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Testing membership and empty strings

J. Ryan Hall

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January 20, 2023

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2 min read

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 tell why one failed so I researched why that was and would like to share it. Note – if you haven’t completed the Bite, the solution might be partially spoiled below so maybe you want to do the exercise before reading on. Membership testing is…
Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker

PyBites Team

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May 12, 2022

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3 min read

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 toolset. And although it’s true you can get an API running with FastAPI really fast and with little code, to build something more serious takes a bit of practice. Hence we created a FastAPI learning path on our platform. In 10 exercises you will write a simple…
Code Challenge 64 – PyCon ES 2019 Marvel Challenge

PyBites Team

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October 4, 2019

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3 min read

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

PyBites Team

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September 2, 2019

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3 min read

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

PyBites Team

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July 12, 2019

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3 min read

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.

Julian Sequeira

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June 5, 2019

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6 min read

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

PyBites Team

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February 21, 2019

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3 min read

Hey Pythonistas, in this challenge you will build an URL shortener. Enjoy!
Code Challenge 60 – Working With PDF Files in Python

PyBites Team

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January 8, 2019

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3 min read

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

PyBites Team

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January 8, 2019

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2 min read

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

PyBites Team

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January 7, 2019

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6 min read

In this article we review our PCC58 – Analyze Podcast Transcripts with NLTK – Part I code challenge.