Articles by Python - datawookie

Bypassing Cloudflare with Cloudscraper

July 20, 2024 | Python - datawookie

Cloudflare is a service that aims improve the performance and security of websites. It operates as a content delivery network (CDN) to ensure faster load times and consequently better user experience. However, it also protects against online threats by filtering “malicious” traffic. Web scraping requests are often deemed to be ...

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Release: openai-python 1.33.0

June 8, 2024 | Python - datawookie

A new minor version of the openai-python package was released late on Friday 7 June 2024, only a couple of days after the last minor release. This release adds a chunking_strategy argument to the methods for adding files to vector stores. [...Read more...]

Locations from Google Map

May 26, 2024 | Python - datawookie

This question on Stack Overflow was a fun challenge: extract the markers off an embedded Google Map.

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Desert Island Docker: Python Edition

May 14, 2024 | Python - datawookie

Over the years that I’ve been dabbling in public speaking I’ve generally developed a talk, presented it once and then moved on. However, I’ve noticed other speakers who give the same (or similar) talk at different events, where the talk evolves and improves over time. [...Read more...]

Logging like a Lumberjack

April 18, 2024 | Python - datawookie

Sprinkling status messages across you code using print() statements can be a good temporary fix for tracking down issues in your code. But it can get messy and there’s no way for you to selectively disable them. Sure you can redirect output to a file or /dev/null but ... [...Read more...]

PyInstaller, boto3 and configparser

April 3, 2024 | Python - datawookie

The current version of PyInstaller (6.5.0) doesn’t play nicely with the boto3 package. Here’s how to fix it. [...Read more...]

Python Packages from GitHub

March 14, 2024 | Python - datawookie

I’ve hit my head against this issue from time to time, so it seems like I need to document the solution somwewhere for each reference. [...Read more...]

Python Security Audit

January 23, 2024 | Python - datawookie

Is my code secure? This is something that we should all be thinking (if not worrying) about. A thorough security audit would be the ideal, but what if you don’t have the skills or resources for that? Well, there are some tools that will at least get you part ... [...Read more...]