Truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all()

The or and and python statements require truth-values. For pandas these are considered ambiguous so you should use “bitwise” | (or) or & (and) operations: These are overloaded for these kind of datastructures to yield the element-wise or (or and). Just to add some more explanation to this statement: The exception is thrown when you want to get the bool of a pandas.Series: What you hit was a place where the operator implicitly converted … Read more

How do I link a JavaScript file to a HTML file?

First you need to download JQuery library from http://jquery.com/ then load the jquery library the following way within your html head tags then you can test whether the jquery is working by coding your jquery code after the jquery loading script If you want to use your jquery scripts file seperately you must define the external .js … Read more

How to convert a char to a String?

You can use Character.toString(char). Note that this method simply returns a call to String.valueOf(char), which also works. As others have noted, string concatenation works as a shortcut as well: But this compiles down to: which is less efficient because the StringBuilder is backed by a char[] (over-allocated by StringBuilder() to 16), only for that array to be defensively copied by the resulting String. String.valueOf(char) “gets in … Read more

Dijkstra’s algorithm in python

As others have pointed out, due to not using understandable variable names, it is almost impossible to debug your code. Following the wiki article about Dijkstra’s algorithm, one can implement it along these lines (and in a million other manners): This code is more verbous than necessary and I hope comparing your code with mine … Read more

Finding the index of an item in a list

Reference: Data Structures > More on Lists Caveats follow Note that while this is perhaps the cleanest way to answer the question as asked, index is a rather weak component of the list API, and I can’t remember the last time I used it in anger. It’s been pointed out to me in the comments that because this answer is heavily … Read more