Python Tip of the Day - Merging Two Dicts

Python 3.6 introduced a new way to format strings. They're really f-ing cool. Let's see why.

Learning some of the basics of Py.test

Using Python's Simple HTTP Server for fun and profit (and quickly sharing files)

So I was reviewing a coworkers pull request today and saw something I hadn't seen in Python before. As it turns out you can have multiple if clauses on a list comprehension. For example:

>>> [v for v in range(50) if v % 2 == 0 if v > 10]  # all even numbers …

Oftentimes you just want to try out something related to logging in the REPL, or in a hacky script.  Wading through the docs on the logging module is this painful exercise in reading about handlers and formatters and other stuff you don't care about.

The simplest way to just get …

I'm currently doing the 30-Day Code Quality Challenge (https://www.codequalitychallenge.com), and today's exercise was an interesting one -- extract a compound conditional.

The idea of extracting a compound conditional is it's a refactor to try and improve the readability of code by giving a name to a complex boolean …

Much has been said about how Microsoft has changed in recent years, no longer the super closed-source monopolistic giant it once was.  Regardless of whether or not you believe the change is real or just at the surface, permanent or temporary, etc, there is definitely some interesting things that have …

Coming from a jUnit background, one of the things I always missed with the vanilla Python unitttest library was parameterized tests.  Oftentimes when writing unit tests for a particular unit you find yourself writing effectively the same test over and over again, but with different inputs. Wouldn't it be nice …

Ok, so in part 1 of this series, I started off by exploring the use of Lambda and API Gateway as a tool for building scalable microservices in Python. I largely focussed on taking an existing tutorial, and building out some unit tests for it, as well as some supplementary …