The program is almost done. Had lots of fun. Today was the first time, I went over a huge, run – see error – fix error – run again loop. Drove me absolutely batty. I managed to get it all up and running. Documentation pending. Hope to have it all neatly tied with a bow, tomorrow.
Started up with a new program. While the last one dealt with working with text on the internet, this one deals with binary data. The point to go get some images (lolcats) in my case, download them to a folder and display them. Watched all the videos today. More tomorrow.
Ok the weather app is done. Er, only it’s not the weather app anymore, it’s just a temperature app. The program was meant to pull all sorts of details from Wunderground and apparently the site has changed into a different, more complicated (to me) web page. I did not want to spend all my time, futzing with CSS. So I figured out how to just pull out the place name and the temperature and display it. ...
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.