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#29 Responsive Bar Charts with Bokeh, Flask, and Python 3

#28 The meaning of _ in Python

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#26 How have you automated your life, or CLI, with Python?

#25 Could we have more in-database machine learning please?

Welcome to Python bytes. Episode 24, recorded May 2, 2017. This episode is sponsored by rollbar:

#23 Can you grok the GIL?

#22 PYTHONPATH considered harmful

#21 Python has a new star framework for RESTful APIs

#20 Finding similar but not identical images in 128 bits via Python

#19 Put your Python dictionaries in a box and apparently Python is really wanted

**#1 Brian:[pdir2](https://github.com/laike9m/pdir2)** * Nice use of animated gif to showcase what it does. * It’s a replacement for `dir()` to use interactively. * `pip install pdir2` , but `import pdir` . * `pdir(something)` gives you all that `dir()` does, but splits things into categories like exceptions, functions, attributes, … * each item on one line, and includes the first line of the docstring for the item. * Also, uses colors nicely. (Except I need to run it in a shell with non-black background on my mac or I can’t see the docstring output. ) * Hugely useful if you use `dir()` interactively. *

**#1 Brian:[python-fire](https://github.com/google/python-fire)** * Suggested by several listeners * Under the Google repo set on github but not a Google product. * “Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.” _Some Benefits as listed on the project page_ * a simple way to create a CLI in Python. * a tool for exploring and debugging Python code. * exploring existing code by turning other people's code into a CLI. * makes transitioning between Bash and Python easier. My take: * Enough documentation right in the github repo for me to try it out. * Concise but thorough documentation, as well. * I wouldn’t ship a CLI with this, as it’s too heavy. * depends on ipython and six * It would be useful to very quickly throw together a CLI to try out some Python code from bash. * For internal development and debugging tools. * I think this week I’m going to try to build a few CLI tools for directly sending and receiving commands to some test instruments.

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