Selenium on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/selenium/ Recent content in Selenium on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:34:10 +0000 What I've been up to in Programming: Python https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2020/10/22/what-ive-been-up-to-in-programming-python/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:34:10 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2020/10/22/what-ive-been-up-to-in-programming-python/ <h3 id="selenium-for-automated-pool-signup">Selenium for Automated Pool Signup</h3> <p>Spent the last week debugging that script. Turns out the key to getting it to run in cron is to add export DISPLAY=:0 &amp;&amp; before your command. That&rsquo;s because Chrome will not launch without a display to send Chrome to.</p> <h3 id="python-morsels">Python Morsels</h3> <p>The most recent Python Morsels exercise was to figure out if a number was a perfect square. Trey began his problem statement this way: &ldquo;This week I want you to write a function that might seem simple at first, but there&rsquo;s a number of ways to solve it.&rdquo; It definitely took some out of the box thinking for me to figure out how I was going to solve the base case. The math.sqrt() function returns a float so that it can give answers for non-perfect squares. So I kept thinking and I realized that any perfect, non-complex square root must be an integer. So I came up with the conditional to return. (And after all this Pythonic learning, I&rsquo;ve learned not to evaluate for truth and then return a variable. Just return the evaluation)</p>

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 Last Few Days in Programming: Lots of Python https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2020/10/12/last-few-days-in-programming-lots-of-python/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:06:47 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2020/10/12/last-few-days-in-programming-lots-of-python/ <p>Been quite busy with Python, keeping me away from other pursuits, like video games. (Although the kids have been requesting Spelunky 2 whenever it&rsquo;s time to hang out with them)</p> <h3 id="extra-life-donation-tracker-eldonationtracker">Extra Life Donation Tracker (eldonationtracker)</h3> <p>For my <a href="http://djotaku.github.io/ELDonationTracker/">Extra Life Donation Tracker</a> I pushed out a new release, <a href="https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker/releases/tag/v5.2.2">v5.2.2</a>. A user of my program (man, I never get tired of how awesome that is!!) had wholly anonymous donors which was causing an issue I thought I&rsquo;d handled. But it turns out that the folks that run the Donor Drive API are a little inconsistent in how they handle that in the donor endpoint vs the donations endpoint. So I pushed that fix out and now things should be dandy for game day (about 2 weeks away!!)</p>

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