Programming Challenge: Given a Pandas DataFrame or a Pandas Series object. How to convert them to a NumPy array?
In this short tutorial, you’ll learn (1) how to convert a 1D pandas Series to a NumPy array, and (2) how to convert a 2D pandas DataFrame to an array. Let’s get started with the first!
Attention: There is also the .values() method, but that is being deprecated now – when you look at the Pandas documentation, there is a warning “We recommend using DataFrame.to_numpy instead”.
With this method, only the values in the DataFrame or Series will return. The index labels will be removed.
Here’s how that’ll work:
print(df.values)
# [22 21 20 14]
This was a 1-dimensional array or a Series. Let’s move on to the 2D case next.
Convert DataFrame to NumPy Array
Question: Let’s try with a two-dimensional DataFrame — how to convert it to a NumPy array?
First, let’s print the dimension of the previous Series to confirm that it was, indeed, a 1D data structure:
Now, let’s dive into the conversion of this DataFrame to a NumPy array by using the DataFrame.to_numpy() method.
# Convert this DataFrame to a NumPy array
print(df2.to_numpy())
The output shows a NumPy array from the 2D DataFrame — great!
[[ 2 9 6 2] [14 2 1 0] [ 2 7 8 7] [ 4 3 5 5]]
You can see that all indexing metadata has been stripped away from the resulting NumPy array!
Convert Specific Columns from DataFrame to NumPy Array
You can also convert specific columns of a Pandas DataFrame by accessing the columns using pandas indexing and calling the .to_numpy() method on the resulting view object.
Here’s an example:
print(df2[['Djokovic', 'Federer']].to_numpy())
The output:
[[9 6] [2 1] [7 8] [3 5]]
Summary
You can convert a Pandas DataFrame or a Pandas Series object to a NumPy array by means of the df.to_numpy() method. The indexing metadata will be removed.
You can also convert specific columns of a Pandas DataFrame by accessing the columns using pandas indexing and calling the .to_numpy() method on the resulting view object.
The keyword return ends a function and passes a value to the caller.
The keyword break ends a loop immediately without doing anything else. It can be used within or outside a function.
return
break
Used to end a function
Used to end a for or while loop
Passes an optional value to the caller of the function (e.g., return 'hello')
Doesn’t pass anything to the “outside”
While they serve a different purpose, i.e., ending a function vs ending a loop, there are some cases where they can be used interchangeably.
Similar Use Cases
The following use case shows why you may have confused both keywords return and break. In both cases, you can use them to end a loop inside a function and return to the outside.
Here’s the variant using return:
def f(): for i in range(10): print(i) if i>3: return f()
And here’s the variant using break:
def f(): for i in range(10): print(i) if i>3: break f()
Both code snippets do exactly the same—printing out the first 5 values 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Output:
0
1
2
3
4
However, this is where the similarity between those two keywords ends. Let’s dive into a more common use case where they both perform different tasks in the code.
Different Use Cases
The following example uses both keywords break and return. It uses the keyword break to end the loop as soon as the loop variable i is greater than 3.
So the line print(i) is never executed after variable i reaches the value 4—the loop ends.
But the function doesn’t end because break only ends the loop and not the function. That’s why the statement print('hi') is still executed, and the return value of the function is 42 (which we also print in the final line).
def f(): for i in range(10): if i>3: break print(i) print('hi') return 42 print(f())
Output:
0
1
2
3
hi
42
Summary
The keyword return is different and more powerful than the keyword break because it allows you to specify an optional return value. But it can only be used in a function context and not outside a function.
You use the keyword return to give back a value to the caller of the function or terminate the whole function.
You use the keyword break to immediately stop a for or whileloop.
Rule: Only if you want to exit a loop inside a function and this would also exit the whole function, you can use both keywords. In that case, I’d recommend using the keyword return instead of break because it gives you more degrees of freedom, i.e., specifying the return value. Plus, it is more explicit which improves the readability of the code.
