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Does Python's split function splits by a newline or a whitespace by default

I am learning Python. In particular, i read about the python string's split method and came to know that the default separator for split is a whitespace. So i understand how the following works: text =...
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How to send in python params (which is string) into SQL question on DB2

I want to write function which receive parameter as string which should be used inside SQL statement for DB2 database. Then I need to take row by row and do smth in each loop step: import ibm_db ...
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How do I add to strings in a list? (scraping links off Amazon)

I'm trying to scrape links off of Amazon. I ran into a tiny problem. I wish to add a particular string 'a' to every string in a list. links = soup.find_all("a", attrs= {"class"...
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Incomprehensible string encoding python

I'm lost with string encoding, I've a CSV file of French cities, and certain cities have special caracters such : é ç and è so I got some a lot of strings like this Péron, Saône and Étienne, I ...
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Find a string using python3

How I could solve this error: if pattern[i] == txt[i]: IndexError: string index out of range txt = "ABCDCDC" pattern = "CDC" count = 0 i = 0 for index in range(0, len(txt) + 1):...
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how to fix the worrd in the table column?

I am extracting a table from a website. I tried already with Pandas and BeautifulSoup. Here is an example of a code i tried: res = requests.get("https://www.dasoertliche.de/Themen/...
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why Python3 str(bytes) converts to literal string b'<str>'

I am using python3. Following is example which explains question. # python3 Python 3.6.8 (default, Sep 26 2019, 11:57:09) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] on linux Type "help", "...
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str.readline() with colored standard output catch startswith()

I need to parse a logfile that prints colored output in this format: <0x1b[32sometexthere[0m I'm reading the logfile in with: line = logfile.readline() and then I want to get it if it starts ...
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Making a random string based on random.random and a frequency table

I have this code: base_distribution = {'A' : 0.345, 'C' : 0.158, 'G' : 0.059, 'T' : 0.437} def get_random_uniform_sequence(alphabet, k): '''It return a random uniform distribuited sequence based ...
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Element-wise manipulation of a two dimensional list in python

I am writing a script to find meeting time for three people. I manage to get their Free/Busy status encoding in a binary format with 0 being free and 1 being busy in increment of 30 minutes for the ...
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split string and integer in specific length python

Good day Everybody, I have question, is there away to split the data into fixed length ? suppose data=...
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calling functions in python 3 from within a function

Given a string, return the count of the number of times that a substring length 2 appears in the string and also as the last 2 chars of the string, so "hixxxhi" yields 1 (we won't count the end ...
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Dynamically Formatting Floats to Variable Decimal Places Using f-strings in Python [duplicate]

I've previously asked about dynamically adjusting the number of decimal places in a float when formatting with f-strings in Python. While I found similar questions that address aspects of dynamic ...
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slice string skip specific character

I have a string like this in python3: ab_cdef_ghilm__nop_q__rs starting from a specific character, based on the index position I want to slice a window around this character of 5 characters per side. ...
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How to get the output of an Object function as Variable

I am new to this and trying pass the output of this function as a string to the tweepy update method ( To post as a statue ) def hello(): name = str(input("Enter your ...
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