Working with CSV or TSV files, we often ought to ignore the header row (aka. the column headers) before reading the rest of the file. To strip out the first…
Category: Programming
Programming is the process of creating a set of instructions that tell a computer how to perform a task. Programming can be done using a variety of computer “languages” such as SQL, Java, Python, and C++.
How to prettify HTML documents at the terminal
When working with RESTful APIs, developers often hit API endpoints to test and look up data in either JSON or XML as the common formats. We have published two recent…
How to prettify JSON documents at the terminal
Nowadays, many users and application developers know that using RESTful APIs is the most common and useful to grab remotely published data. It’s often to look at any RESTful API…
How to prettify XML documents at the terminal
Recently, we have published a post about prettifying JSON documents at the console window which is likely useful for many developers. In this post using some ideas from this question,…
How to automatically delete a Docker container after running it
Normally, a Docker container persists after it has exited. This allows you to run the container again, inspect its filesystem, and so on. However, sometimes you want to run a…
How To Check If Key Exists In Dictionary In Python
If you try to retrieve a non-existed key of a dictionary, you are gonna stuck an exception obviously. To be get safer, you should do check its existence before doing…
Check internet proxy with curl command on Linux
When your services must talk to the Internet proxy to go out of your secured networks, how can you verify that proxy being effective? In this post, I am going…
Scraping and downloading multiple files from web with Python
In recent posts, we have discussed some methods to scrap and download resources from the web. If you just want to download a few files, it doesn’t matter to iterate…
Parse HTML Document using XPath with lxml in Python
As long as we find a webpage where having data of interest, we sometimes want to extract them automatically but don’t know how to do quickly. Thank to the lxml…