Python Int to Hex | String Formatting

πŸ’¬ Question: How to use Python’s string formatting capabilities — f-strings, percentage operator, format(), string.format() — to convert an integer to a hexadecimal string? Lowercase Solution without ‘0x’ Prefix You can convert an integer my_int to a simple lowercase hex string without ‘0x’ prefix by using any of the four string formatting variants—all based on … Read more

How to Export MySQL to a CSV (Dashboard+Python)

This article shows you how to export a Database Table to a CSV file using MySQL. ℹ️ SQL, an acronym for Structured Query Language, is the language of the Database! This standardized language is used to manage databases, tables and the data they hold. A must-have in the coding world. This language allows coders to … Read more

Python – Hex String to Bytearray

Problem Formulation Given a string in hexadecimal form: How to convert the hex string to a bytearray object in Python? Here are a few examples: Hex String Bytearray Object ’01’ bytearray(b’\x01′) ’04’ bytearray(b’\x04′) ’08’ bytearray(b’\x08′) ’01 0a’ bytearray(b’\x01\n’) ’01 02 0e 0f 0f’ bytearray(b’\x01\x02\x0e\x0f\x0f’) ‘0f 0f’ bytearray(b’\x0f\x0f’) Hex String to Bytearray using bytearray.fromhex(hex_string) To convert … Read more

Parsing XML Files in Python – 4 Simple Ways

Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you various ways to work with an XML file. ℹ️ XML is an acronym for Extensible Markup Language. This file type is similar to HTML. However, XML does not have pre-defined tags like HTML. Instead, a coder can define their own tags to meet specific requirements. … Read more

How to Schedule a Batch Python Script

Problem Formulation and Solution Overview During your career as a Pythonista, you will encounter situations where a Python script will need to be executed on a scheduled basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. This article shows you how to accomplish this task using a .bat (batch) file. πŸ’¬ Question: How would we write code … Read more

Python | Split String by Multiple Characters/Delimiters

Summary: The most efficient way to split a string using multiple characters is to use Python’s regex library as re.split(“pattern”, “given_string”). An alternate solution is to replace the delimiters in the given string with a whitespace character and then split the string. Minimal Example: Problem Formulation πŸ“œProblem: Given a string. How will you split the … Read more

Python | Split String and Keep Newline

Summary: Use ‘given_string’.splitlines(True) to split the string and also keep the new line character. Minimal Example: Problem Formulation πŸ“œProblem: Given a string. How will you split the string into a list of substrings and keep the new line character intact? Example: Let’s have a look at a test case to understand the given problem. Without … Read more

Python getattr() and setattr() Nested

Understanding Python’s setattr() and getattr() Functions Next, you’ll learn about the “normal”, non-nested and non-recursive get and set attribute functions. If you already know them well, there’s no need to read this section and you can skip ahead right to the problem formulation and solution. Let’s start with the setattr() function, followed by getattr(). setattr() … Read more