Thursday August 9 2019 was the second day of PyCon Africa in Accra. About 17 talks were delivered, including two keynotes. Below you’ll find a quick summary of the talks I attended. The pictures in the post aren’t great because they were either taken from a bad angle or using a smartphone. I’ll update this …
This article covers 6 common methods found in the Django Database API for creating, retrieving, and updating records.
A useful built in function in Python is hasattr(). This function is used to test if an object has some attribute. hasattr() returns True if the object you specify contains a particular attribute and False if it does not. hasattr() syntax: hasattr() takes two parameters: object. The object whose attribute you want to check attribute. …
In this article you’ll learn how to create a Django website with a static page using Function Based Views and Class Based Views.
Python does not have a switch or case statement. See how to use dictionaries to emulate them.
Learn how to avoid repetition and write simpler and easy to read tests using the pytest parametrization feature.
Learn how to install pytest and use it to discover, run, and skip test functions.
Have you ever wondered how you can use Python to work with groups of files? I wrote a comprehensive article on this for Real Python. You can find the article here. In the article, I cover differences between modules such as fnmatch, pathlib and os. In addition to that, you will learn how to create, …
If you have ever felt confused when you came across code that contains *args and **kwargs as function parameters, you’re not alone. This syntax is used specify that a function can be called with any number of arguments and It can be very confusing at first. In this article, I explain what *args and **kwargs …
