Posts in "Python" category

In the 1st part of my tutorial I demonstrated how to create a simple Scrapy spider that collects data from a website. Now I will show you how to save scraped data in JSON and XLSX formats. (...)

Often, when displaying multi-page lists in html pages rendered from Django templates, we need to include a pagination control, usually a set of navigation buttons, that is both functional and good looking. In this post I'll describe the solution used in this blog to paginate the list of search results. (...)

Recently, I came across an article about Python 3.7’s new builtin breakpoint published on Medium. The article published in March describes the new Python 3.7 feature - built-in breakpoint() function that suspends Python program execution and starts a debugger (the built-in PDB by default). But for me the most interesting part is that the article mentions my Web-PDB remote debugger and describes how to use the new breakpoint() function with it. It's nice to know that people are actually using my work and reference it in their articles.

In this tutorial I will show you how to scrap information from websites with Python using popular Scrapy library. (...)

I'm a long-time devoted user of Kodi mediacenter and by the end of the last year I was very honored to be accepted to Team Kodi for all my activities connected to the project. Until recently my Kodi-related programming projects were limited to Python addons and I never touched the core project. And now I'm glad to announce that my small GitHub pull request was accepted by Kodi core developers. It is a small fix/addition to C++ implementation of Kodi Python API, but I'm still very proud of it because I have been able to make a worthy contribution to such large C++ project.