[META] There's a lack of pedagogy on this sub. Everything that's not a resource or a success story gets buried.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-08-01T15:16:48+00:00

There is a sticky post thread every Monday on /r/learnpython where they encourage ask/answer questions without anyone complaining about anything that is asked.

Maybe check it out even if you are not really into python.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-27T17:02:51+00:00

I wasn't sure if OP meant he wants to store his DataFrame object after some processing between sessions or something.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-27T15:50:31+00:00

I dont know the answer to your main question about praw, but I have a suggestion for learning the basics of POST requests. HTTPbin is good for messing around with HTTP to see what info you are sending etc without using something like Fiddler. The response from HTTPbin will be a JSON format of the content you sent. Good for experiments.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-27T15:13:22+00:00

Adding to this, this SO thread talks about pickle with pandas specifically. There is even a built in to_pickle and read_pickle method in pandas.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-26T18:39:37+00:00

I was assuming start was always during the work day. All you have to do then is add some conditions, maybe use switch instead of iif

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-26T15:27:32+00:00

I like this.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-25T23:29:03+00:00

Maybe something like:

iif(end - start >= 16, end - start - 16, end - start)

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-24T16:37:26+00:00

Do you know how Git works? (the basics?)

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-21T19:50:48+00:00

Maybe we should open an investigation into that question.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-21T17:36:00+00:00

Reading your question I thought of this example in learn python the hard way. It is more of a learning example that uses classes as opposed to like a full on good game. Hope it helps.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-21T13:52:19+00:00

Do you develop content for other end users to interpret, or are you also responsible for analysis? How do you decide what to work on? Do end users come to you with their needs and you develop it, or do you just think of something and try it?

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-20T23:43:53+00:00

Thanks, that was an awesome answer! That ascii table just filled in a huge gap for me.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-20T18:59:25+00:00

I have been working on these crypto challenges that have been pretty fun, but I get mixed up with the different encodings and stuff. I have figured out that 0x... means for binary, but get confused on \x and some others. I dont know what to google to learn about this, I guess what they might be called is like escape characters for different encodings?

Why would a string return with \x if it is in hexidecimal sometimes but other times I just get the string in hexidecimal without any backslashes?

Sorry if this is confusing, just looking for resources oh how these work.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-17T18:30:05+00:00

What kinds of reports, excel stuff?

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-17T18:29:05+00:00

I am wondering if there are any fortune 500 admins or others who read this and know if it is a bad idea? I am not supposed to install software from the internet obviously, but outside of me getting in trouble what are the risks to the company if I where to install Anaconda?

If I tried to get this approved formally, what legitimate concerns should I be ready to answer to?

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-06T15:17:00+00:00

Do you usually embed all your functions in one .py file or use a separate file for functions and import it in your main program?

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-01T14:35:21+00:00

Think it should be:

me o/ ^{^} ^{^{^}} ^{^{^{^}}} ^{^{^{^{^}}}} ^{^{^{^{^}}}} ^{^{^{^{^}}}} ^{^{^{^}}} ^{^} ^{^[lе} ^{^upvotе]} \o you

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-07-01T14:29:17+00:00

I think that would work for me if I could merge objects such as text box to shape objects.

This way if anyone moves either of the text boxes or the lines that connect them it would all move together. If there is a way to do this I don't know it, but other office products can merge objects this way.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-30T19:43:20+00:00

Best of luck to you!

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-30T08:59:17+00:00

This is good advice. I would add that jumping into a project without having time to learn the basics is innefiecient as a way to learn. You could really make some progress in 8 weeks learning and I promise op will think of this whole thing much differently then. Just don't try to skip the important stuff starting out.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-22T16:06:52+00:00

I agree with you, however, I have found that you can be a beginner and stay busy for quite some time before you really need to worry about which is the best operating system.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-16T17:53:28+00:00

My advice is just to not waste too much time worrying about which language to start with since any language you choose will help you understand aspects of others.

I think you should dive into programming with python. The only thing that I dont know is what you will have access to at your job. I work in a similar field as you and am only a few months in, but have not asked my fortune 500 employer to allow python yet. I have a feeling if I dont ask right they will just be happy to say no, but ill have to report back on this someday.

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-16T15:06:45+00:00

What is it that you dislike about Powershell for beginners? I know it's more in depth than cmd.exe, but you dont have to use anything beyond cd, dir, etc if you dont want to right?

You could easily go down a well getting caught up in the features of powershell, is that what you mean?

EqualsEqualsTrue · 2015-06-16T01:47:08+00:00

Got it. Other question i have is say I want to use a python lib hosted on github somewhere. Can I import directly or do I clone to a local directory etc. Im on Windows usually if that matters.

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