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Step-by-Step Guide to Reading Different Files in Python

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 In the world of data science, automation, and general programming, working with files is unavoidable. Whether you’re dealing with CSV reports, JSON APIs, Excel sheets, or text logs, Python provides rich and easy-to-use libraries for reading different file formats. In this guide, we’ll explore how to read different files in Python , with code examples and best practices. 1. Reading Text Files ( .txt ) Text files are the simplest form of files. Python’s built-in open() function handles them effortlessly. Example: # Open and read a text file with open ( "sample.txt" , "r" ) as file: content = file.read() print (content) Explanation: "r" mode means read . with open() automatically closes the file when done. Best Practice: Always use with to handle files to avoid memory leaks. 2. Reading CSV Files ( .csv ) CSV files are widely used for storing tabular data. Python has a built-in csv module and a powerful pandas library. Using cs...

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...