TypeError: unhashable type: ‘dict’, when dict used as a key for another dict

From the error, I infer that referenceElement is a dictionary (see repro below). A dictionary cannot be hashed and therefore cannot be used as a key to another dictionary (or itself for that matter!). You probably meant either for element in referenceElement.keys() or for element in json[‘referenceElement’].keys(). With more context on what types json and referenceElement are and what they contain, we will be … Read more

Replacing column values in a pandas DataFrame

If I understand right, you want something like this: (Here I convert the values to numbers instead of strings containing numbers. You can convert them to “1” and “0”, if you really want, but I’m not sure why you’d want that.) The reason your code doesn’t work is because using [‘female’] on a column (the second ‘female’ in your w[‘female’][‘female’]) doesn’t mean “select … Read more

Caesar Cipher Function in Python

I’m trying to create a simple Caesar Cipher function in Python that shifts letters based on input from the user and creates a final, new string at the end. The only problem is that the final cipher text shows only the last shifted character, not an entire string with all the shifted characters. Here’s my … Read more

“Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” error (mscorlib)

I’d suggest checking for an inner exception. If there isn’t one, check your logs for the exception that occurred immediately prior to this one. This isn’t a web-specific exception, I’ve also encountered it in desktop-app development. In short, what’s happening is that the thread receiving this exception is running some asynchronous code (via Invoke(), e.g.) … Read more

NPM clean modules

Is there a way to get npm to unbuild all the modules under node_modules? Something like npm rebuild that removes all build artifacts but doesn’t rebuild them?

What is a dangling pointer?

A dangling pointer is a pointer that points to invalid data or to data which is not valid anymore, for example: This can occur even in stack allocated objects: The pointer returned by c_str may become invalid if the string is modified afterwards or destroyed. In your example you don’t seem to modify it, but since it’s … Read more