Helping Out a new Raspberrian
The Raspberry Pi is more of a multi-dimensional gateway than anything else. It’s an entry point for kids. It’s a point of discovery for young folks. It’s a great environment for beginning to learn several languages and also for beginning to cheaply and safely explore computer hardware. It’s more than just an entry point for […]
Google Poor for Python – Here is A Better Resource
Let me share up-front a not-politically-correct attitude: I am a Google fan. OK, I admit they have probably gotten too large and powerful, but their’s is an ecological niche that was going to be filled by somebody. Google has in many regards been a counterweight to Microsoft and, in my opinion, they have been fairly […]
With and Close now obsolete?
The module pathlib was long overdue and continues to improve, though it still doesn’t fill all the gaps. But one unexpected boon from it is NOT a consolidation of another module’s functions but the addition of read and write functions that eliminate the need for the “with” structure and/or the “close” command. Most of us […]
Amortization, and, commas, etc.
Getting and vetting a decimal number, like a dollar amount or an annual interest rate, ought to be a lot easier than it is. I keep thinking there has to be an easier way. I would love to have your input. I will save you the tortuous mental process I went through but here is […]
Simple Amortization: geography
Before anything else, for any given app – especially those with columnar output – you have to know what kind of geography you have with which to work. That is, what screen area are you going to design. I simplify tkinter GUI programming by keeping on hand code for a couple of “standard” test setups […]
A Simple GUI Amortization Program?
10/21/18 Simple? Really? OK, it is posted today under the GUI Demo section but a series of observations about problems, solutions, and lessons will be fodder for a couple of blogs. After posting (a month ago) the bare bones, 36 line, brief function for amortization – see: OTHER MODULES & Stuff -> …..Spreadsheet formulas: a […]
Another Latin Filler Text Option
10/8/18 A suggestion from user Kiara Ferreira: Kiara found the site www.lipsum.com over saturated with ads and suggests instead: https://www.websiteplanet.com/fr/webtools/lorem-ipsum/ Kiara’s exact words were: Je me suis donc lancée dans des recherches en ligne, et j’ai pu trouver l’outil ci-dessous. Il est sans pub et va droit au but, et je me suis dit que […]
* & ** argument unpack surprise benefit
8/14/18 The use of * and ** to unpack iterable arguments has been around since 2007 but in squeezing a couple of lines about it into Big Daddy’s General Python Toolbox I realized there is a major benefit to using the technique when combining dictionaries that I have not seen pointed out elsewhere. Like when […]
Emulating Spreadsheet Financial Functions
7/19/18 – An article has been added under the Modules Heading that is not about a module. The title of it is Emulating the Math of Spreadsheet Financial Formulas and Functions in Python. It was originally going to be be a module, but for reasons briefly explained there it won’t be. What the article DOES do is […]
Evaluating the next Personal Project
For me, Python is just for fun. Part of the fun is just the joy of learning. Part of the fun, at the age of 70, is reinforcing my mental acuity. And part of the fun is organizing information in ways that others can use to help them understand something. This is an odd and […]