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Comms as a Data Engineer can be tough. Should you email a group of people? Should you dump a message in a public Slack channel they frequent? Should you follow up daily, weekly, etc? It’s a lot of manual labor. I don’t like manual work. Also, I hate email. This seems to be a common … Read more
Let’s cast an array of items using lambdas in Python. It’ll look cleaner than its forloop counterpart. They’re a great way to clean up super verbose code and helpful when doing array manipulation. Before we begin, if you don’t know what a Python lambda is please check out this article we recently wrote. My most … Read more
So what happens if your code does not follow the Python rules? This article will be fairly short. Most of this will not depend on your version of Python. Tabbing/Spacing So what happens if you get your tab or spacing incorrect? Let’s give it a go. Often times the best way to figure something like … Read more
Modulos in Python are super useful. They can we be used when we don’t want to print a check each pass during a loop. For example, if I’m looping through 100,000 numbers and want to get an update of how my automation is going every so often instead of printing each loop or blindly running … Read more
Need help making a Python Wrapper for your REST API? Python is my personal favorite programming language. So when somebody approaches me with a problem that involves a REST API, I immediately go to Python. That being said, calling REST API’s can unfortunately be a little ugly in the language. I’ll show you how to … Read more
Happen to have a ton of giant marketing materials that you need to get down to size for your website? Are you about to release an app and need to resize images down to Google/Apple’s prescribed dimensions? I mean you could always open the images individually in GIMP (my preferred image editor), go into tools, … Read more