Just Bring Glue Leveraging Multiple Libraries To Quickly Build Powerful New Tools
summary
Two small projects: snakecam finds tests and runs them by parsing test names, caching timestamps and spawning a child process (about eight imports, ~231 lines) and windsock gathers tweets and plots sentiment using Twitter APIs, Vader, plotly and web‑visualization bindings (21 imports, ~600 lines, built over a weekend plus nights). Demos work but sentiment mislabels sarcasm and duplicates; nearest‑neighbor matching and Dice/Sørensen distance power fuzzy test lookup. Advice: glue libraries quickly, expect edge cases and additional cleanup.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Python library tool cases
- 9:05Snake cam demo
- 10:28Windsock Twitter demo
- 18:51Tools and strategies for gluing libraries together
- 22:00IPython API exploration
- 29:21Pitfalls in gluing
- 35:45Q&A
