Programming Live Blog – Chad Dotson

Authorizing a twitter-bot

By chad August 16, 2015Programming, Programming Live BlogNo Comments

So last night I ran into a small issue, how to authorize a twitter bot to use an application without stubbing together a website and logging in with the bot account? The answer, this little script using twython: import twython app_key = raw_input("Your app key: ") app_secret = raw_input("Your app…

Virtualenvwrapper / Updating Tools

By chad August 15, 2015Programming Live Blog, TipsNo Comments

If you are using virtualenvwrapper with the default version of python on your system (OSX in particular) and I recommend updating pip and setuptools as part of your postmkvirtualenv hook. Just add the following line to YOURVIRTUALENVDIRECTORY/postmkvirtualenv. pip install -U pip setuptools

Don't use parse_requirements in your code

By chad August 15, 2015Programming, Programming Live BlogNo Comments

I just ran into trouble while building a setuptools package. Specifically, I was using pip.req.parse_requirements to process package dependencies from a requirements.txt file and noticed that upgrading pip would break my code. Upon further investigation, I found out that they(authors of pip) do not guarantee the api of their internal…