Scrapy – Requests & Responses Explained When I first started using Scrapy, I thought Requests and Responses were simple concepts: you make a request, you get a...
The library was quiet, save for the rhythmic scratching of Timothy’s pen. He was debugging a function on his screen, cross‑referencing it with his notes. > “Mar...
Extracting Images from Word Documents with Python Working with Word documents often involves more than just text. Images are integral to many reports, presenta...
The Problem with Compression Today Ever compressed a file only to find it got bigger? Spent time choosing between algorithms without knowing which would work b...
Scraping Forums Without Getting Flagged I’ve spent years crawling through the cracks of forums—old, forgotten ones that still hum if you listen close, bleeding...
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Overview I built a modular, audit‑ready data engineering project and wanted to share it with the community. Features - Clean, production‑style Python - SQL pat...
Dealing with spaces in file paths When a file path contains spaces, you need to ensure the string is interpreted correctly by Python. You can either: Use a raw...
Overview The random module in Python provides tools for generating randomness, such as random numbers, selecting items from sequences, and shuffling data. It’s...
The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the curren...
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Deadlocks in a Banking API – What They Are, How to Reproduce Them, and How to Fix Them Forever TL;DR: You can reproduce the deadlock locally using Docker. Get...