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Summary: Use the list("given string") to extract each character of the given string and store them as individual items in a list. Minimal Example: print(list("abc"))
Problem: Given a string; How will you split the string into a list of characters?
Example: Let’s visualize the problem with the help of an example:
Approach: One of the simplest ways to solve the given problem is to use the list constructor and pass the given string into it as the input.
list() creates a new list object that contains items obtained by iterating over the input iterable. Since a string is an iterable formed by combining a group of characters, hence, iterating over it using the list constructor yields a single character at each iteration which represents individual items in the newly formed list.
Another way to split the given string into characters would be to use a list comprehension such that the list comprehension returns a new list containing each character of the given string as individual items.
Code:
text = "finxter"
print([x for x in text]) # ['f', 'i', 'n', 'x', 't', 'e', 'r']
Prerequisite: To understand what happened in the above code, it is essential to know what a list comprehension does. In simple words, a list comprehension in Python is a compact way of creating lists. The simple formula is [expression + context], where the “expression” determines what to do with each list element. And the “context” determines what elements to select. The context can consist of an arbitrary number of for and if statements. To learn more about list comprehensions, head on to this detailed guide on list comprehensions.
Explanation: Well! Now that you know what list comprehensions are, let’s try to understand what the above code does. In our solution, the context variable x is used to extract each character from the given string by iterating across each character of the string one by one with the help of a for loop. This context variable x also happens to be the expression of our list comprehension as it stores the individual characters of the given string as separate items in the newly formed list.
Multi-line Solution: Another approach to formulating the above solution is to use a for loop. The idea is pretty similar; however, we will not be using a list comprehension in this case. Instead, we will use a for loop to iterate across individual characters of the given string and store them one by one in a new list with the help of the append method.
text = "finxter"
res = []
for i in text: res.append(i)
print(res) # ['f', 'i', 'n', 'x', 't', 'e', 'r']
Yet another way of solving the given problem is to use a lambda function within the map function. Now, this is complex and certainly not the best fit solution to the given problem. However, it may (or may not ;P) be appropriate when you are handling really complex tasks. So, here’s how to use the two built-in Python functions to solve the given problem:
import re
text = "finxter"
print(list(map(lambda c: c, text))) # ['f', 'i', 'n', 'x', 't', 'e', 'r']
Explanation: The map() function is used to execute a specified function for each item of an iterable. In this case, the iterable is the given string and each character of the string represents an individual item within it. Now, all we need to do is to create a lambda function that simply returns the character passed to it as the input. That’s it! However, the map method will return a map object, so you must convert it to a list using the list() function. Silly! Isn’t it? Nevertheless, it works!
Conclusion
Hurrah! We have successfully solved the given problem using as many as three different ways. I hope you enjoyed this article and it helps you in your Python coding journey. Please subscribe and stay tuned for more interesting articles!
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A Python function can return any object such as a file object. To return a file, first open the file object within the function body, handle all possible errors if the file doesn’t exist, and return it to the caller of the function using the keyword operation return open(filename, mode='r').
Here’s a minimal example that tries to open a filename that was provided by the user via the input() function. If it fails, it prints an error message and asks for a different user input:
def open_file(): while True: filename = input('filename: ') try: return open(filename, mode='r') except: print('Error. Try again') f = open_file()
print(f.read())
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Note that you can open the file in writing mode rather than reading mode by replacing the line with the return statement with the following line:
open(filename, mode='w')
A more Pythonic way, in my opinion, is to follow the single-responsibility pattern whereby a function should do only one thing. In that case, provide the relevant input values into the function like so:
def open_file(filename, mode): try: return open(filename, mode=mode) except: return None def ask_user(): f = open_file(input('filename: '), input('mode: ')) while not f: f = open_file(input('filename: '), input('mode: ')) return f f = ask_user() print(f.read())
Notice how the file handling of a single instance and the user input processing are separated into two functions. Each function does one thing only. Unix style.
