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How to Check Column Nulls and Replace: Pandas

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Here is a post that shows how to count Nulls and replace them with the value you want in the Pandas Dataframe. We have explained the process in two steps - Counting and Replacing the Null values. Count null values (column-wise) in Pandas ## count null values column-wise null_counts = df.isnull(). sum() print(null_counts) ``` Output: ``` Column1    1 Column2    1 Column3    5 dtype: int64 ``` In the above code, we first create a sample Pandas DataFrame `df` with some null values. Then, we use the `isnull()` function to create a DataFrame of the same shape as `df`, where each element is a boolean value indicating whether that element is null or not. Finally, we use the `sum()` function to count the number of null values in each column of the resulting DataFrame. The output shows the count of null values column-wise. to count null values column-wise: ``` df.isnull().sum() ``` ##Code snippet to count null values row-wise: ``` df.isnull().sum(axis=1) ``` In the above code, `df` is the Panda

How to Decode TLV Quickly

TLV format contains three parts Tag, Length, and value. In a credit card or financial transactions, the TLV protocol supports this format. Below, you will find the ideas to decode TLV data quickly. 


According to IBM, the tag tells what type of data it is. The length field denotes the length of the value. The value-field denotes the actual value.


Structure of TLV.


TLV comprises three field values.


  1. Tag
  2. Length
  3. Value


How to Decode TLV


Decoding of TLV


The EMV labs developed tags which in turn part of EMV protocol. Each tag has an unique meaning. And the Tag and Length together takes 1 to 4 bytes of memory.

1. The Best example for TLV.


Below is the way to decode the EMV tag. The first part of the TLV format is TAG. The second part is LENGTH, and finally the VALUE.


Syntax of EMV tag:


[Tag][Value Length][Value] (ex. "9F4005F000F0A001")


where, 


Tag Name = 9F40


Value Length (in bytes) = 05 


Value (Hex representation of bytes. Example, "F0" – 1-byte) = F000F0A001


Finally, what is 9F40 tag? The EMV company assigns a value to it. Check out the complete list of EMV Tags and meanings.



2. How to read the TLV


Let me elaborate on the memory the EMV tag takes. The breakup of memory allocation is as below.

 

Tag: 1 or 2 bytes.


Length: 05


Value length:


F0-00-F0-A0-01 ==> 5 Bytes


The F0 is the HEX value of length 1. So the total length of the value altogether is 5 bytes.


F0+00+F0+A0+01= Total 5 bytes



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