How to create a trie in Python

Unwind is essentially correct that there are many different ways to implement a trie; and for a large, scalable trie, nested dictionaries might become cumbersome — or at least space inefficient. But since you’re just getting started, I think that’s the easiest approach; you could code up a simple trie in just a few lines. First, a function … Read more

Pandas DataFrame: replace all values in a column, based on condition

You need to select that column: So the syntax here is: You can check the docs and also the 10 minutes to pandas which shows the semantics EDIT If you want to generate a boolean indicator then you can just use the boolean condition to generate a boolean Series and cast the dtype to int this will convert True and False to 1 and 0 respectively:

Pandas version of rbind

Ah, this is to do with how I created the DataFrame, not with how I was combining them. The long and the short of it is, if you are creating a frame using a loop and a statement that looks like this: You must ignore the index Or you will have issues later when combining … Read more