String formatting [str.format()] with a dictionary key which is a str() of a number

No. According to the documentation: Because arg_name is not quote-delimited, it is not possible to specify arbitrary dictionary keys (e.g., the strings ’10’ or ‘:-]’) within a format string. So you can’t use strings consisting of numbers as dictionary keys in format strings. Note that your key isn’t numeric, and it’s not trying to use … Read more

Can Syntax Errors be handled?

SyntaxError is a perfectly ordinary built-in exception. It is not special in any way. Only the circumstances of when it’s (usually) thrown are a bit unusual. A syntax error means that the code featuring said error cannot be parsed. It doesn’t even begin to be a valid program, hence it cannot be executed. Therefore SyntaxError … Read more

Can Syntax Errors be handled?

SyntaxError is a perfectly ordinary built-in exception. It is not special in any way. Only the circumstances of when it’s (usually) thrown are a bit unusual. A syntax error means that the code featuring said error cannot be parsed. It doesn’t even begin to be a valid program, hence it cannot be executed. Therefore SyntaxError … Read more

SparkSQL on pyspark: how to generate time series?

EDIT This creates a dataframe with one row containing an array of consecutive dates: from pyspark.sql.functions import sequence, to_date, explode, col spark.sql(“SELECT sequence(to_date(‘2018-01-01’), to_date(‘2018-03-01’), interval 1 month) as date”) +——————————————+ | date | +——————————————+ | [“2018-01-01″,”2018-02-01″,”2018-03-01″] | +——————————————+ You can use the explode function to “pivot” this array into rows: spark.sql(“SELECT sequence(to_date(‘2018-01-01’), to_date(‘2018-03-01’), interval 1 … Read more

How to handle IncompleteRead: in python

The link you included in your question is simply a wrapper that executes urllib’s read() function, which catches any incomplete read exceptions for you. If you don’t want to implement this entire patch, you could always just throw in a try/catch loop where you read your links. For example: try: page = urllib2.urlopen(urls).read() except httplib.IncompleteRead, … Read more