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Why would you need to rewrite a working script in python ? Was there any business direction towards this ?
This was an unexpected response. And unwelcome. I guess I called their baby ugly.
The short answer is that the shell script language is perhaps one of the …
more ...I write Microservices. And not-so-micro Services. API's.
I got this email recently.
"Goal: get you to consider adding Gooey to your Python tool set" "Gooey What it's for: Turn a console-based Python program into one that sports a platform-native GUI. Why it's great: Presenting people, especially rank-and-file users, with a …more ...
I'm calling this the Composite Builder pattern. This may have other names, but I haven't seen them. It could simply be lack of research into prior art. I suspect this isn't very new. But I thought it was cool way to do some declarative Python programming.
Here's the concept.
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Do you have a good project? Do you want to write? The acquisition folks at Packt are looking for this: "... demonstrate 4-5 projects over the course of the chapters in order to demonstrate how to build scalable Python projects from scratch. These projects cover some of the most important concepts …
more ...See http://www.dexy.it Wow. That seems cool. I write. A lot. I've tried a lot of tool chains. A lot. And I mean non-trivial "try". Whole books. Hundreds of pages. LEO + my own HTML Templates. A lot of fun at first. An outliner that generates RST is a …
more ...I know it sounds arrogant, but I don't want to share your screen to sort out a Python programming problem. I have two reasons and I think one of them is a good one.
It's both pedagogical and personal.
Personally, I'm often left breathless by demos. Watching the cursor fly …
more ...https://dzone.com/articles/learn-python-overtakes-learn-java I've seen companies making sincere enterprise-wide commitments to doing all data analysis in Python. There's no reason for quants and analysts to struggle with Java. I field one or two questions a week from folks pushing the in-house envelope on data acquisition. I also field …
more ...It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.
Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.
The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …
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