If you’re using the Django web framework (DRF) and are building APIs, you probably know about the Django Rest Framework a toolkit to build APIs in Django since more than a decade (the first 3.x version was release in 2014). It’s great and I’ve used it …

You can download …

HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to add interactivity to your web pages. With it, you don’t build a single page application, you use standard templates (written in Django, Jinja) rendered in your backend, add attributes to your HTML elements and let HTMX add the appropriate interactivity. From what …

SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) is a project managed by the Linux foundation created to standardize how licenses are identified in a human and machine readable way. In a nutshell, instead of adding a big header to your files to identify the applicable license, you apply a copyright text and …

If you use Python, you probably already know of super to call a method from the base class. You probably also know you can use a function as a method if it takes the instance as 1st parameter. What you cannot do, is call super().my_method() directly in such a …

Recently at work, I encountered a problem with a function that should have returned a custom promise subclass. The goal of this subclass is to be able to call a cancel method to cancel some pending action done within the promise and then reject it. It looks like this:

class …

While wandering how to run some tests with JavaScript, I discorvered that deno, a JavaScript runtime like NodeJS, has support for jupyter notebooks thanks to this article. It works perfectly. Install deno (probably available in your distribution repositories), run deno jupyter --install and you are good to go!

To get …

In previous articles, I provided some tips on enums and explained how to use a custom class with Pydantic. Now, I’ll dig into all kinds of enum usages with Pydantic, including enums whose members are Pydantic models themselves! Let’s dive right in!

Just like before, you can access …

I’ll give some tips to reuse field and model validators and serializers. All my examples will use validators, but it works exactly the same for serializers.

def _is_above_ten(value: int):
    if value > 10:
        return value

    raise ValueError(f"{value …

Pydantic is an awesome data validation library for Python. It’s getting very popular these days because it’s fast, has lots of features and is pleasant to use. I’m using it at work and it personal projects. It’s one of the strong points of FastAPI, the new …