Coding

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…

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…