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» Problem Statement: Given a NumPy array. How to print the NumPy array without scientific notation in Python?
Note: Python represents very small or very huge floating-point numbers in their scientific form. Scientific notation represents the number in terms of powers of 10 to display very large or very small numbers. For example, the scientific notation for the number 0.000000321 is described as 3.21e07.
In Python, the NumPy module generally uses scientific notation instead of the actual number while printing/displaying the array items.
Expected Output: Print the given array without scientific notation in Python as:
[ 1. 5. 10. 20. 35. 5000.5]
Without further ado, let’s dive into the different ways of solving the given problem.
☛Method 1: Using set_printoptions() Function
The set_printoptions() is a function in the numpy module that is used to set how the floating-point numbers, NumPy arrays and numpy objects are to be displayed. By default, the very big or very small numbers of the array are represented using scientific notation. We can use the set_printoptions() function by passing the suppress as True to remove the scientific notation of the numpy array.
Approach:
Import the Numpy module to create the array.
Use the set_printoptions() function and pass the suppress value as True.
Print the array; it will get displayed without the scientific notation.
Code:
# Importing the numpy module
import numpy as np
# Creating a NumPy array
a = np.array([1, 5, 10, 20, 35, 5000.5])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
np.set_printoptions(suppress = True)
print("Numpy array without scientific notation", a)
Discussion: The set_printoptions() function only works for the numbers that fit in the default 8-character space allotted to it, as shown below:
Code:
import numpy as np
# Array with element index 1 having 8 digits
a = np.array([5.05e-5, 15.6, 2.1445678e5])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
np.set_printoptions(suppress = True)
print("Numpy array without scientific notation", a)
Output:
Numpy array with scientific notation [5.0500000e-05 1.5600000e+01 2.1445678e+05]
Numpy array without scientific notation [ 0.0000505 15.6 214456.78 ]
When we pass a number that is greater than 8 characters wide, exponential notation is imposed as shown below:
Code:
import numpy as np
# Array with element index 1 having more than 8 digits
a = np.array([5.05e-5, 15.6, 2.1445678e10])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
np.set_printoptions(suppress = True)
print("Numpy array without scientific notation", a)
Output:
Numpy array with scientific notation [5.0500000e05 1.5600000e+01 2.1445678e+10]
Numpy array without scientific notation [5.0500000e05 1.5600000e+01 2.1445678e+10]
☛Method 2: Using set_printoptions() Function with .format
As in method 1, the set_printoptions() function does not work when the number has more than eight characters. That is when set_printoptions(formatter) is used to specify the options for printing and rounding. We have to set the function to print the float variable.
Python’s built-in format(value, spec) function transforms the input of one format into the output of another format defined by you. Specifically, it applies the format specifier spec to the argument value and returns a formatted representation of value. Read more about the “Python format() Function.”
Code:
import numpy as np
# Creating a NumPy array
# Array with element index 1 having more than 8 digits
a = np.array([5.05e-5, 15.6, 2.1445678e10])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
np.set_printoptions(suppress = True, formatter = {'float_kind':'{:f}'.format})
print("Numpy array without scientific notation", a)
Output:
Numpy array with scientific notation [5.0500000e-05 1.5600000e+01 2.1445678e+10]
Numpy array without scientific notation [0.000051 15.600000 21445678000.000000]
We can also format the output to only have 2 units precision by using '{:0.2f}' .format as shown below:
Code:
import numpy as np
# Array with element index 1 having more than 8 digits
a = np.array([5.05e-5, 15.6, 2.1445678e10])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
np.set_printoptions(suppress = True, formatter = {'float_kind':'{:0.2f}'.format})
print("Numpy array without scientific notation", a)
Output:
Numpy array with scientific notation [5.0500000e-05 1.5600000e+01 2.1445678e+10]
Numpy array without scientific notation [0.00 15.60 21445678000.00]
Discussion: The disadvantage of using this method to suppress the exponential notion in the numpy arrays is when the array gets a very large float value. When we try to print this array, we are going to get a whole page of numbers.
