Today I learned: Replace function in Django’s ORM.
Sometimes we stumble across a bug or a change in the business logic that forces us to change the value of a column based on another from the same table. I thought that Django might have this solved and indeed it has through the database functions.
In my case I had to update the value of a column replacing its current value and, at the same time, using the value of another column.
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If some day you wondered how to inspect a HTTP request to try out some webhook or even an SalesForce outbound message (😅), I have a tip for you: requestbin + ngrok.
The requestbin is an open source project with this purpose. It’s self hosted! You can run it locally using Docker or even deploy it to a free Heroku dyno. If you decide to go local, ngrok can help as well.
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The module pathlib is around since Python 3.4 but I must confess that I’ve started to use it a short time ago. For those who are listening this name for the first time, pathlib is an Object-oriented filesystem paths module; in other words, a module with few classes to help you to manipulate paths in a pratical way.
Each class has a proper use and if you wanna dive into it, I suggest to take a look in the docs.
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In this Python Drops episode we’re going to talk about f-strings, also known as Literal String Interpolation. This feature was added on Python 3.6 and the goal is making the String interpolation more readable. Interpolation is a fancy name to mount/create/construct a String from data you want to: a variable, a method return and so on.
Before it, the common way to interpolate Strings looked like this:
Format Strings (example from the oficial documentation)
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In other words: Ruby, JavaScript or Go?
I applied to a position in a really nice company from Sillicon Valley, with an office in Berlin. In the job description I just paied attention to the fact that the person should know Python - the language I like most. 🤓
When the first email from the company arrived, I was very excited!
Hi Ana, Thank you for your interest in Bla!
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