Python 3 latest code crumbs
Your first program
Dec 10, 2021 by erik
This is the interactive version of the example in the Python.land tutorial here....
Read YAML file with multiple documents with Python
Dec 10, 2021 by erik
PyYAML can read YAML files that contain multiple documents by using the yaml.safe_load_all() function. Note that the file needs to be opened as long as you're reading documents from the YAML, so you have to do your processing within the...
How to read YAML with Python and PyYAML
Dec 10, 2021 by erik
There are multiple Python packages that can parse YAML data. However, PyYAML is the most prevalent and also the most complete implementation for parsing YAML. PyYAML is not part of the standard Python library, meaning you need to install it...
Using docstrings to document your code
Dec 8, 2021 by erik
A docstring is a string that occurs as the first statement in a module, function, class, or method definition. Such a docstring becomes the __doc__ special attribute of that object. You can read docstrings with the help() function....
Encoding JSON with json.dumps
Dec 7, 2021 by erik
Encoding JSON data with Python's json.dumps is just as easy as decoding. Use json.dumps (short for ‘dump to string') to convert a Python object consisting of dictionaries, lists, and other native types into a string. To learn more about JSON...
Read JSON with json.loads
Dec 7, 2021 by erik
Parsing a string of JSON data, also called decoding JSON, is as simple as using json.loads(…). Loads is short for load string. It converts: - objects to dictionaries - arrays to lists, - booleans, integers, floats, and strings are recognized...