Working on the get tempature / mini weather app.

• Learnt about type hints.(I intuitively needed this feature as I kept dotting in my editor waiting for stuff to pop up :P glad to know such a thing exists and Python supports it.)
• Learnt about named tuples. I love anything that will let me name things the way I want.
• Learnt about sanitising text that we extract from a web page; stripping white space and new lines and crazy characters and what not.
• Grateful for the batteries included nature of Python. Well, not necessarily batteries included as much as batteries available on demand. Batteries of all shapes and sizes at that. I can only imagine what writing such a program from scratch must involve. To all the generous people, making modules and libraries available to use freely, and to the infrastructure that delivers it, you folk have my undying gratitude.

Cooking along on the weather project.
Managed to pull down a web page, put it into a object, return in and then create some ‘soup’ out of it.
It handily lets me inspect a lot of stuff, but finding what I want seems to be confusing.
Brains are mush right now.
Will give it another go, tomorrow.

No work done today.
Mom’s area got quarantined in a total lockdown, so was busy there most of the day.
Hundred and one, turns to a hundred and two.

Started up with a weather app today.
It is supposed to scrape the weather from Weather Underground, parse it a bit and then give you the weather.
Made the template of the app.
For some reason requests does not seem to be recognised in VSCode.
Will do more tomorrow.

Journal progam done!
Yay! Find the code over at Gitlab or Github.

The program is a lot more basic than I expected.
It does not let me keep multiple journals :)
But I’m happy with what I learnt.

• How to put together a program
• How to use modules
• Found a little extension in VSCode, called VSCode autoDocstring, that makes typing in docstrings a breeze.
• Oh, I learnt about docstrings, to help document what I am doing.
• And brushed up on the basics, loops, conditionals, etc.

Here’s to more happy programming.

Still working on the journal program.

But made significant progress today.

• Learnt how to read and write from files (lots more practice required)
• Learnt how to pass variables around between modules, that are spread across files (still find it confusing. guess that’ll ease with practice)
• Learnt what all that __name__ stuff is all about. (pretty simple actually. if main is not my name, i refuse to run. you call me in vain¹)
• And finally, learnt what docstrings are. They’re basically bread crumbs I leave for myself and other folks reading the code, to figure out, for example, what a function does, what input it expects, what output it’ll poop out and all that jazz. Basically, documentation for programmers, by programmers.
• Once I document my code up tomorrow, I will be done.

Here’s to more productive days!