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Python string “b” prefix (byte literals)
I am looking through some unit testing code and I found this:
self.assertIn(b'Hello', res.body)
I know that this means bytes in python 3 which returns a byte array, as i found here. I believe that ...
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I want to cut variable on another variables using Python
I have a variable c.
c = ' FR,DE,UK,IT '
I want to cut this variable on another variables: c1, c2, c3, c4
So that c1 = 'FR', c2 = 'DE', c3 = 'UK', c4 = 'IT'.
How do I do that?
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I want to isolate the IP and the port from a string in a python script
I have a script which will read in information, and process it.
I have the script so that it reads in the information.
For example:
RawInfo[0] = "192.168.100.254:8081"
I want to be able to ...
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Append a list of strings to a file in a single line? - Python
Is there a way to append a list of lines to a file in a line of python code? I've been doing it as such:
lines = ['this is the foo bar line to append','this is the second line', 'whatever third ...
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Explain the difference please? [duplicate]
Could someone please explain the difference between these two?
data=[]
for row in csv_file_object:
data.append(row[1:])
and
data=[]
for row in csv_file_object:
data.append(row)
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How to reduce the duplicated characters in a string using Python
Is there a way to reduce a duplicated characters to specific number, for example if we have this string.
"I liiiiked it, thaaaaaaank you"
Expected output: "I liiiiked it thaaaank you"
so if the ...
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Join string before, between, and after
Suppose I have this list:
lis = ['a','b','c','d']
If I do 'x'.join(lis) the result is:
'axbxcxd'
What would be a clean, simple way to get this output?
'xaxbxcxdx'
I could write a helper ...
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Extract email sub-strings from large document
I have a very large .txt file with hundreds of thousands of email addresses scattered throughout. They all take the format:
...<[email protected]>...
What is the best way to have Python to ...
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Referencing a RegEx Variable
I'm using python to loop through a large list of self reported locations to try to match them to their home states. The RegEx expression I'm using is:
/^"[^\s]+,\s*([a-zA-Z]{2})"$/
Basically, I'm ...
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How to figure out what the current system preferred language is
Is there an easy way to get the preferred language on a system? I am writing an application that has to support different language, but needs to pick what language to display based on the system ...
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Python : UTF-8 : How to count number of words in UTF-8 string?
I need to count number of words in UTF-8 string. ie I need to write a python function which takes "एक बार,एक कौआ, बहुत प्यासा, था" as input and returns 7 ( number of words ).
I tried regular ...
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How to deal with link text or link image with string from BeautifulSoup in python?
I've some tds which include link text or link image like below. And when I get the td text by BeautifulSoup . The text is shown here:
How can I make the strings like "u'Language pack English" and ...
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Remove \n or \t from a given string
How can I strip a string with all \n and \t in python other than using strip()?
I want to format a string like "abc \n \t \t\t \t \nefg" to "abcefg"?
result = re.match("\n\t ", "abc \n\t efg")
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Python-Regex-Distinguish and use repeated pattern in a string
Edit: so I came to realize, with the kind help from answers below, that parsing html with regex is generally a bad idea. For what it's worth, if someone else comes across my post someday with the same ...
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Python: Get common characters from strings
So, a newbious question: I'm looking for the smallest (and nicest) way of comparing two strings and being able to get back, as separate strings:
All the common characters,
The uncommon characters, ...
