Python has lots of libraries available for almost anything imaginable. However, there are times when, for one reason or another, you need to use native code written in C/C++ (e.g. legacy code, hard requirement for a specific project, etc.). Although there are several options to overcome this need, we are going to have a look at SWIG.
The University of Greenwich portal offers a link to view your own timetable for any week or term. Even though it is useful, it would have been even more useful if it had a way of downloading the full timetable as an iCalendar file to import in calendar applications such …
This is the title of my Bachelor Thesis, which focused on the development of an addition to the Zoe virtual assistant that enabled live migration of Zoe agents during runtime. Rather than modifying the original system or employing solutions such as virtualization or containers, which may have been a little …
EMT Madrid, (the organization that operates the buses in Madrid), offers a public API with information such as waiting times, stop locations, etc.
I used this API some time ago to develop the madtrans Zoe agent: I performed the requests manually and parsed the data accordingly, although I only implemented …
Version 0.2.0 of Flask-WaffleConf has just been released and includes support for multiprocess deployments. Here I will explain the problems encountered and the "solution" reached.
So here is the scenario: imagine you are deploying with uWSGI or another application server. This probably means that you may …
Flask-WaffleConf is a Flask extension that allows you to store configuration variables in the database, read them on startup and update them on runtime. It's kind of an experiment in order to try making a Flask extension from scratch and add the functionality to the website in a modular way …
I have updated my infocards library to version 0.2.0. There have been some changes in this release:
Using fuzzy string matching when searching for cards
infocards is my new Python library for managing small and simple information cards in an archive (based on a SQLite database). Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (v3).
Hey there! We have already seen how to write the setup script and how to build and install the Python module, but how about we distribute it so that anyone can download it? For this, we'll use the Python Package Index.
Although I say PyPI, as we …