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Scraping HTML Websites with Beautiful Soup

Henning Jacobs — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:45:00 GMT

Scraping HTML websites for information is a common task. This blog post shows how to extract information via the Beautiful Soup (bs4) Python library.

TSV - Tab Separated Values: My Favorite Format

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:09:00 GMT

TSV (Tab-Separated Values) is a simple text format for tabular data. I'll describe how I work with TSV files on the command line and why TSV is my favorite format for tabular data.

My Python Project Setup

Henning Jacobs — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:07:00 GMT

I have 8+ Python Open Source projects on github.com and on codeberg.org. This post describes my current set of tools and practices I use for maintaining them.

Kubernetes and Python

Henning Jacobs — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:27:00 GMT

While Go is the language-of-choice in the cloud-native world, Python has a huge community and makes it really easy to extend Kubernetes in only a few lines of code. This post is a follow-up to a talk I gave last week in Prague.

Checking for file existence on potentially hanging NFS mounts

Henning Jacobs — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:23:51 GMT

NFS mounts can be annoying as they tend to "hang" (for various reasons). Here I show how I replaced os.path.exists(..) with a better solution for potentially hanging paths.

Writing Python command line scripts

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:57:29 GMT

Python is great for writing command line scripts. Before extending a three line Bash script I usually rethink and implement it in Python. This post should summarize some conventions and best practices I recommend.

Synchronizing GnuCash mobile with GnuCash desktop

Henning Jacobs — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:59:48 GMT

Since 2002 I'm using GnuCash to track my personal accounts, incomes and expenses. Just recently I discovered the GnuCash mobile Android app. After importing my GnuCash account tree into the mobile app I could easily add expense transactions. The only problem was: How do I get the recorded transactions back into my GnuCash desktop application? The mobile app supports exporting transactions to QIF or OFX files. These files can be imported by the desktop application. But I realized that this manual process is too cumbersome to use on a daily basis.

Starting over with Nikola

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:48:52 GMT

This site was down for quite some time. I did not want to deploy the old PHP-based site again and therefore looked for alternatives. I never used a static site generator before, but as this site has only a single author (me), I decided to go for it. Python is my favorite programming language, so the site generation tool should also be Python based. I started to look at the Python Wiki blog software list and quickly narrowed my choice down to Nikola: