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 […]
This morning I’m meditating on my usual apps or websites I visit through the course of a typical day. I wonder how limited or expansive it could be in the span of all that’s waiting to be consumed on the internet. I like reading online or physical books too and writing. Consider your own circle […]
In September 2021, I tested out the recommended ads runner, WordAds, on this WordPress blog. 6,182 ads were served over the course of a month, earning $0.86 from impressions and clicks. My average CPM or cost per thousand impressions was $0.14. My blog averages about 1,600 views a month at the moment, mostly fueled by […]
Black is a code formatting tool that I have been testing out recently to see what the hype is about. It is the defacto “uncompromising code formatter in Python”. I normally do not use any code formatters since I’m not required to use them. This short post aims to convince you that Black is an […]
Write More Code Write code everyday. Code fast and break things. Cherish your tracebacks. Keep going back, no matter how hopeless it may seem. Code habitually. Learn how to code. Get better at code. Love code. Write Less Code Use as few lines as possible. Nothing looks better than a program shorter than 50 or […]
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 […]
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