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Python Data Science Basics Cleaning Data Filtering Rows

Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
256 Points
Posted by Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
256 Points

b'_silk' vs '_silk'

I was trying to get the number of silk ties. The data sample that I pass to the function is a numpy object and not a csv.reader list. When I pass '_silk' to be matched I get zero ties. When I pass b'_silk' it gives 3381 ties while the correct number is 3382. What is going on?

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

'_silk' is a unicode string in Python 3, b'_silk' is a bytes object (see docs on data types). numpy needs bytes not strings.

Is the "3381" the 0-based count": 3382 items numbered 0 through 3381?