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...
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Often times in python there comes a need to have multiple functions act in a similar manner. It could be anything from making sure that similar functions output the right type of result, they all log when they are called or all report exceptions in the...
Continue reading...Creating a successful project – Part 3: Development Tools/Equipment
Every single year that I’ve been doing this, I hear about the next “totally awesome” way to write code. And more often than not, the new thing is certainly very shiny. When it comes to projects, with the exception of coding standards (which will be part...
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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