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Automation & scripting medium

Automatically Download the Latest Software Release from GitHub with Python

Use the GitHub API to fetch the latest release metadata and download the first asset (binary or archive) to a local directory.

github api download
Python
import requests
import sys
from pathlib import Path

def download_latest_release(owner: str, repo: str, output_dir: str = ".") -> None:
    """Download the latest release asset from a GitHub repository."""
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases/latest"
    response = requests.get(url)
    res…
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Automation & scripting medium

How to Download All Assets from GitHub Releases in Python

Downloads every asset attached to the latest GitHub release of a repository, saving them locally using the GitHub API and Python's requests and pathlib libraries.

github api downloading
Python
import requests
import os
import zipfile
from pathlib import Path

def download_github_release_assets(owner: str, repo: str, output_dir: str = "release_assets") -> None:
    """Downloads all assets from the latest release of a GitHub repository."""
    releases_url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/relea…
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Git + Python easy

Upload Assets to GitHub Release with Python Mock

Simulates uploading binary and text assets to a GitHub release using a mock server, returning structured metadata for each upload.

git github releases
Python
import json
import os
import tempfile
from datetime import datetime

class ReleaseUploader:
    """Simulates uploading assets to a release with a mock server."""
    
    def __init__(self, owner: str, repo: str, tag: str):
        self.owner = owner
        self.repo = repo
        self.tag = tag
        self.uploade…
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ML engineering pipelines easy

How to Define Dagster ML Assets in Python

Define a chain of Dagster software-defined assets that compute raw features, normalized features, and predictions for an ML pipeline.

dagster ml-pipeline asset
Python
from dagster import asset


@asset
def raw_features():
    return {"sepal_length": [5.1, 4.9, 6.2], "sepal_width": [3.5, 3.0, 3.4]}


@asset
def normalized_features(raw_features):
    values = raw_features["sepal_length"]
    mean = sum(values) / len(values)
    std = (sum((x - mean) ** 2 for x in values) / len(values…
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