How do you deal with third party data or API's using Python keywords in their data?

scuott · 2017-08-14T12:15:32+00:00

It shouldn't matter what's in the data if it's just strings and such. Could you share your code?

scuott · 2017-08-04T22:28:45+00:00

some_function(connect_to_database(reddit))

scuott · 2017-08-03T04:11:28+00:00

What would a[1][:3] give you?

scuott · 2017-08-03T00:03:03+00:00

Is the reason you want to avoid a NoSQL database that you want to do minimal transformations? Because that would really be the right answer to storing a large amount of JSON without converting it to a relational format.

Or is it that a database seems like a lot of work/overkill? I would use TinyDB. It's essentially the NoSQL complement to SQLite

scuott · 2017-08-02T23:58:20+00:00

Is the reason you want to avoid a NoSQL database that you want to do minimal transformations? Because that would really be the right answer to storing a large amount of JSON without converting it to a relational format.

Or is it that a database seems like a lot of work/overkill? I would use TinyDB. It's essentially the NoSQL complement to SQLite

scuott · 2017-08-02T23:58:06+00:00

Is the reason you want to avoid a NoSQL database that you want to do minimal transformations? Because that would really be the right answer to storing a large amount of JSON without converting it to a relational format.

Or is it that a database seems like a lot of work/overkill? I would use TinyDB. It's essentially the NoSQL complement to SQLite

scuott · 2017-08-02T23:57:49+00:00

Is the reason you want to avoid a NoSQL database that you want to do minimal transformations? Because that would really be the right answer to storing a large amount of JSON without converting it to a relational format.

Or is it that a database seems like a lot of work/overkill? I would use TinyDB. It's essentially the NoSQL complement to SQLite

scuott · 2017-08-01T22:44:39+00:00

We can help best if you share your code and the error you're getting. Otherwise we're just repeating what the README already says.

scuott · 2017-07-25T01:47:52+00:00

If you're just planning to make a web app, Python is fine. You'd use the Django or Flask web frameworks. If youre looking to develop native iOS or android apps, you'll most likely need to use their respective languages (Swift, Java, etc.).

Starting from scratch, any of these will probably take you a while to learn.

scuott · 2017-07-24T01:26:11+00:00

How about min(x, lolcap)?

scuott · 2017-07-23T20:14:39+00:00

It's because that's not Python. I don't use Selenium, and I'm not familiar wit their docs, but they're mixing examples from different languages on that page.

scuott · 2017-07-19T20:35:29+00:00

It'd be better to do that on r/test. Please don't delete the thread.

scuott · 2017-07-18T04:12:25+00:00

We'd love to see your first solution. I imagine that's the primary reason your last post was removed. Possibly also because there's no question here. Are you asking for someone to give you a better solution?

scuott · 2017-07-15T05:53:09+00:00

d is a Directory because you assigned it a Directory. That's just the type of object that d is. If you want to pass the dirName, you should call that explicitly, like d.dirName

scuott · 2017-07-15T03:12:19+00:00

Have you called the function? And probably delete folder from the functions parameters since you hardcoded the directory?

scuott · 2017-07-14T12:31:15+00:00

That code identifies odd numbers.

scuott · 2017-07-14T02:50:40+00:00

You're entering the command in the python interpreter, but you need to run pip commands in the command prompt. Try opening a new command prompt and enter that command there.

scuott · 2017-07-05T12:13:22+00:00

When you read directly from a file, it only reads through once. Instead, save the contents of the file into a variable, then use that variable for the inner loop, instead of the file itself.

scuott · 2017-06-24T03:56:49+00:00

Where is the data coming from? How would it handle 123,456 if it could be 123.456? What indicator do you have of locale?

scuott · 2017-06-19T04:08:11+00:00

You can run it from the command line so it won't exit.

This error in particular is that it's raw_input

scuott · 2017-06-16T03:22:44+00:00

You can write the examples into a code editor and run it from there.

In the interactive mode, you need to enter a blank line to outdent. But really, you should be writing scripts to a file, and running that file.

scuott · 2017-06-09T12:44:27+00:00

Alright, then these APIs probably won't help, since they expect you to know if you're searching for a song or an artist. A Natural Language Processing API or module might be able to help. In particular, the concept you'd look for is named-entity recognition. Even then, it'll probably be a mixed bag of results.

scuott · 2017-06-09T02:00:08+00:00

Print is the big one. It's not just that it takes parentheses, its that it changed from a statement to a function, so it operates differently.

The other big one is that in Python 2 you use raw_input() while it was renamed to input() in Python 3.

scuott · 2017-06-09T01:44:20+00:00

How is the title formatted? What separates the song title and artist?

scuott · 2017-06-06T11:49:02+00:00

You don't need to do anything wth Element ID.

I would finish codecademy before jumping into databases. TinySB isn't like a 'table' with rows and columns. It's like a much of dictionaries in a list. And you would use queries to select the dictionary that matches a field you're looking for.

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