How to deal with SettingWithCopyWarning in Pandas

The SettingWithCopyWarning was created to flag potentially confusing “chained” assignments, such as the following, which does not always work as expected, particularly when the first selection returns a copy. [see GH5390 and GH5597 for background discussion.] The warning offers a suggestion to rewrite as follows: However, this doesn’t fit your usage, which is equivalent to: While it’s clear that you don’t care … Read more

How to update/upgrade a package using pip?

The way is or in short Using sudo will ask to enter your root password to confirm the action, but although common, is considered unsafe. If you do not have a root password (if you are not the admin) you should probably work with virtualenv. You can also use the user flag to install it on this user only.

How to deal with SettingWithCopyWarning in Pandas

The SettingWithCopyWarning was created to flag potentially confusing “chained” assignments, such as the following, which does not always work as expected, particularly when the first selection returns a copy. [see GH5390 and GH5597 for background discussion.] The warning offers a suggestion to rewrite as follows: However, this doesn’t fit your usage, which is equivalent to: While it’s clear that you don’t care … Read more

How do I sort a dictionary by value?

Python 3.7+ or CPython 3.6 Dicts preserve insertion order in Python 3.7+. Same in CPython 3.6, but it’s an implementation detail. or Older Python It is not possible to sort a dictionary, only to get a representation of a dictionary that is sorted. Dictionaries are inherently orderless, but other types, such as lists and tuples, are … Read more

strip(char) on a string

You need to replace() in this use case, not strip() strip(): string.strip(s[, chars]) Return a copy of the string with leading and trailing characters removed. If chars is omitted or None, whitespace characters are removed. If given and not None, chars must be a string; the characters in the string will be stripped from the … Read more