Python: Case In-sensitive argparse “choices”
There are cases that we need to limit the options that a user will provide as command line arguments, to do this the easy way in python we……
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Python: smart coding with locals() and global()
Coding can be hard! and one of the most common reasons for that is that we tend to solve a coding problem thinking complex ways which can……
How to slow down output of a shell command using Python
On Linux there are a many times that a command or just a text file has a lot of output which is of-course impossible to read.…
Python tiny gems: any and all functions
Scenario: We need to check if any of the list elements is True…
Pandas: How to do data cleaning for beginners
Preparing our data for analysis / reporting takes most of the task time, but what to clean? how to clean them using Pandas functionality……
Python: How to execute shell commands / scripts efficient
Image the following scenario: every-night we execute a task the task is a shell script that copies some files remotelly.…
Python: run functions in parallel with a multiprocessing wrapper function
One common way to runfunctions in parallel with Python is to use the multiprocessing module which is powerfull, it has many options to……
Pandas and Multiprocessing: How to create dataframes in a parallel way
Scenario: Read a large number of xls files with pandas convert them to dataframes and concat them to a single dataframe.…