☛Method 3: Using printoptions() Function
The printoption() function is a function in the Numpy module used as a context manager for setting print options. By passing the precision as 3 and suppress as True in the printoptions() function, we can remove the scientific notation and print the Numpy array.
Note: This function only works if you use NumPy versions 1.15.0 or later.
Approach:
Import the numpy module to create the array.
Use the printoption() function inside the “with” and pass the precision value as 3 and the suppress value as True.
Print the array; it will get displayed without the scientific notation.
Code:
import numpy as np
# Creating a NumPy array
a = np.array([1, 5, 10, 20, 35, 5000.5])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
print("Numpy array without scientific notation:")
with np.printoptions(precision = 3, suppress = True): print(a)
The array2string() is a function in the numpy module that returns a string representation of an array. We can use this function to print a NumPy array without scientific notation by passing the array as the argument and setting the suppress_small argument as True. When the suppress_small argument is True, it represents the numbers close to zero as zero.
Approach:
Import the numpy module to create the array.
Use the array2string() function and pass the suppress_small argument as True.
Finally, print the array. It will get displayed without the scientific notation.
Code:
import numpy as np
# Creating a NumPy array
a = np.array([1, 5, 10, 20, 35, 5000.5])
print("Numpy array with scientific notation", a)
a = np.array2string(a, suppress_small = True)
print("Numpy array without scientific notation:", a)
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Problem Statement: Consider that you have been given a list in Python. How will you count the number of unique values in the list?
Example: Let’s visualize the problem with the help of an example:
Given: li = [‘a’, ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘d’, ‘a’] Output: The unique values in the given list are ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’. Thus the expected output is 4.
Now that you have a clear picture of what the question demands, let’s dive into the different ways of solving the problem.
Method 1: The Naive Approach
Approach:
Create an empty list that will be used to store all the unique elements from the given list. Let’s say that the name of this list res.
To store the unique elements in the new list that you created previously, simply traverse through all the elements of the given list with the help of a for loop and then check if each value from the given list is present in the list “res“.
If a particular value from the given list is not present in the newly created list then append it to the list res. This ensures that each unique value/item from the given list gets stored within res.
If it’s already present, then do not append the value.
Finally, the list res represents a newly formed list that contains all unique values from the originally given list. All that remains to be done is to find the length of the list res which gives you the number of unique values present in the given list.
Code:
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
res = []
for ele in li: if ele not in res: res.append(ele)
print("The count of unique values in the list:", len(res)) # The count of unique values in the list: 4
Discussion: Since you have to create an extra list to store the unique values, this approach is not the most efficient way to find and count the unique values in a list as it takes a lot of time and space.
Method 2: Using set()
A more effective and pythonic approach to solve the given problem is to use the set() method. Set is a built-in data type that does not contain any duplicate elements.
Approach: Convert the given list into a set using the set() function. Since a set cannot contain duplicate values, only the unique values from the list will be stored within the set. Now that you have all the unique values at your disposal, you can simply count the number of unique values with the help of the len() function.
Code:
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
s = set(li)
unique_values = len(s)
print("The count of unique values in the list:", unique_values) # The count of unique values in the list: 4
You can formulate the above solution in a single line of code by simply chaining both the functions (set() and len()) together, as shown below:
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
# One-liner
print("The count of unique values in the list:", len(set(li)))
Python dictionaries have a method known as fromkeys() that is used to return a new dictionary from the given iterable ( such as list, set, string, tuple) as keys and with the specified value. If the value is not specified by default, it will be considered as None.
