Python 3.13.0 : Test the gi python package on Fedora distro linux.

The gi (GObject Introspection) Python package is excellent! It provides Python bindings for GObject-based libraries like GTK, GLib, and Secret Service. It enables you to write native GNOME applications in Python and access system services seamlessly.

First, install these Fedora packages:

[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf5 install python3-gobject libsecret-devel
...
Package "python3-gobject-3.48.2-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "libsecret-devel-0.21.4-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
...
[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf5 install gnome-shell gnome-keyring libsecret
...

I used this simple python source code to test the gi python package:

import gi

# Specify the version of Gio and Secret we want to use
gi.require_version('Gio', '2.0')
gi.require_version('Secret', '1')

from gi.repository import Gio, Secret, GLib

def check_schema(schema_name):
    try:
        Gio.Settings.new(schema_name)
        print(f"Schema '{schema_name}' is available")
        return True
    except GLib.GError as e:
        print(f"Schema '{schema_name}' is not installed: {str(e)}")
        return False

def store_secret():
    schema = Secret.Schema.new("org.example.Password",
        Secret.SchemaFlags.NONE,
        {
            "username": Secret.SchemaAttributeType.STRING,
        }
    )
    
    Secret.password_store_sync(schema, 
        {"username": "myuser"},
        Secret.COLLECTION_DEFAULT,
        "My secret item",
        "Hello, World!",
        None)
    
    print("Secret stored successfully")

def get_secret():
    schema = Secret.Schema.new("org.example.Password",
        Secret.SchemaFlags.NONE,
        {
            "username": Secret.SchemaAttributeType.STRING,
        }
    )
    
    password = Secret.password_lookup_sync(schema,
        {"username": "myuser"},
        None)
    
    if password is not None:
        print(f"Retrieved secret: {password}")
    else:
        print("No secret found")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Starting secret operations...")
    store_secret()
    get_secret()
    print("Finished secret operations.")

The result is this:

$ python test_001.py 
Starting secret operations...
Secret stored successfully
Retrieved secret: Hello, World!
Finished secret operations.

Python 3.13.0 : know this -OOt ?

Today, I follow the actions from NEMO the basic explorer files from linux and I found this: -OOt

This first source code:

#!/usr/bin/python3 -OOt

... this is new, and refers to Python compiler optimizations.

The -OOt par in the shebang line #!/usr/bin/python3 -OOt refers to Python compiler optimizations:

1. -O: This flag enables basic optimizations. It tells the Python compiler to optimize constants and global variables.
2. -O2: This flag enables more aggressive optimizations. It applies additional compiler passes to further optimize the code .
3. -Ot: This flag optimizes for size. It reduces memory usage by eliminating unused variables and dead code.

So, -OOt combines three levels of optimization:

• Basic optimization (-O)
• More aggressive optimization (-O2)
• Optimization for size (-Ot)

Python 3.13.0 : Testing ntplib on Fedora 42.

Today I tested the ntplib python package on Fedora 42 with the python 3.13.0 version.

This is the source code:

from ntplib import NTPClient
import socket
import os
import datetime

def sync_ntp_server(server_address='pool.ntp.org'):
    try:
        client = NTPClient()
        response = client.request(server_address)
        
        # Get the offset in seconds
        offset = response.offset
        
        # Calculate the drift rate (seconds per day)
        drift_rate = offset * 86400 / response.tx_time
        
        print(f"NTP synchronization successful. Offset: {offset:.2f} seconds")
        print(f"Drift rate: {drift_rate:.2f} seconds per day")
        
        # Apply the offset to the system clock
        os.system(f"date -s '@{response.tx_time}'")
        
        # Optionally, you can also apply the drift rate to the system clock
        # However, this is generally not recommended as it can lead to further drift
        # os.system(f"ntpdate -d {server_address}")
        
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error synchronizing NTP: {e}")

# Disable SELinux temporarily
os.system("setenforce 0")

# Sync with NTP server
sync_ntp_server()

# Print current system time after sync
current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print(f"Current system time after sync: {current_time}")

The result is output is in the romanian language but this is not a problem for programmers:

[mythcat@fedora network_python_tools]$ pip install ntplib
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting ntplib
  Downloading ntplib-0.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Downloading ntplib-0.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.8 kB)
Installing collected packages: ntplib
Successfully installed ntplib-0.4.0
[mythcat@fedora network_python_tools]$ python ntplib_test_001.py 
...
NTP synchronization successful. Offset: -5.25 seconds
Drift rate: -0.00 seconds per day
date: nu se poate stabili data: Operație nepermisă
vineri 25 octombrie 2024, 22:24:13 +0300
Current system time after sync: 2024-10-25 22:24:19

Python 3.13.0rc1 : ... pkg_resources is deprecated as an API .

I tried an old version of python script for upgrade all my ython packages on windows 10 with pkg_resources python package.

I got this error:

DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html

... and this python script will upgrade all python packages

import subprocess

try:
    # Obține lista pachetelor învechite
    outdated_packages = subprocess.check_output(["pip", "list", "--outdated", "--format=columns"]).decode("utf-8")
    packages = [line.split()[0] for line in outdated_packages.splitlines()[2:]]
    
    if not packages:
        print("Toate pachetele sunt deja actualizate.")
    else:
        print("Pachete Python învechite: ", packages)
        
        # Actualizează fiecare pachet
        for package in packages:
            print("Actualizează pachetul: ", package)
            subprocess.check_call(["pip", "install", "--upgrade", package])
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
    print("A apărut o eroare la rularea comenzii pip:", e)
except Exception as e:
    print("A apărut o eroare neașteptată:", e)

Python 3.12.3 : 8in8 game project with pygame and agentpy - 001.

I started a game project with the python packages pygame and agentpy in the Fedora Linux distribution.

You can find it on my fedora pagure repo

Python 3.12.3 : PyGame, DuckDB and AgentPy on Fedora 42 linux distro.

Today I tested the installation of some python packages in the Fedora 42 Linux distribution. On the Windows 10 operating system I failed to install pygame because it was trying to build.

[mythcat@fedora ~]$ pip install duckdb --upgrade
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting duckdb
...
Installing collected packages: duckdb
Successfully installed duckdb-1.1.0
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ pip install pygame
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pygame in ./.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages (2.5.2)
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ pip install agentpy
...
Installing collected packages: scipy, networkx, kiwisolver, joblib, fonttools, dill, cycler, contourpy, pandas, multiprocess, matplotlib, SALib, agentpy
Successfully installed SALib-1.5.1 agentpy-0.1.5 contourpy-1.3.0 cycler-0.12.1 dill-0.3.8 fonttools-4.53.1 joblib-1.4.2 kiwisolver-1.4.7 matplotlib-3.9.2 multiprocess-0.70.16 networkx-3.3 pandas-2.2.2 scipy-1.14.1

Python 3.13.0rc1 : AgentPy python module ...

AgentPy is an open-source library for the development and analysis of agent-based models in Python.

The project can be found on the GitHub repo.

This can be install with the pip tool:

pip install agentpy
Collecting agentpy
...
Successfully installed SALib-1.5.1 agentpy-0.1.5 contourpy-1.3.0 cycler-0.12.1 dill-0.3.8 fonttools-4.53.1 
joblib-1.4.2 kiwisolver-1.4.7 matplotlib-3.9.2 multiprocess-0.70.16 networkx-3.3 packaging-24.1 
pillow-10.4.0 pyparsing-3.1.4 scipy-1.14.1

This is the source code:

import agentpy as ap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# define Agent class
class RandomWalker(ap.Agent):
    def setup(self):
        self.position = [0, 0]

    def step(self):
        self.position += self.model.random.choice([[1, 0], [-1, 0], [0, 1], [0, -1]])

# define Model class
class RandomWalkModel(ap.Model):
    def setup(self):
        self.agents = ap.AgentList(self, self.p.agents, RandomWalker)
        self.agents.setup()

    def step(self):
        self.agents.step()

    def update(self):
        self.record('Positions', [agent.position for agent in self.agents])

    def end(self):
        positions = self.log['Positions']
        plt.figure()
        for pos in positions:
            plt.plot(*zip(*pos))
        plt.show()

# configuration and running 
parameters = {'agents': 5, 'steps': 20}
model = RandomWalkModel(parameters)
results = model.run()

The result is a simple graph with these output:

python test001.py
Matplotlib is building the font cache; this may take a moment.
Completed: 20 steps
Run time: 0:00:50.823483
Simulation finished

Python Qt6 : Use regular expression with PyQt6.

Today I tested a python source code with PyQt6.

This source code let you to clean the text by HTML tags and regular expression in realtime.

If you want to parse in realtime then check the Realtime and add the regular expresion in editbox.

