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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
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This is a follow up on my previous blog, How to Submit a Package to PyPI. As the blog gained a lot of requests and feedback on Reddit, I reviewed all the comments and made improvements to our previous package. Refactoring While new features are added to a software or
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Writing Python packages and deploying them to PyPI is one way of sharing libraries to the open-source community. For beginners, submitting a package to PyPI is not an easy task. This blog guides you through the complete process including testing and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). Register first!
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For quite a while now, I have been developing DocCron. There are plenty of scheduling libraries for Python and that includes the standard library, sched. However, the only issue with these libraries is that creating schedules is not that close to what Linux guys (including me) are using, the cron
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To make sure that our services are running optimally, we prevent abuse by rate limiting. For example, if we have an API server, we limit the number of API calls per time period. One approach is to use Redis because we can easily scale our services. We often create multiple