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Environment Variables in Python

17th October 201917th October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Many python scripts require access to external services. API’s for example often require some credentials to be used in order to be able to access the services. These scripts need …

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App Engine notes and resources

9th September 20192nd October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Installation Using Google App Engine requires having the Google Cloud SDK installed on your local machine. This SDK allows for deployment of the application into Google App Engine. Windows installation: …

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Creating an ‘Article Meta Data’ Database – Phase 2: Saving Data Locally

14th April 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

Previously we looked at getting some interesting pieces of information from an article. This included data such as: Article Title Article Publish date Text of the article Keywords in the …

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Creating an ‘Article Meta Data’ Database – Phase 1: The Newspaper package

29th March 2018 M Smith1 Comment

Newspaper A python package for article scraping and curation The newspaper package for python makes it extremely easy to download article content. Not only that, it has built in functionality …

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Gotta catch ’em all

26th February 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

Recently I found myself needing to download images of all Pokemon for a personal project. And not wanting to download them all by hand I turned to python to help …

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Scheduling cron jobs with python in virtual environments

2nd November 2017 M Smith9 Comments

Recently I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out how to set up a cron job to run a python script I had recently created. Before you snicker …

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Some lesser known python libraries

8th October 20178th October 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

While listening to the Talk Python to me podcast I stumbled across this episode which talks in depth about “20 python libraries you aren’t using (but should)”.

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