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100 Days of Python, Projects 66-70 #100DaysofCode

Whew, I didn't really think I'd get to 9 parts in this series, and I am only around 2/3rds of the way through even.  I actually may change up the format later with the last 20 projects that are listed as "Professional".  Maybe one post each. The bulk of this round is wrapping up the Flask projects and building a simple blog that runs on Python.  It's been fun.  I've been a bit busier than normal slow my pace has slowed, but that's ok too.  Day 66 in particular felt like it took longer than it really should have, given…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 58-65 #100DaysofCode

Judging by the comments on the lessons, The lessons are getting harder, though frankly, I am finding they are a bit easier.  I feel like my experience with Web Design is a lot of this.  I also have been looking a bit into how to properly host some of these apps to share here, on my Code Projects Page.  I believe I could set them up to run on a production Flask environment, with different ports, then just map sub directories n the domain to different ports. But I am doing my best not to get distracted.  Yes, I have…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 54-57 #100DaysofCode

Back to web development again, but with a different twist this time.  Instead of scraping things, we're learning Flask, to produce little Python based Websites.  In doing these exercises, I find I am kind of wondering why one would use Python over say, Apache, or NGINX or even IIS.  I can sort of see where it's useful, and maybe later we will get to more of it's usefulness.  My primary issue is that the HTML code part of it ends up being VERY specifically Flask based.  Like flask looks for images and CSS in specific folders.  Plus if you use…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 51-53 #100DaysofCode

Here we are now with a few more automated bot tasks.  It's been a fun series of lessons, though I enjoyed using Beautiful Soup more then Selenium.  Selenium runs into too many anti-bot measures on the web to be truly effective.  I mean, it's definitely a useful too, but in my experience, it's not reliable enough.  BS seems to be much more effective, though it can't really interact with pages. In the long run, I think I am more just irritated by "clever bull shit" on web pages that makes both pieces of software a pain to work with. Take…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 45-50 #100DaysofCode

Things are continuing to be interesting and useful here with the introduction of Beautiful Soup, a tool used to parse unstructured data into usable structured data.  Well, more or less that's what it does.  Useful for parsing through Scraped Web Page data that does not have it's own API available. As normal, everything is on GitHub. Day 45 - Must Watch Movies List and Hacker News Headline Scraper As an introduction to using the tool, Beautiful Soup, we had two simple projects.  The training project actually feels more useful than the official project of the day, though I also remixed…