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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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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