You’re sure you’ve created a stellar solution to a problem at hand. You took the time to think an idea out and execute. You iterated tirelessly, making tweaks and creating a tool that will sell itself to potential human users. Everyone loves their own creation. Others will realize the tool’s value too! There’s only one […]
Here’s a short list of Python packages making a splash this year: Python + Rust = High Performance A common theme I’ve noticed is the emergence of Rust as a performance complement to Python code. It seems we can expect modularity between the two languages to strengthen their collective abilities. Python is still growing and […]
Snooping through my package list, I noticed the PyGithub library was installed. Its repo boasts “Typed interactions with the GitHub API v3”. I googled the package, wanting to check in on the repos I profiled in an earlier post about static site generators. I drafted the code below after noticing the repo.stargazer_count function in its […]
In an XML document, you need to escape any ampersands in your text as & I began a new coding project. Sure, there’s documentation for the API that solves my problem. I find out it uses XML. Extensible Markup Language, a classic API format. Cool. I craft a beautiful script that works at first. Hallelujah! […]
These are a few of my favorite PEPs, or Python Enhancements Proposals I’ve encountered recently. PEP 0, PEP 8 and PEP 20 are great reads for those aspiring to hone their Python skills. The documentation sometimes references specific PEPs directly also. They document Python’s evolution over time and the rationale behind it. Here are some […]
Below are two practical Python libraries for text processing. This function uses textblob’s spelling correction along with language_tool_python, which applies grammatical corrections via the Language Tool API. I added these text processing transformations into my concept text generation app. These are free, public APIs up to around 20 requests per second. You can send both […]
Yesterday, I experienced a flow state where I became manically obsessed with perfecting a script I was working on. I think it’s beautiful code, about 100 lines long without docstrings. It solves a real need and it felt great to write it. Some scripts feel terrible to write and you know they’re bad. However, this […]
Lately I’ve been checking out the Yoast SEO plug-in and their REST API. The API returns all of the SEO metadata, meta tags, schema.org data, etc. for your WordPress blog posts. Here’s a Yoast API Python example script to fetch post metadata via requests and pandas: What this script is doing: Read a list of […]
My goal was to automate posting positive photos and quotes to my Facebook page, “Positive Thoughts Daily“, with the Unsplash and Facebook APIs. Here’s how I did it! This implementation relies on my own collection of photos on Unsplash. I will manually select which photos I like to get added to my collection. Then my […]
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