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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

You can export a notebook directly from the interface under File > Save and Export Notebook As. You can also do it in CLI with:

jupyter nbconvert --execute --to <FORMAT> my_notebook.ipynb

The --execute will execute the notebook to make sure all output cells are up to date. Many export formats …

I’d like to share a few tips I recently (re)discovered about Python’s enums. While interesting on its own, this article is also paving the way on a more advanced article I hope to write soon. Let’s dive right in!

I recently tried the new and shiny tools made by astral. I only used them on my personal projects yet, but I’m still very impressed! You may already have heard of them. I’ll try to keep the article concise and won’t dig too deep into the tools …