Approach: Well! We all know that keys in a dictionary must be unique. Thus, we will pass the list to the fromkeys() method and then use only the key values of this dictionary to get the unique values from the list. Once we have stored all the unique values of the given list stored into another list, all that remains to be done is to find the length of the list containing the unique values which will return us the number of unique values.
Code:
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
# Using dictionary fromkeys()
# list elements get converted to dictionary keys. Keys are always unique!
x = dict.fromkeys(li)
# storing the keys of the dictionary in a list
l2 = list(x.keys())
print("Number of unique values in the list:", len(l2)) # Number of unique values in the list: 4
Method 4: Using Counter
Another way to solve the given problem is to use the Counter function from the collections module. The Counter function creates a dictionary where the dictionary’s keys represent the unique items of the list, and the corresponding values represent the count of a key (i.e. the number of occurrences of an item in the list). Once you have the dictionary all you need to do is to extract the keys of the dictionary and store them in a list and then find the length of this list.
from collections import Counter
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
# Creating a list containing the keys (the unique values)
key = Counter(li).keys()
# Calculating the length to get the count
res = len(key)
print("The count of unique values in the list:", res) # The count of unique values in the list: 4
We can also use Python’s Numpy module to get the count of unique values from the list. First, we must import the NumPy module into the code to use the numpy.unique() function that returns the unique values from the list.
Solution:
# Importing the numpy module
import numpy as np
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
res = []
# Using unique() function from numpy module
for ele in np.unique(li): res.append(ele)
# Calculating the length to get the count of unique elements
count = len(res)
print("The count of unique values in the list:", count) # The count of unique values in the list: 4
Another approach is to create an array using the array() function after importing the numpy module. Further, we will use the unique() function to remove the duplicate elements from the list. Finally, we will calculate the length of that array to get the count of the unique elements.
Solution:
# Importing the numpy module
import numpy as np
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
array = np.array(li)
u = np.unique(array)
c = len(u)
print("The count of unique values in the list:", c) # The count of unique values in the list: 4
There’s yet another way of solving the given problem. You can use a list comprehension to get the count of each element in the list and then use the zip() function to create a zip object that creates pairs of each item along with the count of each item in the list. Store these paired items as key-value pairs in a dictionary by converting the zip object to a dictionary using the dict() function. Finally, return the dictionary’s keys’ calculated length (using the len() function).
Code:
# Given list
li = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'd', 'a']
# List comprehension using zip()
l2 = dict(zip(li, [li.count(i) for i in li]))
# Using len to get the count of unique elements
l = len(list(l2.keys()))
print("The count of the unique values in the list:", l) # The count of the unique values in the list: 4
Conclusion
In this article, we learned the different methods to count the unique values in a list in Python. We looked at how to do this using the counter, sets, numpy module, and list comprehensions. If you found this article helpful and want to receive more interesting solutions and discussions in the future, please subscribe and stay tuned!
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This article will focus on the Card components from the Dash Boostrap Component library. Using cards is a great way to create eye-catching content. We’ll show you how to make the card content interactive with callbacks, but first we’ll focus on the style and layout.
Plotly Dash App with a Bootstrap Card
We’ll start with the basics – a minimal Dash app to display a single card without any additional styling. Be sure to check out the complete reference for using Dash Bootstrap cards.
Next, we’ll show how to jazz it up to make it look better — and more importantly — so it conveys key information at a glance.
from dash import Dash, html
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.SPACELAB, dbc.icons.BOOTSTRAP]) card = dbc.Card( dbc.CardBody( [ html.H1("Sales"), html.H3("$104.2M") ], ),
) app.layout=dbc.Container(card) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run_server(debug=True)
Styling a Dash Bootstrap Card
An easy way to style content is by using Boostrap utility classes. See all the utility classes at the Dash Bootstrap Cheatsheet app. This handy cheatsheet is made by a co-author of “The Book of Dash”.
In this card, we center the text and change the color with “text-center” and “text-success“. The Bootstrap themes have named colors and “success” is a shade of green.
