Read data (.dat file) with Pandas

You can use parameter usecols with order of columns: Edit: You can use separator regex – 2 and more spaces and then add engine=’python’ because warning: ParserWarning: Falling back to the ‘python’ engine because the ‘c’ engine does not support regex separators (separators > 1 char and different from ‘\s+’ are interpreted as regex); you … Read more

How can I copy a Python string?

You don’t need to copy a Python string. They are immutable, and the copy module always returns the original in such cases, as do str(), the whole string slice, and concatenating with an empty string. Moreover, your ‘hello’ string is interned (certain strings are). Python deliberately tries to keep just the one copy, as that … Read more

cannot convert the series to

Your error is line 2. df[‘intage’] = int(df[‘age’]) is not valid, you can’t pass a pandas series to the int function. You need to use astype if df[‘age’] is object dtype. Or since you are subtracting two dates, you need to use dt accessor with the days attribute to get the number of days as … Read more

How to change legend size with matplotlib.pyplot

You can set an individual font size for the legend by adjusting the prop keyword. This takes a dictionary of keywords corresponding to matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties properties. See the documentation for legend: Keyword arguments: It is also possible, as of version 1.2.1, to use the keyword fontsize.

Inline for loop

What you are using is called a list comprehension in Python, not an inline for-loop (even though it is similar to one). You would write your loop as a list comprehension like so: When using a list comprehension, you do not call list.append because the list is being constructed from the comprehension itself. Each item … Read more

How do I rotate an image around its center using Pygame?

I had been trying to rotate an image around its center in using pygame.transform.rotate() but it’s not working. Specifically the part that hangs is rot_image = rot_image.subsurface(rot_rect).copy(). I get the exception: ValueError: subsurface rectangle outside surface area Here is the code used to rotate an image: