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The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

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{
    "kariuki": {
        "home": [
            "Buy milk",
            "Look for pest control service",
            "Get a new carpet"
        ],
        "work": [
            "Complete the blogpost",
            "Create presentation for meeting"

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{
    "david": {
        "id":1,
        "name":"David Ngugi",
        "verified":1
    },
    "Victor": {
        "id":2,
        "name":"Victor Mwangi",
        "verified":1

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{
  "rules": {
    "strict": [
      "error",
      "never"
    ],
    "import/no-unresolved": [
      "error",
      {
        "commonjs": true,

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{
  "10100": "Nyeri",
  "10101": "Karatina",
  "10102": "Kiganjo",
  "10103": "Mukurweini",
  "10104": "Mzeiga",
  "10105": "Naro Moru",
  "10106": "Othaya",
  "10107": "Endarasha",
  "10108": "Giakanja",

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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


class Scrapper():
  def initializeScrapping(self,url):
    # Set the url of the page you want to scrap for data\
    urlpage = url
    # Using urllib open the page
    page = urllib.request.urlopen(urlpage)

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class Scrapper():
  def initializeScrapping(self,url):
    # Set the url of the page you want to scrap for data\
    urlpage = url
    # Using urllib open the page
    page = urllib.request.urlopen(urlpage)
    #Parse the webpage
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
    # Get the page data from the div with a class of product list view
    producet_list = soup.find('div',class_="prod-list-view")

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...

def startScrapping(self,items,book_data):
  #Get the current working directory
   current_directory = os.getcwd()
   # Create a folder named books to store the srapped images
   path = os.path.join(current_directory,r"books")
   self.createDirectory(path)
   counter = 1
   #Loop through the product list

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...
 def createDirectory(self,path):
    # Create directory to store the images
    try:
      os.mkdir(path)
    except Exception as e:
      print ("Creation of the directory failed",e )
    else:
      print ("Successfully created the directory %s " % path)