Lightning Demos: Python - November 5

[aays]

What's something cool you've done in Python recently? Any useful package or trick you've found or learned about? Come by and either present something or sit back and watch others' demos!

There are no rules with Lightning Demos besides demos being no more than 5-10 minutes in length and focusing primarily on the code itself. Anyone is welcome to present!

Where: Zoom (Meeting ID: 861 0071 5008, password: coders - link here) When: Thursday, November 5, from 19:00 - 20:00 Instructor: n/a Skill level: n/a

Installation Instructions: n/a

Note: Our sessions will all be held online until further notice, instead of at the MADLab.

[jessexknight]

Hey @aays! I might not be able to attend, but wanted to share some fitting python "gists", in case you'd like to share somehow on Thurs:

• super simple web server
• recursive reliably flatten nested lists
• decorator to make a gif from any plot function

[jessexknight]

Example output from the gif-maker, since it's not in the gist:

[aays]

@jessexknight Awesome stuff! Will definitely try to share these if you're not able to make it!

[aays]

Some things that were covered past the above list:

• virtualenv and conda env for management of different Python versions
• creating reproducible workflows with snakemake
• ptpython, a feature rich Python REPL/interactive interpreter

Thanks all for a great session!

[QuLogic]

Also mentioned:

• direnv (not Python, but useful for auto-activating environments)
• python3 -m http.server for an even simpler HTTP server

[jessexknight]

Thanks @QuLogic!

You reminded me, the reason I made the web server script vs your solution is: to force the server to assume the default file extension is .html, since the links on my site omit the extension so that the URLs are pretty. Most production servers (e.g. GitHub Pages) will happily load index.html given the URL index, but python3 -m http.server will not, complaining that index does not exist.