Python Archives - IODocs https://www.iodocs.com/tag/python/ IODocs: Comprehensive How-To Guides, Software Tutorials, and More IODocs.com Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:08:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.iodocs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-logoIODOCSretina-32x32.avif Python Archives - IODocs https://www.iodocs.com/tag/python/ 32 32 Difference between reshape and resize https://www.iodocs.com/difference-reshape-resize/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:55:09 +0000 https://iodocs.com/?p=1321 When to use reshape and when resize?. Both reshape and resize change the shape of the numpy array; the difference is that using resize will affect the original array while using reshape create a new reshaped instance of the array. This is clarified through an example: Reshape import numpy as np r = np.arange(16) print('original […]

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]]> How to install beautiful soup 4 with python 2.7 on windows 10 https://www.iodocs.com/install-beautiful-soup-4-python-2-7-windows-10/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:08:12 +0000 https://iodocs.com/?p=1114 You can add system variable by (by doing this you can use easy_install without specifying path) 1 Clicking on Properties of My Computer 2 Then chose Advanced System Settings 3 Click on Advanced Tab 4 Click on Environment Variables 5 From System Variables >>> select variable path. 6 Click edit then add the following lines […]

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]]> How can I open an Excel file in Python https://www.iodocs.com/can-open-excel-file-python/ Tue, 23 May 2017 15:17:38 +0000 https://iodocs.com/?p=914 Try the xlrd library. From what I can see from your comment, something like the snippet below might do the trick. I’m assuming here that you’re just searching one column for the word ‘john’, but you could add more or make this into a more generic function. from xlrd import open_workbook book = open_workbook('simple.xls',on_demand=True) for […]

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]]> How to check if a directory exists and create it if necessary? https://www.iodocs.com/check-directory-exists-create-necessary/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:54:34 +0000 http://iodocs.com/?p=396 I see two answers with good qualities, each with a small flaw, so I will give my take on it: Try os.path.exists, and consider os.makedirs for the creation. if not os.path.exists(directory): os.makedirs(directory) As noted in comments and elsewhere, there’s a race condition – if the directory is created between the os.path.exists and the os.makedirs calls, […]

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