Making additions or subtractions to datetime variables is one of the most commonly encountered programming endeavors and that's what the built-in datetime.datetime.timedelta object is for in python. Its very useful in adding hours or days to your datetime variables as follows: import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() tea_time … Read More

Yesterday, I learned during deployment that your Django app when used in combination with gunicorn will refuse to serve static files, do whatever you may. I looked up almost every Stack Overflow answer post on this topic including this, this and this. I meddled with almost every hopeful setting including … Read More

The methods and examples given in this article are based on flask framework but they should apply to django or something similar too with a little tweak. Few weeks ago, I had landed myself on a project of similar nature and though I found several helpful articles and blog posts … Read More

Message flashing is a very handy technique you must be aware of if you are a Flask developer. A common recurring pattern in web development is to send messages across web requests, especially in case of redirects when the route or controller that redirected wants to display some basic text … Read More

This guide isn't for the newbie who is just learning python programming (they are better off doing a "proper" reading of the official docs instead). This is for the seasoned coder who dabbles in multiple technologies and needs a quick refresher on how to go about building a neat zip … Read More

There is an increasing trend towards using the dict.get() method in Python, it's very widely used in many tutorials and examples too. Consider the below example for instance: >>> dd = {'a': 1} >>> dd.get('a') 1 This simple dictionary dd has only one key ('a') and its corresponding value is … Read More

Many a times, you come across the need to combine multiple image files (.jpg, .png, etc.) into one single portable document format (.pdf). Maybe, you have a bunch of handwritten notes which you want to organize into one file. Doing that is very trivial if you know python. To being … Read More

I happen to maintain a lot of python projects on github such as distroverify and vtscan. And each time I make a tagged release on Github, I have to make a status tweet like this to let people know: So today I thought why not automate this process by writing … Read More

You know, sometimes when I read those python aphorisms like "beautiful is better than ugly" I wonder whether the makers were being sarcastic or real, and I'm not kidding! Its not just about listdir and scandir, a whole lot of things are ambiguous and you'll find a lot of different … Read More

I maintain several python projects on github and some of them like VTScan has a need for user configuration. Now python has a plethora of ways and standards for parsing of configuration files like json, *.ini files, etc., but there is no standard about where to save them on the … Read More