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Brian #1: Replacing Bash Scripting with Python.


reading & writing files
CLI’s and working with stdin, stdout, stderr
Path and shutil
replacing sed, grep, awk, with regex
running processes
dealing with datetime
see also:

regex search and replace example scripts



Michael #2: pyodide


Scientific Python in the browser

ALL of CPython (allowed in the browser)
NumPy
MatPlotLib
...

Project by Mozilla
We asked “Will there be a PyBlazor?” just two weeks ago. I think we are on a path…


Brian #3: The subset of reStructuredText worth committing to memory


A lot of Python packages document with reStructuredText, a lot of reStructuredText tutorials are overwhelming. This post is the answer.
paragraphs are with two newlines
headings use a weird underlined method of above and below and =, -, and ~
bulleted lists work with asterisks but spacing is important
italics and bold are with one or two surrounding asterisks
inline code uses two backticks
links and code snippets are weird and I have to always look this up, as with images, and internal references.
so I’ll bookmark this link


Michael #4: bandit


via Anthony Shaw
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an AST from it, and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has finished scanning all the files it generates a report.
Issues detected:

B312 telnetlib
B307 eval
B110 try_except_pass
B602 subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true



Brian #5: Learn Python 3 within Jupyter Notebooks


just fun
Also shows how to run pytest in a cell.


Michael #6: detect-secrets


An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code.
From Yelp
detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base.
However, unlike other similar packages that solely focus on finding secrets, this package is designed with the enterprise client in mind: providing a backwards compatible, systematic means of:

Preventing new secrets from entering the code base,
Detecting if such preventions are explicitly bypassed, and
Providing a checklist of secrets to roll, and migrate off to a more secure storage.

Allows you to set a baseline
set it up as a git commit hook