Update: This is a re-post of an older blog post of mine. Originally it was posted on my personal blog where it has >30 comments and >20'000 views over the last years. I'm deprecating my personal blog in favor of this 200OK blog.

Spoiler: This post is primarily gonna be an excerpt of my bookmarks collection. That’s because more intelligent men than me have already written great articles on the topic of how to become a great Python programmer.

I will focus on four primary topics: Functional programming, performance, testing and code guidelines. When those four aspects merge in one programmer,...

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Some time ago, a dear friend of mine came up to me and asked about the Python module binascii – particularly about the methods hexlify() and unhexlify(). Since he asked for it, I’m going to share my answer publicly with you.

First of all, I’m defining the used nomenclature:

• ASCII characters are being written in single quotes
  • decimal numbers are of the type Long with a L suffix
  • hex values have a x prefix

First, let me quote the documentation:

binascii.b2a_hex(data) binascii.hexlify(data) Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary data. Every byte of data is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. The resulting string is...

• python
• 200ok

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Update: This is a re-post of an older blog post of mine. Originally it was posted on my personal blog where it has ~40 comments and >35'000 views over the last years. I'm deprecating my personal blog in favor of this 200OK blog.

In this short tutorial, I’m going to show you how to scrape a website with the 3rd party html-parsing module BeautifulSoup in a practical example. We will search the wonderful translation engine dict.cc , which holds the key to over 700k translations from English to German and vice versa. Note that BeautifulSoup...

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