The Python module I learned to love this year is Click. Gets me better command line interfaces fast. URL is http://click.pocoo.org . It does progress bars too...
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'New' Python modules of 2015
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#122Hands down, my favorite new library is schema: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schema Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is: https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/ At the end, you get an object called data, and you can do data.title, data.language, etc, and be sure that everything is as you expect.
I like Schema and Voluptuous enough that as a polyglot who mostly works in PHP I'm working on a PHP version at the moment.
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#123I am using Scrapy a lot. http://scrapy.org/ It is very well designed web crawling library.
My vote goes to pyspider[1]
Re: 'New' Python modules of 2015
#124Hands down, my favorite new library is schema: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schema Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is: https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/ At the end, you get an object called data, and you can do data.title, data.language, etc, and be sure that everything is as you expect.
Anyone that have been using schema after using 'rx' (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rx/)?
I generally like the simplicity of Rx and the fact that's language agnostic (I've used it with both json and yaml and other serialization libraries), with schemas themselves being written both systems. However, the lacking documentation has always been a problem.
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#125Wow, there are some great new tools to explore. Thanks!
Some of the new libraries I'm using this year that I've found really handy include:
Odo - http://odo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ It is ridiculously handy for converting data from one format to another - especially for transforming a table from a database or csv into a DataFrame and back.
Arrow - Makes for quick datetime processing. - http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/
Xlsxwriter - http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org - I'm building beautiful reports, with charts, using this tool. As someone who moves data around a lot, but has to work with less technical business and analyst folks, this is becoming my goto for handing them some data to play with.
Blessings - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings - as I get older staring at simple black and white text on the screen seems to be getting harder. Putting a little color and flare in my command line interfaces cheers me up even if it doesn't do much in the way of actually getting the job done.
Lastly, switching from curl to httpie was a huge help in working with API's of all sorts. It solved a problem I didn't even know I had. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie
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#126"python-bond" also came out in 2015: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bond allows a simple interface between python runtimes and php/perl/nodejs.
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#127This is a tangent, but the most annoying change in the latest Python versions is you can no longer write print "foo". Now it has to be print("foo"). Damn kids ruining my language.
You just wake up Rip Van Winkle?
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
One word - isolation. One issue with using your system's packaging system is that a lot of system utilities are written in Python which makes it harder to play around with new versions, bleeding edge libs, etc.
Virtualenv is pretty good for isolation.
I use pyenv on my Mac https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv
Re: 'New' Python modules of 2015
#129Hands down, my favorite new library is schema: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schema Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is: https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/ At the end, you get an object called data, and you can do data.title, data.language, etc, and be sure that everything is as you expect.
In similar vein is valideer: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/valideer
Re: 'New' Python modules of 2015
#130Hands down, my favorite new library is schema: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schema Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is: https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/ At the end, you get an object called data, and you can do data.title, data.language, etc, and be sure that everything is as you expect.
What's the difference between these sort of libraries and an ORM? Don't ORM's provide built in validation and serialization?