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Add element alternatively to a list

I want to place an element alternatively between any two elements of a list. l1 = list('abcde') fill = 'z' How it should look like: ['a', 'z', 'b', 'z', 'c', 'z', 'd', 'z', 'e'] My solution: fi …
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Populate a networkx graph with tuples of varying lengths

I've got a list with tuples of variable length containing nodes, out of which I want to build a network: node_list = [("one", "two"), ("eins", "zwei", "drei"), ("un", "deux", "trois", "q …
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Save list over many csv files each with given number of lines

I wrote a little code for outputting to csv. It takes a list object named outtext and saves multiple .csv files. Each csv file contains cutoff elements of the list (except for the last), where cutoff …
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Check existence of HTML tags in a row

Using Python's Beautiful Soup, I analyze a number of html files (internally: soup). They are all a little different and my target comes in four different tags - or not at all. In two cases, my target …
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Reading two csv files as dictionaries with differing key definitions

My script reads two .csv files and generates one dictionary per .csv file. import csv # First dictionary first_dict = {} with open(first_file, 'r') as f: csvReader = csv.reader(f) next(csvRea …
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Rename subkeys of nested dictionary dynamically

My nested (ordered) dictionary looks like this: OrderedDict([ ('1', OrderedDict([('1994_fte_count', '4'), ('1995_fte_count', '2'), ('1996_fte_count', '5'), ('1997_fte_count', '7')])), ('2', O …
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Remove (not extract) timestamp from HTML string

Based on MathiasEttinger's suggestions in the comments and my initial feeling, I tried using dateutils: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from dateutil import parser date1 = '<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family …
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Remove (not extract) timestamp from HTML string

I've got strings coming from irregularly and ugly formatted HTML sites, that contain a timestamp. I am interested in removing the timestamp entirely and get all the rest. from bs4 import BeautifulSou …
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Compute spherical distance matrix from list of geographical coordinates

I've got a list of geographic coordinates ([lat, long]) and want to compute the corresponding matrix of distances. Distance shall be spherical distance in km. def distance_on_unit_sphere(coord1, coor …
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