27
May
How I Fix the SSL Error in My First Wikipedia Crawler Using Python
I built my first Wikipedia crawler in Web Scraping with Python, and it crashed with an SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED as soon as urlope...
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24
May
How to Make an RLC Circuit in Python
I’m the kind of developer who learns best when I see something appear on-screen. So when I found out that Schemdraw can turn a few line...
24
May
How to Create a Spiral Art with Python
I like small projects that give an instant payoff. A spiral is perfect for that: a handful of lines, a press of Run in python, and you ...
20
May
How to Fix HTTPSConnectionPool SSL Errors When Using Python Request
Today, I want to share an experience I had recently while working on a Python project that uses IBM Watson’s Tone Analyzer API to analy...
20
May
How to Fix The Leap Motion Error Device in Python
When I first started working with Leap Motion using Python, I was really excited to build a simple application that could detect hand g...
17
May
How to Solve BeautifulSoup HTMLParser Fail
When working with HTML data, one common task is parsing and removing HTML tags to extract the plain text. If you've ever tried to do th...
12
May
How to Fix the u2013 Unicode Error in Openpyxl on Python 2.7
I hit this snag while cleaning up an old Python 2.7 box that still churns out reports. One Excel file refused to convert because of a s...
12
May
Fix WinError 5 Pip Permission Errors on Windows 8.1 with Python
I hit this wall on a Windows-8.1 laptop running Python 3.4: every time I tried to upgrade pip (or install anything) the installer froze...
10
May
How Do I Fix the Text/Byte Split Issue in Python 3’s XML Generation?
The script builds a tiny XML file with lxml: it creates a <results> root, adds two nodes for “Country” and “City,” then tries to ...
10
May
How to Run a Execute cURL Commands in Python
I love quick wins in the terminal. Type a single line, hit Enter, and data flows back. But sooner or later I need that same call inside...