Standardizing Company Names in CSV with Python and Verifying Changes

When reconciling client CSVs (table data separated by commas, etc.), do you find yourself stuck because company names are not ...

When a CSV cannot be partially read in Python: A diagnostic guide to separating character encoding, delimiters, and structure

A CSV that you have been reading daily with the same process fails for only one specific file. Even though changing the ...
LWN.net

Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

The dreaded UnicodeDecodeError exception is one of the signature "features" of Python 3. It is raised when the language encounters a byte sequence that it cannot ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding

The demo is a Python language program but programmatic data encoding can be implemented using any language. The first five lines of the demo source data are: M 0.171429 eastern 0.802905 moderate F ...