Python

I ran into this at local Python meetup yesterday. Made with Python and asyncssh. Fun project and also a joke as well as commentary about current state of the social media

I'm finding myself with a couple of really big databases and my PC is throwing memory errors so I'm moving the project to polars and learning on the way in, and would like to read your experience in how you did it, what frustrate you and what you found good (I'm still getting used with the syntax, but I'm loving how fast it reads the databases)

Python decorators look like a great way to add functionality—until they break your type safety, hide function requirements, and turn debugging into a nightmare. This video shows you why decorators can be dangerous, the biggest pitfalls to watch out for, and when you should actually use them.

There is an issue with the program when the user correctly guesses the number. The program should end when the break statement executes in the while loop found in main(), but instead it times out.

import random


def main():
    level = get_level()
    number = generate_random_number(level)

    while True:
        guess = get_guess()

        if check_guess(number, guess) == False:
            continue
        else:
            break


def get_level():
    while True:
        level = input("Level: ")

        try:
            int(level)
        except ValueError:
            continue
        if int(level) <= 0:
            continue
        else:
            return int(level)

def generate_random_number(level):
    number = random.randint(1, level)

    return number

def get_guess():
    while True:
        guess = input("Guess: ")

        try:
            int(guess)
        except ValueError:
            continue
        if int(guess) <= 0:
            continue
        else:
            return int(guess)

def check_guess(number, guess):
    if guess > number:
        print("Too large!")

        return False
    if guess < number:
        print("Too small!")

        return False
    if guess == number:
        print("Just right!")

        return True


main()

• I was applying to a job, and then I had to answer a question about web scraping, which I'm not familiar with. I answered all the other questions with no issue, so I decided might as well put in the effort to learn the basics and see if I can do it in a day.
• Yes, it was *somewhat * easier than I expected, but I still had to watch like 4 YouTube videos and read a bunch of reddit and stack overflow posts.
• I got the code working, but I decided to run it again to double-check. It stopped working. Not sure why.
• Testing is also annoying because the "web page" is a google doc and constantly reloads or something. It takes forever to get proper results from my print statements.
• I attached an image with the question. I haven't heard back from them, and I've seen other people post what I think might be this exact question online, so hopefully I'm not doing anything illegal.
• At this point, I just want to solve it. Here's the code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

def createDataframe(url): #Make the data easier to handle
    #Get the page's html data using BeautifulSoup
    page = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')

    #Extract the table's headers and column structure
    table_headers = soup.find('tr', class_='c8')
    table_headers_titles = table_headers.find_all('td')
    headers = [header.text for header in table_headers_titles]

    #Extract the table's row data
    rows = soup.find_all('tr', class_='c4')
    row_data_outer = [row.find_all('td') for row in rows]
    row_data = [[cell.text.strip() for cell in row] for row in row_data_outer]

    #Create a dataframe using the extracted data
    df = pd.DataFrame(row_data, columns=headers)
    return df

def printMessage(dataframe): #Print the message gotten from the organised data
    #Drop rows that have missing coordinates
    dataframe = dataframe.dropna(subset=['x-coordinate', 'y-coordinate'], inplace=True)

    #Convert the coordinate columns to integers so they can be used
    dataframe['x-coordinate'] = dataframe['x-coordinate'].astype(int)
    dataframe['y-coordinate'] = dataframe['y-coordinate'].astype(int)

    #Determine how large the grid to be printed is
    max_x = int(dataframe['x-coordinate'].max())
    max_y = int(dataframe['y-coordinate'].max())

    #Create an empty grid
    grid = np.full((max_y + 1, max_x + 1), " ")

    #Fill the grid with the characters using coordinates as the indices
    for _, row in dataframe.iterrows():
        x = row['x-coordinate']
        y = row['y-coordinate']
        char = row['Character']
        grid[y][x] = char
    for row in grid:
        print("".join(row))

test = 'https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQGUck9HIFCyezsrBSnmENk5ieJuYwpt7YHYEzeNJkIb9OSDdx-ov2nRNReKQyey-cwJOoEKUhLmN9z/pub'
printMessage(createDataframe(test))

My most recent error:

C:\Users\User\PycharmProjects\dataAnnotationCodingQuestion\.venv\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\User\PycharmProjects\dataAnnotationCodingQuestion\.venv\app.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\PycharmProjects\dataAnnotationCodingQuestion\.venv\app.py", line 50, in <module>
    printMessage(createDataframe(test))
  File "C:\Users\User\PycharmProjects\dataAnnotationCodingQuestion\.venv\app.py", line 30, in printMessage
    dataframe['x-coordinate'] = dataframe['x-coordinate'].astype(int)
                                ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Process finished with exit code 1

I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

I don't know if it's the true place to ask, apologizing if not. I started to python one and half week ago. So I'm still beginner.

I made a terminal based weather application with python. What do you think about the code, is it good enough? I mean is it professional enough and how can I make the same functions with more less code?

Here's the main file (I also added it as url to post): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheCitizenOne/openweather/refs/heads/main/openweather.py
Here's the config.json file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheCitizenOne/openweather/refs/heads/main/config.json