A Quick Introduction to Asyncio in Python3
Python has never been the best at doing multiple things at the same time.
While there are ways to mostly resolve this, such as using the …
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How to Reorder Data in Log Files using Python
Let’s say that you have an array or a list, or logs.
Each of these logs is a space-delimited string of words.
For example:
logs = ["dig1 8 …
How to implement a Queue using Stacks in Python
A common programming interview question, and for a change, one that you will actually be able to use in the job, is that of implementing a Queue by …
Read Article →Find positions of largest groups of characters in a String with Python
The question
Take a string S of lowercase letters.
These letters form consecutive groupings of like characters.
Find groups with 3 or more like …
Read Article →How to Measure Execution Time in Google Colab
Google Colab is a fantastic environment to write Python code using Jupyter Notebooks, hosted for free by Google.
If you’ve ever used Jupyter …
Read Article →How to fake a User Agent in Python
A User-Agent is a bunch of text that is sent with every HTTP and HTTPS request. The server processing this request is able to determine what type of …
Read the bottom n lines of a file in Python
Using Operating System Commands in Python
Use the Linux/Mac tail command to provide the data:
line = subprocess.check_output(['tail', …How to make a Python script Pip-installable
As Python developers, we’ve all used pip to install applications, but speaking to other Python developers, it’s not always clear how to …
How to send emails using Python and AWS SES SMTP
Sending emails using Python and AWS’ SES service is really easy. They provide an SMTP server that you can authenticate against and send email …
Read Article →Read the top n lines of a file in Python
Sometimes you may need to read the top n lines of a file using Python.
We start by opening the file for reading and then using a list comprehension we …
Read Article →How Fast is your Website?
I operate a bunch of different sites and have done for many years now.
Some of them get quite a lot of traffic and require a high level of uptime.
To …
Read Article →Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think.
While there are quite a lot of things to learn …
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