The single folder application Recently, I faced an issue of package name clashing between a private library we developed in my company and a Django application I was developing. This made me rethink how to organize a Django project. Default organization If you follow the official Django tutorial, you will end up…

Imagine this scenario, you have created a Todo API and you return this payload when requesting a single todo. { "created_at": "2023-08-27T17:31:14.355813", "done": False, "id": "70592516-24d5-4582-8d80-54b2c70b5ab1", "metadata": { "foo": "bar", "text": "bla bla" }, "name": "Learn Python", "updated_at": None } How will you test this payload? …

commitizen at your rescue! When several people are working together on a project, it is important that communication and documentation are well established. Git commit messages are a reflection of these two aspects. …

You may have wondered like me how some command line interfaces like linters as Ruff or web servers like uvicorn watch files in real-time and react to changes. In this article, I will show you how to implement such a feature using the watchfiles library. It will also be an…

An alternative to Postman There are excellent solutions that exist to test web applications and APIs. To name just a few: Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and Hoppscotch. They work well, if you are satisfied with that, you may not need to read the rest of this article. But if you are…

Create robust and maintainable projects using the right tools After 9 years of Python development, I tested different ways to install Python and configure my projects. For those who are rather junior or even curious, to avoid you tearing your hair out on these issues as I did, I will…

furl at your rescue If you ever manipulate URLs in Python using the urlparse library, you may have felt frustrated because you had to juggle several APIs to get to your end. With furl you have an intuitive and uniform API to get the job done. …

Formatting tools for python One thing we shouldn’t waste time on when code reviewing is understanding the code style of the author. We should have consistent code formatting across our team. This is also true for open-source software. To help with coding formatting they are various tools that exist in…

Ruff: your new best friend for fast code listing The default linter many Pythonista know and use is probably Flake8. I’m also a huge user of this excellent library. But recently, I discovered Ruff, and it seems to be a game changer. I will introduce some of its features in…