Recommended Resource: For more information about styling your app with a Boostrap theme, see Dash Bootstrap Theme Explorer
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Dash Bootstrap Card with Icons
You can add Bootstrap and/or Font Awesome icons to your Dash Bootstrap components. In this example, we will add the bank icon as well as change the background color using the Bootstrap utility class bg-primary.
To learn more, see the Icons section of the dash-bootstrap-components documentation. You can also find more information about adding icons to dash components in the buttons article.
In business intelligence dashboards, it’s common to highlight KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in a group of cards. You can find many examples in the Plotly App Gallery:
This app places three KPI cards side-by-side. We use the dbc.Row and dbc.Col components to create this responsive card layout. When you run this app, try changing the width of the browser window to see how the cards expand to fill the row based on the screen size.
This app also demonstrates the usage of Bootstrap border utility classes to add and style a border. Here we add a border on the left and change the color to highlight the results. Another trick is to use the “text-nowrap” class to keep the icon and the text together on the same line when the cards shrink to accommodate small screen sizes.
In the previous example, notice that a lot of the code for creating the card is the same. To reduce the amount of repetitive code, let’s create cards in a function.
In this app, we introduce the dbc.CardHeader component and the "shadow" class to style the card. We’ll show you how to add more style later in the app that displays crypto prices.
from dash import Dash, html
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.SPACELAB]) summary = {"Sales": "$100K", "Profit": "$5K", "Orders": "6K", "Customers": "300"} def make_card(title, amount): return dbc.Card( [ dbc.CardHeader(html.H2(title)), dbc.CardBody(html.H3(amount, id=title)), ], className="text-center shadow", ) app.layout = dbc.Container( dbc.Row([dbc.Col(make_card(k, v)) for k, v in summary.items()], className="my-4"), fluid=True,
) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run_server(debug=True)
Dash Bootstrap Card with an Image
This card uses the dbc.CardImage component. This is a great format for the “who’s who” section of your app. It works well for displaying information about products too.
from dash import Dash, html
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.SPACELAB]) count = "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/72614349/194616425-107a62f9-06b3-4b84-ac89-2c42e04c00ac.png" card = dbc.Card([ dbc.CardImg(src=count, top=True), dbc.CardBody( [ html.H3("Count von Count", className="text-primary"), html.Div("Chief Financial Officer"), html.Div("Sesame Street, Inc.", className="small"), ] )], className="shadow my-2", style={"maxWidth": 350},
) app.layout=dbc.Container(card) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run_server(debug=True)
Dash Bootstrap Card with an Image and a Link
This app has a card with the dbc.CardLink component.
When you run this app, try clicking on either the logo or the title. You will see that both are links to the Plotly site displaying the current job openings.
We do this by including both the html.Img component with the Plotly logo and the html.Span with the title in the dbc.CardLink component.
This app puts the image in the background and uses the dbc.CardImgOverlay component to place content on top of the image.
We also use dbc.Buttons to link to other sites for more information. See the buttons article for more information. Be sure to run the app and check out the links. The Webb Telescope app is pretty cool!
from dash import Dash, html
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.SPACELAB, dbc.icons.BOOTSTRAP]) webb_deep_field = "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/72614349/192781103-2ca62422-2204-41ab-9480-a730fc4e28d7.png"
card = dbc.Card( [ dbc.CardImg(src=webb_deep_field), dbc.CardImgOverlay([ html.H2("James Webb Space Telescope"), html.H3("First Images"), html.P( "Learn how to make an app to compare before and after images of Hubble vs Webb with ~40 lines of Python", style={"marginTop":175}, className="small", ), dbc.Button("See the App", href="https://jwt.pythonanywhere.com/"), dbc.Button( [html.I(className="bi bi-github me-2"), "source code"], className="ms-2 text-white", href="https://github.com/AnnMarieW/webb-compare", ) ]) ], style={"maxWidth": 500}, className="my-4 text-center text-white"
) app.layout=dbc.Container(card) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run_server(debug=True)
This app shows live updates of crypto prices. We use a dcc.Interval component to fetch the data from CoinGecko every 6 seconds.
