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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
This contains all of my best API-related knowledge picked up since learning how to use them. All APIs have their own style, quirks and unique requirements. This post explains general terminology, tips and examples if you’re looking to tackle your first API. Here’s what is covered: API & HTTP Lingo You Should Know Testing and […]
The basis of many great programs revolve around a simple set of operations: Open a file. Do something with the file contents. Save the new file for the user. Python is nice and simple for this. Paste the below lines into a text editor and save as a .py file. You need to have Python 3 […]
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