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 …
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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 …
Read Article →Get the Amount of Days Between Two Dates in Python
Let’s say that you have two dates:
"2019-01-29"
"2019-06-30"
How would you create a function that would return the number of …
Read Article →How to Always run Python 3 from Bash
Given a directory that contains:
|
|- app.py
|- requirements.txt
|- ...
|- <- other-files ->
|- ...
We can create a runme.sh file to always make …
How to tell if a year is a Leap Year in Python
Given that we are in a leap year this year (2020), it would be nice to know how to programmatically calculate this.
Luckily, this is a repeatable …
Read Article →How to Reverse a Linked List in Python
It’s important to know about data types and one that comes up fairly regularly is that of Linked Lists.
Let’s write the following base …
Read Article →How to package a Python app (pip) for PyPi
In this tutorial, we will create a Python application that can be installed directly from pip that will show the 10 latest blog posts from this …