The CoinGecko API is easy to use because you don’t need an API key, and it’s free if you keep the number of updates within the free tier limits. We pull the current price, 24 hour price change, and the coin logo from the data feed and display the data in a nicely styled card.
In this app we introduce callbacks to update the data, and show how to get the data from CoinGecko. All the other styling has been covered in previous examples.
Note that in this app, the color of the text and the up and down arrows are updated dynamically based on the data in the make_card function.
import dash
from dash import Dash, dcc, html, Input, Output
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc
import requests app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.SUPERHERO, dbc.icons.BOOTSTRAP]) coins = ["bitcoin", "ethereum", "binancecoin", "ripple"]
interval = 6000 # update frequency - adjust to keep within free tier
api_url = "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/markets?vs_currency=usd" def get_data(): try: response = requests.get(api_url, timeout=1) return response.json() except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(e) def make_card(coin): change = coin["price_change_percentage_24h"] price = coin["current_price"] color = "danger" if change < 0 else "success" icon = "bi bi-arrow-down" if change < 0 else "bi bi-arrow-up" return dbc.Card( html.Div( [ html.H4( [ html.Img(src=coin["image"], height=35, className="me-1"), coin["name"], ] ), html.H4(f"${price:,}"), html.H5( [f"{round(change, 2)}%", html.I(className=icon), " 24hr"], className=f"text-{color}", ), ], className=f"border-{color} border-start border-5", ), className="text-center text-nowrap my-2 p-2", ) mention = html.A( "Data from CoinGecko", href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/api", className="small"
)
interval = dcc.Interval(interval=interval)
cards = html.Div()
app.layout = dbc.Container([interval, cards, mention], className="my-5") @app.callback(Output(cards, "children"), Input(interval, "n_intervals"))
def update_cards(_): coin_data = get_data() if coin_data is None or type(coin_data) is dict: return dash.no_update # make a list of cards with updated prices coin_cards = [] updated = None for coin in coin_data: if coin["id"] in coins: updated = coin.get("last_updated") coin_cards.append(make_card(coin)) # make the card layout card_layout = [ dbc.Row([dbc.Col(card, md=3) for card in coin_cards]), dbc.Row(dbc.Col(f"Last Updated {updated}")), ] return card_layout if __name__ == "__main__": app.run_server(debug=True)
Plotly Dash App with a Sidebar
A common layout for Dash apps is to put inputs in a sidebar, and the output in the main section of the page. We can place both the sidebar and the output in Dash Boostrap Card components.
TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not subscriptable
You’re not alone! This short tutorial will show you why this error occurs, how to fix it, and how to never make the same mistake again.
So, let’s get started!
Solution
Python raises the “TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not subscriptable” if you use indexing or slicing on the dict_keys object obtained with dict.keys(). To solve the error, convert the dict_keys object to a list such as in list(my_dict.keys())[0].
print(list(my_dict.keys())[0])
Example
The following minimal example that leads to the error:
d = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c'}
print(d.keys()[0])
Output:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\...\code.py", line 2, in <module> print(d.keys()[0])
TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not subscriptable
Note that the same error message occurs if you use slicing instead of indexing:
d = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c'}
print(d.keys()[:-1]) # <== same error
Fixes
The reason this error occurs is that the dictionary.keys() method returns a dict_keys object that is not subscriptable.
You can use the type() function to check it for yourself:
print(type(d.keys()))
# <class 'dict_keys'>
Note: You cannot expect dictionary keys to be ordered, so using indexing on a non-ordered type wouldn’t make too much sense, would it?
