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Remove common company name suffixes in Python using regex
I'm struggling to remove suffixes from some company names. The expected result is like below:
Original Names:
Apple Inc.
Sony Corporation
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles S.p.A.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Python, pandas parse number and string from string
In Python, I want to parse a string and return the numeric portion (may or may not have decimal point) as a float and return the suffix as a string. Examples are:
7.1inch -> 7.1, inch
7.1” -> ...
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How to find all occurrences of a substring in a string while ignoring some characters in Python?
I'd like to find all occurrences of a substring while ignoring some characters. How can I do it in Python?
Example:
long_string = 'this is a t`es"t. Does the test work?'
small_string = "test&...
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How to modify a "Name+2nd name+Surname without touch 2nd name? Phyton
I want to change 2 characters in a variable in phyton but when I fix one the other change again.
I have this variable.
name= " rIana Danyela RodrYguez "
I don't want to touch the name &...
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Comparing string uniforming special characters in python [duplicate]
Probabily I can use a better english but what I want is ignoring accent (and like) in words so:
renè, rené, rene' and rene should be the same so should
mañana and manana or
even-distribuited and even ...
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Python. How to parse indented text to dicts?
I have this text from the log. How to convert it to a dictionary? The ultimate goal is that ITEMs that contain a date do not need to be converted (item[3,4]).
CodAnsw = 12
IdentAnsw = 1
Data:
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Managing wrong order of strings in R and ggplot. X1, X10, X12: How can I ensure a string with number will be preented in the right numberical order?
Every time that I want to plot or list a string that contains numbers, R (and python) list the values such as "x1, x10, x11, x13, (etc) x2, x3, x4"
I tried to solve this using gtools::...
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TypeError: 'str' object is not callable - Convert str to int [closed]
i'm trying to convert string to float, but appears this type error:
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-133-93612055e8fb> in <cell line: ...
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Python string: extract duplicated and randomly merged substring
Example of duplicated and merged string:
16.01068.0%0 8p%.a .p .a.
Desired substring to be extracted:
16.008% p.a.
Fuller example:
CCoonnttiinnggeenntt CCoouuppoonn 16.01068.0%0 8p%.a .p (.Ma.o (...
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I can't reproduce input embedded in a contest interface
I solved a contest task but couldn't submit it because I can't reproduce input embedded in the contest interface. Input is defined in 4 strings, each can be empty but has at its end a symbol for line ...
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cleaning list object containing text and creating new variables using Python
I am trying to create a data frame running the following code -
# pip install edgartools
import pandas as pd
from edgar import *
# Tell the SEC who you are
set_identity("Your Name youremail@...
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How do I extract substrings of a dataframe column by referencing another column?
Let's say I have a dataframe as below:
import pandas as pd
nhl_df = pd.DataFrame({
"team": ["Tampa Bay Lightning", "Boston Bruins", "Toronto Maple Leafs",
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Why do I not get the more helpful "sum() can't sum strings, use join" message, but "unsupported operand types for +"?
I'm learning Python now.
I created a function
def my_func(my_tuple):
return sum(my_tuple)
Then I do
print(my_func(("a", "b")))
And I get:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(...
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Unicode strings in a purely python3 codebase - are these useless? [duplicate]
In the codebase that I'm working on, there seems to be remnants of python2 because a lot of the strings are prefixed with u.
From researching, it looks like this denotes a unicode string, but in ...
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Strings .sort(key=?) function
I run a following code from the Python textbook:
strings = ['foo','card','bar','aaaa','abab']
strings.sort(key= lambda x : len(set(list(x))))
print(strings)
Out: ['aaaa', 'foo', 'abab', 'bar', '...
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