Python tricks

Posted on 2018-10-03 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with Python

Inspect TLS certificates with requests

Use the snippet below to capture and inspect the certificates of a distant site and its chain with requests.

import requests

HTTPResponse = requests.packages.urllib3.response.HTTPResponse
orig_HTTPResponse__init__ = HTTPResponse.__init__
def new_HTTPResponse__init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    orig_HTTPResponse__init__(self, *args, **kwargs …

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Deploy to your test server with git hooks

Posted on 2018-09-09 in Programmation • Tagged with git, devops

You probably already wanted to have your own test environment to allow others in the company to tests what you did. Perhaps you have a common one, but as your team is growing, it is probable that the common environment is a bottleneck and you wish each developer could have …


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Use dnsmasq with NetworkManager

Posted on 2018-09-08 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with linux

This will, for instance, allow you to redirect all matching domains to a certain server: dnsmasq will intercept the DNS query and return the ip you specified.

To do this, edit NetworkManager configuration in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add in the main section dns=dnsmasq:

[main]
dns=dnsmasq

You …


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VSCode tips

Posted on 2018-09-02 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with VSCode

Python

venv

To use a venv with VSCode, add in the folder settings:

{
    "python.pythonPath": "~/.virtualenvs/bureauxlocaux--Uxk5jFn/bin/python",
    "python.unitTest.pyTestEnabled": true
}

Deploy your source maps to Rollbar with Ansible

Posted on 2018-07-16 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with Rollbar, Python, Ansible

I recently had to integrate Rollbar (a service to track errors) with a JS application. One nice thing about Rollbar is that if you provide it with source maps, it will point to you where the error is in the original unminified code.

Since the application is deployed with Ansible …


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Timeout a function in python

Posted on 2018-06-02 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with Python

You can use signals and a context manager to acheive this. The idea is to register a function that will raise an exeption when the alarm signal is received and schedule the alarm signal for the timeout.

import signal
from contextlib import contextmanager


@contextmanager
def timeout(time):
    # Register a function …

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Some tips for django

Posted on 2018-05-21 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with Python, Web, Django


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JavaScript tips

Posted on 2018-03-07 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with JavaScript

Normalize an UTF-8 string

Rely on String.prototype.normalize().

const str = "Crème Brulée"
str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, "")
> 'Creme Brulee'

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/990904/remove-accents-diacritics-in-a-string-in-javascript/37511463#37511463


PostgreSQL tips

Posted on 2018-03-07 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with PostgreSQL, Database, SQL

Update fields in JSONB format

Use the jsonb_set(COLUMN_NAME, PATH_TO_CHANGE, VALUE) function. The value must be a valid value in JSON (ie use '500' for numbers, 'true' for …


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Run multiple docker daemons on the same host

Posted on 2018-02-25 in Programmation • Tagged with Docker, Linux

Today I am going to explain how you can run multiple docker daemons on the same host. This can be useful if you want several users to use docker and want each of them to be isolated from one another (ie don't see images, containers, … of other users). The solution …


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