https://wt8p.com/tags/python/ Recent content in Python on WT8P's Notes to Self Hugo en-us Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:57:00 +0000 https://wt8p.com/determining-the-exact-file-python-is-using/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:57:00 +0000 https://wt8p.com/determining-the-exact-file-python-is-using/ <p>Python searches a variety of directories for its libraries, something I had largely lived in peace with until I had to modify some legacy code to address a suspected timing bug.</p> <p>The overall task is to produce a set of charts for a customer. Python loads an Excel workbook, a time-series data set is updated from a third-party source, and a Visual Basic Excel macro iterates through the workbook’s numerous tabs, adjusts to fiscal quarters, and emits several dozen charts. It’s clunky, but what I was given to work with. Until recently, was functioning well-enough.</p>