Problem Formulation and Solution Overview When a new file or folder is created, it comes with its own set of default permissions. From time to time, you will need to adjust these permissions. To follow this article, download the finxter.csv file and move this file to the current working directory. What are File Permissions? File … Read more
In this article, I’ll show you how to check the version of a Python module (package, library). These are the eight best ways to check the version of a Python module: Let’s dive into some examples for each of those next! Method 1: pip show To check which version of a given Python library, say … Read more
During your career as a Coder, you will find, at some point, a need to set up and run a Devserver on your local computer. Working locally is a great way to develop your code before deploying it on a Production Server. This software has several additional applications you can install to ensure the Local … Read more
Problem Formulation 💡 Challenge: Given a CSV file. How to convert it to an excel file in Python? We create a folder with two files, the file csv_to_excel.py and my_file.csv. We want to convert the CSV file to an excel file so that after running the script csv_to_excel.py, we obtain the third file my_file.csv in … Read more
[toc] Problem Formulation: Let’s say we have a directory containing other subdirectories which further contain files. How do we search for a specific file in the subdirectories in our Python script? Scenario: We have a parent folder (Parent) with child folders (child_1, child_2, and child_3). There are files in the parent directory/folder as well as … Read more
Summary: os.path.basename(path) enables us to get the file name from the path, no matter what the os/path format. Another workaround is to use the ntpath module, which is equivalent to os.path. ✨Problem: How to extract the filename from a path, no matter what the operating system or path format is? For example, let’s suppose that … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Desktop Developer? Let’s have a look at the definition first: A desktop developer is a software developer creating software applications for desktop-based operating systems like macOS, Windows, and Linux. In some cases, these applications don’t require an uninterrupted … Read more
[toc] Problem Statement: How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python? Example: Suppose you have a file with the following path: C:\Users\SHUBHAM SAYON\Documents\folder1 Here, we just need to get the filename, i.e. “demo“. In Python, files are used to store information. We can perform many operations on the files- read, write, … Read more
In this article we explore how to install Ghostscript on numerous different platforms and operating systems. What is Ghostcript? Why install it? What is Ghostscript, and why would we want to install it? To understand this we should first learn about Postscript. Postscript Postscript is a page description language geared towards desktop publishing documents. If … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is .NET? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official .NET website: “.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries … Read more
Annual Income How much does a VBA Developer make per year? The average annual income of a VBA Excel Developer is between $96,000 and $125,000 according to Salary.com (source): Let’s have a look at the hourly rate of VBA Developers next! Hourly Rate VBA Developers are well-paid on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. … Read more
[toc] Problem Statement: Reading from stdin in Python. Reading inputs from the user is one of the fundamental building blocks that we learn while learning any programming language. The output of most codes depends on the user’s inputs. Hence, in this article, we are going to learn how to read from stdin in Python. There … Read more