Some common mistakes and pitfalls if you are a Python beginner and you use the wrong approach. Scrape ROWS and not COLUMNS when you are getting the data from the target site.

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Don't zip lists when you can scrape rows and preserve the key:value pairing Convert a List of Dicts into a Pandas DataFrame

0:00 Intro

02:46 The Zip - List problem 05:56 Dictionary and enumerate 10:45 Pandas DF from a List of Dicts

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