I heard about Dask at my local Python Meetup last month. After reading about it, I came across Matthew Rocklin’s Pycon 2017 talk on Dask and was blown away by his demo of crunching through around 20 gigs of csv data (60 gigs in memory) in matter of a …

I have been using this python function for a while to send html emails from within my python scripts -

def sendhtmlemail(emailbody, subject):
    """ Send html email with given subject and body """
    fromaddr = readconfig(EMAIL_FROM)
    toaddr = readconfig(EMAIL_TO)

    msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
    msg['From'] = fromaddr
    msg['To'] = toaddr
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    body …

I am really enjoying working with the Python Flask Web Framework. I won a O’Reilly book last year on Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg and am finally getting around to reading it and trying out what the book teaches. So far it’s been excellent!

From the start …

I was pulling my hair to get my vim setup with YouCompleteMe on my macbook after I upgraded to Yosemite. On Mavericks it was pretty straight forward. The following used to work -

# install xcode and command line tools  
$ xcode-select --install  
# install homebrew  
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com …

You may wonder why would you even need to do that.. Well in my case, I was using virtualenv for a project I was working on and when it came time to install the needed python packages, I realized I was on a train with no internet connection. I had …