This is the result:

This is the source code I used to parse realtime regular expresion on editbox

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QTextEdit, QVBoxLayout, QHBoxLayout, QWidget, QPushButton, QCheckBox, QLineEdit, QLabel
from PyQt6.QtGui import QTextDocument
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt
import re

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        self.setWindowTitle("HTML Cleaner")

        self.text_edit = QTextEdit()
        self.clean_button = QPushButton("Clean HTML")
        self.transform_div_checkbox = QCheckBox("Transform 
 tags")
        self.realtime_checkbox = QCheckBox("Realtime")
        self.regex_edit = QLineEdit()
        self.regex_edit.setPlaceholderText("Enter regex pattern")
        self.regex_edit.setEnabled(False)  # Dezactivăm inițial

        top_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        top_layout.addWidget(self.clean_button)
        top_layout.addWidget(self.transform_div_checkbox)
        top_layout.addWidget(QLabel("Regex:"))
        top_layout.addWidget(self.regex_edit)
        top_layout.addWidget(self.realtime_checkbox)

        main_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        main_layout.addLayout(top_layout)
        main_layout.addWidget(self.text_edit)

        container = QWidget()
        container.setLayout(main_layout)
        self.setCentralWidget(container)

        self.clean_button.clicked.connect(self.clean_html)
        self.realtime_checkbox.stateChanged.connect(self.toggle_realtime)
        self.regex_edit.textChanged.connect(self.realtime_update)

    def clean_html(self):
        html_text = self.text_edit.toPlainText()
        clean_text = self.remove_html_tags(html_text)
        self.text_edit.setPlainText(clean_text)

    def remove_html_tags(self, text):
        # Remove CSS
        text = re.sub(r'.*?', '', text, flags=re.DOTALL)
        # Remove JavaScript
        text = re.sub(r'.*?', '', text, flags=re.DOTALL)
        # Remove HTML comments
        text = re.sub(r'', '', text, flags=re.DOTALL)
        # Transform 
 tags if checkbox is checked
        if self.transform_div_checkbox.isChecked():
            text = re.sub(r']*>', '
', text)
        # Remove HTML tags but keep content
        clean = re.compile('<.*?>')
        text = re.sub(clean, '', text)
        # Remove empty lines
        text = re.sub(r'\n\s*\n', '\n', text)
        return text

    def toggle_realtime(self):
        if self.realtime_checkbox.isChecked():
            self.regex_edit.setEnabled(True)  # Activăm editbox-ul
            self.text_edit.textChanged.connect(self.realtime_update)
        else:
            self.regex_edit.setEnabled(False)  # Dezactivăm editbox-ul
            self.text_edit.textChanged.disconnect(self.realtime_update)

    def realtime_update(self):
        if self.realtime_checkbox.isChecked():
            html_text = self.text_edit.toPlainText()
            regex_pattern = self.regex_edit.text()
            if regex_pattern:
                try:
                    html_text = re.sub(regex_pattern, '', html_text)
                except re.error:
                    pass  # Ignore regex errors
            self.text_edit.blockSignals(True)
            self.text_edit.setPlainText(html_text)
            self.text_edit.blockSignals(False)

app = QApplication([])
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
app.exec()

News : Python and the Intel's NPU Acceleration Library.

You can find the Intel's NPU Acceleration Library on this GitHub repo with Python code samples.

News : Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2024 Release

We’re excited to announce the September 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!

This release includes the following announcements:

Django unit test support

Go to definition from inlay hints with Pylance

If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions.

Read more on the offcial website.

Python 3.12.4 : DuckDB operate in in-memory mode.

DuckDB aims to automatically achieve high performance by using well-chosen default configurations and having a forgiving architecture. Of course, there are still opportunities for tuning the system for specific workloads. The Performance Guide's page contain guidelines and tips for achieving good performance when loading and processing data with DuckDB.

DuckDB can operate in in-memory mode. In most clients, this can be activated by passing the special value :memory: as the database file or omitting the database file argument.

You can use with python or another programming language.

