Opening a Text File in Terminal (Linux) To edit a text file from your Linux terminal, you need to first open the file. There are several ways to open a text file in a Linux terminal, and we will cover some of the easiest methods here. One simple method to open a text file in … Read more
Understanding Textwrap Module The textwrap module in Python provides various functions to efficiently wrap, fill, indent, and truncate strings. It helps in formatting plain text to make it easily readable and well-structured. Let’s discuss a few key functions in this module. Functions in Textwrap wrap() The wrap() function is used to wrap a given string … Read more
Creating a blog application not only helps us to practice our skills as a Django developer but it is also a way to share our programming knowledge. There are many people out there in different stages of their programming journey who will benefit from your wealth of experience. By blogging about your programming knowledge, you … Read more
Imagine you have a project that requires you to process tons of text files, and these files are scattered throughout your folder hierarchy. By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to efficiently fetch all the .txt files in any folder using Python. Method 1: The Os Module The … Read more
Method 1: Replace non-ASCII characters with a Single Space When working with Python 🐍, one may come across the need to replace non-ASCII characters with a single space in a given string. Removing these characters helps maintain consistency and avoid encoding issues in data processing tasks. Let’s dive into a simple method for achieving this … Read more
Python’s regex capturing groups allow you to extract parts of a string that match a pattern. For example: match = re.search(r'(\d+)’, ‘abc123’) captures the digits, and match.group(1) returns ‘123’. One of the powerful aspects of Python’s regular expression capabilities is the use of capturing groups. By using capturing groups, you can easily extract specific portions … Read more
Python f-strings, available since Python 3.6, offer a concise way to embed expressions in string literals using curly braces {}. They improve readability and performance over older methods like %-formatting and str.format(). To use f-strings, prefix the string with “f” or “F” and enclose expressions within braces: f”My name is {name} and I am {age} … Read more
In this article, I will cover accessing multiple matches of a regex group in Python. 💡 Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful tool for text processing and pattern matching, making it easier to work with strings. When working with regular expressions in Python, we often need to access multiple matches of a single regex group. … Read more
Project Idea A good friend and his wife recently founded an AI startup in the lifestyle niche that uses machine learning to discover specific real-world patterns from videos. For their business system, they need a pipeline that takes a video file, converts it to audio, and transcribes the audio to standard text that is then … Read more
⭐Summary: The most efficient way to split a string using variable spaces is to use the split function like so given_string.split(). An alternate approach is to use different functions of the regex package to split the string at multiple whitespaces. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string. How will you split the string using multiple spaces? Example … Read more
⭐Summary: Use “given string”.split(‘_’) to split the given string by underscore and store each word as an individual item in a list. Minimal Example Problem Formulation 📜Problem: Given a string, how will you split the string into a list of words using the underscore as a delimiter? Example Let’s understand the problem with the help … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview This article will show you how to interpolate strings in Python. ℹ️ Interpolation is used when a string contains a placeholder for a variable or a calculation. The string is evaluated, and the placeholder is replaced by the passed data. To make it more interesting, we have the following running … Read more