Python is a great language to get started with and one that you can operational with quite quickly, especially if you have to deal with data in your line of work.
I have been able to use Python to help wrangle through CSV files, fetch data remotely from the web using the famous requests library, and do some database operations.
Python has a REPL feature that can help you tinker with the code and quickly test the syntax as you learn. There are many helpful resources, and some of the posts below are things I've learned (and am still learning!) along the way, hopefully they can help assist you in your journey too.
How can you find the difference between two sets in Python? In Python, you can find the difference between two sets using the .difference() method. The set and frozenset objects contain a built-in method labelled difference() which helps to find the non-matching elements in the source object not found in the other sets passed in …
What is the ceiling function in Python, and how does it work? The ceiling function in Python is found in the math library and it’s method name is ceil() which takes a sole numeric parameter. To use the ceiling function in Python you will need to import the math library, like so: >>> import math>>> …
How do you download images using Selenium Python? Selenium provides a way to create a screenshot of your browser’s view using the .save_screenshot(file_name) method, but this will take a photo of the viewport – what if you just want to download the image as it is? Unfortunately, Selenium doesn’t have the capability of selecting menu …
How do you download a PDF file when the URL opens up a PDF in your Chrome browser in Python without needing to print the page or use special key presses? And how can you set the location of the PDF? The trick to be able to download a PDF file using Selenium without the …
How do you sort a list of tuples by the first element in each tuple in Python? To sort a list of tuples in Python use the .sort() list method if you want to modify the list to sort or the sorted() function if you want to generate a new list. Use the parameter key …
What does AttributeError: module ‘datetime’ has no attribute ‘strptime’mean and how can you easily fix it? When parsing a string and transforming that to a date you can make use of the function strptime in the datetime module. To use this function simply import datetime as you normally would with any module, and use the …
How do you send a file through to your NetSuite instance via a RESTlet using a Python Script? If you know how to send a POST request through to a RESTlet using Python then only minor modifications need to be made to enable the sending of a file. One reason why you may prefer sending …
How do you send data to your NetSuite RESTlet using Python? To send data to your NetSuite RESTlet using Python code utilise the handy requests_oauthlib library. If you need to upload a series of CSV files and want to perform some data cleaning before being uploaded and want to avoid the Import CSV process then …
How do you remove a trailing slash in a string using Python? There are two popular ways to remove a trailing slash from a string in Python. The most common approach is to use the .rstrip() string method which will remove all consecutive trailing slashes at the end of a string. If you only need …
How does the int() function work I. Python and could you write your own function? The int(x, base=10) function in Python takes two parameters: the first parameter x being either a number or string and the second representing the base number to return (10 being default which represents the decimal number system) and converts x …
