I have been developing Python modules and applications for quite a while now using pipenv as my tool of choice for managing dependencies. However, most of the time, I find it slow when locking dependencies. pipenv is a nice tool but it is lacking features. I recently got introduced to
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You probably have heard of Docker. Docker is a virtualization software which isolates environments in OS-level. Think of it as running another operating system on your computer. Docker is very useful when building applications because it creates an isolated environment. It solves one common issue in computer programming: Client:
Hi there!!! I am Ronie Martinez, a Senior Software Engineer from the Philippines. This site, ron.sh, was originally a website for my CV. I was also maintaining another blogging site for the Python programming language which is my specialization. Outside of work, I contribute to the open source community
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When I started working as an entry-level Software Engineer in 2013, my first project was to work with Python and Robot Framework, a popular test automation framework. I have been the automated testing evangelist in my team for around 3 years. For this long, not a single developer became
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Due to the increasing number of tools that can create Python bindings of popular libraries written in another programming language, it became easy to extend and use these libraries from a Python code. Tools like SWIG, Shiboken, Cython, among others, made it so easy to write Desktop GUIs (Graphical User
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One day at work, I was asked to read data from an excel spreadsheet provided by a third-party. The file contain hundreds of lines detailing responses of a SOAP server. This spreadsheet is updated regularly and my task was to have the SOAP client verify responses from that spreadsheet
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Unicode is a standard for universal representation of characters in computer code. It supports almost all characters in different languages. Each character is represented by a unique number. Unicode defines the standard for UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. This article will discuss how to deal with unicode characters
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As a Redditor, we often see bots crawling around subreddits and doing a lot of useful things, from image manipulation, reminders, etc. This article will guide you into building your own Reddit bot using Python. Step 1: Register a Reddit account Go to https://www.reddit.com/ and sign up.
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Applications require initialization before we can use them. This is true for most applications that we use everyday, from desktop, mobile to web applications. There are several ways to initialize applications. This guide focuses on the most common methods that we can use when writing Python applications. Python variables Perhaps
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If you have been developing using Python for a while, perhaps you have heard of Cython and how it speed things up. Cython is an optimizing static compiler for the Python programming language and the Cython programming language, which is a superset of Python. What Cython does is convert your
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Whenever you visit a web site, you will be surprised that the site you are in knows what country you are from. How? Every time you access the internet, web servers will know your IP address. IP or Internet Protocol addresses provide a way to find devices on the internet.
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Writing complex HTML pages is not an easy task particularly for beginner front-end developers and also, writers who does not have a background in HTML. Hypertext Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for creating web pages. For simple websites, it is effortless to write in HTML