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If you’re working on different projects, especially large projects, you should be using Python Environments. So what is a Python Environment and why should I care? The best definition is the one from the official documentation: The venv module provides support for creating lightweight “virtual environments” with their own site directories, optionally isolated from system site directories. …
Have you seen this in any VB6 projects you’ve ever worked on? If you haven’t, or have but didn’t understand what this is, read on cause I’ll tell you what it is and why and when you want to use this. PublicNotCreatable is one of the values that you can set for the class Instancing …
In line with making apps flexible, Python really, really makes it super easy to accomplish that. And this will be (sort-of) a follow up on my previous blog about args and kwargs. If you haven’t read that, here it is: From the previous blog, we’ve seen how to pass positional and keyword arguments to a …
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How do you make your code flexible? Well, there are many ways to do that, and one of them is by moving one or more of its functionalities outside of it. This makes your code behave dynamically different, based on what it was fed with. Sounds confusing? Yep, that’s what I thought too when I …
If you’ve been using VB.Net or any modern programming languages, you’ve probably used Try..Catch (or try..except) when performing routines that could potentially fail. But in the classic Visual Basic 6.0 language, there is no such construct… right? Technically there’s none…but…there is a way to mimic that behavior — or at least the mechanism using pure/native …
Probably one of the most misunderstood (or mysterious) terms in Python are the “args” and “kwargs”, prefixed with a single and double star (*) character respectively, but definitely one of the best features of Python once you understand how it works. If you have not seen this before, here’s a sample code that contains both …
If I’m going to create my own Python Tutorial Course, here’s what I’d probably use as course syllabus: Basics hello, world operators & expressions variables & scope data types type casting data structures value comparison multiple assignment comments user input output formatting indentation decision making (branching) error handling Intermediate function loop args & kwargs importing …
Today we’re going to create a function that you can use in your applications that involves giving users temporary password. It’s not limited to password generation though, you can use this function to generate a meal ticket or transaction number, etc. By the way, this assumes you have read the previous blog. If not, here’s …
A very useful but little known module in Python is the “string” module. It rarely gets attention because Python provides a lot of the functionalities for strings on all string values, but this “string” module is almost always used on a specific use case which I’ll mention later in this blogpost. We don’t even have …
Background Visual Basic 6.0 doesn’t really have a built-in function to encrypt or decrypt text but sometimes you need them in your projects like when you need to encrypt a license key or a configuration, or you just want to protect a text during transmission (example, when you have 2 or more VB6 applications that …