Sometimes you want to delete a folder in Python. You know that os.rmdir() can do that for you. But then you realize it can only remove empty folders. If you want to remove the content before deleting the folder you come up with: def remove_non_empty_dir(path_to_dir): if os.path.exists(path_to_dir): files_in_dir = os.listdir(path_to_dir) for file in files_in_dir: os.remove(os.path.join(path_to_dir,…
I’ve written a piece about logging Log4j2 for Kotlin and the motivation to use logging in Python is the same: Logging is a common good practice in software engineering. It enables you to monitor applications in production to gather information about crashes and other malfunctions for further analysis. It is the “little brother” of debugging…
Determine the file extension os.path.splitext() is used to split the path name into a pair root and ext. e.g. C:\Users\memyselfandi\projects\file_extension_test\data.csv is split into C:\Users\memyselfandi\projects\file_extension_test\data and .csv Here is a working snippet for identifying CSV and XLS: import os if os.path.isfile(input_file): file_extension = os.path.splitext(input_file)[1].lower() if file_extension == “.csv”: logger.info(“It’s a CSV”) # do something with CSV…
I’ve found this little easter egg hidden in pipenv: if not environments.PIPENV_HIDE_EMOJIS: now = time.localtime() # Halloween easter-egg. if ((now.tm_mon == 10) and (now.tm_mday == 30)) or ( (now.tm_mon == 10) and (now.tm_mday == 31) ): INSTALL_LABEL = “🎃 ” # Christmas easter-egg. elif ((now.tm_mon == 12) and (now.tm_mday == 24)) or ( (now.tm_mon ==…
Part 1 You need to use the binary numbers in the diagnostic report to generate two new binary numbers (called the gamma rate and the epsilon rate). The power consumption can then be found by multiplying the gamma rate by the epsilon rate. Each bit in the gamma rate can be determined by finding the…
Part 1 Today the puzzle got a bit trickier than Day 1. The submarine seems to already have a planned course (your puzzle input). You should probably figure out where it’s going. For example: forward 5 down 5 forward 8 up 3 down 8 forward 2 Your horizontal position and depth both start at 0.…
I’ve haven’t participated in the advent of code before. But always been curious. What is advent of code? It’s an advent Calendar for programmers. You get 25 challenges starting December 1st. Caveat: you have to solve the challenge to be eligible for the next day’s challenge 🙂
Travis CI is a nice way to add Continous Integration / Test / Deplyoment to your github project. As long as your project is open source aka not private you can use Travis CI for free (with a limited quota of 10000 minutes) Account Create an account at travis-ci.com Connect it with your github account…
As mentioned in Curriculum Vitae for Data Scientists it can be a good idea to visualize your skills and work experience. I’ve also tried to visualize the location of my work places with geopandas but I came across a more fancy solution called ipyleaflet
In Distributing your own package on PyPi I’ve talked about setuptools and twine to upload a package to the Python Package Index. PBR is a nice little add-on to simplify the setup and the deplyoment of your packages.