(clviii) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2018-12-29 22:40:39 GMT

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1. Why does an empty string in Python sometimes take up 49 bytes and sometimes 51? - [45/2]
2. Groupby class and count missing values in features - [14/3]
3. Force elements at beginning and end of list - [11/7]
4. Large amount of lists concatenation - [9/6]
5. differences for creating set using set() or {} - [6/5]
6. How to search for a substring, find the beginning and ending, and then check if that data is a weekday? - [6/5]
7. How to delete list item automatically in python? - [6/4]
8. How to calculate the average of the most recent three non-nan value using Python - [6/3]
9. Compute the last (decimal) digit of x1 ^ (x2 ^ (x3 ^ (... ^ xn))) - [6/3]
10. How to use while(i = getNext()) pattern in python - [6/2]

(clvii) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-12-22 19:09:22 GMT

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1. Getting first n unique elements from Python list - [17/10]
2. Is integer division always equal to the floor of regular division? - [15/3]
3. How can I get a Wikipedia article's text using Python 3 with Beautiful Soup? - [13/6]
4. Count separators in CSV rows with Pandas - [12/4]
5. How to split each individual value between two string in Python - [9/6]
6. How to find out the magic number for the .pyc header in Python 3 - [9/2]
7. Repeating array with transformation - [8/6]
8. Rename named parameter in Python to avoid naming conflicts with import statement - [7/5]
9. Variable X not updating when variables that should effect X change - [7/4]
10. How to find an intersection of two list of dictionaries based on a key? - [7/4]

(clvi) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-12-15 14:32:38 GMT

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1. Is is safe to use next within a for loop in Python? - [18/3]
2. Performant cartesian product (CROSS JOIN) with pandas - [14/3]
3. Why does pandas merge on NaN? - [14/1]
4. Use columns 1 and 2 to populate column 3 - [10/4]
5. Setting flag column depending on whether column contains a given string - [10/2]
6. __init__ function definition without self - [10/1]
7. Why does isinstance require a tuple instead of any iterable? - [9/0]
8. Is there an efficient method of checking whether a column has mixed dtypes? - [8/4]
9. Python random.Random(bytearray) TypeError: unhashable type - [8/2]
10. Pythonic way to fill rows with date range - [7/3]

(clv) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-12-08 16:54:21 GMT

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1. Pandas Merging 101 - [28/1]
2. Finding highest value in a dictionary - [11/3]
3. Pandas measure elapsed time since a condition - [9/5]
4. Replace 1s in one hot columns with values from another column - [8/4]
5. Why do circular imports cause problems with object identity using `isinstance`? - [8/3]
6. What does `exit` keyword do in Python3 with Jupyter Notebook? - [8/3]
7. How to Reverse Sort a nested list starting with Uppercase entries? - [8/1]
8. How to efficiently partial argsort Pandas dataframe across columns - [8/1]
9. Pandas dataframe: Remove secondary upcoming same value - [7/8]
10. Get cumulative count per 2d array - [7/3]

(cliv) stackoverflow python report

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2018-12-01 21:40:29 GMT

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1. Longest word chain from a list of words - [28/9]
2. Why is 2 * x * x faster than 2 * ( x * x ) in Python? - [19/5]
3. Do Python lambda functions help in reducing the execution times? - [14/1]
4. Python function that identifies if the numbers in a list or array are closer to 0 or 1 - [11/10]
5. Finding three integers such that their sum of cosine values become max - [9/5]
6. Finding singulars/sets of local maxima/minima in a 1D-NumPy array (once again) - [9/3]
7. Improve accuracy of image processing to count fungus spores - [9/2]
8. Advanced Python Regex: how to evaluate and extract nested lists and numbers from a multiline string? - [8/2]
9. Count appearances of a value until it changes to another value - [7/5]
10. What is happening when I assign a list with self references to a list copy with the slice syntax `mylist[:] = [mylist, mylist, ...]`? - [7/3]