Spit in the Face of God: Five Tasks You Didn’t Know Could be Done with Google Sheets
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Last ReplyAny opportunity to spit in the face of god is good by me. Excellent post homie. Hash Brown,
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An introduction to scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup
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Last ReplyVery nice, as they say. Other scraping methods For those who don’t perhaps have the skills needed to code something there are also other... August R. Garcia,
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[JavaScript] How can I fix "Uncaught TypeError: $(...).modal is not a function?"
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Last ReplyThe $(…).modal is not a function is usually caused because scripts are loaded in the wrong order . The browser will execute the scripts in the... walemark,
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[Python] How to fix "TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment?"
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Last ReplyJust as the error message says, you can't modify a string. One approach, which will let you keep most of the code you've written, is to convert you... irvinborder,
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[Python] Fix for "NameError: name 'xrange' is not defined?"
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Last ReplyThe error message 'xrange' is not defined would seem to indicate that you are trying to run a Python 2 codebase with Python 3 . In Python 2, an iterab... murphybeck,
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[Python] Solution to "TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'?"
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Last ReplyPython makes a clear distinction between bytes and strings . Bytes objects contain raw data — a sequence of octets — whereas strings are U... bennetcole,
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[Python] Help with "TypeError: 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an integer?"
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Last ReplyWhen we try to use float numbers in Python range() function, we get a type error 'float' object that cannot be interpreted as an integer.&nb... rahuldev,
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[Python] Fix for "TypeError: can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly?"
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Last ReplyExplicitly cast the int object to a string: x = 10 # Integer print("X is set to " + str(10)) # Explicitly a string August R. Garcia,
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Fix "typeerror: 'module' object is not callable"?
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[Python] Solution to "ValueError: cannot convert float nan to integer?"
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Last ReplyIf there are some scenarios where the value is actually not intended to be a number, this can also be solved with a try-catch block: try: #... August R. Garcia,
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How to fix "indexerror: arrays used as indices must be of integer (or boolean) type?"
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Last ReplyIt's possible that if you have an array of values that you believe to be integers, that at some point they were converted to floats. Try printing out... August R. Garcia,
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[Solved] Python - ValueError: unsupported format character ')' (0x29) at index 113
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Alternatively "TypeError: %o format: an...
MoreThis is technically a different error message, but is what was causing the issue. string = "The value is one hundred (100)." # Raises an error...[Solved] How to un-shorten/resolve Twitter's t.co links using Python
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TFW
MoreSee code. Yeah, it seems like you do in fact have to make a bunch of additional HTTP requests. def resolve_t_co(t_co_url): if t_co_url !...[Python] Fix for "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for - or / or + 'str'/'int'/'nonetype'/'list' and 'str'?"
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[Python] Fix for "TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str?"
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Last ReplyCast the integer to be a string. # Probably something like this is causing the error x = 3 text = "whatever" # "TypeError: unsupported op... August R. Garcia,
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[Solved] Running Selenium with a Proxy (Python, FireFox)
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It's time to post code so that I can fin...
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Last ReplyHere's a better version that removes the " results" string and then casts the result to a number instead of a string: =VALUE(substitute(importXML... August R. Garcia,
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[Solved] Python - Getting the remote/server IP address and port from an HTTP response using the requests library?
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Some edge case what even is this.
MoreThe solution here seems to generally work: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22492484/how-do-i-get-the-ip-address-from-a-http-request-using-th...How to Make a Simple, Automatically-Updating Dashboard for Python Scripts Using HTML, JavaScript, and JSONP
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[Solved] Correct-Horse-Battery-Staple Implementations (Misc. Languages)
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Currently: Python, Bash
MoreSee: Correct Horse Battery Staple from XKCD, if somehow you haven't seen this before. There's also a generator that can be used here. How to...[Solved] How to Get Random Punctuation in Python
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Code:
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why is this answer so hard to find
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Solve "Typeerror: unhashable type: 'list'"?
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Last ReplyRan into this like five minutes ago and found this fucking thread in the SERPs. What a shitty fucking thread that did not answer my question. Anyway,... August R. Garcia,
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The Basics to Web Scraping with cURL and XPath
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Last ReplyBump. Some more cURL, used to determine the quality of proxygo's proxies: for i in {1..48} ; do curl https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/ssl-proxi... August R. Garcia,
Bump. Some more cURL, use...
[Solved] Basic progress bar functionality with Python
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Commentary is hard. Use your reading ski...
MoreCommentary is hard. Use your reading skills to read this code: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import time import sys from...[Solved] How to Show Number of Remaining Threads in Python
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Self explanatory, mostly.
MoreSelf explanatory, mostly. Original Code import Queue from threading import Thread, active_count import time que = Queue.Queue()...[Solved] Google Sheets: "Text result of JOIN is longer than the limit of 50000 characters"
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The answer is to fucking kill yourself.<...
MoreThe answer is to fucking kill yourself.[Solved, Basically] Nautilus - Open Multiple Tabs from Command Line?
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How to open multiple GUI file manager ta...
MoreThe answer is that there's no built in option to do this in Nautilus, although there are Stack Exchange threads discussing ghetto hack workarounds....