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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

News : Python 3.11 alpha.

This is an old news because on the date Wednesday, April 6, 2022 the alpha version of the well-known python programming language was released.
The last Python 3.11 alpha (3.11.0a7) is available on this webpage.
I install and works good.
C:\Python311alpha>python.exe
Python 3.11.0a7 (main, Apr  5 2022, 21:27:39) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Here are the new features and changes so far:
PEP 657 -- Include Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
PEP 654 -- Exception Groups and except*
PEP 673 -- Self Type
PEP 646-- Variadic Generics
PEP 680-- tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
PEP 675-- Arbitrary Literal String Type
PEP 655-- Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
bpo-46752-- Introduce task groups to asyncio
The Faster Cpython Project is already yielding some exciting results: 
this version of CPython 3.11 is ~ 19% faster on the geometric mean of the PyPerformance benchmarks, compared to 3.10.0.
It seems that the new changes are very different from the old versions and some are even effective.

Monday, April 11, 2022

Python 3.7.8 : Gym toolkit - part 001.

Today I tested the gym python package and both version of python: 3.7.8 and 3.10.4.
Gym is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games like Pong or Pinball.
pip install gym
...
Successfully installed cloudpickle-2.0.0 gym-0.23.1 gym-notices-0.0.6 importlib-
metadata-4.11.3 numpy-1.21.5 typing-extensions-4.1.1 zipp-3.8.0
C:\Python378>pip install Pygame
...
Successfully installed Pygame-2.1.2
C:\Python378>python.exe
Python 3.7.8 (tags/v3.7.8:4b47a5b6ba, Jun 28 2020, 08:53:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gym
You can see the gym python package is loaded.
Let's test the default python source code from the official webpage:
import gym
env = gym.make("CartPole-v1")
observation = env.reset()
for _ in range(1000):
  env.render()
  action = env.action_space.sample() # your agent here (this takes random actions)
  observation, reward, done, info = env.step(action)

  if done:
    observation = env.reset()
env.close()
I created a file name gym001.py and I run it with python.exe.
The result is a window like on the official webpage.
I tested with python version 3.10.4 with same example and works well:
C:\Python310>python.exe -m pip install gym
...
Installing collected packages: gym-notices, numpy, cloudpickle, gym
Successfully installed cloudpickle-2.0.0 gym-0.23.1 gym-notices-0.0.6 numpy-1.22.3
C:\Python310>python.exe -m pip install pygame
...
Successfully installed pygame-2.1.2
C:\Python310>python.exe gym001.py
...

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Python : PyFlow is visual scripting framework for python.

PyFlow is a general purpose visual scripting framework for python.
I install python version 3.7.8 and these python modules: PyQt5 and PySide.
pip install git+https://github.com/wonderworks-software/PyFlow.git@release
...
Requirement already satisfied: Qt.py in c:\python378\lib\site-packages (from PyF
low==2.0.1) (1.3.6)
Requirement already satisfied: blinker in c:\python378\lib\site-packages (from P
yFlow==2.0.1) (1.4)
Requirement already satisfied: nine in c:\python378\lib\site-packages (from PyFl
ow==2.0.1) (1.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: docutils in c:\python378\lib\site-packages (from
PyFlow==2.0.1) (0.18.1)

C:\Python378>PyFlow
This is the default window for the PyFlow, see the next screenshot image:
One good feature of the PyFlow is the integration, you can see one example with DeepAi from Brandon Gilles, see this video example:

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Python : Starting learn with futurecoder online tool.

This website with online tool can be a good start for test and learn python language programming.
They come with this intro:
This is a 100% free and interactive course for people to teach themselves programming in Python, especially complete beginners at programming. It is carefully designed to reduce frustration and guide the user while still ensuring that they learn how to solve problems. The goal is for as many people as possible to learn programming.
You can try it out here: https://futurecoder.io .
Please consider contributing or donating!
You can see in the next video tutorial how this works:

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Python : Issues with python install - part 001.

I use python as an additional programming language for useful little things, testing for tutorials, and because I use the Blender 3D program.
This involves using it in Visual Code and command line with various versions of python that require separate installations.
Although the development team of the python program makes major changes to maintain and improve these separate installations on various versions, especially on the Windows operating system, they put their management in trouble.
There are plenty of examples on the web with questions and answers.
Here's a simple one, if you run the python command line and the Windows store opens then some settings are not set correctly
Use the Start button and on the Windows search bar to find Manage application run aliases.
There should be two python aliases, deselect them, this will allow the usual python aliases python and python3.
This deselect will delete two files on this folder:
cd %localappdata%\Microsoft\WindowsApps

