This command can be used to upgrade your Python requests library with pip, Python’s package manager. It is tailored for a PythonAnywhere environment. I suppose this command works on any Bash console, but if you’re running your app with pythonanywhere, you can find the bash console here: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/user/your_username/consoles/ Install requests with this command: Substitute in […]
Who is the world’s greatest footballer, Messi or Ronaldo? EA Sports surely has calculated the answer to this question in their player ratings. They rate peak Crisitiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Luka Modrić at 99 overall, with Neymar and Lewandowski at 98. Anecdotally, Messi has won 7 Ballon d’Or, the highest individual football honor one […]
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 […]
Pandas is amazing, what else is there to say? Learning the nuances of its API have yielded tons of times where it helped me get stuff done. I recently picked up the pandas dataframe’s “assign” function for creating a new column of values. This is an elegant way to set a column of values in […]
Every Python programmer has undoubtedly come across some crazy characters. The ftfy library “Fixes Text For You” and acts like a swiss army knife when you’ve got questionable characters breaking your script. In my case, an HTTP request was failing because of weird cryptic letters hiding in the data when it was only supposed to […]
Did your script run to completion? Sure, you might log some tracebacks along the way or terminate the program early with sys.exit(). But did your script actually run completely to the end? I have yet to use the Trace module but it seems worth checking out also. Visualization tools like heartrate are worth mentioning too […]
This is a solution I worked out recently to strip phone numbers into a uniform format. To install pandas with pip, enter in command prompt: python -m pip install pandas The pandas library has regex built in and it’s pretty neat! Behold the power of pandas and a regular expression to do trivial telephone tidying: […]
If you write Python code, there’s probably been a time or two when you saw the dreaded “MemoryError”. This happens after one of your Python scripts stops because your computer has no spare RAM to execute it. I recently experienced this frustration whilst trying to write hundreds of thousands of csv files. However, this time […]
When assessing your environment, problem or your goal, meticulously scout the tools at your disposal. When you’re learning a new job, a new project or a programming language’s tools for example, it pays to have a grasp of your options. Researching what documentation, guides, tools or libraries are at your disposal will help you accomplish […]
Can it be scripted? Ask yourself this question about everything you do. Every application opened, website viewed and task you knock out in the course of a day might be worth writing a script to automate. As an example, here is a Windows batch file that opens 3 websites I visit frequently: Open Websites.bat Save […]
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