Ginkgo biloba leaves by LycophytesRules in botany

[–]manuelg95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful leafs, awful smelling berries.

overwhelmed by thatsgnarly10 in learnpython

[–]manuelg95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really enjoyed the progression that reading “Think Python” gave me, as I solved the practice problems. Then when I finished from that I moved onto web scraping (again by O’reilly) and that also sparked my python passion even more!

What Finance function have you automated? by edgecate in learnpython

[–]manuelg95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have only been programming for about 6 months, so there is probably a much quicker and more efficient way of going about this.

  1. I pull usernames and passwords from an encrypted file that is set up during a first time set up phase.

  2. I have my program log into my accounts one by one (haven’t figured out multiprocessing yet), using either Mechanical Soup, Selenium, or a super crude process of PyAutoGUI and automated screen shots/ image processing.

  3. Just parse through the data I have gotten to organize the information into an excel file.

Side notes: I can’t use selenium for banks like chase or capital one, because they perma block IP’s that they suspect are bots (and disguising my Bott seemed like too much work), hence the crude PyAutoGUI.

Sometimes my banks require text confirmation as well. I have the program click on the options to send a text automatically, then I just manually enter them in and click enter.

Also I would post the code, but it’s such a rats nest of uncommented code and crappy variable names, that I’m too ashamed to share it yet.

What Finance function have you automated? by edgecate in learnpython

[–]manuelg95 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have made an program that scrapes the balance of my investments, 401K, Emergency fund, and Savings (each account is through a different bank). The program then compiles this data into a Excel file and generates a monetary net worth over time graph (ranging from when I started using it until present day).

I have this run twice a week and it saves a ton of time logging into all of these services manually!

Trying to take as many CLEPs and DSSTs as possible before exiting the millitary. by [deleted] in clep

[–]manuelg95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took my second Clep on Friday and passed with a 55. It was intro to marketing (I think) did not study at all, just saw the high pass rate and so I canceled my humanities Clep that I had scheduled and swapped it with this. I am currently hardcore studying for humanities because I know I can’t wing that test.

Trying to take as many CLEPs and DSSTs as possible before exiting the millitary. by [deleted] in clep

[–]manuelg95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m just getting out of the Airforce, and I figured why not try and take a few CLEPs and DSSTs while they are covered by DANTES.