Truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all()

I want to filter my dataframe with an or condition to keep rows with a particular column’s values that are outside the range [-0.25, 0.25]. I tried: df = df[(df[‘col’] < -0.25) or (df[‘col’] > 0.25)] But I get the error: Truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all() … Read more

Using boolean values in C

C doesn’t have any built-in boolean types. What’s the best way to use them in C? 18 s 18 From best to worse: Option 1 (C99 and newer) #include <stdbool.h> Option 2 typedef enum { false, true } bool; Option 3 typedef int bool; enum { false, true }; Option 4 typedef int bool; #define … Read more

Parsing boolean values with argparse

I would like to use argparse to parse boolean command-line arguments written as “–foo True” or “–foo False”. For example: my_program –my_boolean_flag False However, the following test code does not do what I would like: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=”My parser”) parser.add_argument(“–my_bool”, type=bool) cmd_line = [“–my_bool”, “False”] parsed_args = parser.parse(cmd_line) Sadly, parsed_args.my_bool evaluates to True. … Read more

How can I declare and use Boolean variables in a shell script?

I tried to declare a Boolean variable in a shell script using the following syntax: variable=$false variable=$true Is this correct? Also, if I wanted to update that variable would I use the same syntax? Finally, is the following syntax for using Boolean variables as expressions correct? if [ $variable ] if [ !$variable ] 2 … Read more

Which MySQL data type to use for storing boolean values

Since MySQL doesn’t seem to have any ‘boolean’ data type, which data type do you ‘abuse’ for storing true/false information in MySQL? Especially in the context of writing and reading from/to a PHP script. Over time I have used and seen several approaches: tinyint, varchar fields containing the values 0/1, varchar fields containing the strings … Read more