Two reasons your column renaming does not work in Pandas

Got to specify those options

Maybe this only applies to those coming to Python from statistical software, but I’ve often tried to rename columns in Pandas and it doesn’t work, and it…

Celery tasks remain reserved

Trying to get started with Celery, but find yourself stuck with workers that accept a task without ever executing them? Google is no help, ChatGPT and Github Copilot have no clue, even Stackoverflow won’t help out.

The most powerful way to enter loops in Python

When debugging or just writing exploratory code, you often want to step through the lines of your loop code. If your iterable is a list, that is simple, as you can use indexing to get to the first item:

fruits = ['apple'…

Don’t set scheduler host to localhost in Docker

This post will make no sense to almost everyone. But I just wasted a full day trying to connect to a dask cluster hosted in a Docker container, failing again and again. I’m sure this makes sense to people who know their stuff, but DO NOT SET the…