I used Python 3.13.0rc1 version and pip tool ...

pip install duckdb --upgrade
Collecting duckdb
...
Installing collected packages: duckdb
Successfully installed duckdb-1.0.0

I created a python script :

python test_memory_duckdb_sqlite_db.py
[]
[('table', 'users', 'users', 0, 'CREATE TABLE users(id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY, first_name VARCHAR, last_name VARCHAR, occupation VARCHAR, hobby VARCHAR, year_of_birth BIGINT, age BIGINT);')]

This is the source code I used:

import duckdb

# Conectare la baza de date în memorie
con = duckdb.connect(database=':memory:')

# Instalează extensia sqlite
con.execute("INSTALL sqlite")

# Încarcă extensia sqlite
con.execute("LOAD sqlite")

# Verifică dacă extensia este încărcată
result = con.execute("SELECT * FROM sqlite_master").fetchall()
print(result)

# Conectare la baza de date pe disc
con_disk = duckdb.connect(database='sqlite_database.db', read_only=False)

# Instalează extensia sqlite pentru baza de date pe disc
con_disk.execute("INSTALL sqlite")

# Încarcă extensia sqlite pentru baza de date pe disc
con_disk.execute("LOAD sqlite")

# Verifică dacă extensia este încărcată pentru baza de date pe disc
result_disk = con_disk.execute("SELECT * FROM sqlite_master").fetchall()
print(result_disk)

Python 3.13.0rc1 : Use faker with build pandas and PyQt6.

In this tutorial I will show you how I build pandas and use faker and PyQt6.

The faker python module is a powerful library designed to generate fake data, which is particularly useful for testing, filling databases, and creating realistic-looking sample data.

I used python version 3.13.0rc1 and I install with pip tool faker and the pandas and PyQt6 is build with pip tool.

pip install faker
Collecting faker
...
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, faker
Successfully installed faker-28.1.0 python-dateutil-2.9.0.post0 six-1.16.0

The pandas installation fail first time then today works, maybe comes with fixes ...

pip install pandas
...
Successfully built pandas
Installing collected packages: pytz, tzdata, pandas
Successfully installed pandas-2.2.2 pytz-2024.1 tzdata-2024.1

Let's try one example to see how this works, I used copilot from microsoft to generate this first source code:

import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QTableView
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt, QAbstractTableModel
import pandas as pd
from faker import Faker

# Generăm date false folosind Faker
fake = Faker()
data = {
    'Name': [fake.name() for _ in range(100)],
    'Address': [fake.address() for _ in range(100)],
    'Email': [fake.email() for _ in range(100)],
    'IP Address': [fake.ipv4() for _ in range(100)]  # Adăugăm adresa IP
}

# Creăm un DataFrame Pandas
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

# Definim un model pentru QTableView
class PandasModel(QAbstractTableModel):
    def __init__(self, df):
        super().__init__()
        self._df = df

    def rowCount(self, parent=None):
        return len(self._df)

    def columnCount(self, parent=None):
        return self._df.shape[1]

    def data(self, index, role=Qt.ItemDataRole.DisplayRole):
        if index.isValid():
            if role == Qt.ItemDataRole.DisplayRole:
                return str(self._df.iloc[index.row(), index.column()])
        return None

    def headerData(self, section, orientation, role=Qt.ItemDataRole.DisplayRole):
        if role == Qt.ItemDataRole.DisplayRole:
            if orientation == Qt.Orientation.Horizontal:
                return self._df.columns[section]
            else:
                return str(section)
        return None

# Aplicatia PyQt6
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = QMainWindow()
view = QTableView()

# Setăm modelul pentru QTableView
model = PandasModel(df)
view.setModel(model)

# Configurăm fereastra principală
window.setCentralWidget(view)
window.resize(800, 600)
window.show()

# Rulăm aplicația
sys.exit(app.exec())

Python Qt6 : Two sliders

I used the Python 3.13.0rc1 version and PyQt6 6.7.1 version.

This is the source code:

import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QVBoxLayout, QSlider
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt

class SliderWindow(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        self.setWindowTitle("Two Slideres")
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 640, 200)

        layout = QVBoxLayout()

        self.slider_max = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.slider_max.setMinimum(0)
        self.slider_max.setMaximum(100)
        self.slider_max.setValue(100)
        self.slider_max.valueChanged.connect(self.update_min_slider)

        self.slider_min = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.slider_min.setMinimum(0)
        self.slider_min.setMaximum(100)
        self.slider_min.setValue(0)
        self.slider_min.valueChanged.connect(self.update_max_slider)

        layout.addWidget(self.slider_max)
        layout.addWidget(self.slider_min)

        self.setLayout(layout)

    def update_min_slider(self, value):
        self.slider_min.blockSignals(True)
        self.slider_min.setValue(100 - value)
        self.slider_min.blockSignals(False)

    def update_max_slider(self, value):
        self.slider_max.blockSignals(True)
        self.slider_max.setValue(100 - value)
        self.slider_max.blockSignals(False)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = SliderWindow()
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec())