Thoughts on Programming
An earlier blog post explained how to access the Ollama API from the shell using the curl program. If the gemma3 model is used as a local AI on the system, it might look like this: In this article, we’ll take a look at the Python programming language and how to use the requests library. … Read more
To represent a sequence of characters, the string data type exists in Python — just as it does in other programming languages. Each individual character can be accessed via an index. The first character has index 0 (and not 1). A string is a sequence of characters and each character has an index starting from … Read more
The path to a user directory can vary depending on the operating system. For instance, if the username is “kendra”, you would deal with the following paths: When writing a Python program for personal use, you could simply use the corresponding path to your user directory (i.e., /Users/<Username>). However, the situation changes when the program … Read more
uv is a package manager written in Rust that is an alternative to pip. It allows you to isolate a project, meaning packages installed with uv are only available to the respective Python project. This makes it possible to install different package versions for different projects. When a package is installed with uv, the package … Read more
The first Tkinter article showed how to create a simple window with a label. Here is the code: Grid was used as layout manager. After executing this code, this window appears: This simple app could now be further developed by adding more widgets. However, the more components are added, the more confusing the code becomes. … Read more