4 .Text is the formatted cell's displayed value; .Value is the value of the cell possibly augmented with date or currency indicators; .Value2 is the raw underlying value stripped of any extraneous information. 2 Numpy can also be used to get the ascii value of a character. It is particularly useful if you need to convert a lot of characters to their ascii/unicode codepoints.

Understanding the Context

Depending on the number of characters, it could be orders of magnitude faster than calling ord in a loop. How to get the ASCII value of a character - Stack Overflow First and foremost, the "pass by value vs. pass by reference" distinction as defined in the CS theory is now obsolete because the technique originally defined as "pass by reference" has since fallen out of favor and is seldom used now. 1 Newer languages2 tend to use a different (but similar) pair of techniques to achieve the same effects (see below) which is the primary source of confusion.

Key Insights

A ... val = d2['col_name'] But as a result, I get a dataframe that contains one row and one column (i.e., one cell). It is not what I need. I need one value (one float number). How can I do it in pandas?

Final Thoughts

How can I get a value from a cell of a dataframe? - Stack Overflow JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) also happens when the first line in the json response is invalid. Example response from running an az cli command is ["WARNING: The default kind for created storage account will change to 'StorageV2' from 'Storage' in the future", '{',. 5 This exception will be returned if you attempt to count values in a null collection. For example the below works when Errors is not null, however if Errors is null then the Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source exception occurs.