Jul 8, 2010 · The rule of thumb for repr is that if it makes sense to return Python code that could be evaluated to produce the same object, do that, just like str, frozenset, and most other builtins do, but …

Mar 3, 2009 · 134 If you don't know the encoding, then to read binary input into string in Python 3 and Python 2 compatible way, use the ancient MS-DOS CP437 encoding:

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

Does Python have something like an empty string variable where you can do: if myString == string.empty: Regardless, what's the most elegant way to check for empty string values? I find hard …

Mar 7, 2023 · Километр In scripts, Python will object to non-ascii (as of Python 2.5, and warning in Python 2.4) bytes being in a string with no encoding given, since the intended coding would be …

As recent versions of the docs explain: "Warning It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations in Python’s AST compiler."

Feb 26, 2012 · Official doc for str.replace of Python 3 official doc: Python 3's str.replace str.replace (old, new [, count]) Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the …

I'm wondering if there is a more efficient way to use the str.contains() function in Pandas, to search for two partial strings at once. I want to search a given column in a dataframe for data that

To answer your second question, string formatting happens at the same time as any other operation - when the string formatting expression is evaluated. And Python, not being a lazy language, …

Aug 9, 2010 · 571 Does Python have a string contains substring method? 99% of use cases will be covered using the keyword, in, which returns True or False: