#135: Date and Time in Python (Part 2: Datetime)
After a deeper look at date last week, we explore in this post the datetime and time objects of Python.
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#134: Date and Time in Python (Part 1: Date)
I waited a long time to address date and time because that topic has the potential to get complicated quickly. In a side project I needed some date arithmetic and that is a good opportunity to look at date and time in Python.
#133: Minimalistic DTOs in Python
I needed to return multiple values from a function. While Python allows that with tuples, it is a lot of magic involved and the meaning in the order of values in the tuple is nowhere written down. Is there a better way to create a data transfer object without much effort? Let's find out.
#132: Rich Tables for Your Terminal Apps
Your terminal applications do not need to have a boring output. Today we take a look at how we can create nice looking tables without much effort.
#131: Working With Bookmarks in Tweepy
Since I concluded my experiments with Tweepy in April, a new and important Twitter endpoint finally arrived: Bookmarks. Let's have a look how we can access our Twitter bookmarks with Tweepy.
#130: Different File Encodings Between Windows and Linux
While Python works great on Linux, Windows and Mac, there are tiny differences that may have big impacts on your code. I found this out the annoying way with a crashing application.
#129: Copy & Paste With Python
For some problems it would be great if our application could access the clipboard of the current user and do some copy & paste actions. Let's look how we can access the clipboard from Python.
#128: Periodic Tasks in Celery
If you need to run a task every few seconds or create a report every week, you can use Celery and its feature for periodic tasks – at least if we use Linux or WSL on Windows.
#127: Track the State of a Celery Task
So far our Celery tasks where fire-and-forget jobs. We put a task in a queue and go to the next activity. However, sometimes we need to know if a task succeeded before we can do more work. Let us take a look on how Celery tracks tasks.
#126: Flask and Celery
Flask is a great web framework. The only problem, as with all web applications, is the processing of long-running tasks. Luckily for us, we can use our knowledge of Celery and combine it with Flask to process the long-running tasks asynchronously. Even better, we already know everything we need to do this.