Python packaging can be difficult to navigate. At some point in your python development career you will want to share your project or library with someone else, or deploy it to another location. While it is possible to send the python files individually, anything more than a very simple project will run into difficulties with… Read More »
JSON is a common format for sending data to and from a RESTful API. In this post we’ll see how we can allow a simple Flask API to receive a JSON input. This post extends my previous post which made a simple Flask RESTful API and uses the Flask ‘get_json()’ method to accept JSON input.… Read More »
Tox is a tool for building and running a matrix of test environments. This is useful when, for example, you need to support several different versions of python. You don’t want to have to manually run tests againsts each of your supported versions. This post shows you how you can use tox with anaconda. If,… Read More »
Python iterables are lists, tuples, dictionaries and other similar objects – in other words things that can be iterated over. Python provides a way to ‘unpack’ these iterables which can be a useful shortcut in some situations. This post looks at unpacking iterables, and how it can also be used to make functions functions take… Read More »
GeoJSON and KML are formats for storing spatial information. KML files are commonly found with Google Earth type applications, so it can be useful to convert KML to GeoJSON. The python library kml2geojson can be used to convert KML to GeoJSON. kml2geojson works as either a tool from the command line, or can be used… Read More »