In this article we review last week’s Challenge Estimated Time API. This was a cool challenge and we implemented it using Github’s awesome platform and API.
Code Challenge 23 – Challenge Estimated Time API – Review
By PyBites Team on 18 June 2017
Twitter digest 2017 week 24
By PyBites Team on 18 June 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Parsing Twitter Geo Data and Mocking API Calls by Example
By Bob Belderbos on 17 June 2017
“Is this Bob or Julian?!” … yeah tweeting from our shared @pybites Twitter account can be confusing! So I made a little script to parse the location of our tweets. Then I extended it to make it testable. I wrote a decorator to cache a couple of API outputs to be used with the unittest.mock patch decorator I learned about. A simple script turned into a good learning exercise.
How to Write a Python Subclass
By Julian Sequeira on 17 June 2017
In this article I cover Python subclasses and inheritance using a relatable code example scenario.
Code Challenge 23 – Challenge Estimated Time API
By PyBites Team on 13 June 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! This week we will give you the opportunity to enhance our challenge platform by creating a simple API to track how much time our challenges take (and possibly other metadata).
Code Challenge 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper – Review
By PyBites Team on 12 June 2017
In this article we review last week’s Packt free ebook code challenge. We really scratched our own itch building both a notification service and an ebook download manager.
Twitter digest 2017 week 23
By PyBites Team on 11 June 2017
Every weekend we share a curated list of 15 cool things (mostly Python) that we found / tweeted throughout the week.
Using Python Requests on a Page Behind a Login
By Julian Sequeira on 9 June 2017
In this post I discuss using the requests module on web pages behind a login
Next Time I Will Use Pandas to Parse Html Tables
By Bob Belderbos on 8 June 2017
Last week I did some html table parsing with BeautifulSoup and regex. It turns out there is an easier way to do this: Pandas.
Code Challenge 22 – Packt Free Ebook Web Scraper
By PyBites Team on 5 June 2017
Hi Pythonistas, a new week, a new ‘bite’ of Python coding! This week we will do some web scraping of Packt’s daily free ebook, sending out daily notifications. This week we even have a unique opportunity to sponsor the Python Community, read on … and happy coding!