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Articles on Tools
Use Github to Manage Your Projects in an Agile Way
By Robin Beer on 19 April 2020
In this article you will learn how to setup a project in GitHub and to use boards to organize you issues using agile methods.
Using Python to Check for File Changes in Excel
By Ryan Cheley on 10 April 2020
Finding differences in excel files using Pandas!
How to Write a Guest Article for PyBites
By Cedric Sambre on 26 February 2020
Hello Everybody! In this article I’ll run through the procedure of using git and github to submit a guest article to PyBites.
How to Parse Hidden HTML With Selenium Headless Mode and Deploy it to Heroku
By Bob Belderbos on 19 February 2019
Ever wondered how you scrape hidden (or JS generated) HTML? Selenium is your friend. Ever wondered how to run it without a browser popping up? Use headless mode. How would you run it remotely? Use Heroku. And how about autoposting to Slack and Twitter? With the right libraries and API setup little code is needed. In this 10 step guide I will show you how to build a Packt Free Learning Notifier which will accomplish all these tasks. Ready to learn some nice automation skills in Python?
My Anaconda Workflow: Python environment and package management made easy
By Martin Uribe on 24 July 2018
in this article martin provides an easy-to-follow reference guide of his anaconda workflow. he uses this to make his life easier managing the his python environment and package dependencies. and to great avail as you will soon discover. not only will you learn the basics of the powerful conda tool, he also goes into more depth on the more niche/advanced features like using alternate channels, distributing and cloning environments, updating anaconda, and setting environment variables. warning: this might get you on anaconda, and if you are already you probably want to keep this one nearby for reference.
Why Python is so popular in Devops?
By Rhys Powell on 25 June 2018
Along with the growth of Python for developers in the machine learning and data science space, Python is also a growing language for devops / in the ops tooling side. In this article Rhys will explain why that is …
Pushing the Packt “free book of the day” to the world with Scrapy and Alexa
By Rhys Powell on 31 May 2018
I have a love of the goodies that you get as part of the developer rewards from submitting Alexa skills to Amazon. Another thing that I also love is the fact that Packt gives away a free book. What I always forget to do is look at what today’s book is and what I didn’t have was a lot of time to meet this month’s deadline for app submission. Why not combine them both?
DisAtBot – How I Built a Chatbot With Telegram And Python
By Rodolfo Ferro on 10 December 2017
Rodolfo recently joined our Code Challenges and built Disaster Attention Bot (DisAtBot), a chatbot that helps people affected by natural disasters. In this article he shows how he built this bot with Telegram and (of course) Python. Show him some love because who knows, this could be a life saver (pun intended)! We are delighted to have him show this interesting project he submitted for Code Challenge 43 which earned him a book on chatbots. /Rod please share …
Python Testing With Pytest
By Bob Belderbos on 25 September 2017
Review of Brian Okken’s new pytest book.