The situation is as follows: the company you work for is small, and you want to publish a Python package internally. However, you don’t want to pay for a service to do this or add a new tool.
Although this may seem like a specific situation, we can say that it can happen quite frequently. In Brazil, literally 99% of companies are small businesses. According to Forbes, the statistic is exactly the same in the USA (the first country that appeared in the search :)).
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My Strategy on When and How to Automate Things After having worked in both large and small companies, product teams and project teams, with gigantic codebases and some not so big, I feel confident to say that: every place has manual routines that could be automated. And there’s no escaping it: every process that is automated probably stemmed from some manual real-world task, gradually built up with different tasks and expectations.
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Sometimes you’re in a situation where you need to debug something that is inside a piece of code like this:
try: [...] except Exception as e: [...] An option would be printing e but it will show only the exception message, instead of the traceback. You can solve this by adding:
import traceback try: [...] except Exception as e: [...] print(''.join(traceback.format_exception(None, e, e.__traceback__))) It will show the exception and the traceback.
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I joined iib in January and since the beginning it was clear that I’d have a lot of fun automating a few manual process. The development team is formed by three persons: the CTO, another developer and me. The team is small but step by step we’re going towards the technical excellence we want. :)
One of the things that needed automation was the release of an internal library. The process to install it was basically git pull + python setup.
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Today I learned: Replace function in Django’s ORM.
Sometimes we stumble across a bug or a change in the business logic that forces us to change the value of a column based on another from the same table. I thought that Django might have this solved and indeed it has through the database functions.
In my case I had to update the value of a column replacing its current value and, at the same time, using the value of another column.
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