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.
Primer: Arguments vs Parameters I’m sometimes confused. Is it an argument or a parameter? So here it goes: A parameter is a variable in a function definition. When a function is called, the arguments are the data you pass into the function’s parameters. The same goes for a program: A program has parameters, you call…
Having your tests in place after reading pytest Tutorial – Part 1 and pytest Tutorial – Part 2 you certainly want to know how much of your code is actually tested by your tests. This is called coverage. Installation pip install pytest-cov Checking the coverage
In my last article pytest Tutorial Part 1 I showed some basic concepts of testing with pytest. Here are two additional concepts Parameterize Test parameterization follows the concept of DRY – Don’t repeat yourself Instead of writing a new testcase for every different value you annotate your test function and handover the different values. The…
If you are new to Pandas feel free to read Introduction to Pandas I’ve assembled some pandas code snippets Reading Data Reading CSV import pandas as pd # read from csv df = pd.read_csv(“path_to_file”) Can also be textfiles. file suffix is ignored The default limiter for comma separated value files is the comma. If you…
Ever wondered what these *varargs or *kwargs in python functions parameter mean? Let me explain! varargs varargs is short for variable arguments. It is declared like this: def print_person_varargs(name, *vargs): pass You can pass as many arguments as you like. In this case we pass two after the first positional argument ‘name:’ print_person_varargs(“Jörn”, 40, “Emskirchen”)…
At PyConDE Berlin 2019 Florian Bruhin gave a really nice session about testing with pytest, which I try to recap here. Writing Tests If You want to work with pytest you can install it via: pip install pytest When you know basic python unittest fixtures, good news ahead: pytest is compatible and will run your…