Articles tagged with "Python"
I'm fairly sure that Excel is the most common way to store data, manipulate data, and yes(!), even pass data around. This is why it's not uncommon to find yourself reading Excel in Python. In this article I compare several ways to read Excel from Python.
What if mypy could warn you about possible problems at "compile time"? In this article I share a little trick to get mypy to fail when a value in an enumeration type is left unhandled.
If you ever had a test that one day just started to fail, unprovoked, or a test that fails once every blue moon for no apparent reason, it's possible your code is relying on something that is not deterministic. In this article I describe a practical approach to dependency injection in Python that when used correctly, can eliminate nondeterminism and make your code easier to maintain and to test.
In my latest article for RealPython I cover some exotic migration operations, many of the built-in migration CLI commands and demonstrate important migrations concepts such as reversible migrations, migration plans and introspection.
It can be very challenging to test a system that rely heavily on a third party service such as Twilio. In this article, I show how to organize your code in a way that would isolate your bushiness logic and make it easier for you to test it separately.
One of the most challenging aspects of writing good tests is maintaining test fixtures. Good test fixtures motivate developers to write better tests, and bad fixtures can cripple a system to a point where developers fear and avoid them all together. The article covers everything from setting up Pytest for a Django project, creating test fixtures and how to create dependency between fixtures.
How we developed a Markdown extension to manage content in Django sites.
Last year my team and I worked on a very challenging IVR system. After almost a year in production and thousands of processed transactions, I teamed up with the great people over at the Twilio blog to write an introductory tutorial for developing IVR systems using Django and Twilio IVR.
Inspired by an actual incident we had in one of our systems caused by an "Export to Excel" functionality implemented in Python, we go through the process of identifying the problem, experimenting and benchmarking different solutions.
Explore the best way to import messy data from remote source into PostgreSQL using Python and Psycopg2. The data is big, fetched from a remote source, and needs to be cleaned and transformed.
