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Strings & text easy

How to wrap long text to a specified width in Python

Uses Python's textwrap.fill to wrap a long string to a specified width at word boundaries, preserving readability in console output or logs.

textwrap text wrapping formatting
Python
import textwrap

text = """This is a long piece of text that definitely exceeds the width limit
if we try to print it on a single line without any wrapping applied."""

wrapped = textwrap.fill(text, width=40)

print(wrapped)
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Automation & scripting easy

Build a Live Countdown Timer for Events in Python

A Python script that displays a real-time countdown to a target date and time, updating every second in the console.

datetime countdown timers
Python
import datetime
import time

def countdown(event_name, target_datetime):
    """Displays a live countdown to a target datetime."""
    while True:
        now = datetime.datetime.now()
        remaining = target_datetime - now
        if remaining.total_seconds() <= 0:
            print(f"\n🚀 {event_name} is happening…
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Automation & scripting medium

How to Create a Link Graph Visualization for Any Website in Python

A Python script that crawls a website's internal links, builds a directed graph of parent-child URL relationships, and prints the graph to the console.

crawler graph visualization
Python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from collections import defaultdict
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
import sys

def get_links(url, max_links=20):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=5)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
        base_url = f"{urlparse(u…
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Modern tooling easy

How to Create a Rich Console Progress Bar Mock in Python

This code uses Rich's Console and Progress API to build a simulated progress bar for a long-running task, updating progress and printing status messages.

rich progress-bar cli
Python
import time
from rich.console import Console
from rich.progress import Progress, BarColumn, TextColumn, PercentageColumn

console = Console()

def run_simulation():
    console.print("[bold cyan]Starting simulated task...[/bold cyan]")
    
    with Progress(
        TextColumn("[bold blue]{task.description}[/bold blu…
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