TypeError: String Indices Must be Integers

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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 moreTypeError: String Indices Must be Integers

‘Tuple’ Object Has No Attribute ‘Replace’

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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‘Tuple’ Object Has No Attribute ‘Replace’

Finding the First Instance of an Element in an Array

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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 moreFinding the First Instance of an Element in an Array

Using the Google Translate API in your Android App

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 moreUsing the Google Translate API in your Android App

Length of Values Does Not Match Length of Index

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I’m guessing you are dynamically creating Pandas DataFrame columns and came across the, “Length of values does not match length of index” error. The issue lies in that the previous columns you’ve added are not the same length as the most recent one you’ve attempted to add. Let’s recreate the problem. Here’s an article for … Read moreLength of Values Does Not Match Length of Index

Resize Images Programmatically Using Python

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Happen to have a ton of giant marketing materials that you need to get down to size for your website? Are you about to release an app and need to resize images down to Google/Apple’s prescribed dimensions? I mean you could always open the images individually in GIMP (my preferred image editor), go into tools, … Read moreResize Images Programmatically Using Python

OpenPyXL – Writing To an Excel Workbook Using Python

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Prep First let’s make sure you have the OpenPyXL library installed. If you’re already in Python and don’t want to needlessly exit the interpreter, then type the following: This command should list out all the methods of OpenPyXL if it is in fact installed on your machine. Else, we’ll have to turn to pip. Assuming … Read moreOpenPyXL – Writing To an Excel Workbook Using Python