You can fix the non-subscriptable TypeError by converting the non-indexable dict_keys object to an indexable container type such as a list in Python using the list() or tuple() function.
Here’s an example fix:
d = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c'}
print(list(d.keys())[0])
# 1
Here’s an other example fix:
d = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c'}
print(tuple(d.keys())[:-1])
# (1, 2)
Both lists and tuples are subscriptable so you can use indexing and slicing after converting the dict_keys object to a list or a tuple.
Python raises the TypeError: 'dict_keys' object is not subscriptable if you try to index x[i] or slice x[i:j] a dict_keys object.
The dict_keys type is not indexable, i.e., it doesn’t define the __getitem__() method. You can fix it by converting the dictionary keys to a list using the list() built-in function.
Alternatively, you can also fix this by removing the indexing or slicing call, or defining the __getitem__ method. Although the previous approach is often better.
What’s Next?
I hope you’d be able to fix the bug in your code! Before you go, check out our free Python cheat sheets that’ll teach you the basics in Python in minimal time:
If you struggle with indexing in Python, have a look at the following articles on the Finxter blog—especially the third!
Do you need to create a function that returns a NumPy array but you don’t know how? No worries, in sixty seconds, you’ll know! Go!
A Python function can return any object such as a NumPy Array. To return an array, first create the array object within the function body, assign it to a variable arr, and return it to the caller of the function using the keyword operation “return arr“.
For example, the following code creates a function create_array() of numbers 0, 1, 2, …, 9 using the np.arange() function and returns the array to the caller of the function:
import numpy as np def create_array(): ''' Function to return array ''' return np.arange(10) numbers = create_array()
print(numbers)
# [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
The np.arange([start,] stop[, step]) function creates a new NumPy array with evenly-spaced integers between start (inclusive) and stop (exclusive).
The step size defines the difference between subsequent values. For example, np.arange(1, 6, 2) creates the NumPy array [1, 3, 5].
To better understand the function, have a look at this video:
I also created this figure to demonstrate how NumPy’s arange() function works on three examples:
In the code example, we used np.arange(10) with default start=0 and step=1 only specifying the stop=10 argument.
If you need an even deeper understanding, I’d recommend you check out our full guide on the Finxter blog.
You can also create a 2D (or multi-dimensional) array in a Python function by first creating a 2D or (xD) nested list and converting the nested list to a NumPy array by passing it into the np.array() function.
The following code snippet uses nested list comprehension to create a 2D NumPy array following a more complicated creation pattern:
import numpy as np def create_array(a,b): ''' Function to return array ''' lst = [[(i+j)**2 for i in range(a)] for j in range(b)] return np.array(lst) arr = create_array(4,3)
print(arr)
Output:
[[ 0 1 4 9] [ 1 4 9 16] [ 4 9 16 25]]
I definitely recommend reading the following tutorial to understand nested list comprehension in Python:
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Question: Can you use lists as values of a dictionary in Python?
This short article will answer your question. So, let’s get started right away with the answer:
Answer
You can use Python lists as dictionary values. In fact, you can use arbitrary Python objects as dictionary values and all hashable objects as dictionary keys. You can define a list [1, 2] as a dict value either with dict[key] = [1, 2] or with d = {key: [1, 2]}.
Here’s a concrete example showing how to create a dictionary friends where each dictionary value is in fact a list of friends:
You cannot use lists as dictionary keys because lists are mutable and therefore not hashable. As dictionaries are built on hash tables, all keys must be hashable or Python raises an error message.
Here’s an example:
d = dict()
my_list = [1, 2, 3]
d[my_list] = 'abc'
This leads to the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\xcent\Desktop\code.py", line 3, in <module> d[my_list] = 'abc'
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
To fix this, convert the list to a Python tuple and use the Python tuple as a dictionary key. Python tuples are immutable and hashable and, therefore, can be used as set elements or dictionary keys.
Here’s the same example after converting the list to a tuple—it works!
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