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Functions & basics medium

How to Parse Function Signatures in Python with inspect

Extract a function's parameter names, kinds, defaults, annotations, and return type using Python's built-in inspect module.

inspect function signature introspection
Python
import inspect

def example_function(a: int, b: str = "default", *args, c: float = 1.5, **kwargs) -> bool:
    """An example function with various parameter types."""
    return True

def parse_signature(func):
    """Parse a function's signature using the inspect module."""
    sig = inspect.signature(func)
    param…
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Errors & debugging medium

How to parse a traceback to get the last frame in Python

Extracts the innermost frame's file, line, and function name from a Python traceback object.

traceback exceptions debugging
Python
import sys
import traceback


def parse_traceback_last_frame(exc_info):
    """Return the file, line, and function of the last (innermost) frame."""
    _, _, tb = exc_info
    last_tb = tb
    while last_tb.tb_next is not None:
        last_tb = last_tb.tb_next
    filename = last_tb.tb_frame.f_code.co_filename
    l…
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Files & data medium

Extract Hyperlinks from Word Documents in Python

Parses a .docx file using Python's standard library to extract every hyperlink's display text and target URL.

docx hyperlinks xml
Python
import zipfile
from pathlib import Path
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def extract_hyperlinks_from_docx(filepath: str) -> list[dict]:
    """
    Extract all hyperlinks from a .docx file.
    Returns a list of dicts with 'text' and 'target' keys.
    """
    hyperlinks = []
    with zipfile.ZipFile(Path(filepath)…
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Files & data medium

How to Automatically Extract Every Archive in a Folder with Python

Walk through a folder and extract all ZIP, RAR, and 7Z archives into separate subdirectories using Python.

zipfile rarfile py7zr
Python
import zipfile
import rarfile
import py7zr
import pathlib

def extract_archives(folder: str):
    """Extract every ZIP, RAR, and 7Z archive in the given folder."""
    folder_path = pathlib.Path(folder)
    for archive_file in folder_path.iterdir():
        suffix = archive_file.suffix.lower()
        try:
           …
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Files & data medium

Scrape HTML Tables and Convert Them to CSV Using Beautiful Soup in Python

Scrape a Wikipedia table with Beautiful Soup and write the data to a CSV file using the csv module.

web scraping beautiful soup csv
Python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv

url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)"
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

tables = soup.find_all('table', {'class': 'wikitable'})

if tables:
    target_table = tables[2]
    rows =…
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Algorithms & data structures medium

How to Find the n Smallest Items in a Large List with heapq in Python

This code demonstrates how to efficiently extract the n smallest items from a large list using Python's heapq module and a manual max-heap approach.

heapq heaps large data
Python
import heapq

def n_smallest_iterable(data, n):
    """Return the n smallest items without loading the whole list."""
    if n <= 0:
        return []
    return heapq.nsmallest(n, data)

def n_smallest_manual(data, n):
    """Return the n smallest using a heap, O(n log k) time."""
    if n <= 0:
        return []
   …
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Automation & scripting medium

Automatically Generate Charts from CSV Files with One Command

Read a CSV file with headers, extract the first two numeric columns, and save a matplotlib line chart as a PNG image.

csv matplotlib charting
Python
import csv
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def generate_chart(csv_path: str) -> None:
    """Read a CSV file with headers and plot the first two numeric columns."""
    data = []
    with open(csv_path, 'r', newline='') as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f)
        headers = next(re…
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Automation & scripting medium

Build an RSS feed from markdown blog posts in Python

Scans a folder of markdown files, extracts titles, dates, and excerpts, and generates a valid RSS 2.0 XML feed.

rss markdown xml
Python
import re
from pathlib import Path
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, tostring
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from xml.dom import minidom

def build_rss(blog_dir, site_url="https://example.com"):
    feed = Element("rss", version="2.0")
    channel = SubElement(feed, "channel")
    SubElem…
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Automation & scripting medium

