Python

Miscellaneous

Check Python version

If we only care about 3.x: sys.version_info >= (3, 8)

Clean up outdated venvs after interpreter updated

find . -path \*/python3.11/site-packages \
    -ok rm -r -- {} \;

(better would be: find all pythonX.YY except a given version)

Docstring syntax

https://sphinx-rtd-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docstrings.html#the-sphinx-docstring-format

Human-readable file size

# From https://stackoverflow.com/a/1094933
def sizeof_fmt(num, suffix="B"):
    for unit in ("", "Ki", "Mi", "Gi", "Ti", "Pi", "Ei", "Zi"):
        if abs(num) < 1024.0:
            return f"{num:3.1f}{unit}{suffix}"
        num /= 1024.0
    return f"{num:.1f}Yi{suffix}"

How to join N lists?

itertools.chain(*list_of_lists)

Perlin noise (reproducible)

https://github.com/mcejp/perlin-numpy

Qt packaging

https://build-system.fman.io/

Shortcut for struct.unpack

def u(f, format):
    bytes = f.read(struct.calcsize(format))
    return struct.unpack(format, bytes)

Why not use set instead of list?

Because set() is unordered and iteration order is randomized!

Argparse boilerplate

import argparse
form pathlib import Path

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-a', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-b', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-c', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-i', '--intval', default=4, type=int, help='an int value')
parser.add_argument('-f', default=3.3, type=float, help='a float value')
parser.add_argument('-F', '--file', default='file_that_exists', type=argparse.FileType('w'), help='a filename')
parser.add_argument("positional_arg", help='a string', type=Path)
args = parser.parse_args()

Baseline setup for Python package projects

https://gist.github.com/mcejp/6b9fbd23028b515399dcf618f2545fe5

Building python from source

Python 3.10

  • Need to install xz-devel to get LZMA
./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions --prefix=/opt/python-3.10
make
sudo make altinstall

Jinja

Jinja boilerplate

TEMPLATE: str
OUTPUT: Path
MODEL: dict

env = jinja2.Environment(
    loader=jinja2.PackageLoader(__package__),
    # for stand-alone scripts try this:
    #loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(Path(__file__).parent),
    # optional
    trim_blocks=True,
    lstrip_blocks=True)

def custom_filter(a: int) -> str:
    return str(a)

env.filters["custom_filter"] = custom_filter

# templates will be searched under <package>/templates/
template = env.get_template(TEMPLATE)

with open(OUTPUT, "wt") as f:
    f.write(template.render(**MODEL))

Template file extension

  • Official guidance is to use either .jinja or nothing
  • Better to not add it, so as not to break language detection

Builtin filters reference

https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/templates/#list-of-builtin-filters

Jupyter

Displaying animations: https://github.com/pvigier/perlin-numpy?tab=readme-ov-file#3d-fractal-noise

Logging

Logging boilerplate

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# logger.debug, info, warn, error...
logger.warn("Error: %s", error)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
    ...

Structured logging

?

Matplotlib

Change markers in middle of scatter

  • need to call multiple scatters
  • can copy color like this: color=a._facecolors[0] (ugh!)
  • to not break legend: only specify LABEL for one of the scatter

Colors

The default Tableau colors are available in matplotlib via the ‘tab:’ prefix:

Hexagonal plots

https://stackoverflow.com/a/46526761

Legend horizontal (in a row)

Add ncol=XX

Legend outside of axes

Possible but complicated: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43439132

Font size

matplotlib.rcParams.update({'font.size': 22})

Ticks

from matplotlib.ticker import MultipleLocator

ax.grid(which="major", alpha=0.6)
ax.grid(which="minor", alpha=0.2)
ax.yaxis.set_minor_locator(MultipleLocator(0.5))

Numpy

Chained logical_and / logical_or

np.logical_and.reduce((a, b, c, ...))

Types to use/avoid

Use:

  • np.uint8, np.int32 etc.
  • np.float32, np.float64

Avoid:

  • "byte"
  • np.byte
  • np.float

Pillow

Palette from raw bytes (RGB888)

pal = (np.frombuffer(pal_bytes, dtype=np.uint8)
         .reshape((-1, 3)))

RGB Image from raw bytes + palette

indexes = (np.frombuffer(image_bytes, dtype=np.uint8)
             .reshape((H, W)))
rgb = np.zeros_like(pal, shape=(indexes.shape[0],
                                indexes.shape[1], 3))
np.take(pal, indexes, out=rgb, axis=0)
img = Image.frombytes("RGB", (indexes.shape[1],
                              indexes.shape[0]), rgb)