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    Thread: Hot Potato
Post: RE: Hot Potato

as for English being lousy... I mean it's your choice if you like it or not. I quite like it (not born in an English-speaking country). Actually, I am currently working on International Domain Names....
Mustey Bar 7 7,545 Apr-16-2021, 11:15 AM
    Thread: Hot Potato
Post: RE: Hot Potato

I got myself into a bit of a financial pickle and I've actually gone into working as an employee (better interest rates and stability, which is what my household needs right now). So, I am not just go...
Mustey Bar 7 7,545 Apr-16-2021, 08:58 AM
    Thread: Killer features/libraries of various languages
Post: RE: Killer features/libraries of various languages

" (even though Python is older than Java)"
Mustey Bar 8 3,588 Apr-14-2021, 09:53 AM
    Thread: Freelance
Post: RE: Freelance

Those sites (upwork, fiverr, etc) are forms of freelancing but be warned: there is fierce competition there. I use these as a client and my python jobs usually get a lot of candidates. I mean, most of...
Mustey Bar 7 5,988 Apr-13-2021, 03:18 PM
    Thread: Killer features/libraries of various languages
Post: RE: Killer features/libraries of various languages

I think the nature of this question was essentially to bark all sorts of trees :) I actually wanted to start my career with Python but, at the time, Java was much bigger. Now, I am kinda stuck with J...
Mustey Bar 8 3,588 Apr-13-2021, 02:17 PM
    Thread: Killer features/libraries of various languages
Post: RE: Killer features/libraries of various languages

I used to hate that at the beginning but Java's strongly-typed data object strategy is paying off HUGELY. Once I started writing critical programs, in tight schedule, with all sorts of coders involve...
Mustey Bar 8 3,588 Apr-13-2021, 01:48 PM
    Thread: Hot Potato
Post: RE: Hot Potato

but I get it, though... I speak about 5 languages, partly because I just soak up languages (better than anything else I do. Pity there's no money in it!) and partly because I lived in all sorts of pla...
Mustey Bar 7 7,545 Apr-13-2021, 12:57 PM
    Thread: A "problems at work" kinda post (nothing really constructive)
Post: A "problems at work" kinda post (nothing really co...

Part of my deal with autism is that, while I have this weird drive to understand things very fundamentally (and that has given me lots of upsides, in the technical world of programming), I interface w...
Mustey Bar 0 1,465 Apr-13-2021, 12:38 PM
    Thread: Can I get a clue about testing please?
Post: RE: Can I get a clue about testing please?

ah, sorry, are we talking about the same thing: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/change...#changelog ("2009", etc...)
Mustey General Coding Help 8 3,658 Apr-12-2021, 12:06 PM
    Thread: Can I get a clue about testing please?
Post: RE: Can I get a clue about testing please?

oh wow, lucky me - I joined something before it became super common place - maybe I will be the leading pytest expert! :) Thanks for that bit, it helps to make the right choice
Mustey General Coding Help 8 3,658 Apr-12-2021, 12:03 PM
    Thread: Can I get a clue about testing please?
Post: RE: Can I get a clue about testing please?

Yes, that's where I started. However, I was hoping for input from people who write commercial-grade code - for example: is 'unittest' preferable to 'pytest'?
Mustey General Coding Help 8 3,658 Apr-12-2021, 02:33 AM
    Thread: Can I get a clue about testing please?
Post: Can I get a clue about testing please?

I am picking up Python in a serious way, these days. While reading through the syntax and standard libraries, I am also super-curious about the Python ecosystem. In particular, I want to write code t...
Mustey General Coding Help 8 3,658 Apr-11-2021, 08:05 PM
  Photo Thread: Feedback about GUI
Post: Feedback about GUI

Hi maybe I should start with that I have autism and I tend to get annoyed by things that people don't usually spend time on :) Also, I don't always manage to relay what I mean. So, please consider the...
Mustey Board 1 2,427 Apr-11-2021, 07:52 PM
    Thread: I cannot understand aliases, apparently
Post: I cannot understand aliases, apparently

I guess the quickest way is to show you my interaction: >>> a = 3 >>> b = a >>> a is b True >>> a = 4 >>> print (b) 3 a) What I thought: by assigning b = ...
Mustey General Coding Help 7 2,885 Aug-29-2019, 12:09 AM
    Thread: Need some directions about learning python with my disability
Post: RE: Need some directions about learning python wit...

Thank you but I am not a US resident. Also, I am more interested in a book recommendation, please :)
Mustey News and Discussions 3 2,293 Aug-22-2019, 05:54 PM
    Thread: Need some directions about learning python with my disability
Post: Need some directions about learning python with my...

I am 33 year old with autism. It's very hard for me to talk to people unless it's via text. Recently, my employer sold the business onward and I've been made redundant, after 10 years of light DevOps-...
Mustey News and Discussions 3 2,293 Aug-22-2019, 02:19 PM
    Thread: Basic one: Aggregating from a dictionary
Post: Basic one: Aggregating from a dictionary

I am so sorry, that's a stupid mistake (I forgot to return!). Feel free to delete! Sorry, I haven't coded for 2 years (and I wasn't any good when I did!) and now I need to write a python script. Bas...
Mustey General Coding Help 1 1,903 Aug-12-2019, 07:04 PM
    Thread: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!
Post: RE: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!

The tutorials don't get anywhere. It's the student who reads them that gets somewhere. If there was a good source that gave me confidence I can spend my time there and learn the technology properly, I...
Mustey Web Scraping & Web Development 9 4,792 Jul-27-2018, 09:52 AM
    Thread: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!
Post: RE: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!

(Jul-24-2018, 05:32 PM)nilamo Wrote: (Jul-24-2018, 05:29 PM)Mustey Wrote: 2. Kinda disappointing that the tutorials don't mention different ways of installing python Is it? If every tutorial went...
Mustey Web Scraping & Web Development 9 4,792 Jul-26-2018, 09:15 PM
    Thread: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!
Post: RE: Super simple import doesn't work. Please help!

I seem to have had the best direction of all the replies :) Look at my last paragraph in the original post. Turns out the embeddable python installation has a different default path setting. If you ...
Mustey Web Scraping & Web Development 9 4,792 Jul-24-2018, 05:29 PM

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