Convert DOCX to Text by Unzipping XML in Python

Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping the container and parsing word/document.xml with regex, using only Python's standard library.

docx zipfile xml
Python
import zipfile
import re
from pathlib import Path

def docx_to_text_unzip_xml(docx_path: str) -> str:
    """Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping and parsing document.xml."""
    docx_path = Path(docx_path)
    if not docx_path.exists():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found: {docx_path}")

   …
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Automation & scripting medium

Extract All Links from Any Website in Python

Scrape a webpage and extract all absolute HTTP/HTTPS links using requests and regex.

web-scraping links requests
Python
import requests
import re
from urllib.parse import urljoin

def extract_links(url):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()
        html = response.text
        # Find all href attributes in anchor tags
        pattern = r'href=["\'](.*?)["\']'
        raw_links = re.findall(p…
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Automation & scripting medium

Extract Attachments from mbox Mailbox Files in Python

Extract file attachments from an mbox mailbox format using Python's standard library email and mailbox modules.

mbox email attachments
Python
import email
import mailbox
from email.policy import default
from pathlib import Path

def extract_attachments(mbox_path, output_dir):
    output_dir = Path(output_dir)
    output_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
    mbox = mailbox.mbox(mbox_path)
    
    for msg in mbox:
        if msg.is_multipart():
            for part i…
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Automation & scripting medium

Extract Every Open Graph and Social Media Meta Tag from Web Pages in Python

A Python script that fetches a webpage and extracts all Open Graph, Twitter Card, Facebook, and Article meta tags using the standard library HTML parser.

meta tags open graph twitter cards
Python
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.parse import urlparse

class MetaExtractor(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.meta_tags = []
    
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'meta':
            attrs_…
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Automation & scripting medium

How to Check SSL Certificate Expiry in Python

Connect to a host over TLS, extract the certificate's expiry date, and report days remaining using only the Python standard library.

ssl certificate socket
Python
import socket
import ssl
from datetime import datetime

def check_cert_expiry(hostname, port=443):
    context = ssl.create_default_context()
    with socket.create_connection((hostname, port), timeout=10) as sock:
        with context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=hostname) as tls_sock:
            cert = tls_soc…
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Automation & scripting medium

How to Run Tesseract OCR from Python with subprocess

This script uses Python's subprocess module to invoke the Tesseract OCR engine from the command line and return the extracted text.

subprocess ocr tesseract
Python
import subprocess

def ocr_image(image_path):
    command = ["tesseract", image_path, "stdout"]
    result = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True)
    return result.stdout.strip()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Stub: call the actual tesseract (must be installed)
    text = ocr_image("sample.png")
…
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Automation & scripting medium

Scrape HTML Tables in Python with html.parser

Extract data from HTML tables using Python's built-in html.parser module, without third-party dependencies, by overriding callback methods to track table, row, and cell states.

html scraping parser
Python
import html.parser
from urllib.request import urlopen


class TableParser(html.parser.HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.in_table = False
        self.in_row = False
        self.in_cell = False
        self.current_cell = []
        self.rows = []
        self.row = []

    d…
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Data pipelines & processing medium

Extract Schema.org Structured Data from Any Website in Python

A Python tool that fetches a webpage and extracts all JSON-LD structured data (Schema.org) embedded in <script> tags with type="application/ld+json".

web-scraping structured-data schema-org
Python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json

def extract_schema_org(url):
    """Extract structured data (Schema.org) from a website."""
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
        response.raise_for_status()
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        return {"err…
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API design & gRPC medium

How to Parse Multipart Form Data in Python

Parse multipart/form-data uploads using the Python standard library's cgi module to extract both regular fields and file uploads.

multipart cgi form-data
Python
import cgi
from io import BytesIO

def parse_multipart_form(headers, body_bytes):
    content_type = headers.get("Content-Type", "")
    content_length = int(headers.get("Content-Length", len(body_bytes)))
    
    # Create a file-like object from bytes for cgi.FieldStorage
    body_file = BytesIO(body_bytes)
    
   …
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