However, I also have periods where a form of writer’s block kicks in and wonder, “What else could I use Python for?”. As if by magic, Lee Vaughan has answered with “Real World Python” which contains examples of real-world problems being answered by Python and then expands on the solutions with fun challenge projects and further reading.
Python's Requests module is a great way for interacting with data over the internet, however when designing/building a Python program that uses Requests that can mean lots (and lots) of Request calls to test a function. This is not too great if you are testing over a poor internet connection, or on limited bandwidth or … Continue reading Caching Requests (Python)
The UK recently lowered the alert level for Covid-19 / Coronavirus pandemic, with the UK at level 3 (at time of writing this blog, 24th June 2020) and there has been discussion in the media about R levels differing at local levels and of the possibility of local lock downs. On the 23rd June 2020 … Continue reading UK Covid-19 / Coronavirus Data (Python)
The Python language has a list of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) that have been suggested as ways to improve Python. In this blog post I am going to look briefly at PEP-8. The Index Of PEPs Python.org keeps a list of all the PEPs at: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/ once a PEP has been assigned a PEP number, … Continue reading Trying To Write More Pythonic With PEP-8 (Python)
Less of a blog post and more of a reminder to myself that when Python says: AttributeError: partially initialized module 'MODULE_NAME' has no attribute 'ATTRIBUTE_NAME' (most likely due to a circular import) It is normally because I have named my Python file the same as the module I am importing and caused a circular reference. … Continue reading AttributeError: partially initialized module has no attribute…(Python)
In my previous post I looked at the ways of using nmap and Python to scan hosts, and in this post I am going to look at outputting the results. But first a public service announcement: DO NOT USE THE BELOW INFORMATION TO ATTACK, MONITOR OR BREAK INTO ANY COMPUTER / NETWORK / DEVICE THAT … Continue reading Python and nmap: Controlling The Output (Python)
nmap is a powerful software tool that can be used to scan a network for hosts, see what ports they have open and even try to identify what operating system the hosts have running. I previously created a basic port scanner in Python, but in this blog post I am going to look at using … Continue reading Python and nmap: Scanning For Hosts (Python)
After making rainbow displays on the sense hat my son realised that the Raspberry Pi sense hat's LED display could be used to output art including a creeper from Minecraft. Note: This is inspired by https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/make-a-sense-hat-rainbow-display-for-your-window The sense hat has an 8x8 display of individual LEDs which can be programmed to display individual colours. For this … Continue reading Sense Hat Pictures (Raspberry Pi)
"Track and Trace" has got some attention in recent times here in the UK as the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) lockdown level looks to be relaxed. Part of the "Track and Trace" program is a mobile application that uses low energy bluetooth beaconing to see what other devices running the application have been close by. This has … Continue reading Python and Bluetooth – Part 1: Scanning For Devices And Services (Python)
I will hold my hands up here and admit, I am not great at advertising my website on social media. When posting a new blog post it auto generates a link on some social media sites for me, but I rarely ever repost links especially for my older blog posts. Today I am hoping to … Continue reading AutoTweeting WebLinks (Python)
