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I’m guessing you’re here because Python threw a, ” TypeError: string indices must be integers”. I got this error after successfully hitting a REST endpoint using the requests Python library and attempting to access one of the responses elements. If you need an example of hitting an endpoint, try this out. It shouldn’t be much different. … Read more
I got the, ” ‘Tuple’ Object Has No Attribute ‘Replace’ ” error when trying to rename some file paths using python 2.x. This is because the os.walk(dst) returns an array of tuples. Accessing the first element in this tuple can solve the error. I was initially doing the following. dir in this case is the … Read more
Have you ever used a for loop with an else clause in Python? WTH, right? I found out these exist earlier this week when going through some source code. Since it was such a shock I immediately tried to find a use case. Here’s some more detailed documentation. Make sure to search for “4.4” which … Read more
Need help finding the first instance of an element in an array? I recently came across a situation where I had two arrays with corresponding data in each array. For example, I had two arrays where one was a person’s first name and the other was a person’s last name. I needed to find a … Read more
Just make an Http call! So, I thought I’d write a quick article on using the Google Translate API in your Android app since most of the articles I found didn’t help. Article after article pointed me in the direction of this Java library which unfortunately conflicted with other dependencies in my application. I spent … Read more