C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps>dir python*
If you select these the file will be in that folder.
To solve this issue you need to deselect all python or remove the python files from the folder: \YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps.
After that, you need to go on Add or remove programs windows settings area from your operating system and repair select your python install press Modify button and select: Add python to environment variables.
This will fix the path for your python installation.
Now the python 3.10.2 installer come with one update feature, see the next screenshot:
If I run the python command python --version to see my python install on folder C:\Python310, the result is this: Python 3.10.2.
When you enter the python command, it searches the directories listed in your path environment variables page from top to bottom.
Will be great if these python installations will be managed, updated, and fixed properly by the installer, I see something similar in the Unity 3D Hub.
Let's see another example that shows us why it needs well-managed software for python versions.
If you try to install gravityai python package then you can do it easy on colab google with python version 3.7.12.
The bad part comes when you can try to use this version with a simple python windows installer because not all Windows executable installers are available for this python version.
This research needs time and finally, I found a good python version 3.7.9 for this package.
First I got this error:
C:\Python379>python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\users\
...
ERROR: Exception:
...
ValueError: Unable to find resource t64.exe in package pip._vendor.distlib
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.1.3; however, version 22.0.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Python379\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
I uninstall the setuptools with this command because python is set to the old install python 3.10.2 and give that error:
python -m pip uninstall pip setuptools
Found existing installation: pip 21.1.3
Uninstalling pip-21.1.3:
...
Uninstalling setuptools-57.2.0:
I upgrade with the pip tool my new python version 3.7.9 version.
python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\python379\lib\site-packages (22.0.4)
The last step is to use python.exe not the python command from my Python379 folder to install the gravityai python package.
C:\Python379>python.exe -m pip install gravityai
Collecting gravityai
  Using cached gravityai-0.1.3.post1.tar.gz (6.5 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting pathlib~=1.0.1
  Using cached pathlib-1.0.1.tar.gz (49 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting websockets~=9.1
  Downloading websockets-9.1-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl (90 kB)
     ---------------------------------------- 90.2/90.2 KB 850.2 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Collecting asyncio~=3.4.3
  Downloading asyncio-3.4.3-py3-none-any.whl (101 kB)
     ---------------------------------------- 101.8/101.8 KB 1.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
...
Successfully built gravityai pathlib
Installing collected packages: pathlib, asyncio, websockets, gravityai
Successfully installed asyncio-3.4.3 gravityai-0.1.3.post1 pathlib-1.0.1 websockets-9.1
Now I can use this package with python and python.exe commands in the Python379 folder.
Another useful command to have a good image of the install for pip tool is this:
python -m pip install --no-cache-dir  --force-reinstall -Iv gravityai
...
full command: 'C:\Python310\python.exe' -c '
...
exec(compile(setup_py_code, filename, "exec"))
This full output will give you information about the steps for installing the package, in this case, the uninstall and install the setuptools.
This option for the install process is --ignore-installed and let you install a new version of the package and keep the old one, see example command for gravityai package.
pip install gravityai --ignore-installed

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Python 3.7.12 : My colab tutorials - part 023.

NVIDIA announces TensorRT 8.2 and Integrations with PyTorch and TensorFlow on Dec 02, 2021.
This Torch-TensorRT is a high-performance deep learning inference optimizer and runtime that delivers low latency, high-throughput inference for AI applications. TensorRT is used across several industries including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, internet/telecom services, financial services, and energy.
I tested today using my gavatar image on colab notebook with the GPU device.
Am prelucrat un cod sursa exemplu existent de pe internet cu o un model RESNET known as Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition, see this website.
model = models.resnet50(pretrained=True).to("cuda")
I have a pretty good picture of the processing possibilities given for this topic and I can tell you today that this implementation of TensorRT is below my expectations.
However, there are some positive elements that can be used with this in the future.
The full exaemple and how can be used TensorRT with colab tool can be found on my GitHub repo with all colabs notebooks.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Python 3.10.0 : How to using wheels.

Wheels are the last component of the Python ecosystem that helps to make package installs easy.
Wheel and Egg are both packaging formats.
The Egg format was introduced by setuptools in 2004, whereas the Wheel format was introduced by PEP 427 in 2012.
You can use it easy with these commands:
C:\Python310>python.exe -m pip install wheel
Collecting wheel
  Downloading wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Installing collected packages: wheel
  WARNING: The script wheel.exe is installed in 'C:\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed wheel-0.37.1

C:\Python310>python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
Requirement already satisfied: pip in c:\python310\lib\site-packages (21.3.1)
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-22.0.2-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 2.1 MB 2.2 MB/s
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\python310\lib\site-packages (57.4.0)
Collecting setuptools
  Downloading setuptools-60.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (953 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 953 kB 6.8 MB/s
Requirement already satisfied: wheel in c:\python310\lib\site-packages (0.37.1)
Installing collected packages: setuptools, pip
  Attempting uninstall: setuptools
    Found existing installation: setuptools 57.4.0
    Uninstalling setuptools-57.4.0:
      Successfully uninstalled setuptools-57.4.0
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 21.3.1
    Uninstalling pip-21.3.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-21.3.1
  WARNING: The scripts pip.exe, pip3.10.exe and pip3.exe are installed in 'C:\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pip-22.0.2 setuptools-60.6.0

Friday, January 14, 2022

Python 3.10.1 : Django and channels on Fedora distro - sync and async features.

