Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or ( more… )
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 –Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I plan to get my Microsoft Technology Associate certificate in Python programming and figured I’d take my notes publicly as I prepare. Call it learning in public or review notes or whatever ( more… )
I’m constantly needing to fill out forms when unit testing, so I need to make this process as simple as possible. Today I’ll cover a simple method that allows you to fill out all text inputs on a page just by sending a Python dictionary. This is an expansion on ( more… )
When unit testing using Python and Selenium, it’s usually easiest to click a button with an element’s ID, but I’ve found a more flexible solution that doesn’t require multiple different function calls to be best. To that end, here’s a method I’ve written that one can use to click a ( more… )
Sometimes one’s work environment leaves one doing things in weird ways, like storing data in an Excel spreadsheet rather than a database. I have found myself in this situation before, and while it’s not exactly ideal, libraries like openpyxl make things a little bit more possible. In my situation, I knew that in ( more… )
A site I write and maintain, TallyMusic.net, is designed to help people quickly and easily find local music events, but until recently, it lacked a date filter. This made it hard for users to plan for future events, as the user has to scroll through everything sooner before finding the ( more… )
I’ve decided to add search functionality to my website TallyMusic.net. The site tracks local and touring acts coming through Tallahassee, and I think it will be more useful for finding particular things by being able to search the site. urls.py import concerts.views as concert_views urlpatterns = [ … url(r’^search/$’, concert_views.search, ( more… )
Last time, we covered adding merge fields to a Word document and using Python to get the names of all merge fields across multiple documents. If you need a refresher, check it out. Otherwise, let’s get to it. Setting Up We previously wrote a function that returns a list of all ( more… )
I’m often needing to generate documents that have a lot of canned language. Rather than manually create these, I’ve been using Python to automate as much as possible. Creating Merge Fields in a Word Document The first thing you need is a document with merge fields. To add a merge ( more… )
I’ve moved my blog to a new host that lets me use the full features of WordPress. The first implementation of this is the Code Prettify plugin. Once you’ve installed the plugin to your WordPress site, it adds some quick and easy syntax highlighting to tagged code. In-line code looks like ( more… )