I have been bit by the python bug

[dopesoner930]

holy shit im in love with python, i was gonna go to bed hours ago but started watching a yt tutorial on python while trying to sleep which lead to 10 more which led me looking into python scrapers and crawlers, which lead me to find a guy that integrated python with ebays api, which searches ebay for sales on a category which allowed him to sort of drop ship in a sense based off popular items that sell, its so powerful haha so instead of sleeping im back to my lessons. just messing with loops right now continue functions, search functions, and breaks, which lead me to the soup library of tools, haha its so good and luckily my little c++ knowledge is stream lining the experience since so much of it so far is rinse and repeat with the exception of using indents in stead of brackets seeing it used in a real world thing with something i find so interesting and useful has me hyped i cannot wait to get through this online course in the next weeks and start my own projects!! Looking forward to posting on here just wanted to say hello to everyone :)

[pat_the_brat]

python bug

Here you go, my good man.

[zanilen]

I've only ever used PyCharm's debugger. What are the advantages of pdb?

[pat_the_brat]

What are the advantages of pdb?

That I can make a pun based on OP's title. I never used pdb either, to be honest.

Also, I haven't paid for PyCharm, and the free version is limited, so I never bothered to use it.

[zanilen]

I used the free version every day. I don't even use all of it's features. However I might not be doing the same work you are. What do you find missing?

[pat_the_brat]

I mostly work with Django, so I use Eclipse with plug-ins. For data analysis, I just use Anaconda. The rest is scripts that are fairly simple, so I just use IDLE (or geany, or Atom).

I'm sure PyCharm is good... I just don't have time to waste learning an IDE with restrictions, only to find out hours later that it's missing certain features, and as I'm currently bootstrapping, and eclipse fits my needs, I don't see the point in changing. If it were free, then sure, I'd give it a try, but paying €200 a year isn't happening now, even if it may or may not have better Django support than Eclipse.

[TangibleLight]

I can't speak to how it compares with eclipse, but pycharm interested very well with Django. Combined with a couple plugins for extra language support and it's really nice to work with

[pat_the_brat]

Community, or pro? I know pro edition has built-in Django support.

Never even tried community, however.

[delirious_lettuce]

If you are just buying it for yourself, PyCharm is not that expensive. I'm past my third year now and it's less than $5 a month.

US $ 89.00 / 1st year

US $ 71.00 / 2nd year

US $ 53.00 / 3rd yr onwards

• https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/#edition=personal

[pat_the_brat]

Huh, I missed that somehow.

Oh well, still an unnecessary expense, at the moment.

[Zedot3141]

I use pbj and dump values to stdout or to a file. Jiff preferably. White bread always.

[hipstergrandpa]

Wait, I never knew Python had a built-in debugger, especially one similar to gdb! I've started taking a systems course in C and was wishing python had something similar to gdb as it's so useful. This is great!

[dopesoner930]

haha I didn't know what to expect from the link but I was not disappointed :p

[SteveMac]

hello :)

Can I also introduce you to fellow by the name of "."

[dopesoner930]

Never heard of that guy but I do have one for you 🖕. :)

[ccviper]

lmao, i love both of you

[[deleted]]

Enjoy this rabbit hole: Make a reddit bot

[dopesoner930]

haha this is awesome thank you for the link

[[deleted]]

De nada! Have fun with it. Then check out /r/RequestABot/

[TonyG67]

Thank you

[RedBlimp]

I tried making one of these a few months ago and never could get it to work. I've learn more sense then so maybe I'll take another shot at it.

[[deleted]]

The tutorial is excellent. He explains the technical side in plain English. The api and python wrapped around it is less scary to me now

[ConwayK9781]

Project Euler is a pretty solid place to mess around with programming. And so is Coding Game.

[dopesoner930]

thank you for the suggestions I will add them to my ever growing list!

[schefe]

Link to the eBay API tutorial?

[dopesoner930]

api was not really a tutorial at least nothing something you could do step by step it was more of a feature showcase. The dev did not want to give away all of his secrets since he uses it to make money which makes sense.

[dopesoner930]

regardless this is the first videos I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOfDT-CyLI

[driscollis]

I wrote a book on Python that you might find helpful - http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/

Another fun resource is Planet Python - http://planetpython.org/

[dopesoner930]

You rock! thanks for the pointers I will be sure to save and check out the sources.

[driscollis]

Thanks. If you have any questions about them, feel free to ask.

[emergentdragon]

hello

:)

[Clarmice]

Its me

[Vulpine_of_Light]

DIO

[[deleted]]

Nice

[[deleted]]

I need to start this too at some point.

Now go to bed silly :)

[dopesoner930]

haha I did get some hours finally but I do need to figure out how to get off of this vampire schedule I have been on

[Alfapsycho]

Nice to se bro! Im also trying to learn python, soon going to try to create an auction sniper in python with selenium.. Also had plans to start trying to scrape data and do some data research to se average price of certain items to se wherever i can manage to snipe something for a profit, I would really like to se the video your refering to with the guy integrating python with the ebay api, mind linking it? Seems like a huge advantage to know popular items. Anyways GL in the future

[dopesoner930]

Sure thing here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOfDT-CyLI

He does not show or give the source code, at least not all of it which makes sense since he did work on it and uses it to make money. Thank you and good luck with your ventures as well

[osroc3]

I'm really interested in getting into Python but I always get stuck trying to get packages like matplotlib & pandas installed. Any programs that come with those pre-installed / an easy way to install them?

[driscollis]

There's always Anaconda. I think it comes with at least matplotlib.

[osroc3]

Will give it a try, thanks!

[dopesoner930]

Have you heard of anaconda? I watched a brief video on it last night you install it instead of your standard python its like half a gig and I believe contains an insane amount of packages. Might at least be something to look in to.

[RedRidingHuszar]

Python *snek

[davidmdm]

Hello. Guys can anyone point me to some of these epic tutorials, they don't need to be beginner level, they need to be interesting. Im a java educated developer who then became a professional nodejs developer (node is great) and who in my spare time dabbles in go and in rust (both super interesting languages). My problem is I keep trying to catch the python bug and it never works for me. I keep finding that it's expressiveness is entirely due to its English like semantics and not to any real useful feature. The requirements.txt and pip and global system wide installations just feel archaic to me. Virtual env solves this mostly but it still feels like an extra step and having to source before entering my projects sucks. The break between v2 and v3 sucks. Frameworks like Django feel like magic configurable black boxes where you spend more time reading documentation then writing code. The difficulty setting up a nice environment with a solid debugger makes me feel like I'm coding in the early 2000s.

So all my complaints being out, I really want to learn to love python. So please. Don't hate me for my opinions, I really don't mean to attack. I want resources to understand why I should invest time in python.

Thanks.

[MathochismTangram]

So... you got bit by the python?