A consumer is a subclass of either channels.consumer.AsyncConsumer or channels.consumer.SyncConsumer.
Consumers do a couple of things in particular: 
  • Structures your code as a series of functions to be called whenever an event happens, rather than making you write an event loop. 
  • Allow you to write synchronous or async code and deals with handoffs and threading for you.
This is another tutorial about Django and channels, you can see the first one.
For testing area you need the postman tool and I install and used with snap tool.
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf install snapd
Last metadata expiration check: 0:40:03 ago on Fri 14 Jan 2022 03:38:55 PM EET.
...
[root@fedora mythcat]# ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
[root@fedora mythcat]# snap install postman
2022-01-14T16:22:15+02:00 INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart...
postman (v9/stable) 9.8.3 from Postman, Inc. (postman-inc✓) installed
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ snap run postman
Let's go on the project folder:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ cd djangotest001/
[mythcat@fedora djangotest001]$ cd website001/
In this folder I have two folders: appsite001 and website001.
In the appsite001 I add these scripts.
I create a new python script named consumers.py with this source code:
from channels.consumer import SyncConsumer, AsyncConsumer
from channels.exceptions import StopConsumer

class MySyncConsumer(SyncConsumer):
    def websocket_connect(self,event):
        print('Websocket Connected ...')
        self.send({
        'type':'websocket.accept',
        })
    def websocket_receive(self, event):
        print('Messaged Received ...')
        print(event['text'])
        self.send({
        'type':'websocket.send',
        'text':'Message sent to client'
        })
    def websocket_diconnect(self, event):
        print('Websocket Disconnected ...')
        raise StopConsumer
        
class MyAsyncConsumer(AsyncConsumer):
    async def websocket_connect(self,event):
        print('Websocket Connected ...')
    async def websocket_receive(self, event):
        print('Messaged Received ...')
    async def websocket_diconnect(self, event):
        print('Websocket Disconnected ...')
I created routing.py python script with this source code:
from django.urls import path
from . import consumers

websocket_urlpatterns = [
    path('ws/sc/',consumers.MySyncConsumer.as_asgi()),
    ]
In the website001 I change this script named asgi.py.
import os

from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application

from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter

import appsite001.routing

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'website001.settings')

application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    'http':get_asgi_application(),
    'websocket':URLRouter(
        appsite001.routing.websocket_urlpatterns
    )
})
Run the Django project with :
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ python manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
January 14, 2022 - 15:32:29
Django version 4.0.1, using settings 'website001.settings'
Starting ASGI/Channels version 3.0.4 development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
WebSocket HANDSHAKING /ws/sc/ [127.0.0.1:33944]
Websocket Connected ...
WebSocket CONNECT /ws/sc/ [127.0.0.1:33944]
Messaged Received ...
This is a message from mythcat
...
Use postman tool with websocket to send this message to Django project:
This is a message from mythcat
You can see how this works:

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

News : Python as the programming language of 2021.

The TIOBE index is based on the number of search results for a programming language across popular search engines, which is pretty limited.
They say:
Python has won the prestigious TIOBE Programming Language of the Year award. Congratulations! This is the second time in a row. The award is given to the programming language that has gained the highest increase in ratings in one year. C# was on its way to get the title for the first time in history, but Python surpassed C# in the last month.

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Python 3.10.1 : Django and channels on Fedora distro.

Today I tested the Django version 4.0.1 with channels features on Fedora 35.
For the channels package, I used the pip tool and I install the version
The python package channels come with features like:
Channels augments Django to bring WebSocket, long-poll HTTP, task offloading, and other async support to your code, using familiar Django design patterns and a flexible underlying framework that lets you not only customize behaviors but also write support for your own protocols and needs. see the GitHub website.
Let's install the Django package
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ pip3 install django --user
Requirement already satisfied: django in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (4.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse>=0.2.2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from django) (0.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: asgiref<4>=3.4.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from django) (3.4.1)
The next step is to create the project named website001:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ mkdir djangotest001
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ cd djangotest001/
[mythcat@fedora djangotest001]$ django-admin startproject website001
[mythcat@fedora djangotest001]$ cd website001/
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ python3 manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).

