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...
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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”:...
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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For many of us, as we develop as coders, we want to continue to grow our knowledge. We pour over the standard library (STL) of this wonderful language, looking for hidden gems. There are many such gems in the Python STL. Such as all the fun...
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Exceptions in Python aren’t new, and pretty easy to wrap your head around. Which means you should have no trouble following what this example will output. Simple, right? It raises both except clauses, triggering the warning and so your screen will obviously print False and the warning. So...
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