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by dmuller 3y ago
Hello, author here. I edited the article a bit for brevity. But, yes I started by checking all the fuses and relays. I didn't find any bad relays. Unplugging the ROOM fuse also fixed the problem, but at the expense of other interior fe
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by dmuller 3y ago
Hello, author here. I did do as you described first---I pulled the ROOM fuse and the draw also went away. But, at the expense of more interior features (e.g. my stereo).
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I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days(davidmuller.github.io)
466 points by dmuller 3y ago|503 comments
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by dmuller 5y ago
In case it's helpful for anyone else, here's what publishing team had to say: "Yes, your book will eventually show up on the O'Reilly Learning Platform, but it'll be a while still. Most of our books first appear the
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by dmuller 5y ago
I've not read Fluent Python, but its table of contents looks quite extensive, and covers a lot of good ground. Intuitive Python does cover some things that aren't present in Fluent Python (as far as I can tell): checking your code
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by dmuller 5y ago
Hi - that's a good question about the O'Reilly platform. I can ask my editor and get back to you on that. What's the best way to reach you?
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by dmuller 5y ago
Yeah - I agree, I don't like the default behavior of subprocess.run either. As another commenter pointed out, passing the check=True argument makes subprocess.run raise an Exception if the underlying command doesn't return 0 (woul
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by dmuller 5y ago
Hey - thanks for checking the book out. Yeah, you are correct---the book does not cover packaging a Python program as a click and run style executable. It's definitely a tricky problem. (Depending on the audience for the tools (e.g. if
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by dmuller 5y ago
Hey - thanks I appreciate it. I'd take a look at the table of contents and see if any of the topics look familiar/unfamiliar to you. The preface excerpt ( http://media.pragprog.com/titles/dmpython/preface.
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by dmuller 5y ago
I think Python definitely has its drawbacks, and it's not fast. The other downsides listed in that article (whitespace, variable scoping, lambdas, mobile, etc.) may also be get in your way sometimes, but seems doubtful that they are la
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Show HN: I wrote a book about Python(pragprog.com)
181 points by dmuller 5y ago|46 comments
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by dmuller 5y ago
Hi everyone, Last year, I was lucky enough to sign a book deal with The Pragmatic Bookshelf to write an intermediate level book on Python. (The Pragmatic Bookshelf is the publishing company founded by the authors of one of my favorite progr