You have 18 unapplied migration(s). Your project may not work properly until you apply the migrations for app(s): admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions.
Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.
January 08, 2022 - 13:26:21
Django version 4.0.1, using settings 'website001.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
...
Let's create the application named appsite001:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ django-admin startapp  appsite001
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ ls
appsite001  db.sqlite3  manage.py  website00
The apps.py file is this:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ cat  appsite001/apps.py 
from django.apps import AppConfig

class Appsite001Config(AppConfig):
    default_auto_field = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
    name = 'appsite001'
Let's add this on the settings.py file config:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ vi website001/settings.py
    
# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'appsite001',
]
Use the migrate feature to fix all:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ python manage.py migrate
Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions
Running migrations:
  Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK
  Applying auth.0001_initial... OK
  Applying admin.0001_initial... OK
  Applying admin.0002_logentry_remove_auto_add... OK
  Applying admin.0003_logentry_add_action_flag_choices... OK
  Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK
  Applying auth.0002_alter_permission_name_max_length... OK
  Applying auth.0003_alter_user_email_max_length... OK
  Applying auth.0004_alter_user_username_opts... OK
  Applying auth.0005_alter_user_last_login_null... OK
  Applying auth.0006_require_contenttypes_0002... OK
  Applying auth.0007_alter_validators_add_error_messages... OK
  Applying auth.0008_alter_user_username_max_length... OK
  Applying auth.0009_alter_user_last_name_max_length... OK
  Applying auth.0010_alter_group_name_max_length... OK
  Applying auth.0011_update_proxy_permissions... OK
  Applying auth.0012_alter_user_first_name_max_length... OK
  Applying sessions.0001_initial... OK
Create the superuser named admin with password admin and set the email address:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ python manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use 'mythcat'): admin
Email address: admin@server.com
Password: 
Password (again): 
The password is too similar to the username.
This password is too short. It must contain at least 8 characters.
This password is too common.
Bypass password validation and create user anyway? [y/N]: y
Superuser created successfully.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
...
Let's install the channels package for the Django project:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ pip install channels
...
Successfully installed Automat-20.2.0 autobahn-21.11.1 channels-3.0.4 constantly-15.1.0 
daphne-3.0.2 hyperlink-21.0.0 incremental-21.3.0 pyasn1-0.4.8 pyasn1-modules-0.2.8 
service-identity-21.1.0 twisted-21.7.0 txaio-21.2.1 zope.interface-5.4.0
Add this package into the settinngs.py config file:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ vi website001/settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'channels',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'appsite001',
]
...
#WSGI_APPLICATION = 'website001.wsgi.application'
ASGI_APPLICATION = 'website001.asgi.application'
...
Make these changes to switch from wsgi to asgi features for channels package:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ cp website001/wsgi.py website001/asgi.py 
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ vi website001/asgi.py 
import os

from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'website001.settings')

application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    'http':get_asgi_application(),
})
I tested on the admin area how the settings for this packet will work:
[mythcat@fedora website001]$ python3 manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
January 08, 2022 - 14:20:53
Django version 4.0.1, using settings 'website001.settings'
Starting ASGI/Channels version 3.0.4 development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
...
The result shows that it works:
The next theoretical steps would be to determine how the channels package will work and routing for access to appsite001.

Monday, January 3, 2022

Python Qt6 : The basic differences between PyQt5 and PyQt6.

Python Qt6 known as PyQt6 is a binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, implemented as a Python plug-in with Qt 6 the latest version of Qt.
The PyQt6 first stable release was on 6 January 2021, developed by Riverbank Computing Ltd and the last release was on 2 December 2021 with the version PyQt v6.2.2.
This release is license GPL or commercial on Python 3 platform.
Let's see some differences between PyQt5 and PyQt6.
The .exec() method is used in Qt to start the event loop of your QApplication or dialog boxes. In Python 2.7 exec was a keyword and Python 3 removed the exec keyword.
The first difference as a result of PyQt6 .exec() calls are named just as in Qt.
If you read the documentation from the official webpage, then in your PyQt6 source code you need to use these changes:
QEvent.Type.MouseButtonPress
...
Qt.MouseButtons.RightButton
...
Both PyQt5 and PyQt6, although seemingly easy to use for complex applications, will require extra effort.

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Python 3.7.11 : My colab tutorials - part 022.

Here is another notebook with two python scripts.
You may be wondering why I add them here and the index of 022 blog posts does not match the 026 index of those on the GitHub website.
The answer is simple: here I post them when I have time for evaluation and there they are added when they are created and tested.
The posts here are for a share of those who want to learn simple python programming to solve common issues by anyone with minimal school knowledge and for supporting the python programming community.
In this notebook you will find a script that uses a python packet that does a simple search using Google and one that does an image search.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Python Qt5 : Simple browser with QWebEngineView.

This is a simple example with PyQt5 and QWebEngineView.
You can see this example and use it from my GitHub account.