There's no two ways about it, Python is slow. I felt this in particular when exploring how to sanitize potentially malicious HTML content in the CTFd content editor. The two options for sanitizing/processing HTML in Python both have some tradeoffs: Poorl... (more…)

Suppose you are reading from an unbounded data source in increments of a certain size. This is a common sort of situation; for example, reading lines from stdin. The total length of the data source is not known in advance, so the only thing to do is keep ... (more…)

Speed and time is a key factor for any Data Scientist. In business, you do not usually work with toy datasets having thousands of samples. It is more likely that your datasets will contain millions… (more…)

This is an introduction to data scraping using Python. In a live-coding session, I'll scrape data from this website: https://www.premiumbeautynews.com/ I'll ... (more…)

With the EoL of Python 2 being in line with development of Python 3.9 there were changes made to Python 3.9 that broke a lot of packages since many deprecati... (more…)