python3 – Chad Dotson

It's been awhile

By chad January 5, 2020Doing Things Better, Programming, Software Engineering

It has been quite a while since I last wrote about anything. It has been hard finding a topic that motivated me enough to write about. Python 2 EoL Python 2 has had a long run, longer than it should have. On January 1, 2020, Python 2 reached EoL after…

Working with bytes in Python 3

By chad January 14, 2019Programming, Software EngineeringNo Comments

Background Sometimes you find yourself needing to work at the byte-level in an application you are working on. I feel that in Python there are not enough examples of how to do this. There is also a lot of potential to over-complicate the solution. This Example I plan to cover…

Python CSV Module Oddity

By chad September 9, 2018Programming, Software EngineeringNo Comments

A Python Oddity I was using Python to encode a CSV file using a custom dialect recently when I noticed something odd. I noticed that the csv writer class takes an optional argument that enables you to change the line terminator. That's ok, however, the csv reader class does not…

SSLError with Python 3.6.x on macOS Sierra

By chad January 22, 2017Programming, Tips18 Comments

SSLError Have you ran into trouble with SSLErrors after upgrading to Python 3.6 on macOS Sierra? For me, my first encounter was downloading the bokeh sample data (included here). Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 22 2016, 17:23:13) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits"…

Pip Installs From Github

By chad January 10, 2017Programming, TipsNo Comments

Pip installs From github Installing a package from github is fairly simple. The following are examples of installing packages from github. # Install repo package from the url, master branch pip3 install git+https://github.com/username/repo.git @ Install repo from the specified branch pip3 install git+https://github.com/username/repo.git@branch # Install repo from the specified commit.…