free python resources from @sitepoint

free python resources from @sitepoint

• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/python-package-management-with-pip
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/efficient-one-line-commands-in-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/working-with-python-s-dictionaries
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/creating-modules-in-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/writing-efficient-code-with-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/exploring-list-data-structures-in-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/how-to-manage-and-sort-lists-in-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/screencasts/learning-to-combine-dynamic-strings-using-concatenation-in-python
• https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/courses/wrapping-your-head-around-python-2916

what can you do in 300 lines of #python

what can you do in 300 lines of #python ?

http://wttr.in/Brighton

thanks to

https://github.com/chubin

https://github.com/schachmat

the apple ibooks itunes istore has some free #python books

the apple ibooks itunes istore has some free #python books

• https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/python-3-tutorial/id952220899?mt=13
• https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/essential-python/id1063668429?mt=11

#python/WSGI applications quickstart #webdev

#python/WSGI applications quickstart #webdev

• http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/WSGIquickstart.html
• http://wsgi.tutorial.codepoint.net/
• http://wsgi.tutorial.codepoint.net/parsing-the-request-get
• http://wsgi.tutorial.codepoint.net/parsing-the-request-post

#python uses #ascii instead of #unicode by default #gotcha

by default python seems to run in ascii which means if you try and process a string with a utf-8 unicode character in it you will get the error

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character 
u'\xXX' in position YYYYY: ordinal not in range(128)

so to force your script to use utf-8 unicode instead you need to

see http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html and

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
print sys.getdefaultencoding()

#webdev #python curl #http post requests

webdev python curl http requests

• http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/
• http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
• https://gist.github.com/kennethreitz/973705

simple python curl http post request example

import requests
url = 'https://www.example.com/'
data = {'requestXml': '<MYREQUESTXML>'}

r = requests.post(url, data)

print 'U '
print url
print 'S '
print r.status_code
print 'H '
print r.headers
print 'T '
print r.text