# python

• Release: pathfinder 0.6.2

  Pathfinder 0.6.2 is a minor release, with a fix that requires the filepath parameter to exist.

  If the path does not exist an error is raised.

• Testing with pendulum

  My usual way of modifying the behaviour of pendulum.now() when testing has been to mock it:

  with mock.patch(
      "pendulum.now", return_value=pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")
  ):
    ...
  

  However, I did something mad today, and delved into the docs and found a neater way:

  with pendulum.test(pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")):
  

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.3

  Bugfix: explicity set .message on DocRaptorRequestException.

• Python Package – begins

  Command line programs for lazy humans.

• python-intercom is moving out

  python-intercom has decided it no longer likes living with me in my mud hut in the woods, and has moved into the marble floored and velvet cushioned environs of Intercom.

• python-intercom 3.0

  Version 3 of python-intercom has risen from it’s seat in the basement, stomped up the stairs, burst through the front door, and roared “I’M FREE!".

• python-intercom 3.0b3

  The long drawn out “will version-3 be released” saga is coming to an end. I’ve just released 3.0b3.

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.2

  A teeny release. The default timeout has been increased from 10 to 90 seconds.

• python-intercom 2.1.1

  Announcing version 2.1.1 of python-intercom.

• python-intercom 2.0.0

  Announcing version 2 of python-intercom.

• python-intercom 2.0.beta

  A couple of major issues were raised for the alpha release. The first was the lack of support for empty body responses, and the second was incorrect tracking of changed_attributes for resources.

  These are fixed in this release, and an FAQ has been added to the documentation.

• python-intercom 2.0.alpha

  python-intercom now supports Intercom API v2 and Python 3.

• python-intercom and self fields

  Intercom’s API returns a self attribute for each resource that contains a URL to the resource. As self is a reserved word in Python, the question is how should python-intercom support it.

• python-intercom 0.2.13

  A new release of python-intercom with support for wildcard importing.

• Calculate Age with Python

  I wrote a simple function to calculate how old someone is based on their birth date, but it sucked as it was really slow. After some searching on Stack Overflow I uncovered some really elegant and fast code.

• Argument Parsing for Humans

  Using the args library for very simple command line argument parsing in Python.

• NameError: global name 'basestring' is not defined

• Logging Session and Environment with airbrake-python

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.12

• Release: pathfinder 0.5.3

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.10

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.9

• Release: pathfinder 0.5.2

• Release: pathfinder 0.5

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.1

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.8

• HTTP 400 errors when using run_every in IronWorker Python

  TL;DR Iron Worker passes all command line parameters as strings, so they must be cast to the appropriate type before using them.

• Release: django-methodview 0.1.2

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.7

• Introducing python-intercom

  from intercom import User user = User.find(email='somebody@example.com')

• Introducing python-docraptor

  docraptor = DocRaptor() resp = docraptor.create({ 'document_content': '<p>python-docraptor Test</p>', 'test': True }) # PDF data is now available in resp.content

• Release: pathfinder 0.3.1

  # only search top 2 levels of the directory tree paths = pathfinder.pathfind(".", depth=2)

• Excel2CSV

  A Python function to convert an .xls file to .csv.

• Extracting values from a Cherokee configuration file

  Some Python functions to extract the maximum vserver id and the maximum source id from a Cherokee configuration file.

• Find a random unbound port

  find_unbound_port returns a (pseudo-)random unbound port on localhost.

• Per Instance Settings in gondor.io

• Getting EC2 regions using Boto

• libjpeg 8c not compatible with PIL 1.1.7

• Python bug weekend

• The Distros haven’t killed Python

• The curse of ^[[A

• Python Ireland Unconference

• Changing auth backend on a live system

• Release: configpy 0.5

  Release 0.5 includes support for compound keys, and better __getattr__ support.

• Release: configy 0.3

  Release 0.3 adds support for multi-line and in-line comments.

• Releases: pathfinder & configpy

• Clickatell-Python

  Python interface to the Clickatell SMS Gateway HTTP API.

• configpy

  A JSON configuration file parser with variable look-ahead and look-behind, and expression support.

• pathfinder

  A python utility to find file paths.

• python-docraptor

  A Python wrapper for the DocRaptor API.

• python-intercom

  A Python wrapper for the Intercom API.