Today's Example of Starting Badly: Building HTML.
The code has a super-simple email message with f"<html><body><p>stuff {data}</p></body></html>". It was jammed into an email object along with the text version. All very nice. For a moment, I considered suggesting that f-string substitution wasn't a …
more ...I can't actually share all the code. So this feels incomplete. But I can share what I said about the code. Then you can look at your code and decide if you've got similar problems to fix.
My responses were these. I'll expand on them below.
See 10 Reasons to Learn Python in 2019.
I want to dwell on #4 for a moment.
The Python community actually has a Code of Conduct. We try to stick by it and conferences will have reporting mechanisms in place so we can educate folks who are being inconsiderate or …
more ...There are patterns to bad writing. I'll give some examples based on a blog post I was sent. It's also based -- indirectly -- on some of proposals I saw for PyCon and PyDataDC.
For the conference calls for papers, I can ask a few questions of the author, but that's about …
more ...Videos are up from PyDataDC 2018. See all the PyData talks at PyDataTV on YouTube.
more ...PyCon CFP closes in a day or so. See https://us.pycon.org/2019/speaking/ for details.
After looking at 100's of proposals there are several broad categories.
See Bashing the Bash — Replacing Shell Scripts with Python for some concrete examples of stuff you can do in Python or the shell.
And yes, it's a good, workable idea.
See https://pydata.org/dc2018/ You do need to get your tickets ASAP. The schedule is fabulous. Hotel rooms are still available, so don't waste any time getting connected.
more ...Or "When is it time to move?"
I've got https://sourceforge.net/projects/stingrayreader/ which has been on SourceForge since forever.
Really since about 2014. Not that long. But. Maybe long enough?
The velocity of change is relatively slow.
However.
(And this is a big however.) SourceForge seems kind of …
more ...I don't -- generally -- think of myself as an edge-of-the-envelope developer. I'm a tried-and-proven kind of engineer. I want stuff that's been around for years, with a long history of changes. Except. Today. Currently, I'm revising Mastering Object-Oriented Python. Second Edition. That means upgrading everything to Python 3.7 with full …
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