using split and then use len to count the results. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string and find the number of split strings? Can you store the split strings into different variables? Example In the above problem, the delimiter used to split the … Read more

Python Hex String to Big Endian (Bytes/Integer)

What Is Big/Little Endian? Computers perform computations on data that is represented with bytes, i.e., sequences of 0s and 1s. A computer program manipulates data by loading data from memory (RAM, Cache, Disk, SSD), performing computations based on that data, and storing the resulting data back into the memory. A computer program loads and stores … Read more