Overview ‘If you are not a contributor to the Python Source Code then you would never need to build Python from the source’. This is exactly what I was thinking until I joined the IT department of a bank in Singapore as a Software Engineer. …

Overview Problem Statement A few days back I started working in the IT department of a bank as a Senior Software Engineer. This is the first experience with a significant restriction to the internet connectivity for both my workstation and for the servers where we are supposed to deploy the developed Python applications. …

As a beginner I thought the concept behind docker is similar to the concept behind Java, where you build once and deploy anywhere. For Java this capability is achieved through JVM (Java Virtual Machine). We need to install the corresponding compatible JVM for our Operating System. This JVM provides the…

Flask is a WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) compatible micro web framework written in Python. The easy learning curve and wide adoption have made Flask, one of the first choices for REST-API development in python. Due to the wide adoption, we can find a lot of tutorials and blog posts…

MySQL is one of the prominent open source RDBMSs. In the cases of traffic growth to DBMS and when in the cases of backing up data replication is there for the rescue. MySQL comes with a set of in-built replication mechanisms that can be utilized as the need arise. Mainly…

Debugging is inevitable when you are not a brilliant programmer. I’m a terrible programmer and debugging is the only way for survival:). Even though debugging flask applications with PyCharm IDE is as simple as bread and butter, tend to forget it time to time, thus thought of making note of it. if __name__ == '__main__': app.run() Insert the above in any place you’d like. Make sure you have done the imports right. Here to run() method you can give whatever the parameters you desire.

Once in a while even for Linux/Ubuntu servers you might want remote desktop access. Yeah, you heard right! It is graphical user interface access to the operating system. It is true that we can do anything with Linux/Ubuntu operating systems with full privileged shell access. However, there can be some…

At the time of this writing I have been coding in python for five straight months. I came from Java/Javascript background and I was frustrated and always complaining about python packaging system. It was mainly because I did not understand the simple but effective concepts behind python packaging and also…

Often python packages need to depend on files which are not python source (.py) files such as images, data tables, documentation, and etc. Those files need special treatment in order for setuptools to handle them correctly. The mechanism that provides this is the MANIFEST.in file. This is relatively quite simple…