In the latest Python Weekly issue 607, there was a well written article by James Turk called You Don’t Need __all__ (waybackmachine backup link) which seemed to miss an important point I wanted to discuss. With no way to comment on his blog, I decided might...
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Box 7 is out! But should you use it?
Box is not going away, nor is the author going away, nor is it dangerous to use or anything like that. But after a decade after Box was released, Python 3.11 has better built-ins and other tools may have better specific use cases for you!
Continue reading...Python patterns only beginners use
There are a few things that you won’t ever see senior Python developers committing to code, but may not be explicitly taught. Most of these things you won’t even see senior programmers doing in their small side scripts. However you should never see or write these...
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The (internet) age old battle between content creators and pirates is an ever escalating arms race. It doesn’t seem to matter how much DRM and encryption creators put on their content, the next day there will be a dozen illegal torrents available. There is no way...
Continue reading...Cartoon or Photo? – Image detection with Python
This all started with me just wanting a fast way to sort through image folders and remove cartoon images. That lead me down a spiraling rabbit hole of possibility. From using OpenCV to do different types of detection, or even training a Machine Learning model from...
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