There’s one special comment called a ‘shebang’ that python scripts can start #! /usr/bin/env python3 Having this source code allows you execute the python file. First you need to make the file executable with the following chmod +x example.py to allow it to be invoked from command line without having to specify the interpreter to run it. If you have…
Command line arguments are the string of data and flags that are passed into a python script for execution to change behavior. You leverage the built-in sys module to get access to the sys.argv list. python example.py my name is david Number of arguments: 5 Argument List: [‘example.py’, ‘my’, ‘name’, ‘is’, ‘david’] The built-in getopt module can help parse command…
If you build an API or python job/project that you want to have dockerized, you’ve landed on the right blog post. Start by following the post from earlier on how to create a virtual environment to ensure you are only including the right dependencies for your project and you’ll create an outputted requirements.txt file. Add a “Dockerfile” to your project…