This is a solution I worked out recently to strip phone numbers into a uniform format. To install pandas with pip, enter in command prompt: python -m pip install pandas The pandas library has regex built in and it’s pretty neat! Behold the power of pandas and a regular expression to do trivial telephone tidying: […]
If you write Python code, there’s probably been a time or two when you saw the dreaded “MemoryError”. This happens after one of your Python scripts stops because your computer has no spare RAM to execute it. I recently experienced this frustration whilst trying to write hundreds of thousands of csv files. However, this time […]
When assessing your environment, problem or your goal, meticulously scout the tools at your disposal. When you’re learning a new job, a new project or a programming language’s tools for example, it pays to have a grasp of your options. Researching what documentation, guides, tools or libraries are at your disposal will help you accomplish […]
Can it be scripted? Ask yourself this question about everything you do. Every application opened, website viewed and task you knock out in the course of a day might be worth writing a script to automate. As an example, here is a Windows batch file that opens 3 websites I visit frequently: Open Websites.bat Save […]
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