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What is the difference between range and xrange functions in Python 2.X?

Apparently xrange is faster but I have no idea why it’s faster (and no proof besides the anecdotal so far that it is ...

April 21, 2022
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What is future in Python used for and how/when to use it, and how it works

__future__ frequently appears in Python modules. I do not understand what __future__ is for and how/when to use it even after reading the ...

April 19, 2022
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What are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests module?

In Python, what are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests modules? Why are there three? They seem to do the ...

April 17, 2022
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UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

I’m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup. The problem ...

April 13, 2022
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What is the difference between range and xrange functions in Python 2.X?

What is __future__ in Python used for and how/when to use it, and how it works

What are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests module?

How to return dictionary keys as a list in Python?

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

What is future in Python used for and how/when to use it, and how it works