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themarkymark
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Thursday, June 11, 2020 4:49 AM
[Python Tips] Are you still using Pip?
Introducing pipenv
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Friday, February 7, 2020 7:35 AM
[Python Tips] Easy serialization with Pickle
In computer science, in the context of data storage, serialization (or serialisation) is the process of translating data structures or object state into a format that can be stored (for example, in a file
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development
Monday, December 30, 2019 3:40 PM
[Python Tips] Requests
Requests is a powerful and easy to use HTTP library for Python Need to get HTML data? Need to interact with an API? Requests can do that. While Python has a built-in library urllib3 for these situations,
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:14 PM
[Python Tips] The New Walrus Operator
Walrus Operator The Walrus Operator is a new assignment operator announced in Python 3.8 that looks like a walrus. The walrus operator is used to simplify code when you need an expression while storing
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development
Sunday, September 22, 2019 5:27 PM
[Python Tips] Caching data with CacheTools
My Python Tips Series f-strings in Python 3.6 Underscores in numeric literals A better interactive shell Secrets Module - New in 3.6 PEP 8 Slices Named Tuples Destructuring Counter Type Annotation Jupyter
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utopian-io
Friday, January 4, 2019 3:50 AM
[Python Tips] Beyond print()
Beyond print() print() is a great quick and dirty way to log to the console in python. Even senior developers will use print() all the time. For anything more than a quick app you should be using a real
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utopian-io
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 8:59 PM
[Python Tips] Apscheduler
Introducing Apscheduler Apscheduler is a job manager (similar to cron) to run sections of code on a schedule. I use it frequently to manage jobs that need to run at a set interval. Apscheduler can be used
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themarkymark
programming
Monday, July 2, 2018 4:13 AM
[Python Tips] Knowing what exists
Being a good programmer isn't just about knowing how to do everything or even being very good at it. One of the most valuable skills of a good programmer is just knowing something exists. Sometimes it
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programming
Thursday, June 28, 2018 4:15 AM
[Python Tips] DRY Programming
This really isn't about Python directly, but it is an important topic every developer should know. DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a popular programming concept of avoiding repeat code. The main goal of
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programming
Sunday, June 10, 2018 1:43 AM
[Python Tips] Expiring Dict
Expiring Dict Expiring dict is a very useful library for caching data via ordered dictionaries. It works similar to a regular dictionary but will cache data for a short period of time. It can be used as
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programming
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:21 AM
[Python Tips] Virtual Environments
Python Virtual Environment Most beginner developers have a hard time understanding virtual environments, why they are useful and how to use them. I am going to explain why you want to use them, and then
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programming
Monday, May 21, 2018 10:58 AM
[Python Tips] Getting Help
There are a few handy functions built into Python to help the developer get more information about an object. help() If you want to get the documentation on an object or function you can use the help()
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programming
Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:36 AM
[Python Tips] Jupyter Notebooks
This is probably my favorite tip to offer. If you haven't heard of Jupyter Notebooks, this is going to be a huge game changer for you. Source While I only use Jupyter Notebooks with Python, I know it can
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programming
Monday, May 7, 2018 8:32 PM
[Python Tips] Type Annotation
Python is a dynamic language that does not require you to specify data types as you create variables or supply return types. This makes development a lot easier but can introduce unexpected bugs when things
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programming
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:44 AM
[Python Tips] Counter
Counter Counter is a collections object that keeps count of how many times similar values are found. Counter is part of the collections module and is a default package, so you do not need to install it.
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programming
Friday, April 27, 2018 6:23 PM
[Python Tips] Destructuring
This is an easy tip, but an extremely useful feature of Python. Destructuring lists Let's take the following sample list: my_list = ['a', 'b','c'] I want to put each list element into their own variable,
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programming
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 3:10 AM
[Python Tips] Named Tuples
What is a tuple? Tuples are very similar to lists, but it is unable to be changed (immutable). This provides a tiny performance and memory savings. More importantly provides a hint to the interpreter and
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programming
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:13 PM
[Python Tips] Slices
This isn't as much of a tip but a walkthrough on how to use slices and all the cool things you can do with them. Slices are a very powerful feature available to Python developers that are worth understanding
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themarkymark
programming
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:04 AM
[Python Tips] PEP 8
PEP what? PEP 8 is a coding standard for Python by Guido van Rossum. It defines a set of guidelines for writing Python code in a universally accepted writing style. Any good developer worth their salt
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themarkymark
programming
Sunday, April 8, 2018 1:31 PM
[Python Tips] Secrets Module - New in 3.6
Another new Python 3.6 feature is the addition of the secrets module, a replacement for random when generating cryptographically strong random numbers. When creating random numbers for with passwords or
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