while you can access class attributes using an instance it's not safe to do so — In python, the instance of a class is referred to by the keyword self. Using this keyword you can access not only all instance attributes but also the class attributes. …

Custom attributes are a must to relay domain-relevant information in your project — Working on a large project is challenging on many fronts. One of those challenges is to make sure the logs are relaying all relevant information for the project that could help with debugging issues and failures. Chances are your project is already using Python’s industry-standard logging module for logging purposes…

when you are looking for a complete python solution to your REST API testing needs — This article is a continuation of the article I submitted about same time last year. Can’t believe its been an year now, so I wanted to go ahead and finish the series on this topic. What topic will I cover this time? I want to take a different approach this time around and try to solve a…

pythons built-in exceptions are great but not good enough… — New programmers are often confused about the topic of exception handling and look for best practices in adopting exception handling into their existing code but without proper knowledge of how exception handling works under the hood it can cause their programs to behave unexpectedly. In this article I will present…

prefer selling options to buying if you want to be a winner in the long run — Investing in the stock market is confusing for many beginners and even veterans believe it or not who don’t understand all the different strategies you can use to make money. WallStreetBets on reddit is full of stories of investors losing all their life savings on crazy bets. You don’t have…

what happens when you blindly catch all exceptions in your program — New programmers are often confused about the topic of exception handling and look for best practices in adopting exception handling into their existing code but without proper knowledge of how exception handling works under the hood it can cause their programs to behave unexpectedly. In this article I will not…

Why complicate such a trivial task using a blob of code when you can use glob? — Glob is an inbuilt Python module that is used to find path names in your filesystem which match a specific pattern. It takes its inspiration from the Unix shell-style of pattern matching. So, What’s the Use Case? Ok, we have an idea about the module now but what about the use case? Where might you…

Use your IDE’s IntelliSense and Static Analysis to its full capacity — While Python is a great everyday language which finds its place in every single domain whether it be Finance, Data Science, Web Development, or IT Infrastructure; its usage in large scale projects is often limited and the well known reason given is in its dynamically typed nature which can make…

when the __init__ method doesn’t support all the ways you want class users to be able to create instances of a class — Class methods are great alternative constructors that can be used as factory methods to create instances of class by supporting different instantiation arguments. Lets look at an example Say you have a very simple Date class as shown below that can be instantiated by providing three arguments: a Year, a Month and a Day