rbind error: “names do not match previous names”

The names (column names) of the first dataframe do not match the names of the second one. Just as the error message says. If you do not care about the names of the 3rd or 4th columns of the second df, you can coerce them to be the same: Then things should proceed happily.

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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 update Anaconda?

What 95% of people actually want In most cases what you want to do when you say that you want to update Anaconda is to execute the command: (But this should be preceeded by conda update -n base conda so you have the latest conda version installed) This will update all packages in the current environment to the latest version — … Read more

Transparent ARGB hex value

Transparency is controlled by the alpha channel (AA in #AARRGGBB). Maximal value (255 dec, FF hex) means fully opaque. Minimum value (0 dec, 00 hex) means fully transparent. Values in between are semi-transparent, i.e. the color is mixed with the background color. To get a fully transparent color set the alpha to zero. RR, GG and BB are irrelevant in this case … Read more

numpy max vs amax vs maximum

np.max is just an alias for np.amax. This function only works on a single input array and finds the value of maximum element in that entire array (returning a scalar). Alternatively, it takes an axis argument and will find the maximum value along an axis of the input array (returning a new array). The default behaviour of np.maximum is to take two arrays and compute … Read more

Relative imports in Python 3

It’s quite common to have a layout like this… …with a mymodule.py like this… …a myothermodule.py like this… …and a main.py like this… …which works fine when you run main.py or mypackage/mymodule.py, but fails with mypackage/myothermodule.py, due to the relative import… The way you’re supposed to run it is… …but it’s somewhat verbose, and doesn’t mix well with a shebang line like #!/usr/bin/env python3. The simplest … Read more