Boring Background I have always had in interest in making a local photo organization tool, that supports albums and tagging the way I want to do it. Maybe down the line allowing others to connect and use it too. So I started on one a few...
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Python Box 3 – The reddit release
Box has surpassed my expectations in popularity, even appearing in the Python Weekly newsletter and on Python Bytes podcast. I am very grateful for everyone that uses it and hope that you find it to be another great tool in your Python tool-belt! Also a huge shot...
Continue reading...Introducing Box – Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access
Everyone loves Python’s dictionaries; they’re fast, easy to create and quite handy for a range of reasons. However, there are times that [“typing”][“out”][“all”][“those”] extra quotes and brackets seems excessive. Wouldn’t it be nicer to access.them.like.class.methods? Say hello to box. from box import Box movie_data = { “movies”:...
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Python is awesome, and can pretty much do everything you ever wanted, but on rare occasion, you may want to call an external program. The original way to do this with Python was to use os.system. The message “May the force be with you” would be printed...
Continue reading...Reusables – Part 1: Overview and File Management
Reusables 0.8 has just been released, and it’s about time I give it a proper introduction. I started this project three years ago, with a simple goal of keeping code that I inevitably end up reusing grouped into a single library. It’s for the stuff that’s...
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