Articles by Python - datawookie

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...]

Weekly Digest — 2023/12/15

December 15, 2023 | Python - datawookie

Interesting articles from the week that was: Python 3.12 on AWS Lambda Python 3.12.1 Best Novels Visualised and Space Typography.

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Weekly Digest — 2023/11/10

November 10, 2023 | Python - datawookie

Highlights from this week: Custom GPTs Immortal Python Objects Hidden Gems in VS Code and Parameterball.

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Cookies & Headers from Selenium

November 7, 2023 | Python - datawookie

One of my standard approaches to scraping content from a dynamic website is to diagnose the API behind the site and then use it to retrieve data directly. This means that I can make efficient HTTP requests using the requests package and I don’t need to worry about all ...

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Cookies & Headers from Selenium

October 31, 2023 | Python - datawookie

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Mocking S3 from Python tests

August 4, 2023 | Python - datawookie

Code that moves data to and from S3 can slow down testing. A lot. This post demonstrates how you can speed things up by mocking S3.

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Undetected ChromeDriver: Stay Below the Radar

October 26, 2022 | Python - datawookie

There’s one major problem with ChromeDriver: anti-bot services are able to detect that a browser session is being automated (as opposed to being used by a regular meat sack) and will often impose restrictions or deny connections altogether. The Undetected ChromeDriver (undetected-chromedriver) Python package is a patched version of ...