So lately I have been busy with school had to hard classes one of my classes my last term was PHP and the other one was Advance Java. I always do good but this last term was hard!, besides the class, I have been continuously working to improve my python skills, I have been using snippets for everything. Like FOR EVERYTHING!! Snippets in my opinion save a lot of time and work, not just that for people like me sometimes Snippets make life easier, I would put in my Sublime text editor a whole Binary Tree in a snippet. “HA! Actually I did. I type BST then hit tab and the whole binary tree comes up in Python. This last few weeks I have been reading a lot in Realpython.com and www.pythonistacafe.com, there is a lot of tutorials in those websites as well as there are a lot of awesome Pythonistas. Their hard cover book just came out and i will most likely will be adding it to the collection of books that I have.
This last week I started working on a Web Scraper in Python. I got frustrated with my self because of some mistakes i did setting up my projects. There are projects that when you work on is better to set up your own virtual environment. I didn’t know anything about this until I downloaded the request module with pip, wrote the import statement into my script and the script will not recognize it. Turn to find out that I need to just make my own virtual environment in python here is how
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#How to set up a virtual environment
mkdir name_of_project
cd name_of_project
#type
python3 -m venv env
#in my computer it works with just python
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
#in the example above env is the name of the virtual environment so if the #virtual environment name is Webscraper you would type at least in my
#computer is like that.
source Webscraper/Scripts/activate
#to get out of the environment just type
deactivate
# here is a tutorial
https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/
# here is a tutorial on what is Pip
https://realpython.com/courses/what-is-pip/knowing how to set up a virtual environment I think what I will most likely do next time I set up a project in python. I also practice a little bit of reading files in python using the read method.
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file_object = open(“filename”, “mode”) where file_object is the variable to add the file object.
file1 = open("santiagobook.py", "r")
print(file1.read())You can also write to files, the syntax is here.
with open("python_test.txt", "w") as file:
file.write("this is a test")You can find more information about reading and writing to files here. https://realpython.com/read-write-files-python/
Besides that I am still training for my PCDC cyber security Competition basically the CCDC regional for our area.
This is all for now! Stay Healthy! Stay Alive! Enjoy Learning something new everyday!
Very Respectfully,
Santi
