I was working on one of the exercises on the Pybites platform (Bite 29) and encountered a situation I didn’t understand. I needed to check a set of inputs to see if they were alphanumeric or not as part of the solution to the exercise. I succeeded in all but one test, but I couldn’t… Continue reading Testing membership and empty strings
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Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
By PyBites Team on 12 May 2022
If you’re doing any type of web development in Python, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about FastAPI by now. If not, go check it out now. It’s performant, intuitive and time saving (thanks to Pydantic / type hinting) and it supports API standards, e.g. OpenAPI (previously Swagger). You cannot leave this powerful framework out of your… Continue reading Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
Code Challenge 64 – PyCon ES 2019 Marvel Challenge
By PyBites Team on 4 October 2019
Hey Pythonistas, this weekend is Pycon ES and in the unlikely event you get bored, you can always do some coding with PyBites. Two more good reasons to do so: 1. there are prizes / giveaways, 2. your PRs count towards Hacktoberfest (t-shirt). Fire up your editors and let’s get coding!
Code Challenge 63 – Automatically Generate Blog Featured Images
By PyBites Team on 2 September 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this new blog code challenge you are going to use selenium to automatically generate some cool featured images for PyBites. Have fun!
Code Challenge 62 – Women @ Pycon ES
By PyBites Team on 12 July 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this special live Alicante PyDay challenge you will analyze Pycon speaker data, do we see more women going on stage? Enjoy!
Why whiteboard coding interviews suck and what we’re doing about it.
By Julian Sequeira on 5 June 2019
Whiteboard Interviews are a thing of a past. Introducing the CodeChallenges Recruiting Tier. Time to interview for programming roles the right way.
Code Challenge 61 – Build a URL Shortener
By PyBites Team on 21 February 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will build an URL shortener. Enjoy!
Code Challenge 60 – Working With PDF Files in Python
By PyBites Team on 8 January 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will learn how to work with PDF documents. Enjoy!
Code Challenge 59 – Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK – Part II
By PyBites Team on 8 January 2019
Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will expand on the work of PCC58, doing some natural language processing (NLP) on the podcast transcript data you collected. Have fun!
Code Challenge 58 – Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK – Part I – Review
By PyBites Team on 7 January 2019
In this article we review our PCC58 – Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK – Part I code challenge.