sloria

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

dannguyen

Python-tesseract, i.e. pytesseract, is a Python wrapper around Google's Tesseract, an optical-character recognition program.

Here's a basic snippet:

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
fname = './nytimes.com.201506231100.jpg'
img = Image.open(fname)
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img)))

AmeliaBR

SVG <text>: Tips & Tricks

Notes for a presentation by Amelia Bellamy-Royds
SVG Summit, 15 February 2017

I've set up a CodePen as a scratchpad for the live-coding bits. Don't expect anything there to stay there long; fork the pen if you want to save the code & look at it later.

What is it?

aparrish

alexhanna

1. Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide, Gentzkow and Shapiro.
2. Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al.
3. Best Practices for Scientific Computing, Wilson et al.
4. Principled Data Processing, Patrick Ball.
5. The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science, Healy.
6. Avoiding technical debt in social science research, Toor.

• For background on Technical Debt: Wikipedia; D. Sculley et al., [Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt](https://ai.google/resear

justinnhli

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8

for num_claps in range(2, 5):
    globals()[num_claps * 'clap'] = (lambda num_claps:
        (lambda: print(num_claps * '👏'))
    )(num_claps)

clapclap()
clapclapclap()