#99 parse - the regex antidote in Python

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Brian #1: parse

• “parse() is the opposite of format()”
• regex not required for parsing strings.
• Provides these functionalities: export parse(), search(), findall(), and with_pattern()

    # Note: space around < p > etc added to escape markdown parser safety measures
    >>> parse("It's {}, I love it!", "It's spam, I love it!")
    < Result ('spam',) {} >
    >>> search('Age: {:d}\n', 'Name: Rufus\nAge: 42\nColor: red\n')
    ( Result (42,) {} )
    >>> ''.join(r.fixed[0] for r in findall("<{}>", "\< p >the < b >bold< /b > text< /p >"))
    'the bold text'

• Can also compile for repeated use.

Michael #2: fman Build System

• FBS lets you create GUI apps for Windows, Mac and Linux
• via Michael Herrmann
• Build Python GUIs, with Qt – in minutes
• Write a desktop application with PyQt or Qt for Python.
• Use fbs to package and deploy it on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Avoid months of painful work with the proven solutions provided by fbs.
• Easy Packaging: Unlike other solutions, fbs makes packaging easy. Create installers for your app in seconds and distribute them to your users – on Windows, Mac and Linux!
• Open Source: fbs's source code is available on GitHub. You can use it for free in open source projects licensed under the GPL. Commercial licenses are also offered.
  • Free under the GPL. If that's too restrictive, a commercial license is 250 Euros once.
  • PyQt's licensing is similar (GPL/Commercial). A license for it is € 450 (source).
• Came from fman, a dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux

Brian #3: fastjsonschema

• Validate JSON against a schema, quickly.

Michael #4: IPython 7.0, Async REPL

• via Nick Spirit
• Article by Matthias Bussonnier
• We are pleased to announce the release of IPython 7.0, the powerful Python interactive shell that goes above and beyond the default Python REPL with advanced tab completion, syntactic coloration, and more.
• Not having to support Python 2 allowed us to make full use of new Python 3 features and bring never before seen capability in a Python Console, see the Python 3 Statement.
• One of the core features we focused on for this release is the ability to (ab)use the async and await syntax available in Python 3.5+.
• TL;DR: You can now use async/await at the top level in the IPython terminal and in the notebook, it should — in most of the cases — “just work”.
• The only thing you need to remember is: If it is an async function you need to await it.

Brian #5: molten

Michael #6: A Python love letter

• Dear Python, where have you been all my life? (reddit thread)
• I am NOT a developer. But, I've tinkered with programming (in BASIC, Visual Basic, Perl, now Python) when needed over the years
• I decided that I needed to script something, and hoped that learning how to do it in Python was going to take me significantly less time than doing it manually - with the benefit of future timesavings. No, I didn't go from 0 to production in a day. But if my coworkers will leave me alone, I might be in production by the end of the day tomorrow.
• What I'm working on today isn't super complex — But putting together what I've done so far has just been a complete joy.
• Overall it feels natural, intuitive, and relatively easy to understand and write the code for the basic things I'm doing - I haven't had this much fun doing stuff with code since the days fooling around with BASIC in my teens.
• Feedback / comments
  • Welcome to the club. I came up on c++; my job highly trained me in C and assembly but every project I touch I think, wait, "we can do 95% this in python". And we do.
  • I used to have a chip on my shoulder. I wanted to do things the hard way to truly understand them. I went with C++. … I learned that doing things the smart way was better than doing things the hard way and didn't interfere with learning.
  • I felt the exact same way I finally decided to learn it. It's like a breath of fresh air. Sadly there are few things in my life that made me feel like this, Python and Bitcoin both give me the same levels of enjoyment. … I've used Java, Groovy, Scala, Objective-C, C, C++, C#, Perl and Javascript in a professional capacity over the years and nothing feels as natural to me as Python does. The developers truly deserve any donations they get for making it. … Hell my next two planned tattoos are bitcoin and python logos on my wrists.
  • I taught myself Python a little over 3 years ago and I quickly went from not being programmer to being a programmer. … However the real popularity of Python comes from the depth and quality of 3rd party libraries and how easy they are to install.

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• Brian: Power Mode II