Python

Scraping

Introducing "dude" - A web scraping framework inspired by Flask syntax

Dude is an easy-to-learn web scraping framework inspired by Flask syntax. You can build a web scraper in just a few lines of code.

By Ronie Martinez 21 Feb 2022

Python

Using a Decorator to Reduce Rasa Boilerplates

I have been building a Rasa chatbot and the number of custom actions I have written kept on growing and I wanted to change something.

By Ronie Martinez 27 Apr 2020

Python

How Decorator-Based Routing Works in Python

We have seen usage of @route() decorator in Flask and they really make routing easy and backend development fast. But how do they really work?

By Ronie Martinez 25 Apr 2020

Python

How to Write Custom Python Decorators

In Python, a decorator allows a user to add useful functionalities to existing object. To use a decorator, we use the @symbol followed by the

By Ronie Martinez 23 Apr 2020

Travis CI

Save Time by Caching in Travis for Python Projects

By caching files and directories on Travis, we can save time with re/installation because we do not need to re-download the same files over

By Ronie Martinez 18 Apr 2020

Snippet

How to Get the Version of Your poetry-based Package from Python Code

import pkg_resources # replace package name with correct name version = pkg_resources.get_distribution('package-name').version

By Ronie Martinez 17 Apr 2020

Python

Integrating Python and Windows on Travis

Travis CI does not currently support Windows natively so the following is a workaround. Installing Python is done using Chocolatey package manager and specifying the

By Ronie Martinez 16 Apr 2020

Rasa

Writing a Custom Rasa Entity Extractor for Regular Expressions

I recently wrote a library that contains custom Rasa components. I named the project rasam, short for "Rasa Improved". Because Rasa currently does not have

By Ronie Martinez 15 Apr 2020

Python

How to Test Your Python Code in OSX using Travis CI

Since OSX does not natively support Python, you can customize it using a Job Matrix, matrix or jobs. The following contains examples from Python 3.

By Ronie Martinez 14 Apr 2020

Rasa

How to write a custom URL extractor for Rasa

Rasa has a list of components available that you can use. If you need to extract entities, chances are, people will advise you to use

By Ronie Martinez 13 Apr 2020

Docker

Dockerize your Python Modules

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

By Ronie Martinez 8 Mar 2020

Python

My First Online Hackathon Submission

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

By Ronie Martinez 1 Sep 2019

Python

Come to the PySide!

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

By Ronie Martinez 5 Jun 2019

Python

Dealing with Excel Spreadsheets using Python

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

By Ronie Martinez 30 May 2019

Python

Working with Unicodes

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

By Ronie Martinez 26 May 2019