Python indentation can be a cruel mistress. Let’s get it right!
Don’t Let Indentation Catch You Out
By Julian Sequeira on 30 December 2016
Automate Tweeting: how to build a Twitterbot
By Bob Belderbos on 29 December 2016
In this post I will show you how we automate part of our Twitter posting using feedparser and tweepy.
Learning from Python mistakes
By Bob Belderbos on 28 December 2016
In this post I summarize some great lessons Mike Pirnat shared in his free ebook ‘How to make mistakes in Python’
How to create a nice-looking HTML page of your Kindle book highlights (notes)
By Bob Belderbos on 26 December 2016
In this post I share a simple script to convert Bookcision JSON into a HTML page for your blog.
A Quick Automate the Boring Stuff Review
By Julian Sequeira on 26 December 2016
A quick review of the legendary free book, Automate the Boring Stuff.
Zip and ship, make an executable zipfile of your py project
By Bob Belderbos on 25 December 2016
In this post I show an example how you can distribute your code as an executable zipfile, a neat trick I discovered in Chapter 6 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
Get a weekly digest from a Pelican blog
By Bob Belderbos on 24 December 2016
In this post a script we use to get a weekly digest of our posts.
2016 py articles and useful books
By Bob Belderbos on 22 December 2016
Some of my Python articles I posted on my blog this year and useful books
The Beauty of Python Virtualenvs
By Julian Sequeira on 22 December 2016
Python Virtualenvs are incredible yet sadly under utilised!
Read the stdlib: deque
By Bob Belderbos on 20 December 2016
Use collections.deque to rotate letters in string (or elements in list). It has a native method which performs faster too.