Today, I am happy to announce version 2.3.0 of fpdf2, code name: Unbreakable!
https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ 
Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/
Why Unbreakable?
- As a tribute to M. Night Shyamalan movie
- Because using
fpdf2, your Python code can never break!
...
Just kidding, I would be …
Today, I am happy to announce a new version 2.2.0 of fpdf2 !
https://github.com/alexanderankin/pyfpdf/
Doc: https://alexanderankin.github.io/pyfpdf/
During the last few months, I contributed a few improvements to fpdf2,
David Ankin fork of PyFPDF,
the user-friendly Python library to generate PDFs:
from …
Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been born, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook.
The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a W3C …
I took me some time to figure it out, so I'm sharing this here:
import hudson.EnvVars
import org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.EnvironmentExpander
def env = EnvironmentExpander.getEffectiveEnvironment(new EnvVars(), null, steps.getContext(EnvironmentExpander.class), null, null)
def ansiColorEnabled = 'TERM' in envI met a very strange Python module loading behaviour in Pelican today :
https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/blob/3395e71/pelican/settings.py#L21
Here is some minimal code reproducing the issue. It requires 5 files :
bug_repro.py
dir_a/__init__.py
dir_a/test_data/pelicanconf.py
dir_b/__init__.py
dir_b/test_data/pelicanconf.pybug_repro.py contains:
import dir_a
import dir_bdir_a/__init__.py and dir_b/__init__.py both contain this code:
import os
from importlib.machinery import SourceFileLoader
print(SourceFileLoader('pelicanconf', os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/test_data/pelicanconf.py').load_module().THEME)dir_a/test_data/pelicanconf.py contains only the line THEME = 'localized_theme' and dir_b/test_data/pelicanconf.py is empty.
What will produces python3.7 bug_repro.py ? 😉
A year ago, I built a small JS lib using D3.js to visualize JSON-defined genealogy trees.
At the beginning of the year, I added a new feature using flex-calendar and moment-ferie-fr : a birthday calendar using the same JSON genealogy definition and miniature images.
I added this calendar to the …
I'm happy to introduce you with genealogic-d3, a Javascript visualization library to nicely display genealogy trees that I've been working on during the past 3 days.
I'm quite satisfied by the result. You'll find a live demo you can play with at https://chezsoi.org/lucas/genealogic-d3/skywalker.html
I …