#205: Monkey Patching
In last week's post we overwrote a method in the SSL module to use Feedparser with self-signed certificates. Today we take a closer look at the so called "monkey patching" and how it works under the hood.
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#202: Rounding in Python
Python is usually a straightforward language without surprises. However, when you use the round() function you may run into some strange behaviour. Let us have a look at the specialities of round() and what is going on.
#201: How Much Cost a Print()?
A few weeks back we were running a data preparation script that took a long time to complete. The main part of the work should not take that much time, but somehow that script was sloooow. I expected that the print() statement for each record would have an impact on performance, but I had no indication of the magnitude. Is it significant? Or is it neglectable? Let us find out how big the impact can be.
#136: Date and Time in Python (Part 3: dateutil)
With the basics of date and time covered, we can look at how the dateutil module can help us with relative dates.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#108: Getting Input From the Command Line
When you write scripts you often need to ask the user for an input. Let's look how we can do that in Python.
#105: Multiply Strings in Python
While working through a Pluralsight course I noticed a strange looking command that seams to make no sense: '-' * 100. As it turns out, we can multiply strings in Python and this provides some nice amenities for our cli applications.