At my last project, I wrote a small Python utility program to create and delete secrets in Hashicorp Vault. This tool was executed inside a docker container (and the container ran in a CI-pipeline). The container also talked to some other services that use an internal CA that was …

I wanted to build an executable python script on PyPi, so it can be run like MyPackage instead of python MyPackage.py.

Finding out how to do this with Poetry was hard. Googling for “Python [distribute\|publish] executable” didn’t yield any useful results. I don’t even know how …

In Python if you want to execute something after a for-loop has finished, you can use a else-clause.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print(i)
else:
    print("Finished")

Prints:

0
1
2
3
4
Finished

Deploying your first Python-app can be tedious if you want to do everything by yourself. There are many great tutorials that help you set up all the necessary programs you’ll need to host your webapp.

And trust me, it’s not easy: You’ll have to use a webserver …

At the beginning of 2014 I changed my blogging platform from Wordpress to Pelican. The reasons are briefly described in this blog-article. Now I’m going to describe the setup-process. The sources for my whole blog including this post are available on Github.

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