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Mastering flat_map in Python with List Comprehension

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Introduction In Python, when working with nested lists or iterables, one common challenge is flattening them into a single list while applying transformations. Many programming languages provide a built-in flatMap function, but Python does not have an explicit flat_map method. However, Python’s powerful list comprehensions offer an elegant way to achieve the same functionality. This article examines implementation behavior using Python’s list comprehensions and other methods. What is flat_map ? Functional programming  flatMap is a combination of map and flatten . It transforms the collection's element and flattens the resulting nested structure into a single sequence. For example, given a list of lists, flat_map applies a function to each sublist and returns a single flattened list. Example in a Functional Programming Language: List(List(1, 2), List(3, 4)).flatMap(x => x.map(_ * 2)) // Output: List(2, 4, 6, 8) Implementing flat_map in Python Using List Comprehension Python’...

10 Excusive Steps You need for Web Scrapping

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Here're ten Python technics to clean the scraped data. The scraped  Text has unwanted hidden data . So, as part of cleaning it try to remove these ten in your data. 10 Steps for Web scrapping Data is prime input for  text analytics projects . After cleaning, you can feed to Machine/Deep Learning systems. Removing HTML tags Tokenization Removing unnecessary tokens and stop-words Handling contractions Correcting spelling errors Stemming Lemmatization Tagging Chunking Parsing 10 Technics to Clean Text in Python 1. Removing HTML tags The unstructured text contains a lot of noise ( data from web pages, blogs, and online repositories.)when you use web/screen scraping.  The HTML tags, JavaScript, and Iframe tags typically don't add much value to understanding and analyzing text. Our purpose is to remove HTML tags, and other noise. 2. Tokenization Tokens are independent and minimal textual components. And have a definite syntax and semantics. A paragraph of text or a text documen...