Posts by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
 (DIR) Post #B4zaoYAddYDd3PrBKq by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
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       Why are you learning Python if you haven't needed it before?Many of the tools I use have Python embedded right in there and I need to do things that the tools don't do natively.I can read Python and understand it, but not really write it from scratch without stumbling through and reading lots of docs, StackOverflow, and GeeksForGeeks.I need to manipulate some data using Alteryx that comes from an API call. For reasons that are dumb, but insurmountable, Alteryx cannot call this API directly.Alteryx has Python embedded and even includes an embedded Jupyter IDE. I have Python code that makes the API calls and pulls down the data.The only way to get the data out of the Python blob is using a pandas datastream. Any field that was a list or dictionary in the original data, is just a string when it comes out in the same pickle format you'd get if you did a print from Python.Alteryx doesn't understand pickle format. It barely understand JSON. But I need to convert pickle to JSON and I cannot find a reliable way to do that just using character substitution and regular expressions.I can't get the data out of Python in JSON format unless you know how to force pandas to represent the data as JSON instead of native Python dict and list. Alteryx properly converts the other datatypes to Alteryx-native datatypes, just not those.There are tools in Alteryx to unnest objects and flatten arrays but they have to be valid JSON.When I try just replacing ' with ", None with null, True with true, and False with false, I get errors which I assume are from replacing an embedded or escaped '.Alteryx error messages are terrible. The input is 18,000 lines, each one a dict to be parsed. I convert them to what I think is valid JSON and send them to the JSON parser which returns this error Missing comma or '}' after an object member. at character position: 170. Not which line it happened on. Not any context where I can search or find it. Just that.Would anyone have a reliable way to convert the strings of pickle to valid JSON?#Python #Alteryx #JSON #PCRE #regex #Pickle
       
 (DIR) Post #B5HyA8Cse5mKgsRaD2 by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
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       Has anybody had radio frequency ablation for back pain? My wife's pain management doctor did this for the first time today. She normally gets an epidural injection and then two later, lumbar joints injections. This was something else to try. Well, we're in the ER because she can barely feel her legs and they aren't working right. She fell in the garage. We had to call EMS."Can't feel legs" was not listed on the discharge instructions. Has anyone else had something like this happen? It's an "ablation" so I pray to the Great Mystery that they didn't "ablate" the wrong nerve because that would take months to heal.#ChronicPain #PainManagement #RadioFrequencyAblation
       
 (DIR) Post #B6lIZdrCGVqjvGqaC8 by jrdepriest@infosec.exchange
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       I'm a writer and my wife, an avid reader, doesn't like the kind of stuff I write. I will not lie; it hurts. I find it hard to write because I will almost never write something that she likes. I have no sounding board for "is this good?" only, "is this structurally sound" which is not nothing, but it's not the same as, "this is a really great story."I hand-wrote ten 8 1/2 X 11 pages tonight. There's a bit of fleshing out to do, but, to me, it's a good story.Nobody in my family (that I can convince to read something) likes what I write.I like it. But that's hardly enough to keep me going. Are there any writing groups for short, weird fiction?#AmWriting #WritingCommunity